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Thanks, tatters.

T T

... and thanks from me too, much appreciated

Gentle and accessible puzzle this week, though while the first part of the end game was pretty simple, the second part had me looking for the wrong things until I took a break and immediately saw how it worked on return. Sometimes helps!

Have spent the best part of 50 years avoiding this stuff and even a 2 minute consult with Wiki was 120 seconds too long. Back to the golf!

Agree Tatters. Straightforward, never a fan.
The kids enjoyed the films though.

Thanks tatters : )

I'm with you, tatters. I avoided this week's theme for a similar length of time, mainly because everyone seemed to be going crazy about it!

The 'epithet' seemed to me to be a random collection of letters - even after I had spotted that I had done my usual trick of finding the correct letter for the misprint in one clue, only to write a different letter! After staring at it for a long time, I resorted to simply giving the whole string of letters to Google Assistant and the nice lady sorted it out for me.

I finally managed to complete the grid by filling in the unchecked letter in 37d at 22:56, so that's a PB for me!

(I still can't parse 8d though, but, like so may other lights in this puzzle, it has no unchecked letters, so no nudges or hints required, thanks; it will probably come to me as soon as I hit the 'Add Post' button.)

Well I am a fan of the theme, though I haven't visited it in either medium for quite a while. Like Zabadak, I spent a while on a wild goose chase with the final stage (I took the "reflected" in the preamble rather too literally), but this was still the gentlest puzzle we've had for a while. Not that I'm complaining - it's about time we had an easier one!