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Well, let’s get this over with. And Happy New Year for those following the Gregorian Calendar. The final two movies of the original Halloween timeline are best tackled all at once, even though from some points-of-view the second movie of this trilogy, V: The Revenge of Michael Myers, is more closely related to part IV. The third second-trilogy movie, Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers; kills off the main character at the beginning and retcons the series, setting up another new concept. However, the retcon (and movie, really) was so bad it seemingly killed off the franchise. Except it didn’t. In fact, there are only three years separating part VI from Halloween: H20, whereas VI was released SIX YEARS after Part V. I distinctly remember a short period of time in the early 1990’s when something along the lines of Halloween: H20 was believed to be the next Halloween movie after V. A “reset” film that followed from the first Halloween rather than continuing the Jamie Lloyd story. There’s a lot more to all of this behind the scenes rather than on the screen, so let’s learn a bit.

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Paige Francis He/him

I’m sorry I missed last week. Genuinely. Toward the end of the week before last, I got what I thought at the time was a sinus infection. Last weekend I was utterly miserable and in constant pain. Normally the common sinus meds or even pain relievers don’t work on my sinuses, or not well anyway. But; I did finally take some ibuprofen. It surprisingly (only in my case) helped, and the situation has slowly improved since. I’m still trying to manage pain, and while there is possibly an infection going on, I never developed any *other* symptoms of an infection. There is clearly some kind of inflammation and/or blockage and on-line searches point at sinusitis. Which I already suspected was a problem. I would really like to do outpatient surgery to clear out my sinuses.

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Paige Francis He/him