Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-02 (Sunday)

On 2/3/2025 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/3/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Yesterday, TV viewing was not my focus. All I got through was:
 soaps: Y&R - Thur's and Fri's ep's. Thur's ep was all about the fallout of Victor and Ian Ward getting shot. Also, Tessa shows up unharmed. Ian Ward apparently dies, which serves as an excuse to give a bunch of people reasons to speechify about what a monster Ward was. But, at the end... Ward is alive! Fri's ep has no follow up on that (you would think if Ward escaped, someone would have said something!). Instead, Claire tells Kyle what happened, and Kyle suspects that Claire murdered Jordan but never comes out and says it! Sharon has all the charges against her dropped (would this really happen when she framed somebody else for murder?!), which will hopefully outrage Filis and put her on the warpath - but here, Daniel is unimpressed by the news.
 golf - Rory McIlroy took a commanding lead on the final day at Pebble Beach, and never looked back - surprisingly, this is McIlroy's first win at Pebble Beach. Shane Lowry birdied the last hole to get solo second place. After leading Day 3, Sepp Straka mostly choked, and finished tied for 7th, I think.
 Finally, I recorded "Murder in Nashville" off Lifetime for later viewing.
 And that was it. Aside from that, I mostly left LMN on in the background yesterday evening, and did other things.
 What did you watch?
 

I went to a small local convention.  Every year they get one or two name celebrities to show up.  It's worth going to get an autograph and see the panel(s).  But this year the celebrities didn't do panels.  It's small convention without much to do.  I was beyond annoyed that they didn't do any panels. There were panels, but none worth attending.  I guess they figured they were big enough names that they didn't *need* to do a panel, but the panels are what brings some people to the convention, and I've definitely decided to get an autograph that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten after seeing someone speak at a panel. Anyway, when I wasn't at the convention I watched:
Babylon 5 (blu-ray) "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" Earth loyalists kidnap Delenn to force Sheridan out of command.  A skippable episode, but it did have a few memorable scenes.  OK, and maybe an important scene or two as well.  But I still could have skipped it.  I do remember the newsgroup discussion when this episode first aired in the 90s and someone pointed out it was not a good look on the command team's side to break away from Earth then show up a few days later wearing different uniforms gifted by an alien.
"Sic Transit Vir" -Vir gets betrothed to a psychopathic murderer. I knew going in this was a skippable episode, but I wanted to watch it anyway.
"Ship of Tears" - Bester makes an uneasy alliance with B5 after he learns the Shadows are using human telepaths as components in their ships.  This episode ends with the revelation that the Shadows are now attacking openly.
"Interludes and Examinations" - Sheridan convinces the Vorlons to openly fight the Shadows, but at a heavy price for Kosh.  Kosh basically did the same thing to Sheridan that he did to G'Kar.  I don't think either of them were brainwashed, merely influenced.
"War Without End" Parts 1 and 2, Episodes 16 and 17.  We see Babylon Squared from the other side.  "The One" was definitely retconned in this episode, but it still works.
"Walkabout" - I was real close to skipping this one.  I really don't care about Franklin's walkabout.  I fast forwarded through those parts and watched all the non-walkabout story bits.  At this point I am anxiously trying to get to the season finale, but I'm also trying not to rush through what might otherwise be good episodes.
"Grey 17 Is Missing" - Another one where I watched bits and pieces while fast forwarding through all the missing Grey 17 nonsense.  Not even Freddy Krueger could make the Grey 17 bits good.
"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" - Season 3, episode 20.  Z minus 14.  There was no way I was skipping this one.  I didn't even need to read the recap to know what was going to happen.  "Leave the face and head intact.  It will be needed later for identification."
"Shadow Dancing" - Season 3, episode 21.  Z minus 7.  The war heats up.
"Z'ha'dum" - Season 3 finale.  "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." Turns out Kosh was telling the truth.