what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “It could change everything. He needed to paint well, earn respect from the khalif and his court, remember all he saw and heard, come home remembering. Unless the most secret, least likely part of his mission somehow happened. He had already decided he wasn’t going to think about that.” Children of Earth and Sky […]
{4.5/5} “And remember, live a great life and die a great death!” The Sea Beast, released in 2022 Captain Crow is the most famous of hunters and the Inevitable is the most famous of hunter ships. They hunt sea beasts. One such beast, the Red Bluster, lost Crow his eye. Crow tells his adopted son […]
{4.5/5} “You may be dying, but don’t let it affect those who love you most. Replacement is a gift to them.” Dual, released in 2022 Sarah finds out she’s dying from an incurable rare disease. She decides to sign up for Replacement, where they clone you and after you die your clone carries on your […]
{5/5} “Let’s be a little stupid. We got married when we were 17, so we know how to do it.” Jerry and Marge Go Large, released in 2022 Jerry retires from working 42 years at the cereal plant. His kids give him a boat as a retirement gift but he’s hesitant to use it. Being […]
{4.5/5} “That’s a lightsaber, dude.” The Adam Project, released in 2022 Adam lives in 2050 and intends to travel back in time to 2018. He hits 2022 instead and runs into his younger self, who’s 12. The older self flies time jets, and the younger self gets bullied at school and is grieving the loss […]
{5/5} “As soon as you became aware that eating huge amounts of salt is really, really, uncomfortably salty, you should have stopped eating salt. That’s the solution. The solution is not to begin eating pepper to cancel out the salt.” — from a letter to her 4-year-old self Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate situations, flawed […]
{5/5} “We’re the heroes of this building. Before us, you could be killed in your own apartment, and no one would know it.” — Oliver Only Murders in the Building season 1, aired in 2021 Three people who don’t really know each other but live in the same building decide to start a podcast about […]
{4.5/5} “‘Looks like it’s going to be up to us again.’ ‘It always is, isn’t it?’” Stranger Things season 4, aired in 2022 In Hawkins a cheerleader named Chrissy, who was having disturbing visions, ends up dead. This leads to the gang investigating the situation and determining that a demon they call Vecna is responsible. […]
{4/5} “What Sisko didn’t tell him — and he wasn’t about to, either — was that he’d been prepared to grant the doctor’s request from the beginning. But now, Bashir had learned to fight for what he believed in; now, he was that much closer to being an officer as well as a doctor.” Star […]
{5/5} “‘You can fix computers?’ ‘I dabble with isolinear data subprocessors, it’s a hobby of mine.’” — Bashir & Garak Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, aired in 1993-94 When Kira rescues the famous Li Nalas from a Cardassian prison camp the Bajoran government appoints him as their liaison to DS9 — and recalls […]