“Lake Forest Park actually did something. And it's impressive. And Seattle should wonder why it hasn't done something similar for, say, August Wilson, the greatest Black American playwright to ever walk this one and only world of ours …”

https://www.thestranger.com/books/2023/08/03/79101282/can-seattle-do-for-august-wilson-what-lake-forest-park-did-for-octavia-butler

#seattle #thestranger #octaviabutler #augustwilson

RT @garycox01@twitter.com

An interesting list of #philosopy novels. Broadly agree, although I might put #Sartre #Nausea #1 rather than #Camus #TheStranger???? https://twitter.com/greghickey5/status/1613639960141103104

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/garycox01/status/1613916653871595521

Erste folge #TheStranger geht ja mega spannend los 😮

12 of my favorite 2022 flicks so far. A few more to see. What's on your list?
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
#RRR
#TopGunMaverick
#TheBansheesOfInisherin
#TÁR
#TheStranger
#TriangleOfSadness
#X
#Nope
#Barbarian
#Prey
#WeirdTheAlYankovicStory

#2022SoFar #Top12 #Films #Movies #FilmFavorites #Cinamastodon

12 of my favorite 2022 flicks so far. A few more to see. What's on your list?
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
#RRR
#TopGunMaverick
#TheBansheesOfInisherin
#TÁR
#TheStranger
#TriangleOfSadness
#X
#Nope
#Barbarian
#Prey
#WeirdTheAlYankovicStory

#2022SoFar #Top12 #Films
#Movies #FilmFavorites
#Cinamastodon
#HotdogFingers

12 of my favorite 2022 flicks so far. A few more to see. What's on your list?
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
#RRR
#TopGunMaverick #TheBansheesOfInisherin
#TÁR
#TheStranger #TriangleOfSadness
#X
#Nope
#Barbarian
#Prey #WeirdTheAlYankovicStory

#2022SoFar #Top12 #Films #Movies #FilmFavorites #Cinamastodon #HotdogFingers

Thomas M. Wright's The Stranger on Netflix, starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, is yobbo noir at its finest. Kind of like a Drongo Brasco. Anyone else seen it?
#australia #cinema #film #movies #netflix #TheStranger

So would I recommend it?

No.

Just watch In Memory Alone.

And then if you like that one and want to watch more.

Still don't watch it.

Unless you're like me or like @Alexis , but even they haven't watched it!

So that's my review of the '90s VHS video Doctor Who wilderness years knock off series, I'm sure it will be the talk of the town.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

BUT, it took me so long to figure this out, Egan, the main guy of the Stranger's ex-buddies who's acting wasn't bad, was played by David Troughton!

That totally explains why the action shifted so much to him, he was probably kind of a get.

The son of the second doctor and the sixth doctor in the same thing, yeah, give them both screen time, sure.

But, yeah, he's not a bad actor, I CAN'T BELIEVE that I didn't recognise him from his role in Midnight.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

The second/fifth one was the worst of the whole lot, just dull and pointless, I don't even know if anything happened in it? I don't remember.

I think the only thing it did storywise the first/fourth didn't is show the Stranger having a normal life with a human woman. Or was that the one before it.

And that did contribute to how the memory loss changed the Stranger as a person, but just having his time/relationship with Miss Brown having done that would've been better.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

The good of the latter half is that some of the acting, mainly from the main of the two ex-buddies, isn't half bad, it may even be good.

And the last third of the final episode actually pulled me in again, it had action, SF thingamajigs, relationship stuff, and an ending that may be cliché? but I liked it.

But the rest...

The first/fourth one was like it was suddenly a different show. Different cast, police procedural, different style.

I just didn't care.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

Now the second half, is it worse or do I just care less for it? I'm not sure.

The production was probably more streamlined at that point, it's just not doing much interesting SF with it, even when the whole backstory is SF.

It just goes into the backstory of the Stranger and I didn't care that much, which wasn't helped by the fact that it does so by shifting the focus *away* from The Stranger to two of his ex-buddies.

There's a reason for that that I totally missed.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

The one with Sophie Aldred is my second favourite, there's some opportunities for Colin Baker to show his sarcastic arrogant Sixth Doctor side that was great, Nicola Bryant got to ham it up in a lovely way too and I just love Sophie Aldred, she's great.

Plus the episode tries to have a bit of a theme and some ideas to comment on too, it doesn't compare to the third one, but there's stuff to like.

The first one I didn't care for, dull, cheap, confusing, fumbling around.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

Of the first half I would say In Memory Alone is genuinely a good video.

Now, I might be grading on a scale because of what it is (to put it bluntly: amateur shitty who knock off), but I think it's the revelation of the whole series.

It could work as a Doctor Who episode and if you want to check out one of these that's definitely the one to go for, it doesn't matter that you didn't see ones before it, no continuity is really needed and even less is given.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

Overall it's not as bad as I thought it would be, although some episodes are.

There's two parts to this series, the first three that are mainly standalone (not-)Doctor & Companion adventures

In the second we learn the backstory of the Stranger and it focuses more on two of the Stranger's terrorist buddies.

I like the 1st half better, they're not necessarily better (the first one is a dull mess) but it's more Who-ey, the second is it's own thing for better, but mainly for worse

#TheStranger

Ok, that's it, finally, The Stranger done with.

First of I actually ended up liking this video, but only in the last third of it, up to that point it was, still a lot better than the previous two but had the same issue that I didn't care, but yeah, that final action scene was not bad and I thought there was actual tension in the end there.

I mean in hindsight I should've seen the end coming, it's even a bit cliché, maybe, but it worked for me.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

I can't believe I'm actually getting into this in like the last third of this video.

A proper, if low budget, action scene, and, wow, ok, that's an ending too.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder

Yeah, the guy who plays Egan really isn't a terrible actor, I wonder if he's done much else.

Ooh, wait, HE'S David Throughton, son of Patrick Throughton, cool.

OF COURSE. I can't believe I didn't recognise him from Midnight.

Yeah, he's a good actor. This actually explains why they focused so much on him and his compatriot and attention kind of went away from the Stranger himself.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

Finally some technobabble. Reverse the polarity, baby.

Egan had an orgasm so good the information stream killed a guy.

Nah, this is definitely better than Space Pirates, not the highest of bars, this is not like watching a bad show as much as a show you don't care about.

Ok, I think I'm kind of on board with this now, only took 1:06 of its 1:24 runtime.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho

It's Eleven, very prescient of Bill Bags to also make this a Stranger Things knock off years ahead of its time.

Again, there's some not half-bad acting in this and the production is probably the most streamlined of all of them, I imagine, just a shame that it doesn't do much SF stuff with it and that I'm not particularly interested into where it took the lore part after these two other guys showed up.

#TheStranger #DoctorWho