Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 09/18/20

TV Show - Agents of SHIELD s7 (2020) [+] Actually this was a pretty fun season. The agents travel through time trying to stop the Chronotons from changing Earth history so we get 1931 NYC during Prohibition, 1955 Area 51, 1973 big bell bottoms, 1982 bright colors and big hair. The second half of the season is more tight though perhaps less entertaining. But the final episode with all the reveals and then a sort of "where are they now" scene is quite a fine ending to the series.

Movie - Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017) [-] Alice wakes up alone (removing all the characters that survived to the end of Retribution) then is given a final mission by Red Queen to get the cure hidden in the first underground lab from the original movie. It does not feel original any more but at least Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) is a supporting character and we get all of Alice's back story and conclusion to her story arc.

Podcast - Save for Half (2017) [-] A podcast where a group of grognard friends revisit classic RPGs. It's not a review show because they don't really bother to review the RPGs. It's a top 5 list show: each person picks five things they liked about the RPG and then 5 things that did or did not make the save (so could be more things they like or things they didn't like). And there is a disconcerting amount of making fun of each RPG. So not only is this not the old school RPG show I want to hear but it makes me hesitant to try Save or Die (a podcast for the first editions of D&D) which has the same hosts.