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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-26 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 10:42:49 -0700
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On 5/27/25 8:00 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

> What Did You Watch?

I treated yesterday like a pure vacation day, and did nothing but play 
my video game and watch stuff, though I still was too tired to tackle 
"John Wick 4" (maybe today?...).

I got through:

soaps: DOOL - GH was a rerun yesterday (I'm assuming Y&R was the same), 
so all I got through was DOOL. Xander continues to be an unhinged 
asshole so Maggie kicks him out of the mansion (legally, she can't do 
that, so Xander should stick it to her by fighting it) so he steals 
Victor's portrait and throws it in a dumpster! Everyone else gives 
Xander the brush-off. Meanwhile, more hemming and hawing with (Fake!) 
John Black, and more John (& Marlena) flashbacks. Meh.

Andor (Disney+) - Episodes #2.4-2.6.
    So, I'm not sure I care for this structure - each 3 episodes of 
season #2 is it's own "set", each taking place a year apart.
    Thus episode #2.4 again starts with "A Year Later" (IOW, a year 
after episode #2.3), and we are now in BBY 3! (from BBY 4).
    These ones had much less Mon Mothma, and much more Luthen and Kleya, 
and more direct focus on Cassian and Bix.
    Again, I found ep's #2.4 & #2.5 less than engrossing, but episode 
#2.6 picks up the pace, and is the best of this lot so far, though I 
thought the ending, while "dramatic", was kind of dumb/unrealistic.
    Much of these episodes focus on the machinations around the planet 
Ghorman. At first I thought the Ghormans were supposed to be Germans or 
Austrians (WWII irony?), but I quickly realized the Ghormans are 
actually supposed to be French - the language is French sounding, but 
not actually French - and thus the focus on fashion on their world.
    I'm guessing the following episodes will ratchet this up.


What did you watch?