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Catching up on the last few episodes of season 4's Blacklist. Seems to have all the secrets coming out, and I have to say, Requiem and all the flashbacks from Mr Kaplan revealing the depth of history there was a bit of a surprise twist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOF5UKN8bsQ

Offhand, it's hard to say. At the moment there's a lot of things up in the air. The Northern Ireland assembly is in suspension because the DUP and SInn Fein can't reach a power-sharing agreement. Having one party having the potential to heavily influence the administration could have a lot of awkward fallout. Sinn Fein while technically having seats in Westminster have always followed a policy of absenteeism because they're big on Northern Ireland re-joining the rest of Ireland, regardless of what people said in the referendums. If the DUP does head into coalition with the Tories, Sinn Fein might feel they would need to actually use their seats properly rather than have them as a PR element. The Good Friday agreements were meant in some way to balance out the unionists with the nationalists, and then have a sort of limited oversight via a supposedly non-partisan British administration. But there was also a lot of vague wording in the agreement, it was originally meant to have a certain ambiguity to help bring all the varying groups together rather than try to jam specific hard lines down everyones throats, but I suppose that could be used to bend and twist it in all sorts of fun ways.

Tor - Heart and Humor made the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies great For some selected quotes...

Look, it's what we do in British politics...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo5zwV6_yVs

Paul Ryan: "The president is new to government." Translation: "He's not used to being called out on his bull****."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qktIPFXu2o

Oh yes, and for help in understanding a certain part of UK politics and what was going on last night: Everything you need to know about Lord Buckethead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywHqv4h36OA

"In sporting terms, this (UK) election is like May hiding in the locker rooms, whilst Corbyn and Abbott trip over their own laces and fail to score in the open goal."

Voted. The grand UK election, where votes come down via a process of elimination rather then having someone I actually wanted to vote for. "I can't vote for them because their policies are ****. I can't vote for these guys because the leadership is dodgy. I can't vote for these because they're intolerant jackasses. I can't vote for the others because they're so damn wishy washy and have no connection to real life. Oh, that leaves this political party who are just meh."

One thing to take into consideration, it's basically the launch film for the "Dark Monster Universe" franchise, or whatever they're calling it. So they'll be doing updated reboots of Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc and they'll all be part and parcel of the same world and connected together. One of the reasons they have the "secret monster/evil hunting society" is to help establish it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVevvbFNKiY

It doesn't have to be funny. But if it's serious, it should also try to establish characters and build some sense of suspense/horror in there. While I'm trying to not allow myself to biased before personally seeing it, what I am picking up from the surge of reviews is too much of a "This gets by on Tom Cruise doing Mission Impossible style action sequence after action sequence at a frantic pace" rather than story telling.

Kind of sad to hear that with the embargo gone, the majority of reviews about the new The Mummy are not that favourable. A lot of "too much MI action sequence after action sequence, not enough actual character time and horror/adventure".

For the randm movie trivia stuff... 30 Things we learned from the John Wick 2 commentary

If they actually use the Pathfinder ruleset, it's more like a modified DnD3.5. Dang. Sniped.

Helping out at one of the local charity shops and going through a batch of donated books to sort. Found myself buried in 70's Romance-Erotica for women. Oh. My. God. The plotlines and heroines were just.. No words abound. I wonder how feminism actually made it through that time period.

It's being a pretty shambolic Election so far from all parties here in the UK. The Tories keep falling one way, Labour another, the party leaders are pretty much unlikeable and have things to heartily loathe for various reasons. After her latest screw-up, Diane Abbott has decided to "take a break to recover from stress and overwork" on the day before the election. I would really appreciate it if we could get someone I could vote FOR, rather then keep ending up in a position of having to choose who I'm voting AGAINST.