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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-23 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:27:41 -0700
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On 6/24/2024 6:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 6/24/2024 10:30 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 6/24/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>
>>
>> This is a multi-day catch up.  I watched:
>>
>>
>> Superman: Man of Tomorrow (blu-ray) 2020 DC animated movie. 17th movie
>> in the DCAMU and the first movie in the "Tomorrowverse" after they
>> rebooted the series following "Justice League Dark: Apokolips War."
>> This reboot follows Clark Kent (Darren Criss) as he moves to Metropolis,
>> meets Lois Lane (Aleaxndra Daddario) and eventually takes on the
>> Superman persona.  During this time he battles Lobo and Parasite.  Lex
>> Luthor (Zachary Quinto) also causes some trouble.  I guess it was OK.
>> As I recall I hated the animated style the first time I saw this.  This
>> time around I guess I just didn't like it.  I just don't get why they
>> would do such a serious downgrade in the animation making it look so cheap.
>>
> 
> IIRC I liked it a lot more than you did
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>
>> The Lazarus Project - I think this was episode 3.  Episodes titles would
>> help a lot!  I am becoming increasing annoyed with the main hero who is
>> in a time travel show but complains about time travel and apparently was
>> not familiar with the concept of a causal loop.
> 
> You talking about season two?
> 

Yes.

> Don’t forget you’re talking about a protagonist who is so stupid that he
> forgot his girlfriend was about to get run over by a bus.
> 

Then there's that.  At least she had the good sense to leave him.