Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-21 (Thursday)

On 11/22/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

My short workday, and even though I had to run errands and such, I still got a movie in. So I watched:
soaps: Y&R - Tue's and Wed's ep's. Stupid Kyle is still reeling from Jack and Diane revealing their scheme to get Kyle away from Victor. Victor just apparently hands Glaucade(sp?) over to Diane, but I agree with Diane that this was too easy, and Victor's got something else up his sleeve... Daniel is furious when he finds out that the charges against him were dropped when Sharon confessed - Daniel goes to confront Sharon and Nick has to physically remove him. Sharon intends to take her lumps from the law. EVOL!!1! Ian Ward and "Aunt Jordan" continue to scheme against Sharon, et al. Sally basically tells Chelsea to shove it (righteous!). Billy tells Jack about Jill's betrayal.
    DOOL - Thur's ep. Insane Kristen bursts into Sarah's hospital room and demands that Sarah try to walk now that Sarah has been administered Rolf's serum, before Xander drags Kristen back out again. This prompts Sarah to try and walk, but she fails; however, later, Sarah feels something when it touches her leg... Holly and Tate discuss their situation, while Sophia commiserates with Tate's bestie. Ava lets Brady have it for Tate's treatment of Sophia, but they (proverbially!) "kiss and make up" which Kristen sees! Kristen they lays into Ava about it, but Ava's having none of it!
    GH - Thur's ep. Disappointingly no followup on Lulu, or the investigation into Sam's death... Alexis confronts Drew and Jason about the provision in Sam's will for who Sam wanted her kids to live with, but Alexis is disgusted with what happens, so I think all 3 parties are going to end up suing for custody. Michael talks with Sasha about the end of his marriage to serial-cheater Willow (I'm guessing Sasha and Michael will end up together?!...). Dante continues to mope in the wake of Sam's death, and moves out of Sam's place.
Alien: Romulus (Hulu) - Entertaining "Alien" franchise flick that is much more a throwback to the original "Alien" film than having much to do with "Prometheus"/"Covenant". That said, this film contains lots of throwbacks not only to "Alien", but somewhat to "Prometheus" as well.
    While this does take a while to get going, it does do some good "world building" along the way.
    Eventually it gets scary. But it does take way too long to kill off whom I most wanted to see dead!!
    I was disappointed that, after flirting with "the android is the hero this time!", they go back to "the android is EVOL! and working for the 'company'!!" (though later they walk that back too!).
    This definitely does feel like a "standalone" film, and I don't expect any followup with Cailee Spaeny's character.
What did you watch?