Because sometimes what you need most is to watch a baby armadillo named Spock, yes, Spock (look at those wee Vulcan ears!), lapping up milk from a teeny-tiny bowl at Zoo Wroclaw in Poland:
After Spock’s mom, Hermonia, showed no interest in her newborn pup, zookeepers jumped in to raise him by hand. It took the keepers a little while to successfully get Spock to nurse because he wouldn’t drink from a bottle or an eyedropper. This tiny red bowl, however, turned out to be just right. By the time Spock reached 6 weeks old, he’d already tripled his weight.
Head over to ZooBorns to learn more about Southern Three-banded Armadillos and Spock the armadillo pup.
Fun fact: In Spanish, -illo is a diminutive suffix (ending that makes a word a smaller or cuter version of the original).
Armado = armored. As in English, adjectives can be used as nouns, so armado can also mean “armored one.” Armadillo = little armored one.
So imagine, if you will, a couple of Conquistadors standing around, unable or unwilling to ask a Native person what things are really called, and this animal walks by.
Good: Lois Lane! and Jimmy Olsen. Punk Rock survivor resistance journalist broadcaster for truth and freedom and meaningful rebellion against fascism with tragic backstory who rescued Jimmy Lois!
Bad: So it turns out Gotham City Garage ends in 12 (24 digital) issues. Boo. At least they knew it’d have a limited run from the beginning – but won’t get the Mera or Guy Gardener Green Lantern stories
For Sims (2) – how incredibly easy, once I learned how, to mod and customize the game was, and to make a truly multigenerational story with incredible control. That unlike later versions I could have a period game, even if the lack of horses peeves me still, and control so many families.
Silmarillion it’s a similar reason – the historical document approach – narrative is so barebones yet just enough to give my imagination playing room, and the multigenerational aspect, the fairy tale and familiar, the good talking dog, the bittersweet victory and the reunions post-death. And that I get my cake and to eat it too – the agnostic uncertainty of anything after death and the certainty of reembodiment to restore a happy ending.
Although in the case of Finn fans I think we’re justified in feeling betrayed, as he was definitely the male lead in the first movie, and the trailer… really… sold us an idea, I think?
There was almost no Finn in the first trailer and they had edited him out of the SW Celebration poster, plus interviews rarely asking about him or clips stressing a sibling-like relationship w/ him and Rey- plus the knowledge that the set-up at the end of TFA was Rey off for Jedi stuff and thus Luke and Kylo, while Finn would be resistance- especially w/ Rose’s character introduced obviously as a love interest for him. I did foolishly think there would be more emphasis on Finn versus the First Order, fighting his past against them, the personal enmity, more of that Phasma vs Finn arc that was truncated in TFA (it was missing a third beat, and never would i have thought Finn vs Phasma be only one scene and a lame call-back joke to Han’s ‘Rebel Scum’ scene in Return of the Jedi – that was bad fanfic stuff). Still a betrayal- but I knew going in Finn would be done dirty and was warned he was reduced to mostly comic relief.
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