THE SHORT HOUR S1E3: "the use of irony to mock or convey contempt"

... I think I need something to erase that out of my head. Don't think I'd ever needed to see krogan break dancing. Not sure that I ever should have, really.

It's like watching a mountain of jello in the middle of an earthquake.

Cerberus's doctors were for the most part a group of highly capable professionals. Admittedly, most of them had some difficulty in grasping the concept of "ethics violation," but they were very skilled at what they did.

To keep the force from growing too strong?

I noticed you said "direct", not "write". Rewatching the clip on GalaxyTube, and I swear that my kids have put together better stage plays.

Sadly, this is still better than most PSAs my own species has put out. Except for the krogan breakdancing, which manages to tie with some of our worst.

"The palace of the lizard king" would be where Mr. Dwick lives, I guess? Metaphorically, I mean. There's a lot of pro-krogan symbolism in this stuff, like with the Mighty Thoar or whatever. Which I understand, what with Tuchanka being civilized now. You'd want to celebrate that, you know? But he doesn't want the young ending up on the path there, apparently. So, er, he doesn't want to recruit any kids to his cult because he needs them soaking up the shows he releases and making him money? It's like you always need a lot of outsiders, you know? Otherwise being an insider doesn't really mean anything.

I guess this means recruitment is being discontinued at the moment, and they're focusing on distribution.

[Darkness, followed by a massive explosion. A giant dump truck pulls out of the burning fire, a pair of demonic eyes glaring behind its windshields. The loader in the back is full of burning, screaming souls.

An announcer starts screaming like a banshee while the screen is filled with even more explosions.]

[Announcer] “THE DEVIL’S DUMP TRUCK. WON’T YOU TAKE A RIDE?”

[Shot to a woman screaming and holding her head in hysteria. The shot cuts to a clip of the giant, flaming dump truck rolling down a suburban street, strewing destruction in its wake.]

[Announcer] “SURREAL PSYCHOPATHIC DUMPING ACTION! THRILL AS THE DEVIL HIMSELF TAKES THE WHEEL.”

[A shot of the dump truck rolling through a mall; beings of all races and ethnicities run terrified before it, spontaneously catching fire as flames spew from its headlights. A salarian gets caught up in the truck’s grill; giant teeth form and chew the salarian into paste. Meanwhile, screaming souls grab people into the loader, setting them on fire.]

[Announcer] “NO ESCAPE. NO SURRENDER. NOWHERE TO HIDE. THE DUMP TRUCK IS COMING. FOR YOU.”

[The dump truck starts heading straight for the camera, a gory visage of doom and 4-wheeling death.]

[Announcer] “THE DEVIL’S DUMP TRUCK COMING SOON TO THE MOVIE CHANNEL ON DDS. WATCH IT OR IT’LL COME AND DUMP ON YOU!”

...Shit I'm still high aren't I?

Was that Jammin Moxie? I heard someone saying NKaria was in trouble a few months ago, don't tell me they sold off JM to Dwick?

That seems to be the case.

Devil's Dump Truck? Why does the devil have a dump truck?

And ... what's the devil?

So... so, wait.

Where'd th' slarian go?

.....What in the fuck just happened?!

I'm guessing all over the place.

What a brave frontiersman for the scientific method.

Well...I was gonna say that this looked like something I could watch regularly.

Then...well. Uh, we'll see what comes up next short hour.

If that salarian had been slightly less amphibian, he would have fit right in with a number of scientists I knew.

Five credits he's actually alive, but has been scripted to "die" on-screen for the replacement.

Don't speak ill of the dead, girl. That man was a scholar and a hero.

Also fucking insane but I assume that's standard for the species.