Doctor Who – Nightmare in Silver
I loved this episode. I completely utterly loved this episode. Easily the best episode this season. And there’s one very simple reason. Stakes. I had no idea how the Doctor was going to get out of this one and neither did he. I was glued to the screen. There’s really not a whole lot else [...]
Hannibal – First 6 Episodes
My girlfriend and I were holding off on watching Hannibal until we moved in together so last night I finally got to watch the first episode, Apéritif. Sweet Jesus this show is amazing. I love it. I love the lighting direction, the music, the opening credits, the writing, and the acting. My original fear was [...]
On Making a Dungeons & Dragons Movie
To Courtney Solomon and David Leslie Johnson: Hi there. Congratulations on your new quest to make a D&D movie. You may not be aware, but this would be the fourth movie to carry the Dungeons & Dragons label. The three previous films, Dungeons & Dragons, Wrath of the Dragon God, and Book of Vile Darkness [...]
Doctor Who – Crimson Horror
This episode started out pretty good. It reminded me that Doctor Who doesn’t always have to be about paradoxes, parallel realities, and alien intrigue. It’s great when you can pull off a clever sounding time travel plot points like in Blink, but it doesn’t always have to be complicated. An Alien is at some [...]
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
I haven’t thought about Doctor Who in a while so this is going to be a review of how this season is going so far as opposed to a strict one episode review. As you may have read (http://snarkknight.com/doctor-who-series-7-second-look/) I wasn’t a fan of Series 7 Part 1. There were moments I liked but on [...]
Game of Thrones Review
Dark Wings, Dark Words Review 1) Jesus Bran’s voice got deep. I told you puberty would be the death of that plotline. 2) Sooo Theon is still at Winterfell? How in the blue fuck did Bran and Rickon get past the Boltons then? 3) Didn’t quite understand that torture scene. I guess it establishes that [...]
Game of Thrones Season Three – Episode One
I was going to resist writing this but fuck it. Next year I’m going to buy the DVD and when I watch the whole season at once, as is my way, I’ll forgive all the petty bullshit that angers me. For this episode, my petty bullshit is: Sam got the birds off, Littlefinger meeting Sansa [...]
The Lazy DM Game
With little preparation I set out for my Isle of Dread inspired mini campaign. It was okay. I thought the prep went really well. There wasn’t a point when I felt underprepared. I think wandering monsters and random encounters are stupid and take time away from the fun, so I have a hard time explaining [...]
The Night Before Game Night
So this is it. Our game starts tomorrow evening. After two months of trying desperately not to over prepare and tinker I feel woefully underprepared. The Lazy DM Guide says that I have done enough. My original notecards focused on the city of Vinekeep itself and I saw that as central for parts of the [...]
The First Adventure
This playtest makes being a lazy dungeon master the only way to go. Reason being? I knew I was going to DM this coming Wednesday two months ago. Old Snark Knight would’ve spent the past two months meticulously building a trail of encounters. The new packet that dropped on 3/20 completely changed the monster math. [...]