#strove

So there is a train line than i sometimes take while visiting family and the place names down there are just TOO British. It gets read out by the generic announcer voice and its just... Wow, theres a reason there is a steriotype.

It goes like this:

Clapham, Woking, Basingstoke, Andover, Sailsbury, Tisbury, Gillingham, Templecombe, Sherborne, Yeovil Junction, Crewkern, Axminster, Honiton, Feniton, Whimple, Pinehoe, Exeter

If youre not having fun reading that, read it in the most stereotypical queens english accent you can muster.

So Strove and I went to see the new IT film the other day. It was a slightly different experience for both of us, with myself being a long-time fan of IT, and horror in general, and Strove being almost completely new to the whole thing. Of course, he jumped plenty, and I definitely didn’t...

I was personally really sceptical for the longest time, I was almost completely convinced that Hollywood was going to ruin one of my favourite old movies (/miniseries, whatever). But actually, I was really impressed - especially so by Bill Skarsgård’s portrayal of Pennywise. Not only did he do an amazing job, but I always find it really interesting when actors take something involuntary that may be seen as a hindrance and turn it into part of the act. Bill’s lazy eye and prosthetic-teeth-induced drooling were utilised really damn well to turn Pennywise into the perfect, noticeably inhuman monster that he should be. As much as I believe Tim Curry’s Pennywise is wonderful in his own ways, Bill’s portrayal was at least just as good, if not better in some manners.

One thing that really stood out to me, without spoiling too much, was the actual implication of the phrase “you’ll float too”. In the original miniseries, it only ever seemed to be a reference to balloons, but I was really impressed to see that the phrase actually had meaning in the new film. I haven’t read the book yet (it’s in my list, I promise), so I don’t know if that was from the book or just made for the film, but it was shocking and really cool to see nonetheless.

Speaking of phrases, I have to mention that I was really happy when Pennywise said “beep beep, Richie!” in the new movie. I appreciated the nod to Tim Curry’s Pennywise there.

Overall... I expected this film to be a mess of cheap jumpscares and tryhardy acting, but was really pleasantly surprised. I had a great time, and I’m pretty sure Strove did too (which is good, because it seemed like he wasn’t interested the first time I suggested going to see it).

~Doll

Strove here, going to throw my two cents in here too. As mentioned im not a big horror fan nor Stephen King fan nor IT fan so this was far from my usual viewing. That being said i did really quite enjoy it. When it comes to horror i often dont see the point in cheap scares just for the sake of it being a horror film, for me there has got to be something else. This could be a black comedy or a horror with some proper character development and story. IT was the latter, combining, almost in equal parts, an 80s style coming of age film and well done horror.

Pacing was good, characters were fairly fleshed out despite the very limited time spend on each one. Sure they could have taken a little longer to develop them but they all certainly have their own characters and can be described without saying what they look like or what they do which is always a good test for character development. Horror was quite light on cheap scares instead going for a lot of uncanny valley and general uneasiness. Nicely acted, some great visual work, good balance between horror and story.

So yeah, despite not being a big horror fan i did enjoy it a fair bit.

Oh and for the record Doll jumped first at the message telling folks to turn off their phones... Many wincing faces and tense expressions were had by my girl...

So we play League of Legends pretty often and, outside of jungle, mid lane is one of the roles she just didn't really get. Its a different playstyle with slightly different goals and mentalities. 

We jumped into a couple of 1v1 customs with me playing Ziggs and then Lissandra, Doll playing Lux. Generally good fun for us anyway but i feel like she improved a fair bit. There is a certain amount that cant be taught and is just experience and knowing your matchups and items but the mentality and HOW to play is much better now. Of course doing it like this removes Jungler ganks and lane roams from the whole thing but her laning should be better now.

Will have to throw my Xerath and Orianna picks at her next i think then get her going with proper games and ganks. Nice to spend the time just us though, we often play in a group, which often means we go bot which is cute and all but can get stale being support all the time as much as i am a support main.

Hope she gets something from it.

~Strove

I’m actually feeling better already just from a couple practice games. Which is good, because I was getting really frustrated with midlane. Lots of champs I wanted to play, but I just couldn’t seem to get the lane itself right.

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