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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-18 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:15:31 -0800
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On 12/19/24 4:54 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 1:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Finished grading the final for the first of my two sections, and then
>>>> did a little bit of finish up work on the lab class... With that, I got
>>>> through:
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>>
>>> THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS on The Plex
>>>
>>> Howard Keel plays one of the few sighted people in a world of the blind
>>> threatened by poison spitting mobile carnivorous plants. It held up a lot
>>> better than I thought it would.
>>>
>>> They changed it a lot from the book which may have been for the better
>>> because there aren’t really many answers either way. A mysterious meteor
>>> shower leaves the world blind. Conspiracy theorists think it was some sort
>>> of Russian weapon that went wrong and got everybody.
>>> In the book, Triffids are known to the world and kept in pens for as I
>>> recall their oil.  And their poison sacks are kept clipped. With the world
>>> gone blind there’s nothing to keep them from escaping and wackiness
>>> ensuing.  In the movie, they just appear out of nowhere after the meteor
>>> shower. It’s hard to imagine these two events as being accidental and
>>> unconnected. But there are no answers to be had just efforts to survive.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, Janette Scott (yes, from Rocky Horror Picture Show) and her real
>>> life husband who starred in together in CRACK IN THE WORLD, are trapped in
>>> a lighthouse and besieged by the Triffids. At the end, he turns the fire
>>> hose on them because he’s run out of things to throw, and it turns out that
>>> seawater disintegrates them. Well, that was an easy fix!
>>
>> Yay, you got to watch something!
> 
> iPhone, ear buds  :)

"Baywatch" is on The Tubi! (And a bunch of other places, I'm sure...)