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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:16:04 -0700, 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?
>> 
>> I mostly took it easy yesterday - I only got through one flick off Tubi, 
>> and one Lifetime flick. However, I did go back to start up a series I 
>> couldn't watch/finish before:
>> 
>> School Spirits (Pee+) - So a few days ago, I saw an article about the 
>> filming of the second season of "School Spirits". And then yesterday I 
>> was sitting around trying to figure out what streaming series I would 
>> watch next (after having finished "Daisy Jones & The Six" in a single 
>> day!!), and then I realized - "Hey! I have Pee+! - I can go back and 
>> watch "School Spirits" now!!"
>>     So, I rewatched the pilot, which I had seen before (they ran just 
>> the pilot on Paramount Network once, and I DVR'ed it), and then later in 
>> the day watched episode #1.2.
>>     I feel like Arthur mentioned this, but their "rules for ghosts" are 
>> all over the place! Where are they getting paper to write on?! Where did 
>> the donuts come from?!!
>
>I don't think I've ever watched this before.  You're probably thinking 
>of "Dead Boy Detectives" on Netflix.  That was a pretty good show and it 
>is in the same universe with "The Sandman" and even shared some 
>characters/actors.

It's a good show with a surprise setup for the second season. Going to
be a long wait for the second season if filming is going on this
summer.


>>     At the end of the pilot, Maddie's (Peyton List The Younger) bestie 
>> Simon (Kristian Flores) is able to see her, despite no living person 
>> ever seeing any of the other ghosts on campus.
>>     Episode #2 picks up with Maddie and Simon rather arbitrarily 
>> deciding that Maddie's boyfriend (Spencer MacPherson) is the one who 
>> killed her, just because he's a cheater, and trying to gather evidence 
>> to prove this, but we know in any mystery series that the first 
>> "suspect" is always a red herring, so there's no way he did it.
>>     Hopefully, they get to some other suspects in ep. #3.
>> 

>> 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.
>
>
>Ghost in the Shell (4K disc) 1995 Japanese animated movie that has been 
>heavily ripped off by many movies since, with "The Matrix" being exhibit 
>A.  The plot involves a secret police force headed by a cyborg cop 
>called "Major" going after a terrorist who as the Puppet Master who can 
>hack into people.  Anyway, the movie continues to hold up very well.
>
>
>Ghost in the Shell (3D blu-ray) 2017 live action remake of the classic 
>Japanese film.  Scarlett Johansson stars as "Major," a cyborg cop who is 
>after a terrorist hacker.  This movie has all the same major set pieces 
>as the original Japanese version, but changes the plot.  It's weird 
>watching it back to back with the animated version and seeing all the 
>same stuff happen, but for slightly different reasons.  And for the 
>first time, I think I might actually prefer the live action version. 
>All the subtle changes used to annoy me, but I'm OK with them now.
>

I enjoyed both versions of the subject. Though I preferred the
original Japanese version more.

>
>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.
>
>

Good, the plan is working if you are annoyed with the main character.
lol.