Doing a spooky season update post now before Frankenstein tomorrow. (It’s a lot slimmer causa sickness but..)

Day 22: Pokémon ZA, eso

Pokémon ZA ahas mostly been running from alpha Pokémon and beating rogue mega evolutions. Hpwever today’s also featured exploring the sewers and it honestly felt nice to explore a ‘dungeon’ location. It’s a same it’s the first (and probably only) one cause it was pretty fun to explore (though I know there’s places I can’t get to yet). I’ve also finally changed one of my Pokémon, but the one I changed is now so under levelled it’s a struggle.

Day 23: Black Phone 2, Pokémon thrills and chills stream

Black Phone 2 was discussed here. I can’t remember all that much of the Pokémon stream alas, but I feel it was random ones again.

Day 24: monster train 2

Monster train was just a quick run, I didn’t do too well cause my focus was off. I’ve never actually completed a run on either monster train alas. The difficulty just ramps up like crazy.

Day 25: nine bodies in a Mexican morgue, treehouse of horror vi + vii

Nine Bodies was… interesting. It narrowed the group down to five at the start of the ep and that number just kept shrinking as it went on. In some ways it did feel like a finale ep, but there’s still one ep to go and the killer has t been revealled. (I’ll be so frustrated by it if it is a random other person like it seems to imply)

I watched Treehouse Of Horror eps while my pad did an update (I don’t like how it’s changed things) and they were both pretty solid entries. I had considered watching another tonight but I don’t think I have the focus.

Day 26: High Potential - Chasing Ghosts, Pokémon ZA, nightwatch

High Potential had a Halloween ep! And it was so great, possibly my fav of the season so far. A+ work on them deciding to have a spooky themed ep releasing now.

Also there was Nightwatch, where Daisy May Cooper and her brother stay at haunted locations. This was the first ep and it felt like it should have been longer than half an hour. It was fun, but there wasn’t really much ghost hunting.

Day 27: Strange New Worlds, ESO

I already commented on Strange New Workds, which was a great ep. But otherwise the day was more focussed on resting with occasional games of marvel snap (which is Halloween themed right now) and trying to get the last spooky season rewards on Fortnite and Fall Guys.

Day 28: Spooky season mix came,

Yesterday was a tiring day so I didn’t do much spooky (other than the aforementioned gaming for spooky rewards) but I got sent a spooky mix cd and cute Halloween card! Alas cause of all the stuff going on I’ve not had a chance to listen but hopefully soon.

Day 29: Pokémon ZA, War Of The Worlds [2025]

Finally there is the new War Of The Worlds film which I just watched. (The amazon one with ice cube.)

A found footage type war of the worlds could, in theory, be a really great concept. This attempt at it wasn’t it though. Like, I can see what they were going for but it doesn’t quite work.

There’s a variety of reasons that it doesn’t. The main guy starts off as creepy (following his daughters movements on security cams, hacking her fridge, deleting stuff off his son’s computer) and it genuinely feels like he was more interested in spying on them than doing his actual spying job.

It gets better once the ‘meteors’ arrive, causing destruction and then revealing their tripods (which are a cool design). But then another of its flaws show up. This whole film is essentially real time and yet everything is happening so fast. You mean to tell me every nation on earth decides to put their differences aside and co-ordinate an offensive in a matter of minutes? Or that there’s news reports of everything happening as it’s happening? Plus there was the whole reason the tripods are here they want our data to feed on. Which just feels… absurd?

However, I came into this expecting it to be terrible and honestly? I liked it more than I expected to. Like it’s still not great but there are some good things. Like I said the tripods are cool and most of the supporting cast did a good job (or at least as best as they could). It was mostly filmed during covid so it is pretty good what they could accomplish filming wise. (I feel people would be more forgiving if it hadn’t been held back for years and become so distant from then)

Would I recommend it? I’m not sure. If you go in with low expectations you’ll probably find something to like, but if you want a good war of the worlds film there are so many better options.