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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-02 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:06:34 -0800
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On 2/3/2025 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 2/3/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Yesterday, TV viewing was not my focus. All I got through was:
> 
> soaps: Y&R - Thur's and Fri's ep's. Thur's ep was all about the fallout 
> of Victor and Ian Ward getting shot. Also, Tessa shows up unharmed. Ian 
> Ward apparently dies, which serves as an excuse to give a bunch of 
> people reasons to speechify about what a monster Ward was. But, at the 
> end... Ward is alive! Fri's ep has no follow up on that (you would think 
> if Ward escaped, someone would have said something!). Instead, Claire 
> tells Kyle what happened, and Kyle suspects that Claire murdered Jordan 
> but never comes out and says it! Sharon has all the charges against her 
> dropped (would this really happen when she framed somebody else for 
> murder?!), which will hopefully outrage Filis and put her on the warpath 
> - but here, Daniel is unimpressed by the news.
> 
> golf - Rory McIlroy took a commanding lead on the final day at Pebble 
> Beach, and never looked back - surprisingly, this is McIlroy's first win 
> at Pebble Beach. Shane Lowry birdied the last hole to get solo second 
> place. After leading Day 3, Sepp Straka mostly choked, and finished tied 
> for 7th, I think.
> 
> Finally, I recorded "Murder in Nashville" off Lifetime for later viewing.
> 
> And that was it. Aside from that, I mostly left LMN on in the background 
> yesterday evening, and did other things.
> 
> What did you watch?
> 
> 


I went to a small local convention.  Every year they get one or two name 
celebrities to show up.  It's worth going to get an autograph and see 
the panel(s).  But this year the celebrities didn't do panels.  It's 
small convention without much to do.  I was beyond annoyed that they 
didn't do any panels. There were panels, but none worth attending.  I 
guess they figured they were big enough names that they didn't *need* to 
do a panel, but the panels are what brings some people to the 
convention, and I've definitely decided to get an autograph that I 
otherwise wouldn't have gotten after seeing someone speak at a panel. 
Anyway, when I wasn't at the convention I watched:


Babylon 5 (blu-ray) "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" Earth loyalists 
kidnap Delenn to force Sheridan out of command.  A skippable episode, 
but it did have a few memorable scenes.  OK, and maybe an important 
scene or two as well.  But I still could have skipped it.  I do remember 
the newsgroup discussion when this episode first aired in the 90s and 
someone pointed out it was not a good look on the command team's side to 
break away from Earth then show up a few days later wearing different 
uniforms gifted by an alien.

"Sic Transit Vir" -Vir gets betrothed to a psychopathic murderer. I knew 
going in this was a skippable episode, but I wanted to watch it anyway.

"Ship of Tears" - Bester makes an uneasy alliance with B5 after he 
learns the Shadows are using human telepaths as components in their 
ships.  This episode ends with the revelation that the Shadows are now 
attacking openly.

"Interludes and Examinations" - Sheridan convinces the Vorlons to openly 
fight the Shadows, but at a heavy price for Kosh.  Kosh basically did 
the same thing to Sheridan that he did to G'Kar.  I don't think either 
of them were brainwashed, merely influenced.

"War Without End" Parts 1 and 2, Episodes 16 and 17.  We see Babylon 
Squared from the other side.  "The One" was definitely retconned in this 
episode, but it still works.

"Walkabout" - I was real close to skipping this one.  I really don't 
care about Franklin's walkabout.  I fast forwarded through those parts 
and watched all the non-walkabout story bits.  At this point I am 
anxiously trying to get to the season finale, but I'm also trying not to 
rush through what might otherwise be good episodes.

"Grey 17 Is Missing" - Another one where I watched bits and pieces while 
fast forwarding through all the missing Grey 17 nonsense.  Not even 
Freddy Krueger could make the Grey 17 bits good.

"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" - Season 3, episode 20.  Z 
minus 14.  There was no way I was skipping this one.  I didn't even need 
to read the recap to know what was going to happen.  "Leave the face and 
head intact.  It will be needed later for identification."

"Shadow Dancing" - Season 3, episode 21.  Z minus 7.  The war heats up.

"Z'ha'dum" - Season 3 finale.  "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." 
Turns out Kosh was telling the truth.