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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-07 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:56:16 -0800
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On 3/8/24 8:19 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 3/8/24 6:48 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the day of the State of the Union Show, I watched:
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>>
>>> I’ve been listening to the malfunctioning, Amazon fire stick, and this is
>>> truly a habit I must break. It recommended:
>>>
>>>
>>> Five blind dates.
>>>
>>> OMG this was horrible! Shame on you, Amazon for recommending it.
>>>
>>> Basically a Hallmark format movie with the plucky protagonist who has to
>>> return to her hometown for a wedding and falls in love with a guy she left
>>> behind. Yawn.
>>>
>>> The problem is she’s massively unlikable (she won’t carry any popular types
>>> of tea and screams at and throws out and physically assaults customers that
>>> ask for them) and you don’t want her to find love, or make her tea shop a
>>> success.
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> One of her bridesmaids was really hawt and the Amazon suggested I check her
>>> out in BLACKLIGHT. I should’ve known better as she got killed two minutes
>>> into it.
>>
>> Interesting... It looks like "Blacklight" is one of the recent Liam
>> Neeson movies I haven't gotten to yet...
> 
> It might be OK but since the girl I liked was literally killed in the
> opening scene, I lost interest
> 
>> Promoted!!  :)
>> (Except, I might not be able to get it - it looks like it might be
>> locked up by MGM+... WHICH NOBODY GETS!!)
> 
> I probably have it for another month. It actually got me to watch the last
> James Bond movie the other night.

Yeah, that would be one of the few things MGM+ is good for: Bond.

I'm pretty sure I finally got to the last one off... actually, I don't 
think it was HBO/Max - I think it was Prime Video!!

>>> The Fugitive
>>>
>>> The 1963 series. I think I was trying to watch it on Pluto (I really just
>>> need to throw away that app) but they didn’t have the first three episodes
>>> or the last two seasons...
>> 
>> OK, important question – Are these episodes on Pluto in
>> low/standard-def? Or are they in HDTV?
> 
> I would say SD based on the fact that the YouTube videos looked a lot
> better.
> 
>> After seeing the remastered Lois & Clark on the Max (and after seeing
>> SbtB still in low-def on MeTV!!), I can't go back to SDTV!!  ;)
> 
> saved by the bell?

Yep - MeTV runs "Saved by the Bell" on Sunday mornings...  :)