Raithe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJqUbd1vzs

For the history lesson and where the phrase came from..

<innocent whistle>

Kirkwall was a good attempt. It wasn't small and titchy, it gave you a nice sense for a semi-grand fantasy city. Plus the whole concept of seeing it change over time depending on your decisions was really nice to talk about. Unfortunately, it just wasn't executed that well at the end of the day and some of the points that had been hyped on it before hand didn't seem to actually occur.

Apple Pie anyone?

When music meets comedy sketch. Although many of these references are very dated and might go over a lot of heads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrUuCDFLOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od2PBlZ3ZQM

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Nicely glossy and utterly weird. Nicely catching the whole vibe of the books. Although it's definitely putting me in the frame that it might be best to wait for the whole season to be done and then binge watch it.

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

The new Jack Reacher film. A passable adaption of the book, has that similar feel to the first go around in some ways while being quite different. The first Reacher film was more of the slow paced thriller, and this one is more of a run, run, run, solid action type that's a touch more loud and brutal. But it keeps that steady, Jack Reacher implacability atmosphere going. Cobie Smulders felt both good but underused to me, and it was rather quirky to see Aldiss Hodge do the leap from geek in Leverage to bulky military police guy in this one. What was kind of interesting was how the trouble Reacher was in was more the point of the film then the actual villains. The bad guys had very little screen time as such. Or rather, the deadly henchman had a batch of screen time in chasing the good guys, but he was much more of the walking weapon type rather than a person/villain in his own right (in fact, he doesn't even get a name in the entire course of the film).