Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With the original three seasons complete and the films proving a bust, this week my house munched through the 2008 Slayers revival Revolution, featuring the same director and much of the same cast as the original ‘90s entries. While the transition from nostalgic cel photography is unfortunate, this season proved itself a fine addition to the Lina Inverse canon, carrying on the spirit of the original series. Meanwhile, the introduction of Brennan Lee Mulligan into Critical Role gave us the perfect excuse to return to Dimension 20, where we’re now following the Bad Kids on their quest to retrieve the Crown of the Nightmare King. Though the team moving away from fully designed sets initially put us off, it’s actually been easy to reintegrate into this season’s Theater of the Mind-style combat, which undeniably facilitates fights of greater scope and complexity than a physical board would allow. All this DnD viewing has actually inspired me to get started on this year’s Christmas DnD Adventure, a much-loved annual tradition around my place. Perhaps more on that later, but for now, let’s run down the week in films!

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