[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch It's going to take a while to adjust to the lower temperature. The weather here keeps on being weird. It's suppose to be autumn but the temperature during the day still feel like summertime.

During the evening the temps drop to around 10/12 degrees. Daytime the temp will go up to 28.

The weather is just messed up overall.

I think most of the time the food isn't real. I can imagine how expensive it must be to prepare real food all the time for certain scenes. I know I would eat prepared food if I was part of the cast after the scene. I won't let any go to waste especially if it's something expensive. 🤣

Agreed. Older movies are better because of all the effort put into them. Special effects is most important. I am always impressed with how the creators are able to build sets from scratch and how they are able to be so patient to make it look so real.

Character design is much more impressive especially when they have to make prosthetics and have to work hours on end to apply makeup and all that jazz.

Today's tech and advancements destroyed the trade in the film industry.

Oh nice!! That's good news. I don't know they are going to bring the show back. I'm looking forward to watching the new series's.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot It is gradually getting warmer here too, so rather than my body adjusting to the lower temperature, it is more that the temperature is catching up to my body 😅

I think you don't actually need to prepare the food all the time, you only do it once or twice and try to film all the bits where it is visible. Take a party or a ball, for example: there are a few scenes with characters eating, but most of the time, they dance or talk or whatever, and there is no food on screen. All those takes can be done without actual food.

Indeed. I am not watching The Last of Us series, but I saw some Vancouver filming set videos, they look like a lot of effort was put into them. And character makeup is a separate beast; Jim Carrey had to endure quite a lot for the Grinch.

I would not say destroyed, some directors make a conscious decision not to use them. For example, I enjoy Wes Anderson very much. Maybe "crippled" is a more astute description.

Yeah, Disney needed a success, and P&F is one of their best in the last decade, especially after the series of poor marketing decisions flopped Milo Murphy's Law (and I never did mange to get into Hamster & Gretel, I know it is set in the same universe, but I do not know anything more). I think the new season starts 5th of June.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch My body is struggling with the weather changes. I'm not do no like warm weather and mostly a winter person.

I'd rather not see any of the actors eat. 😂Sometimes the way they eat and chew food looks bad. Like some of those action movies when a actor chews bubblegum or eats in a restaurant. Some of them does not have good manners it seems. 😂

I Watched episode 4 yesterday. So far The Last Us season 2 have been ok. I wouldn't say great. They put a lot of effort into set designs and the environment fits well. The problem I have is they going of the original game script and added few things to push a certain agenda.


Disney is failing miserably with their new movies. Snow White was a total disaster. I don't know what they were thinking. Hopefully their poor marketing and directing will get a new overall.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot Ah, I hear you. Weather can be rather tough, sometimes we get weather so stuffy it feels like a sauna back where I am from. You walk around all sweaty and out of breath, and just want to lie down in the shade and do nothing all day 😅

Ah, well, in cases like this, I always try to understand if it is actors who eat like this, or characters that they play. After all, table manners can add to the depth of character and let us viewers know something about them that we otherwise could not. David Thewlis's V. M. Varga from the third season of Fargo comes to mind, for example.

I do not watch The Last of Us series, I have not played the game yet. But I am not sure I will watch it even when I am done with the game, to be honest. Fallout was good, but TLoU has stronger competition as there are better zombie series and movies out there.

Ah, well, we'll see. Their recent challenges aside, I want to say bringing P&F back and with all the original writer and voice cast is a good call.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch Temperature wise, how high was the warmest weather you experienced? You said it feld like a sauna where you back from. It would be interesting to know the lows and highs you've experienced.

I know the feeling of being sweaty and out of breath. It's a nightmare for me. I can't handle it.

There's a few actors who are naturally like that. The role doesn't have anything to do with it. It's noticeable in every movie they star in. It's not a big deal really but sometimes I can't oversee it.

Like I mentioned. The series isn't bad, still it's not on point with the game and the certain narrative they're pushing is a bit too much.

I'm looking forward to season two of Fallout. I don't have any complaints and at least something worthwhile to watch.

Walking Dead is way better than TLOU by miles and will always be in top of all other zombie series.

Let see of they can step up their game. After all the knocks they've taken over the past few years.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot I say sauna because it is not only hot, but also quite humid. At worst it can rise up to 36, but it rarely happens. But it can keep around 30 for long periods of time, and because we're squeezed between sea and river, it gets humid and sweaty fast.

I remember once, about 10 years ago, we had this temperature anomaly where the air was 36 degrees, but because of some water movement in the sea, the water temperature was 16 degrees. So you could not stay outside too long, you got too hot, but you could not stay in the water too long either, you got too cold and crampy. People were running back and forth on a beach a lot, into water and out all the time...

I guess, though, there are character roles that have a specific manner of eating, too. And then there are all those mukbang videos these days, I could never "get" them, do not see the appeal at all, they even make me nauseous sometimes...

I actually have not watched the first season of Fallout. I hear it is good, I just never got to it...

I like Walking Dead better as a comic than series, to be honest. I think the pacing in the series is not that good, either nothing happens or too much is happening at once.

Not too long now, we'll get to see what's what at the beginning of June.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch Humid weather is the worst. I can't stand all the salty sweatiness. I'm not close to the sea and live inland. Here in summer temperatures can reach up to 40 degrees. At night there will be temperature drops but still well within the 30's sometimes depending in which province you find yourself. Winter is here and I'm so appreciative of the colder weather. 🙂

Yeah, I do not see the appeal at all in those videos and I find them disturbing. 🤣. I guess I'm too much accustomed to good table manners that's why some eating scenes turns me off. In my family head slaps are dealt if porky manners are displayed. 😂

You won't be disappointed. The first season was good. Fallout season 2 will be even better.

They trying their best to follow the comics since season 3 because fans complained. So far the directors are doing ok and not rushing things.

[DoctorEldritch]

We had a temperature drop this weekend, now we have 14 degrees and rain. Which is not bad per se, but I already packed my warm clothes away and switched to summer ones, and so I had to bring them back out...

Table manners are...interesting, in how they differ place to place, and how there may be different reasons for them in the minds of the people:

I want to say head slap is a bit much for a table manners transgression 😅

I've been told that it is good, but for some reason, I hesitate to watch it right now, I am a bit series-fatigued at the moment. I want to watch some lighthearted comedy sitcom rather than post-apocalyptic retro-futuristic adventure...

Ah, so those new spin-offs of WD are also based on comics?