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On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:33:10 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
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>Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 6/4/2024 10:00 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 6/4/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What did you watch?
>>> 
>>> Ran errands in the morning. Then I watched:
>>> 
>>> soaps: DOOL - Still Sloan doesn't tell either Nicole or Eric that the 
>>> baby is Eric's; then she re-conspires with EJ to get out of town. But I 
>>> think Leo is close to figuring it out. Meanwhile, Melinda seems to 
>>> strike a quid pro quo deal with Rafe to avoid jail in exchange freeing 
>>> Nu(Faux!)Gabi.
>>>    GH - Somebody tries to kill Jason, but Jason neutralizes one of the 
>>> assailants and the other gets away. We're initially supposed to assume 
>>> Sony was behind it, but it turns out it was Valentin trying frame Sony - 
>>> the problem is, Anna now knows that Valentin was behind it! More 
>>> pointless NuKristina drama. That bitch Ava manages to record Booby Vista 
>>> being a bigot "on tape" (there is no "tape" anymore!!).
>>> 
>>> Shogun (Hulu) - The 2024 version, not the 1980 version! (the latter is 
>>> apparently available on Pee+, if anyone cares).
>>>    First two episodes.
>>>    I did actually quite like this. I mean, you have to be somewhat 
>>> interested in 16th-17th century internal Japanese politics to to find 
>>> this compelling, but the whole external angle of the Portuguese/Spanish 
>>> versus the English adds layers to this.
>>>    However, Blackthorne's not wrong when he says the Japanese are 
>>> savages (one of his sailors gets boiled in a pot simply because one the 
>>> Japanese fief lords is a psychopath).
>>>    I had forgotten that Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis - really?! "Cosmo"?! 
>>> his name is "Cosmo"?!!) is kind of an asshole - I remember this also 
>>> being the case in the 1980 version (though I watched that as a child!).
>> 
>> I missed the original when I was a kid.
>> 
>>>    Anyway, I will definitely stick with this, even though I think the 
>>> idea of doing a seasons #2 and #3 is a bad idea.
>>> 
>>> A Quiet Place Part II (Hulu) - This was OK, but it actively annoyed me 
>>> that so much of this sequel was actually designed to set up the 
>>> forthcoming spinoff film "A Quiet Place: Day One" - not only is the 
>>> entire first sequence of the film a "Day One" segment (cynically 
>>> bringing back John Krasinski just for this), but this film also has 
>>> Djimon Hounsou from "Day One" as a character in this film (whom they 
>>> needlessly kill off, which strikes me as undermining the point of trying 
>>> to get people to watch the spinoff film!!).
>>>    Anyway, this was about what I expected, and definitely felt like a 
>>> step down from the first film.
>>>    Cillian Murphy guest-stars in this as a local yokel from Day One 
>>> whom they run across again, in a part that a decade ago would have been 
>>> played by Barry Pepper - what did Barry Pepper every do to deserve being 
>>> dissed?!
>>>    It looks like a third and final "Part III" film is planned, though 
>>> they obviously got sidetracked doing "A Quiet Place: Day One", so who 
>>> knows when we'll see Part III.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'll watch them in reverse release order since each movie is a prequel 
>> to the one before.
>> 
>>> 
>>> What did you watch?
>>> 
>> 
>> I watched:
>> 
>> 
>> Dark Matter (AppleTV+) - "Are You Happy in Your Life?" and "Trip of a 
>> Lifetime" - New sci-fi series starring Joel Edgerton as a physics 
>> professor who is happily married to Jennifer Connelly until one day when 
>> he's kidnapped by his alternate from another universe and forcibly 
>> swapped.  He wakes up with no idea what happened except now everything 
>> is different and he's living with Alice Braga.  He protests that this 
>> isn't the way things are supposed to be but most people think he's crazy 
>> or something. Meanwhile back in his old universe his double is happily 
>> putting the moves on his wife.
>> 
>> Two episodes in and so far I'm not particularly impressed.  But I'll 
>> stick with it.  This show better turn into Sliders fast.  Or at least 
>> Doorways.  ;-)
>
>You’ve got an episode coming up where they spend the entire thing opening
>doors and trying to decide if it’s their world out there or not. At which
>point it’s pretty much turned into Larry Niven’s “All the Myriad Ways“
>
>The thing is
>Jvgu guvf xvaq bs frg hc, gurer’f ab jnl lbh pbhyq rire or fher lbh’q sbhaq
>lbhe jnl ubzr. Lbh zvtug svaq gur Rnegu gung’f rknpgyl yvxr lbhef, rkprcg
>vg qbrfa’g unir nal ohggresyvrf va Puvan naq lbh’q arire xabj.

Exactly. Or worse you find yourself on a world that you think is yours
and then a year later you find definitive proof it isn't your world.
Can you be happy knowing you are not on your home world but are on one
that is close?