Favorite Characters: Sarah Grace Hart as Emily Dickinson in…
Friday, September 2nd, 2016Favorite Characters: Sarah Grace Hart as Emily Dickinson in Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party
for @aeternamente
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Clue (1985)Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner…
Friday, September 2nd, 2016Haunt these halls no more.For @hartgracesarah.
Monday, August 29th, 2016End Screen Decoding, Poe Party Chapter 1, “The Bells”Took some…
Sunday, August 28th, 2016End Screen Decoding, Poe Party Chapter 1, “The Bells”
Took some careful lip-reading, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got it:
Gif 1: Louisa May has just announced, “I mean to fetch an inspector.” (See trailer around 0:35.) She stares at Poe, expectantly.
Gif 2: Poe: “If you think I can feed more guests at this point you must be crazy.”
Gif 3: Poe: “Even a drunk orangutan can’t expect us to make more soup now!”
Gif 4: Lousa May: “All right.”
Gif 5: Annabel, holding Eddie’s head, still very much in the denial phase: “He’s getting worse!”
Gif 6: Charlotte: “I’m fetching an Uber.”
There’s a pause, then Oscar giggles:
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Announcing… the Poe-stache Quiz!In honor of the premiere of…
Saturday, August 27th, 2016Announcing… the Poe-stache Quiz!
In honor of the premiere of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, I bring you a contest that focuses on one of his most-beloved features.
Rules: Match each of the lettered Poe-staches above with its numbered source video below. First person to match them all wins a custom Poe gifset of their choosing prepared by me.
One entry per user. Please submit your entry via a reply to this post or in a message or ask sent to me, @lies. In the event I can’t determine who won (because multiple winning entries arrive via different channels and aren’t timestamped), or just because I feel like it, I reserve the right to declare multiple winners.
Good luck!
Source videos:
- Oct 7, 2013: A Tell Tale Vlog – Ep. 1: OH, HELLO
- Oct 31, 2013: Socially Awkward Edgar Allan Poe: Girl Scout Cookies
- Nov 4, 2013: Socially Awkward Edgar Allan Poe: DRAW MY LIFE
- Jan 24, 2014: Socially Awkward Poe – A TELL TALE BIRTHDAY – feat. Annabelle Lee (Mary Kate Wiles)
- Mar 31, 2014: Kissing in the Rain – Ep. 4: Edgar & Annabel – Mary Kate Wiles & Sean Persaud
- Jul 2, 2014: A Very Shipwrecked VidCon | 2014 | Maxwell Glick, Mary Kate Wiles, Sinead Persaud, Sean Persaud
- Jan 20, 2015: Socially Awkward Poe | A Tell Tale Invitation
- Feb 2, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party – Kickstarter Video!
- May 7, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Prologue 1: Twain’s Lament
- Aug 22, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Chapter 1: The Bells
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Favorite Poe Party Arrivals: Emily Dickinson
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016Favorite Poe Party arrivals: H. G. Wells
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016Favorite Characters: Lenore the Lady Ghost
Monday, August 22nd, 2016Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party cast: The Women |…
Friday, August 5th, 2016Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party cast: The Women | The Men
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party cast: The Women |…
Friday, August 5th, 2016Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party cast: The Women | The Men
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Favorite moments from the Personal Space trailer.That first…
Sunday, May 22nd, 2016Favorite moments from the Personal Space trailer.
- That first blackboard you see, before the second one slides down and covers it, has a cool diagram. At first I thought it showed some event from early in the mission, but after looking more closely I think it actually shows the end of the mission. There’s the destination exoplanet, labeled “X”, with Overture in orbit and a shuttle descending to it, fueling “in situ” (i.e., on the planet), then rejoining Overture.
- I like von Braun using his slide rule as a pointer. I was born a smidgeon too late to actually use one in school, but I used to play with my dad’s when I was a kid.
- Another cool period reference: Dana and I’m-not-sure-who toasting with Tab. It kind of looks like they’re opening modern-style stay-tab openers rather than the ring-pull openers I would have expected; Wikipedia is a little ambiguous on exactly when that transition would have happened, and I don’t quite remember, other than a vague sense that it happened somewhere around the late 70s/early 80s. Of course this is an AU; maybe along with spaceflight the evolution of soda can openers was similarly accelerated in the PS universe.
- Showing a nuke blast to introduce Overture was SO COOL. I was expecting a fly-by, and when that burst of light came I knew exactly what it was and got embarrassingly excited. A+ for micro-budget SFX showmanship.
- The drive plate was cool. Seeing the antenna peaking around the edge of it was cool. Seeing the front end of the ship reveal itself as we swung by the drive plate was cool. Basically it was all cool.
- It’s kind of a silly thing, but I loved getting the answer to something I’d wondered: which way the ship rotates. The answer: clockwise as you face forward. Which means that for crew standing at the windows, the sky will perpetually appear to be rotating slowly counter-clockwise as they look forward.
- The ship appears to be rotating a little faster than I expected. I thought it would rotate once every 30 seconds, so as to provide 1 g of artificial gravity at the radius of the outer (lower) deck in the big donut’s pods. In the trailer, though, the ship appears to complete a rotation in about 21 seconds. (And the camera appears to also be circling the ship slowly in the same clockwise-looking-forward direction, which I’d expect would make the ship appear to rotate more slowly, rather than more quickly.) So maybe I made an incorrect assumption or a math error when figuring the ship’s rate of spin. Or maybe it just looked cooler spinning a little faster, and they (sensibly) decided that was more important than hyper-technical realism.
- I was thrilled to finally get a good view of the antenna. I’d been confused about its structure; in some previous views I’d thought its sections looked big and boxy. Now, though, I realize that the individual sections are relatively thin. But they’re staggered with respect to each other. I wonder if that’s to let the connecting struts be arranged at the same 45-degree angle that the supports connecting the big donut and the small donut are. If so, I think it might be for the same reason in each case: The struts need to be able to handle forces from two different directions: The rearward force generated by the Orion drive, and the outward force generated by the ship’s spin. By putting the struts at a 45-degree angle they can handle forces from both directions equally well.
- I was very interested in the red coloring. What I previously thought might be residue of an accidental hull breach now clearly appears to be a reflection that shifts as the ship rotates. It’s hard to tell exactly where the reflected light originates; it looks like maybe it’s coming from somewhere on the inner edge of either the big or the small donut somewhere around the part of the ship that has the antenna attached to it. I haven’t been able to think of anything that would cause that. Maybe a nuclear reactor located in one of the smaller donut pods produces the light as a side-effect of its operation? Or maybe it’s not meant to represent anything in particular, but is just a red highlight applied to the rendering to add visual interest. If so it definitely worked in my case. :-)
- I thought the rulebook floating by was cute. I’m assuming it’s meant as a visual gag referencing how the crew or the people at Actaeon or whomever have “thrown the rulebook out the window.”
Okay. Enough obsessing for now.
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#Bam4Ham drinking game: Every time Michelle references the…
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016#Bam4Ham drinking game: Every time Michelle references the lyrics you have to take a shot.
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