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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-08 (Saturday)
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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:13:21 -0400
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Ubiquitous wrote:

> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> 
>>Hey Ian, can you see this one?
> 
> I cannot, either.
> 
>>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> I watched:
>>> 
>>> The Acolyte HATES Jedi, White Males, & Star Wars Fans |
>>> It's WOKE 2.0 People! SPOILER-FREE Review!:
>>> Star Wars is a dead brand, and the Acolyte does nothing
>>> to shock it
>>> back to life.  If anything, before this series is
>>> through, I predict it will mutilate Star Wars beyond all
>>> recognition - nevertheless, Doomcock
>>> is a fair and honest supervillain.  In this review, I
>>> actually find some good things to say about The Acolyte
>>> before launching into the
>>> many problems I had with these episodes.  This is as
>>> fair as I can be folks, but make no mistake: the Acolyte
>>> is a prime example of Woke 2.0, and as such, these first
>>> two episodes are just easing us into the
>>> coming disaster.  Here is my SPOILER-FREE review of
>>> Episodes 1 and 2 of the Acolyte, and we will be
>>> discussing these episodes at length tonight on Pop
>>> Culture Breakdown at 7 pm Central / 5 pm Pacific!
>>> #starwars
>>> #disney #theacolyte
>>> https://youtu.be/CJyLJrG4Sqs?si=ji2BWyPjpRYVYe-g
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE: THIS IS WHERE THE FUN ENDS | Film Threat
>>> Reviews: Chris Gore and Alan Ng give their overall
>>> impressions of episodes 1-4 of “The Acolyte,” now
>>> playing on Disney+.
>>> https://youtu.be/dz9tlc6-TUg?si=VwsrtnHu3S8w3fM-
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 1 | Film Threat Reviews:
>>> https://youtu.be/2QB9S2BTifM?si=8YYUgyNR7Oer6K0r
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 2 | Film Threat Reviews:
>>> https://youtu.be/J8cye7rYQvg?si=VtMMw7I4dO5XVO4U
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 3 | Film Threat Reviews:
>>> https://youtu.be/eOFCF1RbarY?si=zoGM1bU4-0Mm1IHB
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE PREDICTIONS | Film Threat Reviews:
>>> https://youtu.be/6EalQd42kHs?si=H61TOmO8oQoEMSYe
>>> 
>>> THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 4 | Film Threat Reviews:
>>> https://youtu.be/y4OSTXPWJM8?si=c4sKY4BaQFF1hWJj
>>> 
>>> The Acolyte Episode 1 REVIEW: MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
>>> DISASTER!!: It's here at last. The oncoming disaster of
>>> a Star Wars show has dropped and it's just as bad, if
>>> not worse than many of us thought it would be. With
>>> pathetic characters, dialogue, pacing and plot. The
>>> NEWEST fall of Star Wars project has arrived.
>>> https://youtu.be/vUG08uBOWZk?si=AgaBQnCTAoHywAER
>>> 
>>> The Acolyte Episode 2: Execute Order 66 Chicken
>>> McNuggets!!: Because the writers are so beyond terrible
>>> in this show. We are once again greeted with a show that
>>> makes no sense, is full of contrivances and
>>> coincidences. Not only that it's so badly done it's
>>> laughably painful.
>>> https://youtu.be/2kWdfZelLuI?si=sVN65Ynd80sm-IeG
>>> 
>>> If You Thought Disney Couldn’t Get Any Worse, Think
>>> Again: Disney has released its "gayest" Star Wars show
>>> yet. They have apparently learned nothing from their
>>> string of failures over the past several years.
>>> https://youtu.be/-OgJFrHVaAM?si=__qsqelmNZ-0FERX
>>> 
>>> The Acolyte Review Hilariously AWFUL Star Wars - Season
>>> 1 Episode 1: Star Wars The Acolyte is Leslye Headlands
>>> Star Wars Series for Disney+. Since Disney bought
>>> Lucasfilm and made Star Wars for a new audience, it's
>>> gone down hill. While The Acolyte does look the part in
>>> some aspects, it's like looking through a modern filter.
>>> Everything is off, feels strange, and makes no sense.
>>> This is just the start so can The Acolyte improve with
>>> Amandla Stenberg? Is Star Wars The Acolyte worth
>>> watching?
>>> https://youtu.be/5PkeA26bz28?si=H-vz7TSzk_2yMDGB
>>> 
>>> The Acolyte Review INSANE Disney Star Wars - Season 1
>>> Episode 2: Star Wars The Acolyte Review of Season 1
>>> Episode 2 by Lesly Headland for Disney+. Disney bought
>>> Lucasfilm off George Lucas to expand Star Wars but
>>> instead have created various TV shows and movies with
>>> little fanfare. Can this show with Amandla Stenberg
>>> stand out from the crowd? Is a modernised version of a
>>> classic franchise like Star Wars useful? It has replaced
>>> people like Luke Skywalker, C3P0 and R2D2. Is the
>>> Acolyte worth watching?
>>> https://youtu.be/y7huox1HWaA?si=hzhWc-F_iULV4-d8
>>> 
>>> SARA GONZALES UNFILTERED:
>>> Sara Gonzales, everyone’s favorite spicy Latina, brings
>>> a no-holds-barred take to news and culture.
>>> I watched a week's worth of eps.
>>> 
>>> DOCTOR WHO:
>>> "The Pirate Planet". The Doctor and Romana learn the
>>> second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet
>>> Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak,
>>> which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace
>>> engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to
>>> materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their
>>> resources. I forgot how much I hated this one and
>>> recently discovered it was written by Douglss Adams.
> 
> Oh yeah, Tom Baker had a huge cold sore on his lips. It
> was quite distracting.
> 
You made me look!

I was curious about the cold sore comment, so I pulled
out my copy of the DVD and took a look to see what was
what.

I didn't watch the entire first episode, but early on,
the Doctor and the Real Romana <tm> are disagreeing about
how to run the Tardis. (She's reading the *manual*, of
all things!)

Of course odd things ensue which end up causing the
Doctor to face-plant into the Tardis' console and
grab his mouth. The before was no cold sore or other
blemish, but after the face-plant, there were two
small streaks of red on the corner of his mouth.

The two small streaks of red are present in the next
scenes. I'd have to watch the rest of the episode and
those following to see if those marks are still there.

Oddly enough, after the face-plant Tom Baker not only
has those two red marks near his mouth, there is another
red blotch on his right hand below the pinky finger. 
The blotch is not there in the next scene.

Perhaps the face-plant was a re-do and cut in to the
flow to explain (sort of) a real-life boo-boo Baker
suffered? It doesn't look like a cold sore though, just
a small cut or abrasion. No clue about the one on his hand 
though.

I'll keep a sharpish eye out when I get around to watching
the rest of the episode whenever to see if one or both
disappear and/or reappear.

Dontcha just love a mystery?

Nyssa, who just couldn't let Ubi's comment go without
checking the DVD evidence


Nyssa, who