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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-30 (Saturday) & 2024-12-01 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 12:03:59 -0800
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On 12/2/2024 6:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> Did I forget to do one of these yesterday for Saturday?! It's quite 
> possible, as my brother came over early...
> 
> Anyway:
> 
> SATURDAY:
> 
> I believe I watched nothing but college football on Sat:
>     Saw Michigan beat #2 ranked Ohio State, and then saw the appalling 
> fracas between both teams after the game was over (had something dumb to 
> do with "flag-planting") - I can't believe no one was suspended for 
> this: they ALL should have been suspended for this!
>     Then saw Oregon beat up Washington pretty good. Not sure anyone is 
> beating #1 Oregon this year, though I guess if anyone can it's probably 
> Penn State.
> 
> I then went home from family gathering a little earlier Sat night - I 
> ended up coming home and going to bed early.
> 
> SUNDAY:
> 
> Yesterday, my brother came over and hung out until his afternoon flight. 
> We ended up going for a walk/hike locally, and then stopped by Home 
> Depot to pick up a new screen door 'cos he had rented a truck and I 
> needed something big to transport the screen door home!
> 
> Also mostly watched (NFL) football on Sunday:
> 
> In the morning game, the Chargers did end up beating the Altanta 
> Falcons, but it took them way too long to do it, and you have to wonder 
> if they would have won if Kirk Cousins hadn't thrown 4 interceptions for 
> Atlanta along the way! At least the Chargers are now 0.667, and are 
> cruising towards a Wild Card playoff berth.  :)
>     The afternoon game was the Eagles mostly manhandling while beating 
> up the poor Ravens.  :(
>     In the evening game, the 49ers were murdered by both the Buffalo 
> Bills and by the lake-effect snow. And McCaffrey was (re-)injured to 
> boot! Suffice it to say, I don't see the 49ers making the playoffs this 
> year, even if they win the remaining 5 games in a row.  :(
> 
> At night, I put Hybrid Film's "Make or Bake Christmas" on Lifetime on in 
> the background while I did grading. It was some malarkey in which EVOL!! 
> TV cooking host(?) Vivica sends her cute but naive assistant (the cute 
> Jasmine Aivaliotis) to steal some (baking?) recipes from the owner (it's 
> Jackée!!) and her son (Landon Moss). Will Jasmine succeed in doing the 
> wrong thing?! - Is this a smarmy Christmas TV movie from Lifetime or 
> Hallmark?! What do you think!?!
>     Like every other Hybrid film directed by David DeCoteau, this had 
> all the usual hallmarks(heh!) of other awkwardly direct Hybrid flicks!  :/
>     This also had pretty much every supporting Hybrid Films actor in a 
> secondary role, including stalwarts Meredith Thomas and Jon Briddell.
> 
> 
> What did you watch this holiday weekend?!
> 


I thought you did do one for Saturday, but I guess you're right.  I was 
at a convention this weekend, so I didn't watch much of anything anyway.


Saturday:

I think the only thing I made it through was "The Voice."

Sunday:

Dune: Prophecy - "Sisterhood Above All" - Maybe I was just tired after a 
long day, but I really didn't follow or care for this episode.  I think 
this episode kept jumping around in time and it wasn't always obvious to 
me who the characters were or what time period they were in.  I was more 
or less following the plot where a young Harkonnen woman was getting 
revenge against an Atreides.  But even though I know the Harkonnen woman 
is a main character, I couldn't tell you who she is in relation to the 
overall show.  And it didn't help matters that Travis Fimmel was nowhere 
to be seen in this episode.  But there was a huge jaw dropping 
revelation at the end of the episode.  Gur Orar Trffrevg fvfgreubbq unir 
n guvaxvat znpuvar.



Brief convention report:

For anyone interested in such things, I attended a convention in San 
Francisco over the weekend.  Not much to report back, but a few minor 
highlights (these are all actors I got to meet for the first time):

Danny Trejo was there.  He seemed like a nice guy.  Told a funny story 
about how he was in prison and when he got out he was asked if he could 
be an extra on a movie set if he could "act" like a prisoner.  And the 
rest is history.


Eli Roth was there.  Not exactly a coincidence I recently watched a 
bunch of movie either with Danny Trejo, or directed by Eli Roth.  He 
talked about low budget movie making and his Hollywood experiences.


Charlie Cox (Daredevil) and Wilson Bethel (Bullseye) were there to 
promote the upcoming season of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+. They 
really couldn't say much about the upcoming season.  But Bethel said he 
auditioned for Captain America and there are pictures of him in full 
costume.  He thought he got the part until he heard Chris Evans was cast 
instead.  He kept joking he's not bitter he didn't get to be rich and 
famous.  Also, and in the back of my mind, I *must* have already known 
this (I did just watch Stardust), but when Charlie Cox started speaking 
with a British accent, I was surprised.


Giancarlo Esposito was there.  I know I've seen him at other 
conventions, but I *think* this might have been the first time I 
attended one of his panels.  He has been in *everything* and was asked 
about what hasn't he done that he would like to do.  I think the 
question was maybe tied specifically to the DC universe.  He mentioned 
he got the part in the upcoming Captain America movie after fans were 
trying to get him cast as Professor X, which lead to this role.  And if 
he had a say, he wouldn't mind playing Mr. Freeze in the DC universe.


Bruce Campbell was there.  If you've ever seen Shatner at a convention, 
at this point, he's not too far off from the SNL parody of himself 
that's just fed up with fans asking the same stupid questions.  Campbell 
was very much like that!  He was practically an insult comic roasting 
the audience.  Throughout the convention at all the panels I attended, 
the moderator would also say to the people in line to state your name 
and ask your question.  Campbell was the first any only speaker I saw 
who did not have a moderator.  And as people would do as they had been 
trained to do, and state their name, Campbell would complain no one 
cares what your name, just ask your question.  Then constantly interrupt 
so they couldn't get the question out.  People are *already* nervous and 
this just made it worse!  When the question did finally get asked, his 
answers came off a bit more like rants, but *funny* rants.

And if this wasn't a bit, it should have been.  There were a couple of 
times where Campbell trying to be funny would go into his pocket and 
hand someone a $5 bill.  When he got fed up with the questions being 
asked from the people standing in line to ask a question he decided to 
call on someone sitting in the audience.  And the guy he called on said, 
"Can I have $5."  Campbell says OK, but you have to come up on stage to 
get the money.  And clearly Campbell is about to make an example of this 
guy.  The guy gets on stage, Campbell tells him to sit down like he's 
about to be interviewed.  And he asks the guy which is his favorite 
movie.  And the guy says, I've never seen any of your movies before. And 
whatever roasting Campbell was planning to do went out the window. But 
that just made it worse.  Because now Campbell was really laying into 
him, with why are you even here then, etc.  Overall the audience was 
very entertained by Campbell's panel.  But the people who asked a 
question, they may have to seek therapy.