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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).

INTJ-A ("The Architect"

Look up Midnight Syndicate, they do a lot of good ambient/instrumental pieces with some of that gothic sound effects. If you want things a bit more grander in scale, Two Steps From Hell have a good mix of sweeping themes. Edit: Also, other thought would be check out the Planescape Torment soundtrack?

For the Babylon 5 fans out there, http://b5books.com/

On the really random chance anyone doesn't have a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates, I've got a spare key if someone wants it. Edit: Snagged

Okay, this one amused me (Once you get past the attempted poetic descriptions), but apparently true love has been found on the Australian version of The Bachelor. It just happens to have been two of the girls on the show to date said bachelor fell in love with each other. Finally someone found love on The Bachelor

Is this a case of Michael Bays Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did not happen. Nor did the sequel?

I remember way back when, that they said part of the original idea was how the Republic as seen in the EU before Palpatine was actually a mix of early Republic ideas and the Sith Imperial elements. So the suggestion was at some point after the Republic/Sith war as shown in the trailers for TOR, there would be a point of combining the two together to create what becomes the Republic as seen millennia down the road. Maybe that's what the whole Zakuul thing is meant to be, the lean towards that blending. Plus it's throwing out some reason for what the Emperor was doing since he wasn't really running his Sith Empire. But yes, the ad-libbing feel is still there even with that sort of vague hand-wavey connections. I think I finally gave up because it's become too much same-old, same-old. The different class stories were good in concept and mostly entertaining in reality, but once you've done them.. There's not much beyond the basic morpg grind-grind-grind-some-more. The expansion post-class storylines have had some interesting ideas, but have been rather spotty.

Hm, Greenman Gaming is having its Halloween sale at the moment. The likes of Shadows of Mordor for around £4 for those who haven't got it.

To further slide away from the politics for a moment.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxHoApJDEU