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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-05 (Monday)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 07:13:40 -0700
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On 5/6/2025 6:20 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 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.
> 
If you are talking about the Abrams Trek I'm sure he did.

>> 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.


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