In this example it was an attack roll, and a critical hit as a result of the halfling luck trait, so it played out perfectly.

In the case where it were a skill check, you are correct that there are no crits for skill checks. However rolling a natural 20 is a rare event and as a DM you could choose to reward it. Conversely hitting delicate machines with a battle-axe is usually a mistake.

The machine working at half capacity is a reasonable reward and consequence.

Prison Break.

Season one is breaking out of prison. So far so good.

Season two is a manhunt. That’s fair, it’s the aftermath.

Season three is breaking out of prison… again! But this time in Panama. Technically that is the show, so alright.

Season four is a secret shadow organization who can cure all diseases but don’t.

Also there is a post-show film that adds another prison break for some reason. Also I’m learning the show was revived for a fifth season, I can’t say what that’s about.

Catch the fever, Skinner!

Correct! And poor Marge, can’t make a sundae.

It’s actually surprising that the Duffer brothers haven’t done anything else. Traditionally they would have slowly stepped away after the second season or so and started working on other projects.

The first season of Stranger Things was fantastic. The later season had their ups and downs, but overall have been great. I really give the Duffers credit for sticking with it.

I look forward to whatever they make next.

And those beers are five dollars apiece.

Correct!

And that’s a totally reasonable story to write. The Doctor regeneration into a former companion is an interesting story beat. Why this character? Why now? Do they play the character as they were or as the other Doctor saw them? There is a lot you can do with this regeneration.

So nobody can write anything until the next episode airs.

I mean you can write about any Doctor, including Ncuti.

Even if we 100% knew Billie Piper was the new Doctor, could you write about her? We wouldn’t know anything about her character. That’s the exact situation we’re in after every regeneration.

And a space burrito.

Oh, truly this was the will of Maude.

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Re: Late Night shows

“As somebody who was at NBC at the time, part of the thinking was, ‘How do we build out the NBC universe of websites so that people know to come here to get the clips of these shows?’ ”

You start by building something that works. YouTube sucks, but it does work. The broadcast companies, and Comedy Central since we were all trying to watch Daily Show & Colbert as well, built terrible websites that barely worked and were inconvenient to share.

Also sometimes they were just clips, half the joke. YouTube now gets the full interviews, sometimes extend interviews that are online only.

Marie’s actions in episode 7 surprised me because I assumed she had also figured it out already.

I did appreciate Cipher complaining about Sister Sage always being right. Marie did what her character would do because she is the main character, both in the show and in her own life.

I felt like that was the in-universe way of saying, “If you already figured it out, that’s ok, you were supposed to.”

I’m intrigued after the first episode. I’m not confident the premise can work for a whole season, specifically with the type of humor the show has, but I’m interested enough to keep watching for now.

Gen V season 1 worked well since it felt like it fit into what felt like a The Boys season 4 series finale.

When The Boys didn’t have their finale in season 4, jumping back to Gen V felt weird. Gen V season 1 was all about the virus, but season 2 hasn’t mentioned it at all. The virus storyline is largely part of The Boys now, but it was weird to just drop it from Gen V.

I’m enjoying Gen V season 2, but in some ways it feels like it’s retreading season 1 in order to setup the new way to defeat Homelander.

I like both existing in the same universe, but they need to be able to tell their own stories, or work together much more closely to ensure they don’t step on each others toes.

So a Gen V set after The Boys season 5, which is the finale, where it is free to tell whatever story they want. That would be good.

Yup, that’s the episode.

then season 4 being decent isn’t worth anything anyways

I mean a good season is still a good season. If season 5 turns out to be terrible, you can just say that the series ends at season 4.

Yes, there is a setup of future seasons after season 4, but it’s not like Game of Thrones where it’s been setup with tons of mystery for multiple seasons. It’s a new bad guy last season, he was technically sorta involved with the previous seasons. They good guys will win and some characters will sacrifice themselves. There isn’t a big mystery.

Plus, it’s infuriating to come into these threads and see so many comments of people saying they haven’t watched the show in 2-3 seasons. Great. Your opinion means nothing. You can’t have a reasonable opinion about season 5 if you haven’t seen the seasons before it.

I’m curious how they will handle certain character origins going forward.

For example Magneto’s history with the Holocaust is important to his character. A Magneto without that connection would be a different character. However those events ending ~80 years ago, plus 10 years so you have a young boy old enough to understand what is going on… you end up with a 90 year old Magneto.

Given that Magneto and Prof X should be similar in age… A new/unique origin for both characters sorta makes sense. Of course at that point you probably just have new characters entirely. Also there is no way we don’t have our tent pole mutants in the MCU, at least when it starts.

But! If Secret Wars has us mashing universes together. Maybe, like the Fantastic Four, mutants come from a world where similar events happen later, or they come from a different point in history.

Also means you can custom fit the new universe to match whomever you cast in certain roles. So if Laurence Fishburn Prof X needs to have a certain history, he can have it.

Also if this movie does well I want another crossover film.

Nooooooooo!

Correct!

Correct, from the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards episode “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” (S19E09) that won the award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).

Just eat from the opposite side, the burger will never see it coming.