Like most people during this lockdown, I’ve been looking for things to fill my time with since my spring break has essentially stretched into the summer, and one of those things turns out to be television series that I would never otherwise watch.
For the last three days, I have been watching The Good Place, a comedy television series set in a universe where when humans die, they end up in either the Good Place or the Bad Place depending on their point totals, which record their deeds on Earth. Eleanor ends up in the Good Place on accident, but knowing she doesn’t belong there, she strives to become a better person and earn her place before anyone figures out her true identity. I actually tried this series a few months ago and didn’t want any more of it, but now I have nothing better to do.
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As a sequel to Minimum Wage Magic, Part-Time Gods by Rachel Aaron brings back Opal Yong-ae for another magical adventure through the DFZ. Having paid off one more installation of her debt and bought herself more time, Opal is still on the quest to earn enough to fulfill the rest of her debt to her father, who she discovers at the end of the previous book has placed on her a dragon’s curse responsible for her bad financial luck for the past several months.
Before starting, I would like to mention that I watched the previous two movies but don’t remember them much.
I watched this movie finding it one night on Hulu, and it was… more disappointing than expected despite its relatively high ratings. This discussion contains many spoilers. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starts off with the main characters rescuing a group of dragons and bringing them back to Berk as another character mentions the developing issue of overcrowding with more and more hordes of new dragons being rescued. In a separate development, Toothless is revealed to not be the last Night Fury, a female Light Fury being held captive by a group of dragon hunters. One of them hatches a plot to use the Light Fury to draw Toothless away from his rider so that they can use him to draw the rest of the dragons away as well. To combat this new threat and the overpopulation issue, Hiccup convinces the whole island to pack up their belongings and fly in search of the Hidden World, the ancestral home of all dragons. In a futuristic world where mages live beside cybernetically augmented humans, the DFZ is the planet’s most magical but also the most lawless metropolis. Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron introduces Opal Yong-ae, a Cleaner paid to clean out residential units when their owners die or are otherwise unable to make rent. After five months of bad luck, Opal is desperate to find 10,000 dollars by the end of the week to make a debt payment, desperate enough that when she finds nothing in the purchased unit but a dead man and a bunch of papers that could lead to a big stash, she decides to pursue it against the warnings of Sybil, her AI helper.
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