Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-04 (Sunday)

On 5/5/2025 5:40 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/5/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Thanks to a combination of factors, primarily my job promotion at the start of the year, I worked pretty much all day yesterday.

Not sure if that should be congratulations or condolences.
(I'm hoping

to get to a point where this becomes less necessary later on!) So all I got through yesterday was soaps, and golf:
 golf - Scottie Scheffler has apparently found his grove again, after being out of the winner's circle for a while. But he was the "post-to- post" leader at the Byron Nelson, and ending up winning by about 8 strokes! (That's right! - The next guy was 8 strokes back of Scheffler!) Meanwhile, Jordan Speith was third for much of the day, but finished in fourth place... Dunno what any of this will mean for the rest of the golf season - we will just have to see...
 soaps: Fri's ep's for both.
    DOOL - Nothing relevant happened. Except I wonder if they are setting this up for NuSophia to lose the baby (would probably be a welcome development at this point, as we would lose both NuSophia, who I don't care for compared to OldSophia, and her annoying Mom). Meanwhile, in an obvious red herring move, they want us to think that Johnny shot EJ (as if!).
    GH - This was more interesting. Brook Lynn tells a shaken Tracy about the baby she gave up for adoption; at the end, Tracy demands to know Brook Lynn's son's whereabouts from Lois. Dante challenges Lulu about her feud with Brook Lynn and her still being in love with him. Carly gets home and immediately looks up Nina to get the details and to continue to plot against Drew. After hospital tests confirm that Drew was drugged, dummy Willow seems to believe that Drew was set up; at the end, Willow catches Carly with Nina, and may have heard them plotting. At the college beach party, Josslyn and her handler manage to get the flash drive away from Emma, but Joss is unable to get the drive back in Emma's possession in time, which may mean Joss will be found out. And the teens, Danny and Rocco, crash the party, and I think Rocco drank so much, he got alcohol poisoning or something (which means Danny will be in massive trouble).
 And that was it. I recorded YA Lifetime movie for later, and worked the rest of the time.
 What did you watch?
 

I had some movies on as background noise and watched:
How to Train Your Dragon (blu-ray) 2010 animated movie about a group of Vikings that for generations have been hunting and killing dragons. Then one day a young misfit Viking named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) befriends a dragon and together they teach their sides to stop fighting. Gerad Butler voiced the father in this movie and reprises the role in the live action version.  I noticed a couple of scenes from the live action trailer are word for word from this movie.  Overall it was OK.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (blu-ray) 2014 sequel which picks up with the continuing adventures of Hiccup and his dragon.  I really wasn't paying attention as I doing other stuff, but this one seemed to be better than the first.
How to Train Your Dragon 3 (4k disc) 2019 sequel which once again has Hiccup and his dragon saving the day.  It was mostly background noise, I'd occasionally look up to catch the plot or a scene, and this was probably the best of the three.  After glimpsing how good 2 was, I kept meaning to pay closer attention to 3, but never did.  This is one of those series that I actually like the movies, but I'm never in the mood to watch.  This was my first time watching 3 since seeing it in the theater, and even then as I recall, I liked it a lot, I just never felt like watching it again.
Raya and the Last Dragon (4K disc) 2021 Disney animated movie set in a fantasy land where people and dragons used to live side by side until the dragons were all wiped out while saving humanity.  The same threat that wiped out the dragons and almost wiped out humanity returns to finish the job.  Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) goes on a quest to find The Last Dragon (which coincidentally has a glow) and save the world.  It was pretty good.
The Last of US (HBO) - "Day One" - I don't know why, but I'm still hanging in there.  So on this week's episode of the Walking Dead Ellie and her girlfriend make their way to Seattle.  There was also a much more interesting b-plot involving Jeffrey Wright as a soldier dealing with a group of religious extremists.