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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-25 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 17:20:47 -0700 Message-ID: <10130h1$d02$1@solani.org> References: <10121tt$22kor$1@dont-email.me> <1012tnp$288rb$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 00:20:49 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="13314"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xJtxzQdtLZYDYe92muy3meptUXY= In-Reply-To: <1012tnp$288rb$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXEGkr5ziB/09Ygs3FpyAYGMxSQJyD6sfLD6qGZZ9dWlK53zSToxI9p38RjRDC On 5/26/2025 4:33 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote: > 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?!...). Yeah that was a bit confusing, but today they mentioned that she was at a nearby clinic. With BO. However, it doesn't make sense that he's on death's door and they move him halfway across the globe? > > 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. Yeah, this seemed really slow up til about halfway. Maybe by then you get accustomed to all the characters and get a clue about what's going on. So it did seem to pick up. > 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? >