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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-09 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:30:12 -0800
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On 2/10/2025 5:52 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 2/10/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Yesterday, I did stuff, which means I mostly put sports on while I did 
> stuff. I did also get through some soaps:
> 
> soaps: Y&R - Thur's & Fri's ep's. Mostly not very interesting stuff. 
> Diane wants to redecorate the Abbott estate house (why is this a 
> storyline?!). Amy and Nate realize the guy they've been meeting isn't 
> Amy's son - the dude admits that he's just working for Amy's son, so the 
> real son sets up a "meet" with Nate. Daniel continues to be suspicious 
> of Billy's new venture with Filis[sic!]; after Daniel leaves, Filis 
> gives Billy a hard time for traipsing off to Paris with Sally. Chloe 
> reviews Billy's dating history with Sally!
>     GH - Fri's ep. Nina pitches an alliance with Carly (to Carly) to 
> break up Willow and Drew. Drew meets with Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota), but 
> Laura crashes the meeting and exposes Sidwell's past to Drew. Jordan 
> tells Anna that she intends to wear a wire with Sidwell to get dirt on 
> Sidwell. Cyrus is now banned from the recovery facility; first, he then 
> confronts Lulu (despite the restraining order) and Lulu rats Cyrus out 
> to Anna, and then Cyrus for some reason becomes convinced that Lizzie is 
> the one who broke into his place (so Lizzie is probably in danger). 
> Sonny discovers he needs a pacemaker, but refuses to get one right now.
> 
> golf - Euro Thomas Detry blew away the field at the (WM) Phoenix Open, 
> winning by 7 strokes, for his first PGA win. The only other thing of 
> note was Justin Thomas holing off the fairway on the 18th hole to get an 
> eagle, and vaulting Thomas into a tie for firth(? I believe).
> 
> 2025 Super Bowl - Ugh. 

That stupid game had one job to do.  Keep people off the streets.  I 
went out shopping and the store were full of people.  What's the world 
coming to when people go out and about, forcing me to wait in line, 
instead of staying home and watching a stupid game on TV like they 
should be doing?  :-/

It did have one other job, produce trailers for upcoming MCU movies and 
it did do that.  Thunderbolts is looking good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUUszE29jS0

> 
> 
> What did you watch?
> 

I watched:

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (4K disc) 2021 miniseries set in the 
MCU.  Picking up after Captain America has retired and handed his shield 
to Sam Wilson, Sam decides he doesn't want to be the next Captain 
America so Sam hands the shield over to the U.S. government for safe 
keeping.  Sam goes off working for the U.S. military on missions but is 
shocked to learn that the government handed the shield to a different 
soldier to be the new Captain America.  This doesn't sit well with 
Captain America's other sidekick, Bucky/The Winter Soldier.  The two of 
them team up to stop the bad guys and handle the new Captain America who 
isn't exactly cracked up for the job.  This series sets up both the 
upcoming Captain America movie and the upcoming Thunderbolts movie.


Star Trek: Section 31 (Showtime streaming) - I had no idea this was 
available for non Paramount+ subscribers.  I just happened to stumble 
across it by accident.  The plot has Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) 
former ruler of the Terran Empire from the mirror universe, being 
recruited by section 31 to stop something really bad from happening. 
I'm going to have to go back and rewatch the opening, because I 
completely missed how/why section 31 got involved in the first place. 
Section 31 clearly didn't know exactly what the threat was, so why would 
it come to their attention when it wasn't even happening in federation 
space?  Anyway Georgiou teams up with a group of outrageously flamboyant 
undercover agents to save the day.  Wait a minute, if you're supposed to 
be undercover is it a good idea to also be outrageously flamboyant?  I 
didn't hate this the way some others seem to hate it, but it wasn't all 
that great either.  It felt rushed.  I think they were obviously going 
to do this as a full series then it got cut out to a single movie and it 
looks like they just took the first episode and the finale and tossed 
out everything in between.  The overall tone also felt a lot more like 
"Lexx" than Star Trek.  "Lexx" was a low budget Canadian sci-fi show in 
the 90s that didn't take itself too seriously.  And this just kept 
reminding me of that series.


Babylon 5 (blu-ray) "In the Kingdom of the Blind" - Season 5, Episode 9. 
  More Byron telapthic nonsense as they try to blackmail their way to a 
homeworld.  This isn't going to end well.

"A Tragedy of Telepaths" - Bester arrives to handle the telepaths.  Is 
it OK to root for Bester?  Is that even allowed?

"Phoenix Rising" - The telepath saga comes to an end.  I think.  Also 
over the course of the last three epsiode Londo and G'Kar have been 
having adventures on Centarui Prime.  The Centauri Prime scenes are the 
best, but it makes zero sense for G'Kar to be living with Londo on 
Londo's home planet serving as Londo's bodyguard.  That's just some 
twisted convoluted writing to get the two of them to share scenes together.