#peter lynn

— I WISH FIVE HAD BEEN THE ONE TO SHOOT IAN.

— Peter is Simon?! How? How, how, how??  — Where do you think you’re going, Janine, you’re the only counterbalance for all the straight-up goofiness the other characters bring to the table.

— PETER IS SIMON! SIMON’S ALIVE! YESS!

—On Season 6 now and I like the new politics-and-cold-war plotline they’re running with. Lots of “characters fighting their inner demons” tropes, too.

— Aw, Jody and Tom! That was weird when they were hinting at it before. Maybe because she’s the panicky runner who likes to knit and he’s a half-insane war veteran who once kidnapped an infant and tried to carve words into his sister’s arm with a knife, but now their little love story is growing on me.

— SIMON! IS STILL! AROUND! I missed that guy!

— Still don’t like Amelia.  — STILL hate Moonchild. Keep thinking we’re done with her hippy-dippy crap, and she keeps popping into Five’s head at the worst moments, and now they’ve apparently CONFIRMED that it’s really her?? She’s not just a post-traumatic stress reaction or a hallucination? Five has “Moonchild Syndrome?” Do you know what this MEANS?

IT MEANS I HAVE TO KEEP LISTENING TO HER STUPID INANE COMMENTARY.

It also interestingly means Five, as a character, has some more autonomous character development going on. Like, Runner Fuve can’t just be going through this Moonchild thing ambiguously, however the player wants to interpret it. In-canon, Moonchild is really in the character’s brain and is affecting the plot directly. So. Neat. But annoying.

— People keep mentioning Five and Sam “drifting apart” but I am sensing literally none of that so far.

merry chriseler @lime-pigeon

Okay, so I said I was going to review Dinosaur Dash, but I didn’t want to have two “meh” reviews directly after another, so I switched to this one.

Rule Britannia

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Spoiler Warning? Spoilery in the last category, but I’ll warn you first.

General impression: I had so much fun! It reminded me a bit of discovering ZR and being completely obsessed with the story and feeling totally immersed. I love the setting, liked the characters a lot and enjoyed the story. Both funny and very serious (and it’s really funny, at several moments, I was laughing while running).

What I liked best: The characters together were a lot of fun, and the gags landed super well in my opinion. Also, the tension doesn’t let up until the very last moment.

- Oh, wait, I just remembered another great thing that has absolutely nothing to do with the story: I kept mishearing “Picts” as “Pigs” (not a native speaker), and that made EVERYTHING better.

 “The pigs are coming!” “Shh, do you want the pigs to hear us??” “I hear the pigs have dark magic!”

What I didn’t like: They added a lot of storylines and background stuff which in the end, had to be tied up super quickly, which I thought didn’t work that well. Sometimes, simpler is better. Also, sometimes I got whiplash from the quick changes in tone from super serious to super casual.

Random stuff, contains spoilers (!!!) and complaining

 Okay, so Sam and “Petro” – that gotta be cognomen, right?? And I am called Quintus – why am I the only one without a cognomen here? Am I that unimportant??

Here it is! My Zombies, Run Secret Santa for @pldubrahs! They mentioned Peter was one of their favorite characters and that he and Janine were one of their favorite ships, and honestly, how could I resist giving the two of them a happy Christmas?  Thank you to @runnerzero and @notforconsumption for organizing this! Teeny lil post season 8 ficlet below --

five, peter, and amelia all raise their hands

janine: that DONT involve criminal activity?

five and peter lower their hands

janine: or morally repulsive but technically legal actions

amelia lowers her hand

i have no idea why my 5 would be given a segment on account of them being sweary, skatterbrained, and mute, but i can imagine them roping one of their friends in as a translator (their number one pick is peter because hes pretty much the only one that emotes while reading their signing out loud so im going to assume him as the main cohost)

5 continuously swears on air but peter just replaces them with the silliest non-swears he can think of and it drives 5 up the wall.

5 tends to use their airtime to either talk about their current special interest (sharks, dog training, various YA fiction, and cartoons to name a few) or just talk shit with peter (shit talking various antagonists 5 has had to deal with, gossiping, running/survival/etc tips and anecdotes, and bickering.

the segment was only a few episodes before they had to surrender the airtime to someone who was even mildly competent but there was a brief petition of roflnet to "let runner 5 say fuck"