Tell Me a Story: Deception

This, the penultimate episode, basically just moves all the pieces into place for the climax. Put everyone in a position where a violent confrontation is the only possible resolution and then somehow get them all into the same location. Yes, all three stories are going to be "connected" by coincidentally resolving at the same place and time. OK, there are other connections, but they're really not important at all. And I still think it would have worked better to tell each story separately, even with these connections, because that would have given us the opportunity to put the pieces together as we watched the second and third stories.

Tell Me a Story: Truth

They're actually starting to show the connections between the stories now, although the Red Riding Hood one is pretty tenuous. And despite it still being very slow, I am enjoying this show, even if the fairy tale gimmick doesn't really add anything.

Quick Game Reviews 7

Playing more games, making more snap judgements.

Five quick game reviews

I've been trying out some new games again. Somehow I keep ending up with a bunch of games I have no memory of in my games library. Most of them aren't worth having, even though they were free.

Tell Me a Story: Betrayal

After a very slow start, things are actually moving at a decent pace now. But I'm still not sure what direction they're going. The fairy tale links remain as tenuous as ever and we're still left frustratingly in the dark about a lot of things. Some of that is because the protagonists are equally confused, which is fine, but they've also started concealing things from the audience that the characters we're watching do know, and that's annoying.

Doctor Who: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Another absolute nothing of an episode. I guess they were sort of trying to make mystery out of it but it was just terribly contrived and resolved in a completely meaningless way. I think we're also supposed to care about Tim Shaw from Demtel episode one coming back, but, uh, why? He was basically the platonic ideal of "generic villain". The thing with him collecting a tooth from each of of his victims sounds like an interesting hook, but it's not actually relevant to anything and it ends up making him look pretty dumb a lot of the time.

Do Not Poor Tea Into the Mystery Cup

It's sitting between the teapot and the dirty dishes and you can't remember why.

Star Trek: Discovery - The Brightest Star

Saru is duuuuumb. Not as in he's a dumb person who does dumb things, I mean the character concept. This episode is also dumb. And it makes the Federation look dumb. Straight from one of the best Star Trek episodes ever to, well, not the worst but it's bad.

Tell Me a Story: Guilt

The pace is definitely picking up now (except in Red Riding Hood's story which is still the weakest of the three by far) but mixing the three together still makes them feel pretty slow. Like, a decent amount of stuff happened in this episode but because it was in three unconnected stories it doesn't feel like very much.

'Mite as Well

Vegemite is great. But it's not the only product of its kind - far from it. English people will often argue the superiority of Marmite, but they're not talking about the same product Australians know as Marmite, and there's even more than those three. I've heard of the various other versions, even eaten a couple of them before, but I've never done a proper comparison. So I went down to my local shop and grabbed one of each.

Doctor Who: It Takes You Away

This episode is just a mess. There are several directions it could have gone in, but instead it's just a bunch of random shit thrown together for no reason. There's sort of a mystery, but the solution is just some meaningless technobabble. There's sort of an adventure, but the characters just sort of wander through it without ever facing any real adversity. There's obviously supposed to be some emotional impact, but it's incredibly forced and artificial so it doesn't work at all. Nothing works in this episode.