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On 5/24/2025 9:34 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 5/24/2025 7:49 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> Fringe S2E22 'Over There: Part 1'.
>>
>> Olivia travels with Walter to have a word with Belly.
>>
>> The glyphs in this episode spell "Weapon".
>>
>> Senator Walter "Walternate" Bishop: They may look like us, but don't 
>> be fooled, Olivia. They are monsters in our skin.
>>
>> Alternate Universe episodes have red tinted intro. 1986 set episodes 
>> have a retro intro. Alternate timeline episodes have an amber tinted 
>> intro. Future episodes have a darker prison themed intro.
>>
>> When Peter regains consciousness in the room full of medical 
>> equipment, just as the "anesthesia" lights go out you hear three 
>> musical notes. They're from the chorus of a song by George M. Cohan, 
>> entitled "Over There".
>>
>> The US map on Walternate's wall is of the contiguous states only and 
>> much of the west coast south of the state of Oregon is missing, 
>> including all of western California. Clearly, in that universe the San 
>> Andreas fault had given way.
>>
>> A poster in the background of one scene in the alternate universe is 
>> advertising for an upcoming season 11 of The West Wing. In our 
>> universe, The West Wing ran for 7 seasons.
>>
>> As With many background details in the RED universe, the Windows logos 
>> shown in this episode are slightly different from those in this 
>> universe. The alternate logos most closely resemble the Windows Server 
>> 2008 or Windows 7 2009 logos, but have extra elements: 'bubbles' in 
>> the upper right corner and faint streaks of white around the edges. 
>> This episode aired on May 20, 2010, when the most recently updated 
>> version of the Windows logo (in this universe) would have been for 
>> Windows 7.
>>
>> No one on the "other side" recognizes Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. 
>> There is now talk of replacing Jackson on that bill.
>>
>> Walternate's Office on Liberty Island has three colored squares on the 
>> wall - Blue, Red, and Amber. These are the same colors used to 
>> represent the three different universes in the open credits.
>>
>> First time introduction is the RED universe. They see a $20 bill and 
>> ask: "Who the hell is Jackson?" Additionally, RED Lincoln floats a 
>> Nixon silver dollar to test the "fringe anomaly".
>>
>> What Did You Watch?
>>
>>
> 
> I watched:
> 
> Family Guy - I watched one or two more episodes.  Only two left then I'm 
> all caught up.
> 
> 
> Lilo & Stitch (theatrical) Live action version of the 2002 Disney 
> animated film.  This version is almost a scene for scene remake with two 
> main changes.  The first is they got rid of the villain from the 
> animated version, but they just took one of the existing characters from 
> the animated version and gave him the *exact* same role, doing the exact 
> same stuff.  The other non change (and actually an improvement) was in 
> the animated version there was a landlord character, who for no reason I 
> could figure out, just happens to be a government agent who knows about 
> aliens.  That reveal comes out of nowhere and never made any sense to 
> me.  That character is played by Courtney B. Vance in the live action 
> movie, except this time around instead of being the landlord, he's a 
> government agent who knows about aliens from the start.  One other 
> minor, but noticeable difference is in the animated version, Lilo is a 
> huge fan of Elvis Presley, and his music is played throughout the movie. 
>   In the live action version, I don't know if they couldn't get the 
> rights or what, but the Elvis music is toned way, way, down.  While in 
> the original Elvis is playing in every other scene, this version has 
> one, maybe two Elvis songs, and I think one of those two was a cover 
> version.  Anyway, if you liked the animated version, the live action 
> will get the job done.
> 
> 
> Fountain of Youth (AppleTV+) A new completely original movie directed by 
> Guy Ritchie, and starring John Kransinki as Noah Wyle, I mean an 
> archeologist who Raids Tombs, although one segment of the movie takes 
> place at a library, so maybe he's a Librarian?  Anyway, this Tomb Raider 
> teams up with his extremely reluctant sister (Natalie Portman) to find 
> the International Treasure known as the Fountain of Youth.  Kransinki 
> needs Portman to help him solve the Da Vinci Code.  Sorry, I meant to 
> say help him solve the Rembrandt Code.  So after cracking the Remrandt 
> Code the Tomb Raiders find themselves in a Temple of Doom where they 
> hope to locate The International Treasure.  That is if they can dodge 
> the religious cult, you know sort of like the Opus Dei, but we won't 
> call them that.  Perhaps Grail Knights?  No.  Let's just call them the 
> Fountain of Youth Knights, that are trying to stop them.  The Ark, I 
> mean Grail, I mean Fountain of Youth is after all a religious artifact 
> from God that must be protected at all costs from falling into the wrong 
> hands.  And even if they make it to end of their Crusade, they must 
> still choose, but choose wisely.  I haven't watched a movie this 
> original in a long time!
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF2UrYSDb3k
> 
Wow!  I didn't know 30 seconds was a long time for you!  :P

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