Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday)

On 5/2/2025 11:11 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/28/2025 7:52 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 4/28/2025 5:23 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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What did you watch?
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Fringe S1E07 'In Which We Meet Mr. Jones'.  An agent has a cyborg worm
wrapped around his heart.  Mr. Jones will be back.  The glyphs spell
"codes".
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Phillip Broyles: I'm hoping you can help. The man lying in that room is
not just a colleague. He's a friend.
Dr. Walter Bishop: I see. Do you have any mints?
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Fringe S1E08 'The Equation'.  A musical child prodigy is kidnapped and
Walter has to visit a friend in the asylum to help find him.  While he's
there, Walter meets himself.  Blue and Red become important.  The glyphs
spell "taken".
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During the original airing, how did people know what the glyphs spelled?
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Then since that was another disc of episodes done, I watched the various
disc extras.
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What Did You Watch?
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I watched
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Ant-Man (4K disc) 2015 movie set in the MCU.  The screenplay was
co-written by Edgar Wright, who was also supposed to direct, but he was
replaced by Peyton Reed, who would go on to direct all the movies.  Paul
Rudd (who also co-wrote the screenplay this one and the sequel) stars as
Scott Lang, a small time criminal who gets out of jail and finds himself
manipulated by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man into
becoming the new Ant-Man so he can team up with Pym's daughter Hope
(Evangeline Lilly) to prevent Corey Stoll from using Pym's shrinking
technology.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp (4K disc) 2018 sequel which picks up after the
events of "Captain America: Civil War" to find Ant-Man under house
arrest.  But thanks to the events of the first movie Scott now has a
link with Hank Pym's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is trapped in the
Quantum Realm.  Hank and Hope guilt Scott into breaking his house arrest
to help them rescue Hope, but first they have to get pass a phase
shifting villain (or maybe antihero) named Ghost.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (4K disc) 2023 sequel which picks up
after the events of "Avengers: Endgame."  Scott is now a minor
celebrity, and thanks to the "blip" his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn
Newton) is now a teenager.  Cassie decides to secretly investigate the
quantum realm where Hope lived.  Let's just ignore the fact Hope was
there for three decades and apparently no one asked her any questions
about how she survived!  Anyway, Cassie sends a signal which allows Kang
the Conqueror to kidnap them and bring them into the Quantum Realm.
This one is probably the best of the three, but it has one major problem
in that it is pretty obvious that there's *no* way Ant-Man defeats Kang!

 If Falcon America can beat the Hulk…
 

But did he really?

 

  That's just not happening!  On the commentary they talked a lot about
Johnathan Majors and setting him up to be the main villain of the
franchise going forward.
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I suspect in "Doomsday" they will bring Majors back just to kill him
off, but I hope it's an epic battle and not just Doctor Doom ripping his
spine out in the first 5 minutes.

 Whatever happened to the days when Dr. doom and Kang were the same person?
And simultaneously each others, ancestor and descendent?
 

I didn't know that.  I only know the characters from the movies and any animated appearances in the 80s and 90s.  I only heard that Kang was a descendant of Reed Richards.

Robert Downey Jr. as Kang. Now I could’ve gotten behind that.
 

Watson - "The Dark Day Deduction" - Teem Watson help a vet with past
ties to Watson.  This was mostly background noise.
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 But at least you got to see the end
 

Can't you get it through OnDemand?
That reminds me, I need to stream Law and Order: Organized Crime.