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I don't find myself believing that Yor or Loid are going to get found out by the SSS during this arc, although I would not be surprised if the events of this party put them into new, stickier situations down the road, similar to how Loid's impersonation of the one guy with the scar (can't remember his name rn) has come back to bite him in the ass now. Maybe Yuri will start to get suspicions but attribute them to his jealousy, or maybe this leads to him and Loid spending more time together for some reason. More time with Yuri = More chances of being caught. Of course, most of this repercussions wouldn't happen until farther down the line, I'm just wondering if seeds are being planted.

I think it's been pretty squarely set up that this tranq dart situation is going to go very fucking wrong. Twilight himself says that nothing goes to plan where Yor is concerned. Many people have theorized that the sedative won't work on her due to her resistance to poisons, and I agree with them. I'm curious to see how her being drunk also ends up contributing to the shenanigans.

Something is going to happen with the director. I feel like it has to. Maybe he's the one who gets knocked out and the SSS start trying to figure out who shot the dart. Or, maybe they're just realized he's knocked out and can't give out state secrets. They were pretty blasé about Yuri barfing blood.

Yor might get wind that Loid said he loved her, which could end up leading to a very angsty or awkward conversation after the party when they're heading home.

When I was a wee human being (elementary school aged), my school library had a series of books about classic cinema monsters. I believe they were hard bound with orange covers. One of them was about Godzilla, and I became briefly obsessed with Godzilla lore, much the same way my child is an aficionado of death games in media despite not being able to stomach watching anything that gory until this past October.

I do not remember a whole lot of what I learned. I do remember my parents letting me watch the original Godzilla and being utterly unenthralled with it. The American version clumsily spliced scenes of a Caucasian journalist into the Japanese footage so that Americans would care about what was happening in the movie, and I found those parts so, so boring. I stayed loyal to my Godzilla book, but I was through with the movie. I also vaguely recall watching an American Godzilla remake a decade or two ago and being horrifically underwhelmed by it. These experiences combined with my ever-growing distaste for remakes are why Godzilla Minus One was completely off my radar when it came out. I head Godzilla remake and was like, "Pffft no thanks."

My mistake! Godzilla Minus One was a really good movie!

Things I liked most about it:

Like the original, it was about the lingering horrors of war, specifically atomic war

It was not an action movie at its core. The more important story was runaway kamikaze pilot, Shikishima's, redemptive journey after his cowardice led to a score of deaths towards the end of the war.

The message that life is important and should be valued and protected even though sacrifice is sometimes necessary

The happy ending felt earned

There was this one shot of Godzilla's face towards the beginning and I immediately thought, Awww, cute chubby cheeks and he's smiling! As I was thinking it, my kid said, "Godzilla looks cute to me," and I was like, "I thought that, too!" And Godzilla continued to be a cutie, even though he was wrecking up Tokyo and needed to be exterminated. He has a lot in common with his original iteration and I like that.