Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-08 (Wednesday)

On 5/9/2024 5:49 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

My last "official" long workday until Fall. So I didn't get through much:
 soaps: DOOL - [roll] Every few years, DOOL does the same thing with its "teen scene" - they first introduce two main character teens, then soon after they will add a couple of mostly minor "recurring" teen characters as the main characters' besties. (So, no more than 4 teens total!) Wackiness ensues. Well, we're getting same thing now with Holly and NuTate - first they introduced Holly's bestie, who's hot for Tate. And in this episode, they introduce Tate's bestie. Of course, in a massive contrivance, Holly and Tate will now be taking the opposite's bestie to the Prom, rather than going together. [roll]
    Meanwhile, Sloan tells Melinda Trask about having to tell EJ the truth about the baby's paternity after drunken Leo tipped off EJ in the previous epie. EJ frantically tries to confirm the baby's paternity (with an off-screen Dr. Rolf!) - have they just forgotten about the DNA paternity test results that EJ shoved in the DiMera safe months ago?! Ava successfully holds off Clyde's demands for the ledger, claiming she still hasn't found it yet - but Clyde seems to have outsmarted Harris and Ava, potentially foiling their plans to capture him.
 It's Family Week on Wheel of Fortune, and the families in yesterday's Wheel ep were particularly annoying.
 Once again, I put "Chicago Med" on in the background, but paid it almost no attention.
 Chicago Fire - This was a dumb episode, that seemed like it belonged much more on Chicago P.D. than on Chicago Fire. (Heck! They didn't even fight a fire in the epie!!)
    Severide sees armed men enter the firehouse. They come in to steal a fire truck, but Severide sneaks aboard the truck before the men drive it off. They drive the truck to Indiana, and then change the truck's external decals so it looks like an Indiana fire truck. Of course, these guys are a bunch of EVOL!!1! white supremacist terrorist types, and not the much more likely terrorist types. Severide figures out a way to clandestinely contact the firehouse, alerting Cruz and the others. Somehow the cops - and these cops aren't even from the "P.D." show, and are instead a couple of randos, including Ritter's current boyfriend - and 51 figure out where the truck is and race to get to it. (Like the cops would ever let firefighters tag along on a clearly police matter like this!!) All the EVOL neo-nazi-type scum are taken down and Severide is rescued.
    Jocelyn Hudon was barely in this episode (it was said by Kidd and Violet that they did talk her into signing on with 51 full-time). Also, no Boden at all. And the new guy still has secrets, which causes the cops to suspect him of being an "inside-man" for the terrorists - but we still don't know the dude's secret yet!
  What did you watch?

This is a 2-day catch up.  I watched:
911 - "There Goes the Groom" - Chimney gets brain damage and starts to act weird and hallucinate.  Meh!
X-Men '97 - (Disney+) This time to avoid the twitter spoilers I started watching the episode first thing in the morning.  Then was promptly spoiled while scrolling through twitter!  I'm not following these people.  I'm not clicking on anything. It's just there, unavoidable spoiler clips from the episode.  :-/
Survivor - "My Messy, Sweet Little Friend" - This group of castaways is something else.  I love how Jeff has given up on them and is just sitting back and watching the train wreck.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (theatrical) - I caught an early screening of this.  I'm still processing it, but my gut reaction is "Wow!"  They knocked it out of the park with this one.  I reserve the right to change or adjust my opinion, but this may be the best one yet.
I'm going to try and recap without any spoilers.
Fourth in the Apes reboot franchise, this one picks up right at the end of the last movie then jumps ahead into the future where Apes rule the world and humans are seen as dumb beasts.  The story follows a young chimpanzee named Noa who is coming of age with his tribe.  He encounters a human who is "cleverer than most" that is being hunted by a rival group of apes.  These other apes are lead by Proimus Casar, who has taken on the name and plans to forcefully unite all the Apes under his rule.  I'll just leave it there.  This is a movie that may be best to go in knowing as little as possible about what's going to happen.
For fans of the Apes franchise there is much to love including many Easter eggs that only true fans would pick up on...
"Mama," "They are all called Nova."  And perhaps the best inside reference, "Fort Wayne Indiana."  This movie almost works as a far superior sequel to the 1968 movie.  With a few minor adjustments they could have turned this into a true sequel to the 1968 movie.  And that *might* be wear they are headed.  I think they have always been heading there, they just haven't got there yet...
There is a lot to digest with the last one, and I really, really, hope to see a sequel that picks up where this one left off.