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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday)
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 07:35:30 -0700
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On 5/2/2025 11:11 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/28/2025 7:52 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 4/28/2025 5:23 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>> Fringe S1E07 'In Which We Meet Mr. Jones'.  An agent has a cyborg worm
>>> wrapped around his heart.  Mr. Jones will be back.  The glyphs spell
>>> "codes".
>>>
>>> Phillip Broyles: I'm hoping you can help. The man lying in that room is
>>> not just a colleague. He's a friend.
>>> Dr. Walter Bishop: I see. Do you have any mints?
>>>
>>>
>>> Fringe S1E08 'The Equation'.  A musical child prodigy is kidnapped and
>>> Walter has to visit a friend in the asylum to help find him.  While he's
>>> there, Walter meets himself.  Blue and Red become important.  The glyphs
>>> spell "taken".
>>>
>>
>> During the original airing, how did people know what the glyphs spelled?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Then since that was another disc of episodes done, I watched the various
>>> disc extras.
>>>
>>> What Did You Watch?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I watched
>>
>>
>> Ant-Man (4K disc) 2015 movie set in the MCU.  The screenplay was
>> co-written by Edgar Wright, who was also supposed to direct, but he was
>> replaced by Peyton Reed, who would go on to direct all the movies.  Paul
>> Rudd (who also co-wrote the screenplay this one and the sequel) stars as
>> Scott Lang, a small time criminal who gets out of jail and finds himself
>> manipulated by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man into
>> becoming the new Ant-Man so he can team up with Pym's daughter Hope
>> (Evangeline Lilly) to prevent Corey Stoll from using Pym's shrinking
>> technology.
>>
>>
>> Ant-Man and the Wasp (4K disc) 2018 sequel which picks up after the
>> events of "Captain America: Civil War" to find Ant-Man under house
>> arrest.  But thanks to the events of the first movie Scott now has a
>> link with Hank Pym's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is trapped in the
>> Quantum Realm.  Hank and Hope guilt Scott into breaking his house arrest
>> to help them rescue Hope, but first they have to get pass a phase
>> shifting villain (or maybe antihero) named Ghost.
>>
>>
>> Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (4K disc) 2023 sequel which picks up
>> after the events of "Avengers: Endgame."  Scott is now a minor
>> celebrity, and thanks to the "blip" his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn
>> Newton) is now a teenager.  Cassie decides to secretly investigate the
>> quantum realm where Hope lived.  Let's just ignore the fact Hope was
>> there for three decades and apparently no one asked her any questions
>> about how she survived!  Anyway, Cassie sends a signal which allows Kang
>> the Conqueror to kidnap them and bring them into the Quantum Realm.
>> This one is probably the best of the three, but it has one major problem
>> in that it is pretty obvious that there's *no* way Ant-Man defeats Kang!
> 
> If Falcon America can beat the Hulk…
> 

But did he really?

> 
>>   That's just not happening!  On the commentary they talked a lot about
>> Johnathan Majors and setting him up to be the main villain of the
>> franchise going forward.
>>
>> I suspect in "Doomsday" they will bring Majors back just to kill him
>> off, but I hope it's an epic battle and not just Doctor Doom ripping his
>> spine out in the first 5 minutes.
> 
> Whatever happened to the days when Dr. doom and Kang were the same person?
> And simultaneously each others, ancestor and descendent?
> 

I didn't know that.  I only know the characters from the movies and any 
animated appearances in the 80s and 90s.  I only heard that Kang was a 
descendant of Reed Richards.

> Robert Downey Jr. as Kang. Now I could’ve gotten behind that.
> 
> 
>> Watson - "The Dark Day Deduction" - Teem Watson help a vet with past
>> ties to Watson.  This was mostly background noise.
>>
> 
> But at least you got to see the end
> 

Can't you get it through OnDemand?

That reminds me, I need to stream Law and Order: Organized Crime.