Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-30 (Saturday) & 2024-12-01 (Sunday)

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 06:24:38 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

Did I forget to do one of these yesterday for Saturday?! It's quite
possible, as my brother came over early...
>
Anyway:
>
SATURDAY:
>
I believe I watched nothing but college football on Sat:
   Saw Michigan beat #2 ranked Ohio State, and then saw the appalling
fracas between both teams after the game was over (had something dumb to
do with "flag-planting") - I can't believe no one was suspended for
this: they ALL should have been suspended for this!
   Then saw Oregon beat up Washington pretty good. Not sure anyone is
beating #1 Oregon this year, though I guess if anyone can it's probably
Penn State.

I spent the longest day of the year watching the Georgia-GA Tech game.
I'm still not sure it isn't still going on. 8 Overtimes. That's 8
times for each team to score and win and yet it took all 8 before
Georgia finally managed to score AND stop Tech from scoring. That has
to be the longest college game I've ever watched.

I then went home from family gathering a little earlier Sat night - I
ended up coming home and going to bed early.
>
SUNDAY:
>
Yesterday, my brother came over and hung out until his afternoon flight.
We ended up going for a walk/hike locally, and then stopped by Home
Depot to pick up a new screen door 'cos he had rented a truck and I
needed something big to transport the screen door home!
>
Also mostly watched (NFL) football on Sunday:
>
In the morning game, the Chargers did end up beating the Altanta
Falcons, but it took them way too long to do it, and you have to wonder
if they would have won if Kirk Cousins hadn't thrown 4 interceptions for
Atlanta along the way! At least the Chargers are now 0.667, and are
cruising towards a Wild Card playoff berth.  :)

I'm hoping that one day Atlanta will have a good team but this isn't
that day.

   The afternoon game was the Eagles mostly manhandling while beating
up the poor Ravens.  :(
   In the evening game, the 49ers were murdered by both the Buffalo
Bills and by the lake-effect snow. And McCaffrey was (re-)injured to
boot! Suffice it to say, I don't see the 49ers making the playoffs this
year, even if they win the remaining 5 games in a row.  :(
>
At night, I put Hybrid Film's "Make or Bake Christmas" on Lifetime on in
the background while I did grading. It was some malarkey in which EVOL!!
TV cooking host(?) Vivica sends her cute but naive assistant (the cute
Jasmine Aivaliotis) to steal some (baking?) recipes from the owner (it's
Jackée!!) and her son (Landon Moss). Will Jasmine succeed in doing the
wrong thing?! - Is this a smarmy Christmas TV movie from Lifetime or
Hallmark?! What do you think!?!
   Like every other Hybrid film directed by David DeCoteau, this had
all the usual hallmarks(heh!) of other awkwardly direct Hybrid flicks!  :/
   This also had pretty much every supporting Hybrid Films actor in a
secondary role, including stalwarts Meredith Thomas and Jon Briddell.
>
>
What did you watch this holiday weekend?!

Only thing that I caught was EARTH ABIDES. First episode of a post
apocalyptic show where a pandemic wipes out almost everyone on the
planet. It starts with a geologist (I'm assuming) who goes out looking
for some special rocks. Only he gets bit by a rattlesnake and manages
to stumble back to his home before succumbing to the poison. He
apparently spends three weeks in bed dealing with the effects of the
poison.
Once he feels well enough he heads into town only to discover dead
bodies everywhere as apparently the disease kills quickly once it
hits. He then heads over to his parents only to discover they are dead
as well as everyone else. He decides to head out to see if he can find
other people.

For some reason his choice is Las Vegas where he finds it to be empty
of people until he finds a few people who are left alive. They fill
him in on what happened with the virus spreading so fast the
governments collapsed. As it turns out both the man and the woman have
lost their spouses and kids and are taking their time to enjoy
themselves in alcohol before taking their lives. They invite our guy
to join them but he decides it is best to head back to his parent's
place before they end their lives.

Then we see him getting books on survival and going about his daily
life. Until one day he looks across the bay (this is supposedly set in
Berkeley, California) and sees smoke coming from another home. End
scene.

What did you watch?