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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-22 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 16:35:42 -0700
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On 5/23/2025 10:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 5/23/2025 7:27 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> Fringe S2E21 'Northwest Passage'.
>>>
>>> Peter finds Newton in Twin Peaks while running away from home.
>>>
>>> The glyphs in this episode spell "Return".
>>>
>>> Dr. Walter Bishop: The hadron super collider is less complicated than
>>> that infernal dishwater.
>>>
>> LOL
>>
>>> On Peter's Sat Nav it shows that he is in Snoqualmie, Washington. This
>>> is one of the filming locations of Twin Peaks to which this episode
>>> bears several similarities.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What Did You Watch?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> Family Guy - Another episode or two as I continue to make my way through
>> my backlog.
>>
>>
>> Welcome to Wrehxam - "Disney FC" - Season 4, episode 3.  They are still
>> desperately trying to portray this team as the underdog when they are
>> anything but the underdog.
>>
>>
>> Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock) - "Beautiful Disaster" - Almost
>> the entire cast was missing from this episode.  If they explained why
>> they were all gone, I missed it.  But Stabler teams up with a federal
>> unit to track some local terrorist using technology to kill people.
>>
>>
>> Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (theatrical) - This is part 2
>> of the last movie, which ended not so much on a cliffhanger, as it just
>> sort of stopped.  This one picks up 2 months later with Ethan (Tom
>> Cruise) and his team still on the run.  And the evil AI (AKA Skynet) is
>> plotting the downfall of humanity.  This movie felt like 50% Mission
>> Impossible film, and the rest were made up of bits from "The Hunt for
>> Red October," "The Abyss," "Fail Safe," "War Games," and maybe a little
>> "Dr. Strangelove" too.  I mean, fighting in the war room *would* be a
>> "Dr. Strangelove" reference, right?  It was definitely derivative, but
>> that's not necessarily a bad thing.  It was certainly nice to look at.
>> The submarine/underwater sequences probably took up at least 1/3 of the
>> movie, but they ripped off the best, so it was good.  The stunt
>> sequences with the two biplanes was worth the price of admission alone!
>> Whoever did those stunts, deserve every penny they were paid and whoever
>> filmed them doing those stunts deserve every penny too!  My only issue
>> is, while clocking in at just under 3 hours, the movie felt rushed.  The
>> editing was weird and I'm 100% positive there is at least a half hour of
>> movie they cut for run time purposes but the result left the film
>> disjointed at times, which lots of flashbacks for exposition because
>> they obviously cut those in context scenes from the movie.  There was
>> also a character who appears in this movie that put a massive smile on
>> my face.  When they first appeared on screen I instantly recognized them
>> and their significance.  I think I heard a couple of other audible gasps
>> from the audience from others who similarly recognized the character.
>> And that would have been perfect as is, but they went out of their way
>> to explain who the character was, multiple times. Don't explain!  Either
>> you *know* who it is or you don't and leave at that!
>>
> 
> You had me at 1/3 submarine action.
> 

Ohio-class nuclear submarine in IMAX.
"So you want to poke the bear?  You picked the right captain for that."  :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyawtWcXQ9E