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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 4h

"Hey, we need a reason to write Riley out of Buffy."
"Here's four, two of which make him a prick and one makes him borderline suicidal."
"Use them all! And make sure to make him particularly dickish about the actually reasonable one when he leaves."

socorro99.bsky.social @socorro99.bsky.social · 1d

Which fictional character was done dirty by the writers?

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 1d

(one of, drat it, not if. Ah well...)

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 1d

Ran a Vampire: The Masquerade one-shot for Halloween and went with one if the most reliable ways to make PCs hate NPCs - make their evil plan petty. (Here, attacking a band and hospitalising club security to ruin a rival's business for the night.)

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 2d

Guillermo del Toro has of course also made a version of Pinocchio!

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the Bride of Frankenstein was the real friend we made along the way

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes RPGs are like board games would be if you had a significant number of players who said “I just can’t see the point of a game where you’re not trying to checkmate a king”

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Horizons - Muppets HM Overlay @horizons1983.bsky.social · 3d

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Ode to Joy) in Die Hard

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Graeme Davis @graemedavis.bsky.social · 3d

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Nakari! @newsurrender.bsky.social · 5d

Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 (2025)

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

The medium: Cinema! Then Netflix in two weeks.

Gameability: Frankenstein is pretty gameable, and this version has a demonstration and a less secret process altogether so someone could follow Victor's experiments.

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Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Teaser | Netflix

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Also fun to see Edinburgh as 19th century Edinburgh rather than 19th century London or Vienna or Prague etc.

Also also surprising adorable mice.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Full of beautiful shots, it's on Netflix in two weeks but I was very glad to see it on the biggest screen I could.

Dark but humane, with some great ideas fitting in neatly. I particularly like the addition to the frame story.

Some on-the-nose moments, but sometimes you have to.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Very very Guillermo del Toro while being a closer adaptation than most, though Victor and the Creature both have sympathetic and monstrous moments. Lots of little and big references - I spotted the Bernie Wrightson influence and was glad to see a credit as well as thanks.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfHorror

24: Frankenstein (2025)

Guillermo del Toro was always going to adapt Frankenstein.

And it's great.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Beautifully done stop-motion, I'd love a chance to see it in the cinema.

The medium: Netflix

Gameability: A fantastical creation and a quest that follows, and this one also lets you embarrass the people ruling Italy in the 30s and 40s.

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GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

The main chill here is human, as it starts with the Great War in a prologue rivalling Up for sadness and then moves forward to Italy in the 30s and 40s. The lead representative of the authority of the time gets a humanising element and rejects it.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Comparisons to the Disney version are inevitable: The songs are pleasant but none of them are When You Wish Upon A Star or I've Got No Strings. And despite the lightning-lit frenzied creation and a couple of visits to Death, it doesn't try for a WTF horror moment like the bit with the donkeys.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Both are adaptations of stories about men creating artificial sons and how the world treats them. It has some cast and creatives in common too.

It's charming, funny, sweet, at times sad or wistful.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfHorror

23: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Okay, this is a stretch, but as the film Guillermo del Toro co-directed before Frankenstein a relevant one.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 3d

In my own critical toolbox "Doing a Zhukov" is knowing you have an important character you have to enter late into the plot, so you have to make them walk in and shrug their enormous coat off so everyone knows it and falls instantly in love.

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💀🧟‍♂️Kevin Church of the UNHOLY 🧟‍♂️💀 @beaucoupkevin.com · 3d

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Wh*donesque @whedonesque.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that Spike eating Nazis is canon.

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

(Warning for survivors of watching Torchwood: does have a bit of Burn Gorman at the hanging scene)

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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 3d

Also fun to see Edinburgh as 19th century Edinburgh rather than 19th century London or Vienna or Prague etc.

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