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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-25 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 17:20:47 -0700
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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?
>