Fringe S3E03 'The Plateau'

A Redverse episode, strange accidents are killing people and the only commonality are ballpoint pens found at the scenes.

The glyphs in this episode spell "Breach".

Olivia Dunham: You're not real.
Peter Bishop: Real is just a matter of perception.

The story concept for "The Plateau" was pitched by J.H. Wyman's nine
year old son, Oliver. He receives a "Special Thanks" in the credits.

Another difference in the alternate universe: In our universe, oxygen
tanks are color coded green. In the alternate universe, Olivia takes
oxygen from a red tank.




Fringe S3E04 'Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?'

Back in the Blueverse lots of confusion with disobedient shapeshifters,
Newton and double-crosses.

The glyphs spell "Shift".

Dr. Walter Bishop: You look shocked.
Astrid Farnsworth: You just called me Astrid. You never get my name right.
Dr. Walter Bishop: Must be the LSD.

Peter Bishop: With a basement lab in Harvard, Walter was able to open a wormhole into another dimension that essentially shredded all the laws
of science. I can't wait to see what he's capable of doing with a multi billion-dollar corporation.

When Walter uses his thumbprint to grant Peter access, he says
"Ownership has its privileges." This is a take off of the old American
Express tagline "Membership has its privileges."

Walter mentioned that Stegosaurus had 2 brains - it didn't. It is 19.
century myth that was soon rejected by its own creator Othniel Charles
Marsh. (But I'm sure Blueverse Stegosaurus did have two brains!)


Fringe S3E05 'Amber 31422'

Back to The Redverse, someone frees his twin brother from the amber,
Walternate doesn't want Red people to know that people in Amber are
still alive and our brainwashed heroine has experimental dreams about
Peter. The sleeper awakes....

The glyphs say "Event".

Walternate states that the first time the amber quarantine had to be
used was on October 17th, 1989 and 63 civilians were trapped inside.
October 17th, 1989 is the date of the famous San Francisco earthquake
which resulted in 63 fatalities.


Fringe S3E06 '6955 kHz'

Blueverse episode, IMDb sez: "The latest broadcast on a numbers station transmits amnesia to its listeners. Walter clashes with Peter over
Peter's work on the machine from alternate Earth."

And the glyphs sez "Decay".

Peter Bishop: It's not safe for you here anymore, Olivia. You have to go
home.

Peter Bishop: Just tell us what you know about the stations.
Ed Markham: First of all, they're as old as dirt. They say when Marconi invented the radio, the first thing he heard was the numbers, like they
were floating around in space just waiting for someone to listen.
Peter Bishop: You're trying to tell me that Marconi picked up a
transmission before humans invented the technology to send one?

Dr. Walter Bishop: Oh, I have a prescription.
Nina Sharp: So do I.

The Calendar of the First People has 22 months totaling 360 days. A 6
day week is indicated.

The first number broadcast is in Dutch. During World War II allied
number stations broadcast number codes to members of the Dutch underground.

For much of the earth's surface (it gets complicated as you near the
poles) minutes of long. or lat. are about one mile apart. Even noting
degrees, minutes and seconds of long. or lat. barely gets to within 100
feet.



What Did You Watch?


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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote:

What Did You Watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTERS.

Covered in the dedicated topic thread



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On 5/27/25 8:00 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

I treated yesterday like a pure vacation day, and did nothing but play
my video game and watch stuff, though I still was too tired to tackle
"John Wick 4" (maybe today?...).

I got through:

soaps: DOOL - GH was a rerun yesterday (I'm assuming Y&R was the same),
so all I got through was DOOL. Xander continues to be an unhinged
asshole so Maggie kicks him out of the mansion (legally, she can't do
that, so Xander should stick it to her by fighting it) so he steals
Victor's portrait and throws it in a dumpster! Everyone else gives
Xander the brush-off. Meanwhile, more hemming and hawing with (Fake!)
John Black, and more John (& Marlena) flashbacks. Meh.

Andor (Disney+) - Episodes #2.4-2.6.
So, I'm not sure I care for this structure - each 3 episodes of
season #2 is it's own "set", each taking place a year apart.
Thus episode #2.4 again starts with "A Year Later" (IOW, a year
after episode #2.3), and we are now in BBY 3! (from BBY 4).
These ones had much less Mon Mothma, and much more Luthen and Kleya,
and more direct focus on Cassian and Bix.
Again, I found ep's #2.4 & #2.5 less than engrossing, but episode
#2.6 picks up the pace, and is the best of this lot so far, though I
thought the ending, while "dramatic", was kind of dumb/unrealistic.
Much of these episodes focus on the machinations around the planet
Ghorman. At first I thought the Ghormans were supposed to be Germans or Austrians (WWII irony?), but I quickly realized the Ghormans are
actually supposed to be French - the language is French sounding, but
not actually French - and thus the focus on fashion on their world.
I'm guessing the following episodes will ratchet this up.


What did you watch?

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On 5/27/2025 10:42 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/27/25 8:00 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

I treated yesterday like a pure vacation day, and did nothing but play
my video game and watch stuff, though I still was too tired to tackle
"John Wick 4" (maybe today?...).

I got through:

soaps: DOOL - GH was a rerun yesterday (I'm assuming Y&R was the same),
so all I got through was DOOL. Xander continues to be an unhinged
asshole so Maggie kicks him out of the mansion (legally, she can't do
that, so Xander should stick it to her by fighting it) so he steals
Victor's portrait and throws it in a dumpster! Everyone else gives
Xander the brush-off. Meanwhile, more hemming and hawing with (Fake!)
John Black, and more John (& Marlena) flashbacks. Meh.

Andor (Disney+) - Episodes #2.4-2.6.
   So, I'm not sure I care for this structure - each 3 episodes of
season #2 is it's own "set", each taking place a year apart.
   Thus episode #2.4 again starts with "A Year Later" (IOW, a year
after episode #2.3), and we are now in BBY 3! (from BBY 4).
   These ones had much less Mon Mothma, and much more Luthen and Kleya, and more direct focus on Cassian and Bix.
   Again, I found ep's #2.4 & #2.5 less than engrossing, but episode
#2.6 picks up the pace, and is the best of this lot so far, though I
thought the ending, while "dramatic", was kind of dumb/unrealistic.
   Much of these episodes focus on the machinations around the planet Ghorman. At first I thought the Ghormans were supposed to be Germans or Austrians (WWII irony?), but I quickly realized the Ghormans are
actually supposed to be French - the language is French sounding, but
not actually French - and thus the focus on fashion on their world.
   I'm guessing the following episodes will ratchet this up.

Yes, definitely French and that's all very deliberate.

What did you watch?

A bit late, but I watched:

Fantastic Four (blu-ray) 2005 superhero movie directed by Tim Story and starring Ioan Gruffodd as Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba, as Sue Storm,
Captain America as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis as The Thing. With
Julian McMahon as Victor Von Doom (not sure if he's ever called "Doctor"
in the movie). This was mostly background noise with the cast
commentary. Chicklis is a fan of the comics and spent the commentary explaining to the other actors what was from the comics.


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (blu-ray) 2007 sequel once
again directed by Tim Story with the same cast returning. But this time
joined by Doug Jones as the Silver Surfer (voiced by Laurence
Fishburne). More background noise. I watched with a commentary by
Producer Avi Arad, Writer Don Payne, and Film Editors. They were pretty
good about pointing out all the stuff they changed from the comics. But
my favorite was probably when one of them asked, "What's a U.S. army
base doing in Siberia?" Good question, but they are the ones who made
the movie, they should tell me.


The Fantastic Four (blu-ray) 2015 movie, directed by Josh Trank, and
starring Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kata Mara as The Invisible
Woman, Jamie Bell and The Thing, and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm. Together they are The Good Enough, I guess 4. The Good Enough, I guess
4 must join forces to stop a disgruntled computer programmer named
Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). The relationship between The Good
Enough, I guess 4 can best be described in the immortal words of Arnold
J. Rimmer as, "People I once met." But if you must defeat a disgruntled computer programmer, the The Good Enough, I guess 4 are, good enough, I
guess.

Unfortunately, this movie has no commentary track, so I was forced to
listen to the actual dialogue. This movie is what happens if someone
decides the way to fix the Tim Story Fantastic Four movies is by
removing every last ounce of humor or anything that could even remotely
be considered fun. Then desaturate the colors so much that even Zack
Snyder would beg for a just a little bit of color to be added back.
Anyway, this movie exists. That's about all that's worth saying about
it. The only other thing that occurs to me about this movie is at the
time Michael B. Jordan and Josh Trank were friends and it looked like
the two of them were going to ride each other's coattails to success in Hollywood. Then this monstrosity escaped, and Jordan dumped Trank and
latched onto Ryan Coogler for success instead. Jordan definitely traded up!


Life after Navigator (FawesomeTV) 2020 documentary about Joey Cramer who
was the lead in "Flight of the Navigator" and played Tom Selleck's son
in "Runaway." Cramer had some success as child actor in the 80s before becoming a drug addict and eventually getting caught trying to rob a
bank. It was an OK documentary. I got the impression the filmmakers
were bending over backwards to show Cramer in the best light possible.
I guess there's nothing wrong with that. I should note, this is the
second time that I watched something on FawesomeTV in the proper aspect
ratio after seeing it displayed in the wrong aspect ratio on a different streaming service.


Anora (Hulu) 2024 movie about the young son of a Russian oligarch who
marries a prostitute (Mikey Madison). This movie popped up on my radar
last year when it got a ton of award nominations including 6 Academy
Award nominations, winning 5 of them. I really want to call this an
r-rated version of "Pretty Woman" except "Pretty Woman" was actually
r-rated. So perhaps a better description is a more realistic version of "Pretty Woman" although this movie is also played for laughs, so they
weren't exactly going for realism either. Just more believable
depiction of rich man and prostitute. Now to be fair, Madison's
character keeps complaining that she is actually a stripper, not a
prostitute. But if she takes money to have sex with someone, which she absolutely does, multiple times, all I'm saying is the description seems
to fit.

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Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:

On 5/27/2025 10:42 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/27/25 8:00 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

I treated yesterday like a pure vacation day, and did nothing but play
my video game and watch stuff, though I still was too tired to tackle
"John Wick 4" (maybe today?...).

I got through:

soaps: DOOL - GH was a rerun yesterday (I'm assuming Y&R was the same),
so all I got through was DOOL. Xander continues to be an unhinged
asshole so Maggie kicks him out of the mansion (legally, she can't do
that, so Xander should stick it to her by fighting it) so he steals
Victor's portrait and throws it in a dumpster! Everyone else gives
Xander the brush-off. Meanwhile, more hemming and hawing with (Fake!)
John Black, and more John (& Marlena) flashbacks. Meh.

Andor (Disney+) - Episodes #2.4-2.6.
�� So, I'm not sure I care for this structure - each 3 episodes of
season #2 is it's own "set", each taking place a year apart.
�� Thus episode #2.4 again starts with "A Year Later" (IOW, a year
after episode #2.3), and we are now in BBY 3! (from BBY 4).
�� These ones had much less Mon Mothma, and much more Luthen and Kleya,
and more direct focus on Cassian and Bix.
�� Again, I found ep's #2.4 & #2.5 less than engrossing, but episode
#2.6 picks up the pace, and is the best of this lot so far, though I
thought the ending, while "dramatic", was kind of dumb/unrealistic.
�� Much of these episodes focus on the machinations around the planet
Ghorman. At first I thought the Ghormans were supposed to be Germans or
Austrians (WWII irony?), but I quickly realized the Ghormans are
actually supposed to be French - the language is French sounding, but
not actually French - and thus the focus on fashion on their world.
�� I'm guessing the following episodes will ratchet this up.

Yes, definitely French and that's all very deliberate.

What did you watch?

A bit late, but I watched:

Fantastic Four (blu-ray) 2005 superhero movie directed by Tim Story and starring Ioan Gruffodd as Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba, as Sue Storm,
Captain America as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis as The Thing. With Julian McMahon as Victor Von Doom (not sure if he's ever called "Doctor"
in the movie). This was mostly background noise with the cast
commentary. Chicklis is a fan of the comics and spent the commentary explaining to the other actors what was from the comics.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (blu-ray) 2007 sequel once
again directed by Tim Story with the same cast returning. But this time joined by Doug Jones as the Silver Surfer (voiced by Laurence
Fishburne). More background noise. I watched with a commentary by
Producer Avi Arad, Writer Don Payne, and Film Editors. They were pretty
good about pointing out all the stuff they changed from the comics. But
my favorite was probably when one of them asked, "What's a U.S. army
base doing in Siberia?" Good question, but they are the ones who made
the movie, they should tell me.

For the small yet pivotal role, I played in the creation of this
monstrosity. I apologize once again.

The Fantastic Four (blu-ray) 2015 movie, directed by Josh Trank, and
starring Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kata Mara as The Invisible
Woman, Jamie Bell and The Thing, and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm. Together they are The Good Enough, I guess 4. The Good Enough, I guess
4 must join forces to stop a disgruntled computer programmer named
Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). The relationship between The Good
Enough, I guess 4 can best be described in the immortal words of Arnold
J. Rimmer as, "People I once met." But if you must defeat a disgruntled computer programmer, the The Good Enough, I guess 4 are, good enough, I guess.

Unfortunately, this movie has no commentary track, so I was forced to
listen to the actual dialogue. This movie is what happens if someone
decides the way to fix the Tim Story Fantastic Four movies is by
removing every last ounce of humor or anything that could even remotely
be considered fun. Then desaturate the colors so much that even Zack
Snyder would beg for a just a little bit of color to be added back.
Anyway, this movie exists. That's about all that's worth saying about
it. The only other thing that occurs to me about this movie is at the
time Michael B. Jordan and Josh Trank were friends and it looked like
the two of them were going to ride each other's coattails to success in Hollywood. Then this monstrosity escaped, and Jordan dumped Trank and latched onto Ryan Coogler for success instead. Jordan definitely traded up!

Life after Navigator (FawesomeTV) 2020 documentary about Joey Cramer who
was the lead in "Flight of the Navigator" and played Tom Selleck's son
in "Runaway." Cramer had some success as child actor in the 80s before becoming a drug addict and eventually getting caught trying to rob a
bank. It was an OK documentary. I got the impression the filmmakers
were bending over backwards to show Cramer in the best light possible.
I guess there's nothing wrong with that. I should note, this is the
second time that I watched something on FawesomeTV in the proper aspect
ratio after seeing it displayed in the wrong aspect ratio on a different streaming service.

Anora (Hulu) 2024 movie about the young son of a Russian oligarch who
marries a prostitute (Mikey Madison). This movie popped up on my radar
last year when it got a ton of award nominations including 6 Academy
Award nominations, winning 5 of them. I really want to call this an
r-rated version of "Pretty Woman" except "Pretty Woman" was actually
r-rated. So perhaps a better description is a more realistic version of "Pretty Woman" although this movie is also played for laughs, so they
weren't exactly going for realism either. Just more believable
depiction of rich man and prostitute. Now to be fair, Madison's
character keeps complaining that she is actually a stripper, not a prostitute. But if she takes money to have sex with someone, which she absolutely does, multiple times, all I'm saying is the description seems
to fit.

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