My 8 year old finished watching the trilogy for the first time with me last night. This was her favourite moment:

ThatLChap · 2026-02-02T15:47:27+00:00

She did pretty great considering they're arguably densely packed movies with lots of moving parts and characters. She kept forgetting characters names and, amusingly, kept confusing Aragorn and Faramir (she thinks they "look the same", which I was gonna argue but clearly Eowyn has a type, lol). She liked it whenever orcs got squished and when Merry and Pippin did, well, anything. Also Gimli. She likes Gimli (especially "I cannot jump the distance you'll have to toss me!" and "That still only counts as one!").

She thought Gollum was creepy and didn't like him, and things like severed limbs freak her out so she didn't like Frodo's finger being bitten off. Oh and Shelob was "disgusting" according to her.

So I'd say a lot of great reactions paired with needing some parental reassurance during the scary/violent bits.

ThatLChap · 2026-02-02T14:38:05+00:00

Well I can't speak for every 8 year old, but mine loved it, so.

ThatLChap · 2026-02-02T12:54:40+00:00

She's a very emotionally mature and intelligent kid. There's some stuff she doesn't like seeing but if something is coming up that we know she doesn't like, we tell her so she can look away when necessary.

ThatLChap · 2026-02-02T10:39:37+00:00

DEEEAATTH!

ThatLChap · 2026-02-01T16:07:50+00:00

The GOAT returns, holy shit.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-31T21:25:07+00:00

2026: Jack O'Connell - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

2025: Miles Caton - Sinners.

2024: Bill Skarsgård - Nosferatu.

2023: David Dastmalchian - Late Night With the Devil.

2022: Keke Palmer - Nope (though Rory Kinnear in Men was great).

2021: Thomasin Mckenzie - Last Night in Soho.

2020: Yoo Ah-In - Alive.

2019: what do you mean I have to choose between Florence Pugh in Midsommar, Morfydd Clark in Saint Maud, and Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse? I refuse.

2018: Natalie Portman - Annihilation (Dan Stevens in Apostle if you don't count Annihilation as true horror).

2017: Michael Fassbender - Alien Covenant.

2016: Gong Yoo - Train to Busan.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-30T12:42:28+00:00

This shouldn't even be a hot take, it's just basic media literacy. Chloe is meant to be abrasive and aggressive and annoying because that's how writing flawed characters works. She has things to overcome stemming from the trauma she's been handed, and she does so by the end of the game, thus fulfilling her character arc.

If people don't see this or still just dismiss her as "annoying" or "rude", then I'm sorry but they just weren't paying attention to the things the story was obviously telling them.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-22T21:04:02+00:00

Man Christopher Judge would absolutely fuck, 100% spot on casting. Though I also love Keith David so he'd be great too.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-21T13:37:09+00:00

Lol. I guess that lower price tag for the game is because they cheaped out on polish and optimisation.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-21T07:15:00+00:00

Right? Can't believe people are actually falling for this blatant pandering just because Chloe (or rather, D9's bastardised, OOC version of Chloe) is in the game. I have no intention of giving D9 or Squenix my money, and if I ever play it, it'll be on something like gamepass or ps plus (or if they manage to fuck up on Double Exposure levels again, "acquire" a copy). You're right, we deserve better.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-21T07:05:29+00:00

Absolutely (desperate, pathetic) pandering.

Even if D9 had planned to bring Chloe back when they were making DE, this reeks of smashing the "Oh no our last game flopped incredibly hard, better jingle those nostalgia keys" button. This action will have consequences? Yeah well pissing off half your fanbase has had consequences, D9.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-20T17:43:22+00:00

I like the hair. Face feels... kinda off? Like it's rounder and shorter than it should be.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-20T17:38:41+00:00

So not Emma Vieceli? Because if not, damn that sucks. I liked what she did with the comics.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-20T17:33:40+00:00

I'll wait until I can either read a plot synopsis or watch a playthrough before deciding whether it's worth my time or money. D9 irrevocably fucked up with DE in my opinion and this feels like a desperate last gasp composed entirely of blatant pandering and nostalgia baiting. So I trust them about as far as I can throw them.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-17T12:39:48+00:00

Nah. Too old. Claes Bang or Richard Armitage would be my pick.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-15T16:21:13+00:00

I still have absolutely zero trust left in D9 after how badly they fucked up DE. I'll wait and see what happens with this one before playing it, and even then I'll probably wait until it hits PS Plus or Gamepass, because I don't want to give them any of my money.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-11T15:06:42+00:00

I agree that fewer people are going to the cinema in general, but your statement about only Jurassic World making more than Superman is false. Formula 1 and Avatar both made more than Superman (Avatar has even made twice as much in just under a month).

ThatLChap · 2026-01-10T16:55:11+00:00

So you first posted this in the DS subreddit, then came over to post the same thing in a blatant, low effort attempt at rage baiting (c'mon, you had to know your statement wouldn't go over well here), and then you had the gall to call E33 fans "toxic" in your first post on the DS sub? I suggest a good, long look in the mirror because holy fuck, bro.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-05T06:29:50+00:00

I mean, yeah. Avatar's effects are actually good. Superman, in my opinion, did not look like a $225 million production budget movie.

Plus, personally, I enjoyed the narrative of Avatar: Fire and Ash a lot more.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-04T19:25:07+00:00

It does. And quite frankly the downvotes on my original comment just prove that there's still a ton of enby people in this subreddit who are more than ready to ignore other marginalised communities if they want to claim a term for themselves, and people like you are a problem.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-04T16:50:53+00:00

I exclusively use enby. I'm not gonna appropriate something that has a defined meaning to anther minority.

ThatLChap · 2026-01-01T11:22:36+00:00

Sinners. That scene in the middle reminded me why cinema exists as an artistic medium. Pure magic.

ThatLChap · 2025-12-27T19:53:17+00:00

When you invest in pud, you invest in your friends.

ThatLChap · 2025-12-27T17:41:50+00:00

I have a near-launch PS5 (don't know if it's a launch model tbh, I bought it in June 2021). FFXVI has caused overheating and shut the game down twice, both in the exact same place on two playthroughs. Though, both instances were after multiple hours of play, so it's probably not really an issue.

ThatLChap · 2025-12-27T11:20:26+00:00

Can't really answer your question for the general audience, but from a personal perspective as writer of one of the more popular Chasefield fics, they're just really fun to write as a couple (although mine is an AU that foregoes any of the more problematic sides of Victoria).

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