Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-10 (Saturday)

On 5/11/2025 10:21 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S2E02 'Night of Desirable Objects'.  Olivia suffers side effects from her recent trip while people are disappearing as though swallowed up by the ground.
 The glyphs in this episode spell "mirror".
 Sheriff Golightly: Have you run across something like this before?
Dr. Walter Bishop: [eagerly] Absolutely not. The air here is quite auspicious!
[breathes deeply]
Dr. Walter Bishop: Makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
Sheriff Golightly: [perplexed] The air?
Dr. Walter Bishop: [evidence bag] This! It's a fresh mystery, pregnant with possibilities.
Dr. Walter Bishop: [giddy] Who knows where it may lead?
[chuckles]
 Dr. Walter Bishop: We're all mutants. What's more remarkable is how many of us appear to be normal.
 Trivia: Just before re-creating Olivia's car accident, Walter calls Astrid by her actual first name.

Sounds like someone got part of his brain back.

The farm house visible in this episode is the same as used in X Files Home (season 4 episode 2).
The farmhouse used in this episode is the home of Ron Pergman in the Big Sky Season 1 series.
 Something I'm noticing about in the IMDb trivia and goofs for 'Fringe' are that a lot of the entries are about "geographical errors".  This building isn't in that city, this city isn't located there, etc.  And I keep thinking "Not in our universe they aren't but this show isn't in our universe!"
  Fringe S2E03 'Fracture'.  Someone is turning others into crystalline bombs.  Making a watermelon explode excites Walter enough he calls Astrid by her correct name.  Which upsets her because she has to clean up the watermelon splatter.  The first hint that the Observers may want to do more than Observe.
 The glyphs spell "burial".
 [to Walter]
Peter Bishop: So apart from the obvious, anything out of the ordinary?
  Fringe S2E04 'Momentum Deferred'.  IMDb sez: "Walter analyzes the body of a shapeshifter and then reconnects with an old patient that has the ability to distinguish the people from the other world. Olivia finally recalls her encounter with Belly."
 The glyphs say "Memory".
 After Dr. Bishop talks Olivia into drinking a bunch of pureed flatworms Astrid answers the phone with "Bishop's Deli".
 Dr. William Bell: Physics is a bitch.
 Dr. Walter Bishop: Let's see how this thing operates.
Astrid Farnsworth: What are you saying, that this is not a person?
Dr. Walter Bishop: My dear, I'm not certain that you're not simply a figment of my imagination.
 Plot Hole: Since the shapeshifters have so much mercury in their blood, a simpler method of detection (although not nearly as 'Fringe Worthy' ) would be to use a standard mercury sniffer. These are used for cleaning up mercury spills and can detect mercury well into the part per million range. One of these detectors would peg out near any shapeshifter.
 What Did You Watch?
 

This is a two day catch up.  I watched:
Found - "Missing While a Family" - Penultimate episode.  Team Found search for a kidnapped family, and now that I think about it, an entire family was kidnapped.  This would be national news, and the police would be all over that case.  Would they really need team Found, which supposedly specializes in finding the ignored individuals of the world that the police overlook?
911 - "Don't Drink the Water" - a methane link causes the city's water supply to turn flammable.
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (OnDemand) 1984 sequel to Breakin'.  I *would* have watched Breakin' first but when I went to my DVR to find it all I found was a different movie called, "Breaking"  :-/  And "Breakin'" isn't available to stream for free.  :-/  Anyway, in what must have been the most original plot ever made for a movie, a group of teenagers who like to listen to music and dance come together to keep their community center from being shut down by an evil corporation that wants to bull doze it and build a mall.  Wasn't that also the plot for Step up 4 or 5?  And in a scene ripped straight out of Step up 3 (or maybe it's the other way around) the good dancers are forced by the evil dancers to engage in a dance off.
Step Up (blu-ray) 2006 movie starring Channing Tatum as a juvenile delinquent who is caught vandalizing a snooty school for performance arts and gets court ordered community service to work as a janitor there.  While mopping the floors he notices one of the students, (Jenna Dewan) needs a temporary dance partner.  It just so happens Magic Mike knows how to dance so he agrees to help her practice.  Of course, the two fall in love with each other which causes its own issues because she a privileged girl with money and he's a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks.  I have some issues with this so-called Step Up movie. Where was Moose?  Where were all the other characters that popped up in every other Step Up movie?  No 3D?  Not even an evil dance group to force them into a dance fight.  This is *not* a real Step Up movie!
Step Up 2: The Streets (FXM) 2008 sequel starring Briana Evigan as a street dancer, who just happens to be friends with Channing Tatum's character from the first movie (Tatum makes a cameo appearance).  Like Tatum, Evigan is an orphan from The Streets, but to keep out of trouble she starts attending the same snooty school from the first movie, where she meets "Moose" (Adam G. Sevani).  Her street crew learns that she wants to get an education and do something with her life so they kick her out of the crew.  She then forms a new crew made up of Moose and the kids from the snooty school.  And they enter a competition to rule the streets.  Whose going to win?  The rich kids from the snooty school or the poor kids who are actually from the streets, who probably need the money?  All I'm going to say is tough luck for the street kids.  Moose and those rich kids are going to teach them how it's *really* done in the streets.
Step Up 3D (3D blu-ray) Moose (Adam G. Sevani) and his best friend Camille  (Alyson Stoner who was in the first Step Up movie, but not in part 2) go off to college.  Moose is quickly recruited by a good dance crew to help battle an evil dance crew.  The evil dance crew is working with a bank to take the warehouse where the good dance crew lives and dances.  But this is the big league now, meaning Moose will have to do battle against evil dance crews which will dance in front of him.  Yes, dance in front of him!  Is there anything more diabolically evil than that?  The only thing Moose can do is try and out dance them to escape. And on top of that Luke, the leader of the good dance group learns that his girlfriend (Sharni Vinson) is secretly working for the evil dance group.  In some dance movies you have the good dancers trying to defeat the evil dancers in a competition.  And in some of these movies you have the evil bank trying to foreclose on where the good dancers dance at. But in this movie the evil dancers teamed up with the evil bank to work together to defeat our plucky group of dancers.  But, when all hope is lost and it appears as if the evil bank will take the place where they live and dance, the original dance crew from Step Up 2, steps up and teams up with the good dance crew from Step Up 3 to save the day by forming the ultimate dance crew.  In 3D!