Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-04 (Tuesday)

On 2/5/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/5/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Just soaps before going to bed early:
 soaps: GH - Mon's ep. First let me say that I'm extremely disappointed to read in Deadline that Charles Measure (who plays Jack Brennan) is leaving GH - he is literally the best thing they've got going right now (though "Babe" as Lulu is turning out better than I would have expected) - and even worse, they're going to replace Measure with the guy who played Joey Buchanan on OLTL: IOW, they're going to replace an Aussie with a straight-up American! Puh-TEWIE!!... Anyway, not much happened in this ep. NuNuLulu talks about Sam with Dante. Alexis vents about Sam's murder to Sonny, and then Laura comes over to ask Alexis about Jenz Sidwell. Earlier Laura tells Lucky that Sidwell is in town, and Lizzie probes Lucky's real feelings about his captivity by Sidwell. Maxie pushes Sasha about the rumor that Jason is her fetus's father, but Sasha refuses to discuss the baby's father. Curtis talks to the football player about recovering from his injury.
    DOOL - Tue's ep. The "secret" stalker of the soap-within-a-soap sends fake scripts to all of the cast, and Johnny, Leo and Abe, and of course the sctipts all have some contact poison on them, so everybody falls ill (or dies?!). Stephanie quits being the soap's PR person, so she can be with Alex, and then tells Alex - Alex tells her that all of a sudden Joy wants to take things to the "next level", and he doesn't, so now Alex knows he needs to dump Joy. But then he gets sick! Chanel seems to reconcile with Johnny (she's a dummy!!), but then he gets sick!
 And that was it. I was tired in the evening yesterday, and just went to bed early.
 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - Still making my way through season 4. "Epiphanies" Garilbadi quits.  Meanwhile Bester shows up asking for help.  The whole relationship between B5, Earth, and Psychor/Bester is really murky, especially given B5 left Earth.  I guess best not to think about such things.
  "The Illusion of Truth" - I mostly fast forwarded through this one, stopping to watch the ISN news propaganda parts.  But those propaganda parts were about half the episode.  I was expecting a brief segment at the end and got wrapped up into watching it.  According to this episode the lunar colony foundation was laid in 2018.  I had no idea we already had a colony on the moon.
"Atonement" - This episode fills in Delen's backstory and involvement in the Earth Minbari war.  It's a little weird watching this episode now this far into the series after already seeing the backstory play out in the TV movie.  This episode isn't even on my watch list and was easily skippable, but I've pretty much thrown out the watch list at this point and I'm just watching them.  I'll have to try harder to skip the skippable ones.
"Racing Mars" - Franklin and Marcus smuggle themselves to Mars and learn thanks to the news embargo no one knows there was a Shadow war. Meanwhile Garabaldi has a falling out with Sheradan.  Speaking of Sheradan, he goes through some, let's say interesting, courting rituals with Delenn.  They mentioned Garibaldi's hair falling out.  I've been keeping an eye out for that and was surprised it lasted so long, then when it finally happened, I didn't notice.  Technically, he still has some hair on his head.
"Lines of Communication" Delenn confronts the Drakh who are shaping up to be the latest big bad.
"Conflicts of Interest" - Sheridan builds up his resistance forces and establishes a counter propaganda network.
"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" - By this point I was half asleep and just barely paying attention.  But when my eyes were open, I saw Delenn dealing with a civil war back home.