Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-24 (Tuesday)

On 6/25/2025 5:48 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2025-06-25 08:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:
 

What did you watch?

 Nothing worth mentioning... except I stumbled upon some dubbed period piece. I think it co-starred Isabelle Adjani. I may or may not have involved werewolves(?). I think it may have been this?:
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15413662/reference/
 or this??
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/reference/
  

I watched:
Ironheart (Disney+) - The first three episodes dropped.  As far as I can tell this is the origin story for how Ironheart becomes a supervillain.
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In the first three episodes they introduce Riri Williams (Dominque Thorne) who when the show opens she is a student at MIT, except she's immediately expelled from school for selling projects to other students that they can pass off as their own. As security is escorting her off campus, she steals the Ironheart suit, which I'm guessing was made with MIT resources making it MIT property.  She then promptly turns to a life of crime by joining a criminal gang run by "The Hood" (Anthony Ramos) who has a magic cloak.
Within the first three episodes she willing joins a criminal gang. Helps them commit crimes.  Then in the last episode the Hood's brother catches her with a piece of the Hood's cloak that she secretly stole. The brother then tries to kill her, but thanks to her Ironheart suit, she gets away and leaves the brother to die.  Then to twist the knife a bit, The Hood asks Riri to locate his missing brother, which she agrees to do and reports back she found his lifeless corpse.  The episode ends with The Hood's cloak doing some dark magic stuff, and I couldn't tell if *maybe* the cloak was revealing to him that Riri was involved in his brother's death.
Overall, the show is off to an OK start.  I skipped over some details like the Ironheart suit's AI being Riri's dead best friend and another character played by Alden Ehrenreich who Riri blackmails into her. Which is another reason to think Riri is a budding super villain.  But it's only three episodes in.  Perhaps she will turn into a hero by the end.