Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-29 (Wednesday)

On 1/30/2025 8:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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

What did you watch?

 In my new position at my (main) job, I am doing a lot more little stuff (e.g. sending Emails) then I used to, and yesterday just doing that stuff ended up taking most of the whole day. So all I got through yesterday was a couple of soaps:
 

Reading and sending emails takes a *lot* of time. A lot more than people can realize.

soaps: DOOL - Tue's ep. Mostly silly ep. The gals (all 6 of them!) throw Jada a bachelorette party, and there were even fewer dudes for FauxRafe's bachelor party. FauxRafe acts like an idiot (completely out of character for RealRafe!) even getting into a fight with Patch! Paulina drags Chanel to Jada's bachelorette party, and Chanel drags the proceedings down by trashing on Johnny, and men in general. FauxRafe sleeps with the stripper (hooker?) at the end! A drunk Belle is going to sexually ravish EJ, after just admitting to the bachelorette party that EJ was her "worst hookup"!!
    GH - Wed's ep. Valentin nearly kills Jack Brennan, but Carly shows up at the last second to conk out Valentin and revive Brennan; Valentin escapes - then Carly and Jack Brennan "do it"! (the dude was almost just strangled to death! how can he be up for sex?!!). Portia informs police commish Anna that Sam and Dex were murdered. Dante bickers with NuNuLulu, and then Anna comes up to them to inform them that Sam was murdered. Olivia and Lois drag Tracy to the nail salon where they run across Martin Gray, and Martin tears into Tracy for generally being an awful person. Jason confronts Sasha about Michael being the father of her baby, and after first denying it, she swears Michael to secrecy as she doesn't want either Willow or the Quartermaines discovering her baby's paternity. Chase tells Brook Lynn that he's sterile; then Brook Lynn cries on Lois' shoulder about the news. There was nonsense with the unlikeable Emma, and Gio - they are really hinting hard now that Gio is Brook Lynn's (and Dante's) put-up-for-adoption son from years ago.
 And that was it. Otherwise I did work, or listened to music.
 What did you watch?
 

I binged my Babylon 5 blu-rays.
Babylon 5 - "Mind War" - Season 1, episode 6 - I am working off of a couple different "best of" lists.  This episode wasn't on them, but it's the first episode to introduce "Bester" (Walter Koenig) so I added it myself.  I have a feeling I'm going to be adding a lot of episodes as I go.  The problem with working off of "best of" lists are all the episodes I remember, that aren't on the list.
"And the Sky Full of Stars" - Season 1, episode 8 - Sinclair is kidnapped and placed in a virtual interrogation room to find out why he has a hole in his mind.  Looks like the Minbari mind wiped him.  But why?  And why do they want him dead if he remembers?
"Signs and Portents" - Season 1, episode 13.  Mr. Morden just showed up at the station.  Things are about to get interesting!  Mr. Morden asks each ambassador what they want.  Londo says he wants the glory of his planet restored.  He should be careful what he asks for, because he just might get it.
A Voice in the Wilderness - Season 1, episodes 18 and 19.   Two part episode where everyone learns the uninhabited planet the station orbits is actually inhabited.  Where was Zathras?
Babylon Squared - Sense shattering episode where we learn Babylon 4 was stolen through time to fight in a great war.  Hey, there's Zathras!
"Chrysalis" - Season 1, episode 22.  The season 1 finale - A lot happens in this one from Mr. Morden doing a favor for Londo, to Garibaldi getting shot in the back, to Delen entering a cocoon, to the President of Earth being assassinated.
"Points of Departure" - Season 2, episode 1.  Sinclair leaves the show and is replaced by a Scarecrow.
So far the show is holding up great.  I had *no* intention of binging this many episodes.  In my mind season 1 was just monster of the week episodes, so I was surprised by how quickly they got into the Shadow backstory.  And once they got going I was totally drawn in.  There were a couple of monster of the week episodes I skipped that I'm now regretting skipping. I'll probably wrap back around to them once I finish the main watch of the series.