Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-31 (Saturday)

On 6/1/2025 11:16 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S3E15 'Subject 13'
 IMDb sez: "This follow-up to last season's "Peter" flashback episode revisits a poignant period of time for both the Bishops and Olivia. "
A 1985 episode so everyone but Mr. Noble got a vacation.  :)
 Plot Holes: Given the way that they all are supposed to have interacted as shown in this episode, it becomes questionable as to how none of Walter, Peter and Olivia have any recollection of each other when they meet in the pilot episode - Walter is perhaps forgivable due to his memory loss, but Olivia should have recognised at least the names of Walter and Peter, and Peter should have known Olivia.
 

I don't remember this specific episode, but on the surface that doesn't strike me as odd.  I have a pretty good memory of most of my teachers, I can even remember a lot of their names.  But if I encountered one of them today and they were the same age now as they were 20 or 30 years ago, it would never cross my mind they were the same person.  I say teachers, because those are people I saw daily for years.  For someone I met for only a few days, I probably wouldn't even remember what they looked like.  It would also never occur to me to say to someone your name is Peter, why 25 yeas ago I met someone else named Peter.  Even if there was some slight resemblance, I still wouldn't expect them to ever mention it.
But I'm assuming they didn't identify themselves as being from the future and working with them in the future.  That's a whole other story if that's the case.

   What Did You Watch?
 

Doctor Who (Disney+) "The Reality War" - The sense shattering season finale! MILD SPOILERS!!!!!!
The episode picks up where the last episode ended with the doctor falling to his death.  But at the last minute a door opens and The Doctor is rescued by Anita from the Time Hotel.  With Anita's help The Doctor is able to return to UNIT where the Doctor then helps everyone at UNIT snap back to normal.  Once The Rani realizes the Doctor survived and UNIT is back she launches an attack against UNIT.  When the Rani first gave orders to attack UNIT my first thought was UNIT *has* to have some ability to fight back, then sure enough Kate Lethbridge-Stewart gave the order to activate battle mode, and it was UNIT head quarters vs. 4 giant monsters.  At this point a huge smile came on my face, and I just turned my brain off to enjoy the ride.  I enjoyed seeing the old companions at UNIT as well as certain other cameos.  But where was Susan?!?!  They had this massive build up for her return, then nothing. Although I read online (so it must be true) that the ending (which I will not spoil even though spoilers are everywhere) was reshot and the original ending would have addressed a couple of lose threads.  And apparently the original set up for next season was going to be totally different pre-reshoots. Anyway, the ending we did get was a wild and unexpected and emotional at times ride.  Overall, I really liked it, but they seriously need to address the Susan situation.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (4K disc) 1997 sequel.  Pretty much pure background noise.  Apparently the plot involved a T-Rex that piloted a boat to San Diego then once it approached the dock went below deck and closed the door behind itself.  I really wasn't paying attention, so I can't say for sure.  But that appears to be what happened.
Jurassic Park III (4K disc) 2001 sequel.  More background noise with the special effects team commentary.
Jurassic World (4K disc) 2015 sequel which swaps out the original cast for Bryce Dallas Howard as the operations manager for the now fully armed and operational battle station, I mean theme park full of killer dinosaurs.  And Star Lord as Rex Dangervest, or maybe it was Rex Dangervest as Star Lord?  I don't know.  He wears a vest and rides a motorcycle with Velociraptor's running along side him.  There is a scene in this movie where a velociraptor is on the back of T-Rex, teamed up to do battle against another dinosaur.  I'm pretty sure any movie with a velociraptor on the back of a T-rex is legally considered entertaining. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride!
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (3D blu-ray) - This felt like a rehash of "The Lost World" and I wasn't giving it my full attention.  And the fact I was watching it in 3D, and still not paying any attention is just how boring and much a rehash it was.
Jurassic World Dominion (4K disc) 2022 sequel.  By this point I was pretty much dinosaured out and ready to call it quits.  But it was still very early in the day and literally nothing else on to watch, so I powered through and wrapped things up.  This one unites the cast of the original trilogy with the cast of the new trilogy.  I'm not entirely sure what the plot was for this one, but it had something to do with giant locusts eating crops.  And I guess maybe there were some dinosaurs in this one too.  Still, it was better than "Fallen Kingdom," if for nothing else the way the original cast looks on at the new cast in shock and horror, "You named the dinosaur?"