Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday)

On 4/28/2025 7:52 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 4/28/2025 5:23 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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What did you watch?
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Fringe S1E07 'In Which We Meet Mr. Jones'.  An agent has a cyborg worm wrapped around his heart.  Mr. Jones will be back.  The glyphs spell "codes".
 Phillip Broyles: I'm hoping you can help. The man lying in that room is not just a colleague. He's a friend.
Dr. Walter Bishop: I see. Do you have any mints?
  Fringe S1E08 'The Equation'.  A musical child prodigy is kidnapped and Walter has to visit a friend in the asylum to help find him.  While he's there, Walter meets himself.  Blue and Red become important.  The glyphs spell "taken".
 

During the original airing, how did people know what the glyphs spelled?

 Then since that was another disc of episodes done, I watched the various disc extras.
 What Did You Watch?
 

I watched
Ant-Man (4K disc) 2015 movie set in the MCU.  The screenplay was co-written by Edgar Wright, who was also supposed to direct, but he was replaced by Peyton Reed, who would go on to direct all the movies.  Paul Rudd (who also co-wrote the screenplay this one and the sequel) stars as Scott Lang, a small time criminal who gets out of jail and finds himself manipulated by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man into becoming the new Ant-Man so he can team up with Pym's daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) to prevent Corey Stoll from using Pym's shrinking technology.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (4K disc) 2018 sequel which picks up after the events of "Captain America: Civil War" to find Ant-Man under house arrest.  But thanks to the events of the first movie Scott now has a link with Hank Pym's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is trapped in the Quantum Realm.  Hank and Hope guilt Scott into breaking his house arrest to help them rescue Hope, but first they have to get pass a phase shifting villain (or maybe antihero) named Ghost.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (4K disc) 2023 sequel which picks up after the events of "Avengers: Endgame."  Scott is now a minor celebrity, and thanks to the "blip" his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton) is now a teenager.  Cassie decides to secretly investigate the quantum realm where Hope lived.  Let's just ignore the fact Hope was there for three decades and apparently no one asked her any questions about how she survived!  Anyway, Cassie sends a signal which allows Kang the Conqueror to kidnap them and bring them into the Quantum Realm. This one is probably the best of the three, but it has one major problem in that it is pretty obvious that there's *no* way Ant-Man defeats Kang! That's just not happening!  On the commentary they talked a lot about Johnathan Majors and setting him up to be the main villain of the franchise going forward.
I suspect in "Doomsday" they will bring Majors back just to kill him off, but I hope it's an epic battle and not just Doctor Doom ripping his spine out in the first 5 minutes.
Watson - "The Dark Day Deduction" - Teem Watson help a vet with past ties to Watson.  This was mostly background noise.
The Equalizer - "Acceptance" - I have some major issues with episode. The episode opens with the police hearing gun shots and then arresting a man they found near a dead body.  The man is screaming he's innocent, and later it is revealed there is no footage of the shooting, and the man has no gunshot residue on him, so he's released.  But the man's *defense attorney* goes to his brother, who is a police detective and friends with the Equalizer to complain that he thinks his client is actually guilty, and if it's revealed his client is guilty it will hurt his reputation.  In what universe is a defense attorney's reputation hurt because a man he briefly represented turns out to be a criminal? There wasn't even a trial, since there was zero evidence of the man's guilt, they let him go.  How is this the defense attorney's fault?  He would have been released regardless.  And another are you kidding me moment came when the Equalizer shoots a man in front of a room full of people, including a police captain, and is then allowed to just walk away.  Even if it's a clean shooting, do you really just get to leave? They don't even know what her name is.  I'm pretty sure the news media who was there covering the event is going to take notice and ask questions about the unnamed woman who shot a man then was allowed to just walk away.
Doctor Who (Disney+) - "The Well" - I forgot to mention I watched this the other day.  The Doctor is still trying to figure out a way to return Belinda home, but she seems to be warming up to their travels together. They make their way to 500,000 years in the future whey they join a team of soldiers investigating why they lost contact with a colony.  Yeah, they ripped off "Aliens."  But it was a good episode, and a sequel to an earlier episode.