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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-04 (Tuesday)
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:32:42 -0500
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Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 2/5/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 2/5/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> 
>>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> Just soaps before going to bed early:
>> 
>> soaps: GH - Mon's ep. First let me say that I'm extremely
>> disappointed to read in Deadline that Charles Measure
>> (who plays Jack Brennan) is leaving GH - he is literally
>> the best thing they've got going right now (though "Babe"
>> as Lulu is turning out better than I would have expected)
>> - and even worse, they're going to replace Measure with
>> the guy who played Joey Buchanan on OLTL: IOW, they're
>> going to replace an Aussie with a straight-up American!
>> Puh-TEWIE!!... Anyway, not much happened in this ep.
>> NuNuLulu talks about Sam with Dante. Alexis vents about
>> Sam's murder to Sonny, and then Laura comes over to ask
>> Alexis about Jenz Sidwell. Earlier Laura tells Lucky that
>> Sidwell is in town, and Lizzie probes Lucky's real
>> feelings about his captivity by Sidwell. Maxie pushes
>> Sasha about the rumor that Jason is her fetus's father,
>> but Sasha refuses to discuss the baby's father. Curtis
>> talks to the football player about recovering from his
>> injury.
>>  DOOL - Tue's ep. The "secret" stalker of the
>>  soap-within-a-soap
>> sends fake scripts to all of the cast, and Johnny, Leo
>> and Abe, and of course the sctipts all have some contact
>> poison on them, so everybody falls ill (or dies?!).
>> Stephanie quits being the soap's PR person, so she can be
>> with Alex, and then tells Alex - Alex tells her that all
>> of a sudden Joy wants to take things to the "next level",
>> and he doesn't, so now Alex knows he needs to dump Joy.
>> But then he gets sick! Chanel seems to reconcile with
>> Johnny (she's a dummy!!), but then he gets sick!
>> 
>> And that was it. I was tired in the evening yesterday,
>> and just went to bed early.
>> 
>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> I watched:
> 
> Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - Still making my way through season
> 4. "Epiphanies"
> Garilbadi quits.  Meanwhile Bester shows up asking for
> help.  The whole relationship between B5, Earth, and
> Psychor/Bester is really murky,
> especially given B5 left Earth.  I guess best not to think
> about such things.
> 
>   "The Illusion of Truth" - I mostly fast forwarded
>   through this one,
> stopping to watch the ISN news propaganda parts.  But
> those propaganda
> parts were about half the episode.  I was expecting a
> brief segment at
> the end and got wrapped up into watching it.  According to
> this episode
> the lunar colony foundation was laid in 2018.  I had no
> idea we already had a colony on the moon.
> 
> "Atonement" - This episode fills in Delen's backstory and
> involvement in
> the Earth Minbari war.  It's a little weird watching this
> episode now this far into the series after already seeing
> the backstory play out in
> the TV movie.  This episode isn't even on my watch list
> and was easily skippable, but I've pretty much thrown out
> the watch list at this point
> and I'm just watching them.  I'll have to try harder to
> skip the skippable ones.
> 
> "Racing Mars" - Franklin and Marcus smuggle themselves to
> Mars and learn thanks to the news embargo no one knows
> there was a Shadow war.
> Meanwhile Garabaldi has a falling out with Sheradan. 
> Speaking of Sheradan, he goes through some, let's say
> interesting, courting rituals
> with Delenn.  They mentioned Garibaldi's hair falling out.
>  I've been keeping an eye out for that and was surprised
> it lasted so long, then
> when it finally happened, I didn't notice.  Technically,
> he still has some hair on his head.
> 
> "Lines of Communication" Delenn confronts the Drakh who
> are shaping up to be the latest big bad.
> 
> "Conflicts of Interest" - Sheridan builds up his
> resistance forces and establishes a counter propaganda
> network.
> 
> "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" - By this point I was half
> asleep and just
> barely paying attention.  But when my eyes were open, I
> saw Delenn dealing with a civil war back home.

I'm really enjoying these summaries, Arthur. They're pushing
me in the direction of breaking out my set of B5 DVDs and
actually getting around to (finally) watching them. :)

With the NHL going dark for two weeks for this silly
exhibition tournament (The Four Nations). I'll be needing
something to fill in the dark nights, so B5 might just
be it. 

Or maybe I'll finally get around to watching the last two
seasons of Breaking Bad. :/

Nyssa, who is ahead on her reading, but behind on her 
watching