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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-15 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:23:01 -0700
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On 4/16/2025 5:46 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:32:15 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/16/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Just a soap:
>>
>> soaps: GH - Tue's ep. As expected, Alexis chickened out on Diane, and
>> won't have Kristina committed. Hopefully this means that Kristina is
>> ultimately arrested for her crimes, and thrown in jail forever so we
>> never have to see her again. This also means that Alexis knuckles under
>> to Ava's blackmail, though Ava ups the blackmail price just to stick to
>> Alexis. Ric is forced to listen to dumb Molly talk about how great it is
>> to have her relationship with Kristina back (so dumb!!). This ep had
>> other nonsense, like Lizzie going home and Amy being her home-care
>> nurse, and Amy driving everyone nuts. Also, the (evol?) Professor dude
>> (Daniel Goddard) takes a shine to Emma (I'm wondering if he's going to
>> seduce dumb Emma...), which is a problem for Joss because her spy
>> mission is to get herself the job as the Professor's assistant which
>> won't happen if Emma gets the gig.
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
> 
> Bits on Youtube but nothing else.

I also will find myself watching stuff on YouTube, especially reaction 
videos.

I watched:

Ghosts - "Alexander Hamilton and the Ruffle Kerfuffle" - Season 4, 
episode 14 from a few weeks ago.  This episode has Isaac recounting the 
time he had a conflict with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay's name gets 
dropped way too many times.  I'm guessing someone in the writer's room 
saw "Hamilton" the musical and wanted to make an episode about it.


Found - "Missing While a Caualty" - Team missing attempt to find the 
father of a young man who needs a kidney transplant.  This is one of 
those episodes that if you think about it a little, did they *really* 
need team Missing for this?  I guess Team Missing did call a press 
conference, but they seem to do that in every episode.  But is calling a 
press conference really finding someone?  I guess you're not supposed to 
think too much about it.


Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+) - "Straight to Hell" - Season 1, episode 
9, the season finale.  Fisk goes full on super villain as Kingpin uses 
his position as mayor to consolidate power and money for himself. 
Meanwhile Daredevil teams up with The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) to I 
guess, try and stop Kingpin.  I don't know.  This finale was a bit of a 
mess.  But it did manage to be even more graphically ultra violent than 
last week.  At least this is airing on Disney where people expect that 
sort of thing.  If you don't want to see someone's head get ripped open 
as they scream in agony and blood gushes everywhere, then stay on the 
safe family friendly networks like HBO and Cinemax.


The Accountant 2 (theatrical) The movie kicks off with J.K. Simmons who 
was in the first movie, but is now a private investigator.  Simmons has 
a mysterious meeting with someone when a team of killers show and kill 
Simmons (this is all in the trailer).  Before dying Simmons wrote a 
message on his arm to get the Accountant.  Presumably to avenge his 
death. Cynthia Addai-Robinson who was also in the first movie, and now 
has Simmons old job gets the message and recruits the Accountant (Ben 
Affleck) for help.  The Account recruits his brother (Jon Bernthal). 
For all intents and purposes Affleck is Batman and Bernthal is The 
Punisher.  The movie then consists of Batman and The Punisher teaming up 
to kill and torture people while a federal agent rides along complaining 
that they killing and torturing people.  She should have thought of that 
before she called them!  And I don't won't to hear any more complaints 
about the criminal they kidnapped and stuffed in the trunk of her car, 
that they now expect her to transport somewhere.  Just do it! Besides 
The Punisher had a point when he said if you pull out one eyeball and 
show it to a man, he'll talk.  That's 100% true!

The Accountant's phone tech support person is back in a much larger role 
this movie and all of those scenes were great.  Except the federal agent 
once again complaining about all the laws they were breaking.  But you 
can't go down a path of violent vengeance without breaking a few laws, 
and torturing and killing a lot of people. She really should have 
thought of that before she called them!

Anyway, if you liked the first movie then you'll like the sequel. 
There's slightly less counting in this one, but there is one scene where 
the Accountant shows off his math skills and another where he gives tax 
advice.  :-)