What did you watch?
After an arduous workout, I watched:
What did you watch?
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Let's go Brandon!
DEATH IN PARADISE S14E02 (which is actually episode three
because they count the Christmas episode as zero)
worst episode of the season. The murder method is stolen
straight from the Watson wedding episode of SHERLOCK.
The DI finds a piece of evidence and needs a glove to pick it
up. His stupid useless incompetent officer demands he says
please, or she won’t give him an evidence glove, and when he
buckles under she smugly smirks that he’s learning. I wish
that these people carried firearms and he would’ve just shot
her in the face.
Meanwhile, the commissioner is conning him into staying. Why
does the DI guest cottage have a record collection?
The commissioner himself is all bummed out that they’re
phasing out his position. Come on the guy is in his mid 70s.
Next week looks like it will set the new record for worst of
season as the murder weapon is part of Jimmy Carter’s legacy
of death and right from the previews you can see see that they
have no idea how it works.
anim8rfsk wrote:
DEATH IN PARADISE S14E02 (which is actually episode three
because they count the Christmas episode as zero)
worst episode of the season. The murder method is stolen
straight from the Watson wedding episode of SHERLOCK.
The DI finds a piece of evidence and needs a glove to pick it
up. His stupid useless incompetent officer demands he says
please, or she won’t give him an evidence glove, and when he
buckles under she smugly smirks that he’s learning. I wish
that these people carried firearms and he would’ve just shot
her in the face.
Meanwhile, the commissioner is conning him into staying. Why
does the DI guest cottage have a record collection?
So people can relax whilst on holiday and play some Reggae
tunes?
No records, no cry.
The commissioner himself is all bummed out that they’re
phasing out his position. Come on the guy is in his mid 70s.
He's still Philip Smith to me!
[FWIW, he was also Rassilon in some of the Big Finish "Doctor
Who" audio adventures.]
Next week looks like it will set the new record for worst of
season as the murder weapon is part of Jimmy Carter’s legacy
of death and right from the previews you can see see that they
have no idea how it works.
Mrs Blueshirt loves "Death in Paradise" so I catch a few
episodses here and there. I don't think she realises it's back
though as I haven't seen an episode since Christmas, with that
new Detective over from London looking for his Mum.
On 2/11/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
My longest workday of the week, though I still managed to get through a
movie and a soap:
soaps: DOOL - Steve and Brady come to believe that something "bad" has
likely happened to Ava, after they confirm that she never went to Hong
Kong. Kristen is "reunited" with her presumed-dead crazy mom, and of
course she throws Ava under the bus, and refuses to free Ava to protect Rachel (who again was not in the ep - I'd love to know what happened
with the previous Rachel child actress, 'cos it seems like her departure wasn't planned)... Meanwhile, Jada goes to the DiMera mansion, and
confronts EJ in the tunnels, and almost discovers captive Rafe! EJ,
feeling the heat, drugs Rafe, and brings him to the same mansion where
Ava is being held captive - Ava and Rafe will be kidnapping buddies
soon!! And dumb Belle is starting to doubt EJ's "good intentions"! (Ha!)
Cellphone (Hulu) - 2024 "horror" film (it's more like a "psychological horror"/thriller).
Ten years ago Whitney Rose Pynn was essentially playing teenagers in Lifetime-type flicks - in this, she looks like a woman in her 30s. And, indeed - she's older than I thought she was, as she's about Nina
Dobrev's age. (Sidenote: IMDb claims Pynn now goes by "Whitney Nobel",
but she's never been credited this way, and I don't trust IMDb on
actor's names as they have too many nitwit "contributors" changing
actor's names when they shouldn't be changed.)
This was a weird little indie horror film, and I kind of don't know what to make of it.
It felt to me like the film we get at the end of this did not match
the kind of film the opening segment implied this was going to be. In
other words, it felt like the last 1/4 of this film went way off book!
and deviated from the film we got in the first 3/4.
Gist: Newly widowed and grieving woman, Wynne, racked with guilt
over the death of her husband, moves to an isolated place in the country
to caretake it for a man named Bob (Malcolm McDowell, but before you get excited it's voice-over role only)
but the movie is filmed in Ohio somewhere. Anyway, in the film's open,
we see the previous tenants of this place, a married couple - and the
husband seems to be racked by "haunted phone calls" on his cell, and eventually kills himself (what happened to the wife is unclear until
later). Wynne starts getting similar "haunted phone calls" pretty much
as soon as she moves into the place. Are the calls real? And who is
calling her? - The place's supposed ghost? Or could it be, I dunno, SATAN?!...
Wynne also come across a kind of "caretaker" at the place, Chris (Justin Malik Jackson) who talks non-stop, and seems to have
deficiencies with honoring people's personal spaces. (Sidenote:
Jackson's presence drives home how tiny Pynn the actress is - standing
next to Jackson, Pynn looks like a child!)
Anyway, Jackson's Chris is kind of like the "good angel" on Wynne's shoulder, while the cellphone is her "devil".
for Wynne's soul?!
This is all a psychological exercise, until the film's final quarter when it takes a massive turn and kind of upends the film's main premise.
I basically didn't appreciate the film's ending making the figurative
this literal, and feel like it kind of loses the thread at the end, esp.
in the obvious contrast with what happened to the couple in the film's opening vs. what happens with Wynne - why Wynne got such a wildly
different experience than the earlier couple is never satisfactorily justified.
So, while this was a lovely shot film, I think overall it's a "miss".
What did you watch?
Babylon 5 (blu-ray) "The Ragged Edge" - Season 5, episode 12. The
Garibaldi is now an alcoholic storyline is kicking off. Meanwhile G'Kar
has an unwanted cult spring up around him.
"The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father" - Season 5, episode 13
Reggie Lee and Dana Barron (National Lampoon's Vacation) play new Psi
Corp recruits who join Bester on a hunt for a rogue telepath. I don't
know why, but none of the regular cast members, except for Jeff Conway, >appeared in this episode.
"Darkness Ascending" - Season 5, episode 15 - Lennier gathers proof the >attacks against the alliance are being done by Centauri ships. But so
far no one has realized the Centauri are just ponds of a greater threat.
"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" - The Alliance declares war against
the Centauri.
"Movements of Fire and Shadow" - As the war against the Centauri heats
up Team B5 discover the Centauri attack ships are being remotely controlled.
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
Babylon 5 (blu-ray) "The Ragged Edge" - Season 5, episode 12. The
Garibaldi is now an alcoholic storyline is kicking off. Meanwhile G'Kar
has an unwanted cult spring up around him.
I thought the cult gag got milked too long and ultimately made no
important point.
"The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father" - Season 5, episode 13
Reggie Lee and Dana Barron (National Lampoon's Vacation) play new Psi
Corp recruits who join Bester on a hunt for a rogue telepath. I don't
know why, but none of the regular cast members, except for Jeff Conway,
appeared in this episode.
It's the effect of the 22 episode order with a reduced production schedule, 88 days in lieu of 110. And they were likely doing portions of two episodes simultaneously during the five-day week. None of the actors in the main
cast ever had guarantees that they'd appear 22 episodes were season;
it was more like 8 episodes, I think.
And remember, for the first two seasons, neither Andreas Katsulas nor
Peter Jurasik had minimum episode guarantees at all, which is beyond
insane. So much of the five-year story arc was designed around Londo,
and G'Kar had to be there to represent how the Centauri had devestated
the Narn home world. We wouldn't have watched the show without the two
of them.
"Darkness Ascending" - Season 5, episode 15 - Lennier gathers proof the
attacks against the alliance are being done by Centauri ships. But so
far no one has realized the Centauri are just ponds of a greater threat.
"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" - The Alliance declares war against
the Centauri.
"Movements of Fire and Shadow" - As the war against the Centauri heats
up Team B5 discover the Centauri attack ships are being remotely controlled.
War by proxy combined with a false flag operation is entirely evil.
This is why we needed the Season 5 renewal.
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