Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!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? 2024-06-23 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:26:31 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:26:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="50dd91d147a00df85a868f97a6700099"; logging-data="1175037"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Fmvh5qn4m8Zk/FFZIu3+/UyRe17x7uFs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:g6BhEeq1FZpTXnglfq3YP4vV33M= Bytes: 5475 On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:16:04 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >On 6/24/2024 10:30 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >> On 6/24/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >> >>> What did you watch? >> >> I mostly took it easy yesterday - I only got through one flick off Tubi, >> and one Lifetime flick. However, I did go back to start up a series I >> couldn't watch/finish before: >> >> School Spirits (Pee+) - So a few days ago, I saw an article about the >> filming of the second season of "School Spirits". And then yesterday I >> was sitting around trying to figure out what streaming series I would >> watch next (after having finished "Daisy Jones & The Six" in a single >> day!!), and then I realized - "Hey! I have Pee+! - I can go back and >> watch "School Spirits" now!!" >>    So, I rewatched the pilot, which I had seen before (they ran just >> the pilot on Paramount Network once, and I DVR'ed it), and then later in >> the day watched episode #1.2. >>    I feel like Arthur mentioned this, but their "rules for ghosts" are >> all over the place! Where are they getting paper to write on?! Where did >> the donuts come from?!! > >I don't think I've ever watched this before. You're probably thinking >of "Dead Boy Detectives" on Netflix. That was a pretty good show and it >is in the same universe with "The Sandman" and even shared some >characters/actors. It's a good show with a surprise setup for the second season. Going to be a long wait for the second season if filming is going on this summer. >>    At the end of the pilot, Maddie's (Peyton List The Younger) bestie >> Simon (Kristian Flores) is able to see her, despite no living person >> ever seeing any of the other ghosts on campus. >>    Episode #2 picks up with Maddie and Simon rather arbitrarily >> deciding that Maddie's boyfriend (Spencer MacPherson) is the one who >> killed her, just because he's a cheater, and trying to gather evidence >> to prove this, but we know in any mystery series that the first >> "suspect" is always a red herring, so there's no way he did it. >>    Hopefully, they get to some other suspects in ep. #3. >> >> What did you watch? >> > > >This is a multi-day catch up. I watched: > > >Superman: Man of Tomorrow (blu-ray) 2020 DC animated movie. 17th movie >in the DCAMU and the first movie in the "Tomorrowverse" after they >rebooted the series following "Justice League Dark: Apokolips War." >This reboot follows Clark Kent (Darren Criss) as he moves to Metropolis, >meets Lois Lane (Aleaxndra Daddario) and eventually takes on the >Superman persona. During this time he battles Lobo and Parasite. Lex >Luthor (Zachary Quinto) also causes some trouble. I guess it was OK. >As I recall I hated the animated style the first time I saw this. This >time around I guess I just didn't like it. I just don't get why they >would do such a serious downgrade in the animation making it look so cheap. > > >Ghost in the Shell (4K disc) 1995 Japanese animated movie that has been >heavily ripped off by many movies since, with "The Matrix" being exhibit >A. The plot involves a secret police force headed by a cyborg cop >called "Major" going after a terrorist who as the Puppet Master who can >hack into people. Anyway, the movie continues to hold up very well. > > >Ghost in the Shell (3D blu-ray) 2017 live action remake of the classic >Japanese film. Scarlett Johansson stars as "Major," a cyborg cop who is >after a terrorist hacker. This movie has all the same major set pieces >as the original Japanese version, but changes the plot. It's weird >watching it back to back with the animated version and seeing all the >same stuff happen, but for slightly different reasons. And for the >first time, I think I might actually prefer the live action version. >All the subtle changes used to annoy me, but I'm OK with them now. > I enjoyed both versions of the subject. Though I preferred the original Japanese version more. > >The Lazarus Project - I think this was episode 3. Episodes titles would >help a lot! I am becoming increasing annoyed with the main hero who is >in a time travel show but complains about time travel and apparently was >not familiar with the concept of a causal loop. > > Good, the plan is working if you are annoyed with the main character. lol.