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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-09 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:18:16 -0700
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On 4/10/2025 7:27 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:11:14 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/10/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Just soaps:
>>
>> soaps: Both Tue's ep's.
>>     DOOL - Doug III goads him, and so Tate slugs him (Doug deserved so
>> much worse than that!) just as dumb Holly walks in, and so she whines
>> about it to Tate who just leaves. Tate and NuSophia try to convince
>> Sophia's awful mom to restart the adoption talks with Chanel and Johnny
>> after EJ has been shot. Belle is all verklempt after Brady tells her
>> that EVOL! EJ has been shot. (Nu)Kristen and NuGabi effectively accuse
>> each other of shooting EJ.
>>     GH - Ava railroads Ric into not having Kristina arrested but instead
>> planning to blackmail Alexis for money to keep quiet about it. (It's
>> fanciful that the cops aren't involved in this when people at the crash
>> scene clearly indicated the brakes had be cut - the cops would certainly
>> look into this!!) Kristina is already ready to crack and confess, and
>> pathetic Lucky tells her to go to her mother Alexis admit the truth.
>> Alexis interviews the new guy (who turned out to be Natalia and
>> Sidwell's son), and is all happy that her daughters have reconciled...
>> until Ava shows up! Olivia sandbags Brook Lynn by bringing Lois back to
>> town; Chase tells Brook Lynn that she has to bury the hatchet with her
>> mom or confess publicly the truth. NuNuLulu confesses to Cody that she
>> duped him, which Dante overhears, and she and Dante argue about Dante
>> never telling Lulu about his teenaged affair with Brook Lynn; at the
>> end, Cody is outraged at Lulu.
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
> 
> I finished up THE BONDSMAN season 1. I say season 1 as that ending was
> the perfect setup for a season 2, 
I'll stop reading there.


> 
> Oh I also watched SURVIVOR
I have this saved for later.


> What did you watch?


Hollywood Demons (HBOMax) - "Dark Side of the Power Rangers" - Episode 3 
of this documentary series.  This episode is the reason I even took 
notice of this series, it focused on "The Power Rangers."  I was a 
little older when the show came out, but still enjoyed watching it as a 
teenager.  I've only ever heard horror stories from the cast about 
making this show, and this documentary was no different.  I had 
forgotten they shot the pilot with a different "Yellow Ranger."  They 
interviewed her about the pilot.  She said they were in the middle of 
some dessert in heat when one of the stuntmen in a rubber swimsuit had 
heat stroke.  She said the guy was on the ground flopping around and she 
insisted they stop filming and get the guy an ambulance.  But the 
producers refused to stop filming and offered $100 for anyone to take 
off the costume and put it on so they could keep filming, and someone 
took the $100, took the costume off the man, and left the guy there 
still shaking, but now in the his socks and underwear, and they kept 
filming.

And that's not even close to the most shocking story they told in the 
documentary.  There were so many shady things happened on that show. 
Giving them contracts to sign, but telling them they had to sing almost 
immediately with no time to let an agent review it first.  The terms of 
the contracts had the actors working for almost nothing while signing 
away their likeness.  Keep in mind, Power Rangers is a mutlibillion 
dollar franchise.  They were putting the actors faces on products, 
selling the products, and not giving the actors any of the money.  It 
was a non union show which had its' own list of horrors they put the 
actors through.  One of the actors said Disney bought the show, then it 
went union and suddenly they cared if they got hurt or not and they 
brought in stuntmen to the dangerous scenes.

Then there were all the deaths, suicides, murder.  The murder they 
talked about could be it's own documentary.  A lot of this fans of the 
show will already know about, but it was still an interesting watch and 
had several things I wasn't already aware of, in particular details 
surrounding the suicide of Jason David Frank, who was the most popular 
ranger.