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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-25 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 16:33:13 -0700
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On 5/26/25 8:38 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

> What Did You Watch?

Yesterday was the first day in months where I did no "active" work. (I 
did have to go into work for an exchange of graded materials, and ended 
up running into the graduation party for this year's science grads, but 
I did no actual work.)

So, after that and errands, I watched:

DOOL - Fri's ep. I feel really cheated here. The news articles stated 
that DOOL's producers were happy "because they were able to film final 
scenes for John Black". The articles clearly implied that they got dying 
Drake Hogestyn to come into to film some final scenes. But this is not 
what happened at all. Instead, they got an obvious stand-in to awkwardly 
try to film John Black's final scenes. As it is clearly not Hogestyn in 
these scenes - in fact, it's not even his voice - and so these scenes 
are not working for me at all. And this is all, unfortunately, carrying 
over into Monday's ep, and beyond...
    Anyway, "John" helps the others get the drug to save Bo's life 
(Peter Reckell actually shows up this episode, as does Kristian 
Alfonso), but in the process, "John" gets burned to a crisp (which is 
how they can avoid having Hogestyn in the scenes) saving the drug, and 
lies near death.
    But this is the other thing that bothered me - Hope pops in and out 
of this episode, and in and out of Salem! like she's still in town, but 
I want to say that last we heard Bo was being treated in *Europe*, or at 
least not anywhere near Salem! But Hope is there in back in, like, 5 
minutes! Any Hope - via inter-dimensional travel, apparently! - gets Bo 
the drug (and saves him?!...).

golf - As the story goes, golfer Ben Griffin quit pro golf in 2021 in 
despair, and planned to become a loan officer (?!! - talk about soul 
killing!!). But I guess he realized he couldn't give it up, and so he 
came back to the PGA tour. Well, he did what he needed to do on the last 
day of the 2025 Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club (IOW, 
this is the tourney played in Fort Worth, TX), for his first (solo) PGA 
win. (A month ago, he also co-won the New Orleans tourney which is now a 
team-play event.)
    I guess "loan officer" wasn't meant to be!!

Andor (Disney+) - Episodes #2.1-2.3.
    I assume this was in glorious 4k, but I noticed repeated visual 
artifacts while watching these episodes. At first I thought it was a 
consequence of using ILM's "The Volume" background tech, but by later 
episodes I concluded that wasn't the problem and something else was 
causing the problems. I guess I'd better check both my Apple TV OS and 
the Disney+ app to make sure they are fully updated before watching the 
next batch of episodes. (Otherwise it might mean the OLED TV is the 
problem!!)
    I felt like this was a slow start to the season, but season #1 also 
had a slow start, so we'll see how it goes.
    This picks up a "year after" season #1 (and 4 BBY!), and like 
d*cks!! they don't give us a "Previously on 'Andor'..." teaser to remind 
us what happened in season #1!
    The gist?
    Andor steals a prototype TIE-fighter, but both the "caper" and the 
"handoff" go wrong, trapping Andor.
    Bix and co. are hiding out (as migrant farm workers!!) on another 
planet (is this the same planet that Ezra Bridger from "Rebels" is 
from?...), and Bix seems to be suffering PTSD. (I remember she was 
captured and tortured in season #1 - did something else happen to her?!)
    And Mon Mothma is forced to throw the wedding for her dumb daughter 
(Bronte Carmichael) that she doesn't want to throw, with Luthen 
breathing down her neck about her reluctant "accountant/lawyer" dude 
(Ben Miles). But, don't worry - Luthen is going to "take care of it"!
    Finally, the Empire needs to strip-mine a planet (for the Death 
Star, 'natch!), and so EVOL!!1! Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) has been 
assigned the task to make the planet's native population go POOF!
    This was all just OK - nowhere near the best of season #1. But it's 
still early yet, so hopefully they'll ratchet things up from here.

What did you watch?