Zia @ZiaMacPine@awoo.space

It is odd that no one has sat down to do an MCU treatment and say "hey what if these people all did exist and we could make fun nods in the movies to each of them and their adventures

Considering Agatha Christie did actual team up novels (Cards on the Table really is an Avengers team up of some of Christie's heavy hitters) its interesting

I find it fascinating that Agatah Christie's characters and settings actually do overlap: Poirot, Marple, Tommy& Tuppence, Inspector Battle, Colonel Race, Ariadne Oliver (her OC do not steal), Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Quin, as well as Parker Pyne actually do interact with each other or other characters. Her mysteries are a shared universe

I do like this comedic elderly governmental official who hates working but is cursed to have incredibly competent secretaries and everyone thinks he is a legislative and policy dynamo who really cares and its really his entire staff. He constantly falls into work and duties he doesn't want and is kind of a duplicitous gad about

Colonel Race, one of Agatha Christie's reoccurring sleuths, had his debut here but he really doesn't do much in the narrative. I think Christie thought Race was more interesting then I think he is. I do think he's the kind of guy Christie found attractive big, doesn't suffer fools, doesn't talk too much, observant, and just a bit dangerous. Still Colonel Race is very much an artifact of the Colonial Era and his character is "I have lived in the wild lands and it has made me keen minded and hearty." but modern readers will see him as "you own a diamond mine in South Africa bro."

In a lot of ways I can see why he isn't very memorable. Even Inspector Battle has a more interesting concept.

I finished it this morning. This was one of Agatha Christie's early novels and fits into her traveler and spy genre better then a mystery. While it had a fun tone in places I didn't much like the main characters and the ending was a dud for me.

Verdict: fun little movie. Had the right tone for its intended audience. A tad frenetic at times and I wanted a little more room to breathe but I enjoyed the movie over all. I liked how they incorporated the power ups as a story concept solid B

@toledeaux amazon prime for renting needs. I am sure there are pirate options too

Oh? You can watch the mario movie on streaming now? Yeah I have wanted to see that

@artfulreggie ah drat that really stinks

https://www.theonion.com/nazi-memorabilia-collectors-explain-why-1850328187 I think its key to see that the reason why the comedy works is the brevity of each statement. An important lesson I will NEVER learn

@roxy yeeeessss!

@roxy quick! someone do a $1 pledge!

@roxy eh numerologically 676 is the actual number of the beast because you need the holy number of 7 in with the two incomplete sixes. The triune of three sixes is actually a positive number because....