Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-09 (Wednesday)

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:18:16 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/10/2025 7:27 AM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:11:14 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 4/10/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Just soaps:
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soaps: Both Tue's ep's.
    DOOL - Doug III goads him, and so Tate slugs him (Doug deserved so
much worse than that!) just as dumb Holly walks in, and so she whines
about it to Tate who just leaves. Tate and NuSophia try to convince
Sophia's awful mom to restart the adoption talks with Chanel and Johnny
after EJ has been shot. Belle is all verklempt after Brady tells her
that EVOL! EJ has been shot. (Nu)Kristen and NuGabi effectively accuse
each other of shooting EJ.
    GH - Ava railroads Ric into not having Kristina arrested but instead
planning to blackmail Alexis for money to keep quiet about it. (It's
fanciful that the cops aren't involved in this when people at the crash
scene clearly indicated the brakes had be cut - the cops would certainly
look into this!!) Kristina is already ready to crack and confess, and
pathetic Lucky tells her to go to her mother Alexis admit the truth.
Alexis interviews the new guy (who turned out to be Natalia and
Sidwell's son), and is all happy that her daughters have reconciled...
until Ava shows up! Olivia sandbags Brook Lynn by bringing Lois back to
town; Chase tells Brook Lynn that she has to bury the hatchet with her
mom or confess publicly the truth. NuNuLulu confesses to Cody that she
duped him, which Dante overhears, and she and Dante argue about Dante
never telling Lulu about his teenaged affair with Brook Lynn; at the
end, Cody is outraged at Lulu.
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What did you watch?
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I finished up THE BONDSMAN season 1. I say season 1 as that ending was
the perfect setup for a season 2,

I'll stop reading there.

There were no spoilers to be found in the rest of that.

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Oh I also watched SURVIVOR

I have this saved for later.

This on the other hand did have spoilers.. Not details but yeah,
enough to figure out what is going to happen.

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What did you watch?

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Hollywood Demons (HBOMax) - "Dark Side of the Power Rangers" - Episode 3
of this documentary series.  This episode is the reason I even took
notice of this series, it focused on "The Power Rangers."  I was a
little older when the show came out, but still enjoyed watching it as a
teenager.  I've only ever heard horror stories from the cast about
making this show, and this documentary was no different.  I had
forgotten they shot the pilot with a different "Yellow Ranger."  They
interviewed her about the pilot.  She said they were in the middle of
some dessert in heat when one of the stuntmen in a rubber swimsuit had
heat stroke.  She said the guy was on the ground flopping around and she
insisted they stop filming and get the guy an ambulance.  But the
producers refused to stop filming and offered $100 for anyone to take
off the costume and put it on so they could keep filming, and someone
took the $100, took the costume off the man, and left the guy there
still shaking, but now in the his socks and underwear, and they kept
filming.

Sheesh, sounds like the producers should have been arrested for that.
They didn't even need to stop filming to get the guy proper medical
attention.

And that's not even close to the most shocking story they told in the
documentary.  There were so many shady things happened on that show.
Giving them contracts to sign, but telling them they had to sing almost

Sing for their supper. :)  

immediately with no time to let an agent review it first.  The terms of
the contracts had the actors working for almost nothing while signing
away their likeness.  Keep in mind, Power Rangers is a mutlibillion
dollar franchise.  They were putting the actors faces on products,
selling the products, and not giving the actors any of the money. 

Though the problem is how many other actors did they have lined up if
someone demanded to get paid for the use of their likeness. Which is
always a problem if there aren't legal protections in place.

It
was a non union show which had its' own list of horrors they put the
actors through.  One of the actors said Disney bought the show, then it
went union and suddenly they cared if they got hurt or not and they
brought in stuntmen to the dangerous scenes.
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Then there were all the deaths, suicides, murder.  The murder they
talked about could be it's own documentary.  A lot of this fans of the
show will already know about, but it was still an interesting watch and
had several things I wasn't already aware of, in particular details
surrounding the suicide of Jason David Frank, who was the most popular
ranger.