Movie Night VII: The Spinoff

[unrecovered]

Who| Wash and anyone who cares to join
What| Movie Night!
Where| The usual lounge
When| After Resistance Is Futile/An Eye For an Eye and the subsequent food fight
Warnings/Notes| None?

There's something to be said for a return to normality, though they're not really there yet. The food fight was a good way to decompress; now it's time to trot out the usual tradition of snacks and old cinema.

Chairs are arranged, blankets laid out, and the usual line of tables is piled high with standard movie snacks and drinks, though they're far less carefully arranged than usual. There are blank tables next to the spread, for those who wish to bring snacks to share. The usual poster is outside the door, with a summary of the movie, its MPAA rating, and the customary Movie night is neutral territory note. New this time is a handwritten note next to the summary that reads It's parody. It's supposed to be weird.

The movie tonight is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Comments

[circusbat]

He chuckles and shakes his head. "Monty Python isn't everybody's cup of tea. I find some of it amusing, but Tim's more into it than I am." He pauses. "Tim's my brother. A bit younger and a complete nerd."

[thebioticwoman]

"It's 200 years old where I'm from." Shepard shrugs one shoulder. "Maybe you had to be there."

Yeah, she just obliquely called him a fossil, but since he's seen how she interacts with Garrus, Dick should probably take that as the acknowledgement of friendship it is.

[circusbat]

It gets a grin out of him. "Believe it or not, it's actually older than I am, so I wasn't QUITE there. But I suppose it's close enough to my time that it's easier."

He walks over, helping with the clean up. "I'm guessing that a lot of things have changed by your time. I still get whiplash sometimes by the things that have changed here, nevermind in another universe."

[thebioticwoman]

"You know what's getting to me the worst about being here? No omni-tools." She holds the arm that isn't carrying a bowl full of assorted cans and bottles perpendicular to her chest in a gesture that's obviously a pantomime of something, like holding a phantom phone receiver to the ear. "Kinda like the omnicomms, but way better. They weren't even a thing when I was a kid, but now nobody can live without 'em."

[circusbat]

"Kinda like cell phones back home, I suppose. I know we didn't have them when I was little, but everybody's attached to them these days." He smiles at her. "I'll admit that I'm somewhat curious what circuses look like in your time period."

[thebioticwoman]

"I couldn't really tell you," Shepard says, slightly taken aback by a question seemingly out of left field. "Except when Dad was stationed at Arcturus, I've never lived anywhere big enough for anything like that to perform."

Not that she knows what circuses were like on Earth in 20-whatever either, to be honest, but she has some vague ideas that have percolated through from what pop culture of the time she is familiar with. "The animal welfare laws are probably a lot stronger, if only so we don't look bad in front of the asari."

[circusbat]

Dick grins. "Sorry. It's kind of half professional interest. I grew up in a circus before I ended up doing the hero thing." Not...going to mention how old he was when that happened. "I still keep my hand in a bit, but not as much as I'd like."

He nods a bit at the animal welfare laws. "I'd probably be happier if we didn't have animals now, but old man Haly makes certain that the animals in our circus are really well taken care of. But it would be a lot cheaper to travel without them." And circuses just didn't make that much money any more.

[thebioticwoman]

Shepard sets her collected garbage down at the end of the snack table and snags a handful of chips from one of the bowls that hasn't been entirely devoured yet.

"You're an acrobat?"

No need to compliment her deductive skills; she's seen you at the gym.

[circusbat]

"Got it in one." It's not like it's a secret, even back home. Just...most people forget. "My parents were trapeze artists. They taught me everything they knew. Then I started working with Batman and expanded even on that."