Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday)

On 5/11/2024 2:33 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On Friday pay day(!), after getting some work done (but not enough!!), I
resolved to make yesterday a "movie day" when I got home, so I basically
did.
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What did you watch?!

  Hey, thanks for asking!
 BLUE BLOODS.
Erin goes out of her way to set a criminal free but all she manages to do
is get him killed. At least she acknowledges this.
 Eddie is an idiot in both her storylines and does all kinds of stuff a beat
cop would never do.  She manages to make everybody concerned’s life worse,
but at least they come out of it alive.
 Sean, who has inflated to three times his original volume, has a really
weird storyline where he gets mugged that seems to be headed for he was
part of the set up or hiding something, but it didn’t. Instead, it turns
out that the head of campus security, a former cop, was heavily vetting
students who would be carrying valuable stuff and getting various other
students to mug them. Now this guy must be the worst person ever at his job
because if he’s heavily vetting students, why the hell would he set the
dogs loose on the grandson of the New York police commissioner and the son
of the police force’s most violent detective?  And how much can his laptop
be worth anyway? And you’re gonna have different people mug targets in the
same location every night of the week?
 Joe and Jamie beat the snot out of each other because they genuinely don’t
like each other. I’m rooting for Joe. Baker gives them disapproving looks.
Frank settles on a punishment and then Eddie talks him out of it. When
you’re listening to Eddie‘s advice, you know it’s time to retire.
 Henry has dinner. Baez has a walk on.
 Next week, the senses shattering season finale!
  DARK MATTER episode one
I keep waiting for J. Jonah Jamison to show up and try to sell me
insurance. At least it’s dark and dreary and confusing.
  DOCTOR WHOM
OK, here’s the shocker of the month. This wasn’t horrible at all. It was
way better than the Christmas special.
The initial set up with explaining everything to the new companion was well
done although it seems they’ve done a reset on history. The space babies
Adventure itself wasn’t as good but it was still enjoyable. The second
episode was just dumb. And there were a lot of points of big stupid that
left you saying “why? and wouldn’t you do this instead?“
 

I liked the "Butterfly effect" joke at the start.  Otherwise the space babies was a weak episode.
I liked "The Devil's Chord" a lot.  Well, mostly a lot.  I loved when they broke the 4th wall at the start and played the show theme on the piano.  I loved the mention of Susan.  More than a mention, they actually talked a bit about her.  I've been reading online comments about the show and it's been pointed there were multiple 4th wall breaks in the episode.  I only caught some of them.  It's also been pointed out that there has been a reoccurring character of an old woman who has shown up in every episode now.  I have not noticed her at all.  But I saw a link with pictures of her in each episode.  Speculation is the old woman might be Susan and Susan is Ruby's mother.  Every time there's a mysterious female character everyone jumps to it must be Susan.  But this time, I think they might be right.  Especially since the Doctor went out of his way to mention her.