Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-03 (Monday) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:19:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 98 Message-ID: References: <1902623613.739219206.988029.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:19:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="64731f48cd82b81af6a5ce93bc00d592"; logging-data="861657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZiLUn5zpj0IxEeds2D0nS8Az7WLcNc00=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tpMXWqzJZWo6KBdayL5WYazUJ4I= Bytes: 6020 On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:33:10 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 6/4/2024 10:00 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 6/4/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> Ran errands in the morning. Then I watched: >>> >>> soaps: DOOL - Still Sloan doesn't tell either Nicole or Eric that the >>> baby is Eric's; then she re-conspires with EJ to get out of town. But I >>> think Leo is close to figuring it out. Meanwhile, Melinda seems to >>> strike a quid pro quo deal with Rafe to avoid jail in exchange freeing >>> Nu(Faux!)Gabi. >>>    GH - Somebody tries to kill Jason, but Jason neutralizes one of the >>> assailants and the other gets away. We're initially supposed to assume >>> Sony was behind it, but it turns out it was Valentin trying frame Sony - >>> the problem is, Anna now knows that Valentin was behind it! More >>> pointless NuKristina drama. That bitch Ava manages to record Booby Vista >>> being a bigot "on tape" (there is no "tape" anymore!!). >>> >>> Shogun (Hulu) - The 2024 version, not the 1980 version! (the latter is >>> apparently available on Pee+, if anyone cares). >>>    First two episodes. >>>    I did actually quite like this. I mean, you have to be somewhat >>> interested in 16th-17th century internal Japanese politics to to find >>> this compelling, but the whole external angle of the Portuguese/Spanish >>> versus the English adds layers to this. >>>    However, Blackthorne's not wrong when he says the Japanese are >>> savages (one of his sailors gets boiled in a pot simply because one the >>> Japanese fief lords is a psychopath). >>>    I had forgotten that Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis - really?! "Cosmo"?! >>> his name is "Cosmo"?!!) is kind of an asshole - I remember this also >>> being the case in the 1980 version (though I watched that as a child!). >> >> I missed the original when I was a kid. >> >>>    Anyway, I will definitely stick with this, even though I think the >>> idea of doing a seasons #2 and #3 is a bad idea. >>> >>> A Quiet Place Part II (Hulu) - This was OK, but it actively annoyed me >>> that so much of this sequel was actually designed to set up the >>> forthcoming spinoff film "A Quiet Place: Day One" - not only is the >>> entire first sequence of the film a "Day One" segment (cynically >>> bringing back John Krasinski just for this), but this film also has >>> Djimon Hounsou from "Day One" as a character in this film (whom they >>> needlessly kill off, which strikes me as undermining the point of trying >>> to get people to watch the spinoff film!!). >>>    Anyway, this was about what I expected, and definitely felt like a >>> step down from the first film. >>>    Cillian Murphy guest-stars in this as a local yokel from Day One >>> whom they run across again, in a part that a decade ago would have been >>> played by Barry Pepper - what did Barry Pepper every do to deserve being >>> dissed?! >>>    It looks like a third and final "Part III" film is planned, though >>> they obviously got sidetracked doing "A Quiet Place: Day One", so who >>> knows when we'll see Part III. >>> >> >> I'll watch them in reverse release order since each movie is a prequel >> to the one before. >> >>> >>> What did you watch? >>> >> >> I watched: >> >> >> Dark Matter (AppleTV+) - "Are You Happy in Your Life?" and "Trip of a >> Lifetime" - New sci-fi series starring Joel Edgerton as a physics >> professor who is happily married to Jennifer Connelly until one day when >> he's kidnapped by his alternate from another universe and forcibly >> swapped. He wakes up with no idea what happened except now everything >> is different and he's living with Alice Braga. He protests that this >> isn't the way things are supposed to be but most people think he's crazy >> or something. Meanwhile back in his old universe his double is happily >> putting the moves on his wife. >> >> Two episodes in and so far I'm not particularly impressed. But I'll >> stick with it. This show better turn into Sliders fast. Or at least >> Doorways. ;-) > >You’ve got an episode coming up where they spend the entire thing opening >doors and trying to decide if it’s their world out there or not. At which >point it’s pretty much turned into Larry Niven’s “All the Myriad Ways“ > >The thing is >Jvgu guvf xvaq bs frg hc, gurer’f ab jnl lbh pbhyq rire or fher lbh’q sbhaq >lbhe jnl ubzr. Lbh zvtug svaq gur Rnegu gung’f rknpgyl yvxr lbhef, rkprcg >vg qbrfa’g unir nal ohggresyvrf va Puvan naq lbh’q arire xabj. Exactly. Or worse you find yourself on a world that you think is yours and then a year later you find definitive proof it isn't your world. Can you be happy knowing you are not on your home world but are on one that is close?