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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-05 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 18:20:16 -0700
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On 5/6/2025 5:39 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Fringe S1E17 'Bad Dreams'.  Olivia kills people in her sleep.  (Well, 
> wouldn't you if you worked with Dr. Bishop?)  In Nick Lane's flat there 
> is a wall filled with clippings. In the midst of this mass of clippings 
> is a sheet of paper on which the number 47 is written. The number 47, 
> besides being a prime number, has been attributed as being a random 
> number which occurs with unusual frequency and so has a certain 
> mystique. There is perhaps a humorous mathematical proof of this by 
> Pomona College's math professor Donald Bentley. Regardless of this 
> purported mystique, the number has been used in Alias (2001), another 
> J.J. Abrams project, as a central plot device for the series.
> 

I think Star Trek also had a tendency to stick the number 47 in as an 
Easter egg from time to time.

> The glyphs in this episode spell "Belly". This is Walter Bishop's 
> nickname for William Bell.
> 
> *woman falls from the top of a building on to a car parked near the 
> Bishops*
> Dr. Walter Bishop: I hope Agent Dunham meant to do that.
> 
> What Did You Watch?
> 
> 
> 


Nothing worth mentioning.  I did forget to mention from the other day I 
watched:


Watson - "My Life's Work Part 1" - Part one of the season finale. 
Thanks to the secret inside help he's been receiving all season, 
Moriarty is able to launch a biological attack against one of the 
doctor's on Watson's team.  This was a pretty good one.  But I'm half 
expecting Sherlock to make an appearance in the finale and reveal that 
he's really alive and this has all been a long con to capture Moriarty.


The Equalizer - "Decisions" - This was the series finale.  Salazar, who 
has been the season's big bad, but has barely registered on my radar, 
decides to kill the Equalizer while she is on vacation, but he forgets 
that she's the Equalizer and she and her team eat kill squads for 
breakfast.  Overall, I thought they managed a pretty good finale that 
wrapped up the series, while leaving room for another season.