afraid_of_marshmallows | Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

Okay, sure. Arden didn't know much more than what TV said about throwing movie nights, but surely she had the gist. Many ~~moddable~~ pizzas and sodas had been ordered from Pizza Planet - look, Arden loved sweet tea, but even she knew soda was necessary for movie nights. A truly disturbing number of bags of popcorn had been popped and put into bowls and a quick stop at T&C had been made to grab a couple of different popcorn seasonings in case people wanted to experiment with popcorn flavors.

All that was left was to wait for people to show up. She'd texted both Kamala and Cal in full capslock mode about the glory of this movie, and then had ~~handwavily~~ tried to contact as many other residents as possible to tell them about the movie night - texts, email, sign on the door, whatever. Sure, nobody had to come, but she at least wanted to make sure everyone knew they were welcome. She'd also invited Steven and Watts (while double checking that, yes, it really was okay to move furniture around the living room and also eat in there) and had made sure to get a few bags of unbuttered popcorn just for them. Did she think the butter flavoring had any actual dairy in it? No. But she was gonna be careful all the same.

Now she was just pushing the furniture around to make sure that every possible seat had a good view of the incredibly large TV and was in reaching distance of a bowl of popcorn and places to put their cups of soda and plates of pizza down. Midnight Movie Night was about to begin, showcasing the absolute work of art and cultural tour de force that 2 Fast and 2 Family 4 Oceans, the fifteenth 2 Fast 2 Family sequel that was also a prequel to the Oceans Edge series.

This was gonna be great.

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"Okay, so I know that I said that you don't need to know anything about the previous movies to enjoy this one," Arden said, smiling brightly at Steven enjoying the movie, "and I do stand by that, but the hacker chick being drift compatible with the Bollywood guy? That was actually really moving because she came into the franchise being a loner who didn't interact with people very well. So this is a...surprisingly nice conclusion to her character arc, where she not only learned to trust people, but actually became part of a trusted pairing."

"Sometimes all someone needs is the chance to meet the right person," Steven said. "Someone who fits in a way no others can."

Steven wasn't thinking of anyone in particular here or anything.

"The battle scenes were rather exciting," Steven said. "I've never seen a building used as a weapon before."

Excellent topic change, Steven! Just in time to keep Arden from getting a little maudlin, too. "RIP the Space Needle," she said. "But it did made for an impressive weapon. Just, like, smacked the shhh-crap outta that kaiju, too."

"Not that I condone that sort of violence normally," Steven said. "But in the realm of cinema it's all right. I did like that they tried talking to the kaiju though. Or, well, having those two little girls try singing. Even if it didn't work it was an attempt at communicating to find a solution."

Steven took a sip of his soda, then added, "Shame it turned out that particular beast didn't care for country music."

"Right? I was really happy they didn't just immediately respond with violence," she said. "Although I still think if those little girls had been ready to drop some bars or were actually Baby Metal, they maybe would have got somewhere."

"Surprised they didn't go with Bollywood," Steven said, since that had shown up elsewhere in the movie. "Though perhaps they were trying to get variety for the soundtrack? Increase sales? I did like the one kaiju who attempted dancing. The one with three heads, not the one with the lion's mane. I'm not entirely certain the second one was meant to be dancing?"

"Maybe to appeal to the Midwest, considering the pretty cosmopolitan view the movie had in general?" Arden suggested. "And yeah, I'm not sure what was up with the lion's mane one. I think maybe it was improperly rigged or something? It just looked very jerky kind of all over. You can really see it when it's coming out of the water the first time. I thought it might fall over before anybody even touched it."

"Did you see the zipper as well?" Steven asked, gesturing to his chest to indicate the same spot on the monster. "I thought perhaps I was mistaken but the line seemed rather distinct. Like it was someone wearing a costume instead of computer graphics or the like."

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"Oooh, I wonder if some of the motion capture got caught in the digital rendering?" Arden said. "That would be kinda dope, actually. But then, so would it being a person in a costume."

"Regardless, I thought the three headed one was nice," Steven said. He made a waving motion with his hands to try to mimic the movement seen in the film. "With how the heads and necks moved to the music?"

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