Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-23 (Friday)

On 5/24/2025 7:49 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S2E22 'Over There: Part 1'.
 Olivia travels with Walter to have a word with Belly.
 The glyphs in this episode spell "Weapon".
 Senator Walter "Walternate" Bishop: They may look like us, but don't be fooled, Olivia. They are monsters in our skin.
 Alternate Universe episodes have red tinted intro. 1986 set episodes have a retro intro. Alternate timeline episodes have an amber tinted intro. Future episodes have a darker prison themed intro.
 When Peter regains consciousness in the room full of medical equipment, just as the "anesthesia" lights go out you hear three musical notes. They're from the chorus of a song by George M. Cohan, entitled "Over There".
 The US map on Walternate's wall is of the contiguous states only and much of the west coast south of the state of Oregon is missing, including all of western California. Clearly, in that universe the San Andreas fault had given way.
 A poster in the background of one scene in the alternate universe is advertising for an upcoming season 11 of The West Wing. In our universe, The West Wing ran for 7 seasons.
 As With many background details in the RED universe, the Windows logos shown in this episode are slightly different from those in this universe. The alternate logos most closely resemble the Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 2009 logos, but have extra elements: 'bubbles' in the upper right corner and faint streaks of white around the edges. This episode aired on May 20, 2010, when the most recently updated version of the Windows logo (in this universe) would have been for Windows 7.
 No one on the "other side" recognizes Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. There is now talk of replacing Jackson on that bill.
 Walternate's Office on Liberty Island has three colored squares on the wall - Blue, Red, and Amber. These are the same colors used to represent the three different universes in the open credits.
 First time introduction is the RED universe. They see a $20 bill and ask: "Who the hell is Jackson?" Additionally, RED Lincoln floats a Nixon silver dollar to test the "fringe anomaly".
 What Did You Watch?
 

I watched:
Family Guy - I watched one or two more episodes.  Only two left then I'm all caught up.
Lilo & Stitch (theatrical) Live action version of the 2002 Disney animated film.  This version is almost a scene for scene remake with two main changes.  The first is they got rid of the villain from the animated version, but they just took one of the existing characters from the animated version and gave him the *exact* same role, doing the exact same stuff.  The other non change (and actually an improvement) was in the animated version there was a landlord character, who for no reason I could figure out, just happens to be a government agent who knows about aliens.  That reveal comes out of nowhere and never made any sense to me.  That character is played by Courtney B. Vance in the live action movie, except this time around instead of being the landlord, he's a government agent who knows about aliens from the start.  One other minor, but noticeable difference is in the animated version, Lilo is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, and his music is played throughout the movie.   In the live action version, I don't know if they couldn't get the rights or what, but the Elvis music is toned way, way, down.  While in the original Elvis is playing in every other scene, this version has one, maybe two Elvis songs, and I think one of those two was a cover version.  Anyway, if you liked the animated version, the live action will get the job done.
Fountain of Youth (AppleTV+) A new completely original movie directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring John Kransinki as Noah Wyle, I mean an archeologist who Raids Tombs, although one segment of the movie takes place at a library, so maybe he's a Librarian?  Anyway, this Tomb Raider teams up with his extremely reluctant sister (Natalie Portman) to find the International Treasure known as the Fountain of Youth.  Kransinki needs Portman to help him solve the Da Vinci Code.  Sorry, I meant to say help him solve the Rembrandt Code.  So after cracking the Remrandt Code the Tomb Raiders find themselves in a Temple of Doom where they hope to locate The International Treasure.  That is if they can dodge the religious cult, you know sort of like the Opus Dei, but we won't call them that.  Perhaps Grail Knights?  No.  Let's just call them the Fountain of Youth Knights, that are trying to stop them.  The Ark, I mean Grail, I mean Fountain of Youth is after all a religious artifact from God that must be protected at all costs from falling into the wrong hands.  And even if they make it to end of their Crusade, they must still choose, but choose wisely.  I haven't watched a movie this original in a long time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF2UrYSDb3k