Cleaning up after magical chaos is surprisingly easy.
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MichaelGC
I don’t know if the others perhaps just didn’t hear it but I feel like “droppelgänger” deserved a little more fanfare than none at all. 👏
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(Although according to Urban Dictionary it means someone who signs for a delivery for you. I’m glad we’re not visited by the sins of our droppelgängers.)
I always like to have things explained, personally, even if has to happen right at the end and therefore all comes out in a bit of a stilted or unnatural rush – everyone sitting in the parlour whilst the detective lays it all out, style o’ fing. But then I don’t have much of an imagination, myself.
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I’m OK with, say, Star Wars not explaining FTL drives, as whilst these are often critical to the plots they’re never really made a big deal of, if you follow me. But if I’m being told that something is important and mysterious then at some stage I’m going to want to be sat down in the parlour for the revelatory seminar. (Even if it turns out to be a bit lame, which it often does.)
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I wonder: is there a positive correlation between those who often might prefer to have things left to their imagination, and those who have particularly fertile ones?
As a corollary, I’m now also wondering if there’s a positive correlation between those who have a fertile imagination and those who aren’t at least partially … searching for the right word … let’s say: infuriated, by the ending to the original The Italian Job.
Flipping that switch immediately destroys all hounds and KOs all witches in the level, you could have ignored the ones wandering the area of you had wanted and just planted the lenses and flicked the switch.
As an added bonus, witches who would say plummet to their death as part of falling unconscious this way do not count as kills.
I don’t know if the others perhaps just didn’t hear it but I feel like “droppelgänger” deserved a little more fanfare than none at all. 👏
~~~
(Although according to Urban Dictionary it means someone who signs for a delivery for you. I’m glad we’re not visited by the sins of our droppelgängers.)
I always like to have things explained, personally, even if has to happen right at the end and therefore all comes out in a bit of a stilted or unnatural rush – everyone sitting in the parlour whilst the detective lays it all out, style o’ fing. But then I don’t have much of an imagination, myself.
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I’m OK with, say, Star Wars not explaining FTL drives, as whilst these are often critical to the plots they’re never really made a big deal of, if you follow me. But if I’m being told that something is important and mysterious then at some stage I’m going to want to be sat down in the parlour for the revelatory seminar. (Even if it turns out to be a bit lame, which it often does.)
~~~
I wonder: is there a positive correlation between those who often might prefer to have things left to their imagination, and those who have particularly fertile ones?
As a corollary, I’m now also wondering if there’s a positive correlation between those who have a fertile imagination and those who aren’t at least partially … searching for the right word … let’s say: infuriated, by the ending to the original The Italian Job.
Flipping that switch immediately destroys all hounds and KOs all witches in the level, you could have ignored the ones wandering the area of you had wanted and just planted the lenses and flicked the switch.
As an added bonus, witches who would say plummet to their death as part of falling unconscious this way do not count as kills.