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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-01 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 07:30:04 -0700
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On 4/2/2025 6:01 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/2/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Not much, as I did some work in the evening, and also played my video 
> game (though I may be coming to a standstill on that one...). So all I 
> got through was GH:
> 
> soaps: GH - Mon's and Tue's ep. Mon's ep was all about the fallout of 
> Kristina's cutting the brake lines causing a significant car accident 
> for Ric and Lizzie - Ric is, like, near death, and needs to be taken in 
> to surgery, while Lizzie is pretty banged up. And Kristina stupidly 
> pretty much "confesses" to Lucky, who will probably want her head if 
> something happens to Lizzie. Meanwhile, Emma for once doesn't sound like 
> a complete idiot as she explains to gramma Anna why she is so wrapped up 
> in the Quartermaine crypt kerfuffle. But it's all for naught! - at the 
> end, Anna has to arrest Emma anyway, as she has outstanding (bench?) 
> warrants that Emma didn't tell anybody about! Ha!...
>     Tue's ep felt like a complete gear shift, which really ticked me 
> off. Tue's ep was the "62nd anniversary" episode of GH, and it was an 
> incredibly-awkward "standalone" episode, which completely ignored the 
> events of Mon's episode - no follow up on Ric's surgery and him being 
> near death, no follow up on Emma going to jail. In fact, characters 
> involved in both of those storylines show up in this "anniversary" 
> episode, and act like nothing major has happened, and instead talk about 
> some of the now-dead former characters. And, meanwhile, we get a whole 
> subplot with Lucy pitching the annual Nurse's Ball to EVOL! Jenz Sidwell 
> (Carlo Rota) who agrees to bankroll the whole thing! Bah!!
> 
> What did you watch?
> 
> 

I watched:

Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+) - "Art for Art's Sake" - Daredevil is 
back.  And he thinks he's the Punisher or maybe Reacher.  I don't recall 
Daredevil being this violent when it was on Netflix, but now that it's a 
Disney show, I guess they show all the blood and gore.  ;-)