Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-22 (Thursday)

On 5/23/2025 7:27 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S2E21 'Northwest Passage'.
 Peter finds Newton in Twin Peaks while running away from home.
 The glyphs in this episode spell "Return".
 Dr. Walter Bishop: The hadron super collider is less complicated than that infernal dishwater.
 

LOL

On Peter's Sat Nav it shows that he is in Snoqualmie, Washington. This is one of the filming locations of Twin Peaks to which this episode bears several similarities.
   What Did You Watch?
 

I watched:
Family Guy - Another episode or two as I continue to make my way through my backlog.
Welcome to Wrehxam - "Disney FC" - Season 4, episode 3.  They are still desperately trying to portray this team as the underdog when they are anything but the underdog.
Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock) - "Beautiful Disaster" - Almost the entire cast was missing from this episode.  If they explained why they were all gone, I missed it.  But Stabler teams up with a federal unit to track some local terrorist using technology to kill people.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (theatrical) - This is part 2 of the last movie, which ended not so much on a cliffhanger, as it just sort of stopped.  This one picks up 2 months later with Ethan (Tom Cruise) and his team still on the run.  And the evil AI (AKA Skynet) is plotting the downfall of humanity.  This movie felt like 50% Mission Impossible film, and the rest were made up of bits from "The Hunt for Red October," "The Abyss," "Fail Safe," "War Games," and maybe a little "Dr. Strangelove" too.  I mean, fighting in the war room *would* be a "Dr. Strangelove" reference, right?  It was definitely derivative, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.  It was certainly nice to look at. The submarine/underwater sequences probably took up at least 1/3 of the movie, but they ripped off the best, so it was good.  The stunt sequences with the two biplanes was worth the price of admission alone! Whoever did those stunts, deserve every penny they were paid and whoever filmed them doing those stunts deserve every penny too!  My only issue is, while clocking in at just under 3 hours, the movie felt rushed.  The editing was weird and I'm 100% positive there is at least a half hour of movie they cut for run time purposes but the result left the film disjointed at times, which lots of flashbacks for exposition because they obviously cut those in context scenes from the movie.  There was also a character who appears in this movie that put a massive smile on my face.  When they first appeared on screen I instantly recognized them and their significance.  I think I heard a couple of other audible gasps from the audience from others who similarly recognized the character. And that would have been perfect as is, but they went out of their way to explain who the character was, multiple times. Don't explain!  Either you *know* who it is or you don't and leave at that!