Weirdly, even though there's only one more item in the second week of the Hero Forge Advent Calendar, and yet it feels much more crammed and busy. Part of that is I had to try and squash in Half-Mannequin Joe today for the final item. And part of it is that they are just much larger items.
This week's theme started off as Battle Santa... and, honestly, kind of ended up that way too. Of the items, the only once I even slightly like are the tools, the vest and the breastplate. Everything else is either crapped up, superfluous to requirements or just dumb. Sometimes more than one of those at the same time.
I will say that the spear is slightly growing on me, but it has become clear that this particular "roughly textured, crapped up design" weapon is 100% their wheelhouse, and I honestly don't especially care for that as a whole. But it is entirely possible that the right character will eventually come along that works for that spear. Unlikely. But possible.
Also, we absolutely do not need any more shields for a good... 18 months. Or not giant, overly decorated shields at the very least. Especially since the posing to get shields to actually look halfway decent is incredibly difficult.
Of all this week's items, I feel like the breastplate is going to be the high turnover item. I do have a slight problem with the way that Hero Forge items with square markings stretch when added to varying bodytypes, but it's a good solid base piece.
Anyway...
This week's Mini Media Reviews are, firstly, the slightly underwhelming Justice League:Warworld. I mean, the couple of parts were decent, with Cowgirl Wonder Woman, Barbarian Batman and 1950's Twilight Zone Superman... but, honestly, the ending didn't really land for me. Not bad overall, but a little dull.
The other thing I watched was The New Legends of Monkey. An Australian/New Zealand co-production with Nexflix, based, more or less on the old Monkey TV show. I mean, it's Journey to the West, there have been like 900 versions of that, but it feels like this is the show they're riffing on.
And it's cheesy and campy and everybody is acting at 11, but, honestly, I really, really enjoyed it. The second season is a little uneven, because seemingly they suddenly decided that they were making a "kids show" and threw a random child character in that makes absolutely zero sense. But the show has it's tongue firmly in it's cheek, isn't taking itself at all seriously and are having the most fun with what they're given. Even the slightly less... practiced... actors kind of do pretty well because the show knows that they're campy and plays it up.
Absolute standout of the show is Emilie Cocquerel as Sandy, I totally adore what she does with the character. And Chai Hansen manages to not only be hot as hell, but also have great comedic chops as Monkey.
There's only two seasons of it thus far, but it's well worth a watch, especially if you loved the old show.
Friday Night DnD was mostly rearranging deck chairs before we go fight the BBEG.
Also I learned shocking and scandalous things about my friends. Specifically the fact that everybody but me is just opening their dice Advent Calendar all willy-nilly the NIGHT BEFORE [clutches pearls]. Rascals, scoundrels, pettifoggers, charlatans and knaves, the pair of them. Is there no decency left in the world?
Escándalo.
Anyway...
Today was mostly just the supermarket, although afterwards we did do a quick sidetrip to Officeworks for more printer ink. Because this is the first point since January, when I bought the $40 printer instead of $128 worth of printer ink.
And I discovered, much to my delight that the normal ink is under $30, the black ink anyway, and to get the "XL" cartridge, which is supposed to print twice as many pages, was under $40. So yay Last January Me.
Then we did a quick wander around Spotlight because I needed boxes for Christmas presents. And they had a lot of Not Exciting Boxes... but I have a plan to make them at least slightly more interesting.
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