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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:23:19 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>On 11/14/2024 6:38 AM, shawn wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:29:46 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/14/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Yesterday, I really just wanted to take it easy so I mostly listened to
>>> music, and read about train lines and such. (Don't you judge me!!)
>> 
>> Next thing you know you'll spend all your time building model train
>> lines and watching the train going round and round the tracks.
>> 
>>> Thus, all I got through were soaps:
>>>
>>> soaps: DOOL - A kind of all-over-the-place episode. Stephanie and Alex
>>> continue their awkward dance of attraction. Joy pleads with Johnny not
>>> to tell Chanel about their affair/one-night stand... so instead, Johnny
>>> tells EJ! JJ punches EJ for being a jerk to both Gabi and himself;
>>> later, JJ buries the hatchet with Gabi(? why?!). In a shock to no one,
>>> Paulina plays the feminist/sexist card, and refuses to give Rafe the
>>> commissioner job back, keeping Jada in the position - looks like Rafe is
>>> stuck being a detective again, and working *under* his fiancee!
>>>     GH - Drew wins the Congressional election - are they writing him
>>> out?! or will the scandal with Willow force him to resign?! Michael
>>> tells Jason about Drew's and Willow's affair - at the end of the epie,
>>> Jason confronts Drew (with Nina) and looks like he wants to kill Drew!
>>> Maxie warns Nina that she's playing with fire by sleeping with Drew and
>>> not telling Willow. Jason and Spinelli seem to figure out that Brennan
>>> is hiding Valentin. Brennan acts all weird (and off-putting) with Carly.
>>> More nonsense with both Kristina and Natalia (Booby Vista).
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> I spent most of my time trying to organize my music collection but did
>> get in some watching. I watched the latest episode of HIGH POTENTIAL
>> where a couple of army vets came into the detective's area with a bomb
>> and remote trigger to force the detectives to reopen a case against a
>> buddy of theirs that was facing a life sentence for a murder he didn't
>> commit. Not exactly a reasonable scenario but at least they had an
>> explanation for how they got the bomb into the precinct.
>> 
>> 
>> Oh, I also managed to catch up on TULSA KING where multiple people
>> ended up either dead or forced to change their role under threat of
>> death. I won't say more to avoid spoiling the episodes.
>> 
>
>The problem with these streaming shows is, unless it's a major franchise 
>like Star Trek or the MCU, I keep forgetting they exist so I never get 
>around to watching them.

I get that. Since I tend to record/download everything first I have
the episodes stored away so I don't forget about them. All I have to
do is look through my collection and I can see what I wanted to watch.
That said things can still end up being set aside and not watched for
a long time. I have a number of shows that I want to finish but
stopped at some point because I got busy and have never gotten back to
them.

>> What did you watch?
>
>I watched:
>
>Inkheart (blu-ray) 2008 fantasy movie starring Brendan Fraser as a man 
>with the ability to bring forth the things he reads in books.  At the 
>start he is unaware he has this ability until he's married with a child 
>and while reading a fantasy book the characters began to materialize 
>including the main villain played by Andy Serkis (along with his 
>henchmen) and a random side character played by Paul Bettany.  A side 
>effect of Fraser's powers, which he can't control, is someone gets 
>pulled into the book and in this case it's his wife.  The story then 
>jumps ahead to Fraser taking his teenage daughter all over the world 
>trying to track down the original book so he can read his wife out, 
>while Serkis has done very well for himself in the modern world and is 
>after Fraser to force him to read more things out of books.
>
>I haven't watched this since around the time of the original release.  I 
>have been looking forward to revisiting it, even though I had low 
>expectations.  It turns out, the movie was much better than I was 
>anticipating.  I think because when the movie first came out I was upset 
>the plot didn't have Fraser reading out characters from popular books, 
>instead of a few public domain books. But on this viewing I was able to 
>just sit back and enjoy the movie.

Not familiar with this movie.

What did you watch?