Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-24 (Wednesday)

On 4/25/2024 6:05 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/25/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 After a successful day of grading (and a lab practice session), I got home and wanted to watch:
 Fallout (Prime) - "The Past" (ep. #1.5). Maximus is back in this epie, but no Ghoul.
    Maximus unwisely tells his squire, Thaddeus, the truth of his identity, and Thaddeus reverts to true form by being a coward and freaking out - he basically tries to kill Maximus by locking Maximus in his depowered suit. (Hopefully, Maximus kills Thaddeus later!) Lucy comes across Maximus, and frees him from his suit, and in return Maximus gives Lucy radiation treatment (for the radioactive water she drank in the previous epie) - What is the science here? What is this magic serum that cures radioactivity?!!...

The same one that lets a "Ghoul" still be alive 200 years after a nuclear war?
(I know this is from a video game, but

you think they could do better than this!) Anyway, they together agree to hunt down Thaddeus to get the head back. Lucy asks Maximus about the 200 years since the bomb, but Maximus seems completely ignorant. We do find out that there was at least one attempt to restart civilization, with the "New California Republic", but its capital (in the LA area?!) was apparently bombed somehow - this is where Maximus lived as a boy. Towards the end, Maximus gets winged by some "Fiends", and needs medical attention, which Lucy attempts to acquire in an abandoned hospital, but instead she and Maximus end up in a vault!!
    Meanwhile in Vault 33/etc., Norm continues to investigate, and determines that every person who has been an overseer in both Vaults 33 and 32 has come from Vault 31. When Norm asks Stephanie what life was like in Vault 31, she gets all weird. Betty (Leslie Uggams - and, yes, she's from "Deadpool"!), who is also from Vault 31, is elected overseer, trouncing Woody and Reg by such a large margin that it seems suspicious. Betty then orders Vault 32 be repopulated, but Norm and Chet are astonished to see that all traces of the massacre have been "cleaned", in a very short amount of time.
 Then I watched:
 soaps: GH - Tues' ep. This was pretty much a "throwaway" ep., as it was entirely about Brook Lynn's and Chase's bachelorette and bachelor parties, respectively. (So no Carly, Sonny or Nina.) The only real developments were that Dex is getting the cold shoulder from almost everyone else in the Port Charles Police Dept, and a drunk Josslyn getting into another fight with NuKristina, and revealing to Kristina that Sonny ordered a hit on Cyrus.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Shogun - "Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream" - Season finale.  I was seriously underwhelmed and disappointed in the finale.  Nothing happened!  As a mid season filler episode, it works fine.  But as the wrap up for the season, what were they thinking?!?  The show would have been *much* better served if they used last week's episode as the finale and saved this one for the season 2 premier.
X-Men 97 (Disney+) - "Lifedeath – Part 2" and "Bright Eyes" - Once again twitter bullied me into catching up by throwing various spoiler videos on the net.  OK, they were good episodes with lots happening, but I don't like being forced to watch something for fear of spoilers.