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What Did You Watch? 2020-06-28 (Sunday)
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Ubiquitous
2020-06-29 08:30:41 UTC
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I watched:

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN:
"The Unknown People". Clark and Lois investigate why the world's
deepest oil drill suddenly closed up. It turns out they hit a cavern of
sone sort and pulled up some radioactive materials, leading the owner
to think the Earth is hollow. Naturally, a couple hairy dwarves crawled
up the shaft to investigate, leading to all sorts of trouble. This ep
was actually the "Superman VS the Mole Men" movie, retitled for TV!

BATMAN:
"The Sport of Penguins/A Horse of Another Color". The Penguin is after a rare
book on parasols located at The Gotham Library. Luckily, Barbara Gordon, ex-
fiance of The Penguin and alias of Batgirl, happens to work at the library.
Meanwhile, Pengy seems to be making a bid at horse racing as well, in cahoots
with the beautiful Lola Lasagna

WONDER WOMAN:
"The Man Who Made Volcanos". We begin with a scientist testing his volcano
ray in some rocky desert. Hey, isn't that where the Gorn lives? After
creating a volcano in China, he hints at something more ominous to come
before the opening credits begin.

Steve meets Diana at LAX as she leaves, pretending to be reading a
newspaper. Diana sees him, then remembers she's sppsd to be acting like
she doesn't know him. Thanks to expositionary dialouge, we learn that
Steve got promoted while Diana was on a mission in the Philipines. He
tells her that scientists said the a volcano that recently erupted in
China was unexpected and she's to followup on the last agent who was
last seen getting his hotel room in Baja. Meanwhile, at a undisclosed
Chinese restaurant, a man arrives accompanied by ominous chinky-sounding
cheesy Chinese music. The Calgon Man, wearing a ridiculous Chinese costume,
muses over an ancient wooden printing block, then introduces his poorly-
disguised female coworker for the mission who then karate-chops the wood
block in half and calls her coworker a capitalst chauvenist. Back at the
airport, an oriental man tails Diana Prince as she boards a plane to Mexico,
quickly followed by the two Chinese agents. Once in Baja, Diana Prince drives
a dune buggy to what appears to be a ghost town. She stops at a hotel run by
Roger Davis and requests room seven, the room of the missing AIDC agent.
Diana snoops around her room while Roger Davis calls the scientist from a
secret radio in the basement, but he already knows she's there and orders her
to be eliminated. Outside, the two Chinese spies decided to spend the night
in their car watching Diana. Diana finds a note hidden under one of the
bedposts, which for some reason triggers an alarm in Roger Davis's office.
That makes no sense at all! Pat opens a trap door in her second floor room,
dumping Diana into one of those pit traps with with walls to crush whoever
is insde. Wait, whut?

When we return from commercial break, Diana twirls into Wonder Woman and
holds the walls at bay, then punches a hole through the wall to escape.
The mad scientist activates a volcano in the Soviet Union. Back at the
AIDC, Joe gives a report on the incident to Steve, telling him that
witnesses say they saw weird lights in area before the volcano erupted.
Wait, does Joe work for Steve now? I am so confused by this! That
morning, a pair of Soviet agents arrive au pied at the hotel in Baja
and, seeing the Chinese spies sleeping in car, comment on how soft they
are for not sleeping under the open sky on the ground. Diana Prince
leaves the hotel, followed by the Chinese and Soviet agents. Back at the
mad scientist's super secret base, he tells Roger Davis to get ready
to push the button. Diana follows her map to the base, located atop a steep
cliff and almost twirls into Wonder Woman when the Chinese agents arrive. The
female tries to subdue Diana in a karate catfight accompanied by more of that
dreadful chinky-sounding Chinese music but fails, so the guy stops the fight
by brandishing his gun. The Chinese think America is behind the volcano and
refuse to listen to Diana's side of the story while unseen by them, the
Soviet agents arrive on foot.

The scientist creates a volcano in America while forcing the lost agent to
watch. Wait, why wasnt he crushed to death in that pit trap Diana escaped?
The Chinese agents assume China got hit again, but realize the beam direction
is wrong, so they have no idea what happened. The Chinese agents and Diana
take a forced hike up montain with the Soviets in close pursuit. Diana does a
little Stockholm syndrome about them being conquered throughout history but
always defeating their conquerers. The agents decide to leave Diana behind
for some reason. After they leave, she quickly shreds her ropes and twirls
into Wonder Woman, just in time for the soviets agents to pass. The Soviets
catch up with the Chinese and Wonder Woman interupts them to plays "bullets
and bracers" and to wrestle Sergie, who once wrestled a grzzly bear. Is his
last name "Putin", perchance? Roger Davis and some goons arrive with guns to
interupt the festivities.

After the commercial break, Roger Da vis threatens the group if they don't
surrender and Wonder Woman runs away. Roger Davis decides Diana Prince will
do and goes looking for her. Oh no! Diana attempts to tie herself up before
Roger Davis arrives. He tells her the missing agent is OK and wonders how she
escaped the death trap. Diana tells him Wonder Woman rescued her. Back at the
AIDC, Joe tells Steve more about the case. Why is Joe acting like Steve's
secretary? Diana is taken to the mad scientist and immediately recognises him
as Arthur Chapman, then expositions how they met a couple years ago. Arthur
is embittered about not getting paid for his inventions and about them being
used for weapons. He wants to stop war and enforce world peace with his
volcano-maker. He then interupts all radio and TV broadcasting in the world
to announce his plans. Steve and Joe exposition about Arthur some more while
watching the show. To prove he can do it, Arthur gives some propriatary
coordinates instead of using longitude and lattitude to create a volcano in
the Black Hills, where no one will get hurt. Umm, what? He then threstens to
make entire world into a volcano if they don't give up their weapons. As we
head to commercial, Diana is like "Oh shit! He IS crazy!".

Diana makes a break for it, evades the guards, and twirls into Wonder
Woman. Meanwhile, Steve and Joe are amazed that no one got hurt by the
Black Hills volcano, but seem to have forgotten about the previous ones
he created. Joe tells Steve the world leaders are ready to attack or
nuke Arthur's base but don't want to harm the (five or six) hostages. As
Arthur rants some more. Wonder Woman busts in through the door. Wonder
Woman tries to disuade him from doing this and Roger Davis agrees. Oooh,
burn! The Soviet and Chinese agents also agree. As soon as Wonder Woman
convinces Arthur to give up, he gets a telegram that the bombing will begin
will six minutes. Enraged, Arthur triggers a doomday setting, so Wonder Woman
runs off to stop it. By standing in front of the beam. For thirty seconds.
Later, back in Chinatown, that ruined ancient printing block is reconnected
as the two agents hold hands and announce they wish to retire as a married
couple. Diana hints about the woman wanting to have children and their boss
suggests they "get lost in Chinatown" after dinner. Are they saying Chinese
spies are not allowed to retire? Over dinner, the boss says he wants to meet
Wonder Woman some day, to whch Diana replies "I think she'll like Chinese
food as much as I do!" and laughs. It's not THAT funny, Diana!

SHEENA:
"Marabunta". An army of killer ants proves to be Sheena and Cutter's greatest
challenge after the little critters trap them in a shack. The special FX for
ants in Kingdom of the Ants was more believable.

BEASTMASTER:
"Rescue". Dar and Tao must once again set out to rescue Kyra from the
Terrons. Did I mention I now remember I wasn't really watching Beastmaster
for the adventures of Dar and Tau. The godlings(?) have far more interesting
things going on! The sorceress figured out how to undo, if temporarily, her
master's spell on hawkman and King Zad's 2nd in command from last week staged
a coup.

MUTANT X:
"Dancing on the Razor". The GSA and Mutant X race to find a recording of
their fight that could expose them both to public scrutiny. It turns out the
guy Mutant X rescued from the GSA was a reporter who made the recording.

HIGHLANDER:
"The Watchers". Duncan's search for Darrious's killers leads him to The
Watchers and their leader who owns a bookstore. Hey, it's new season of
Highlander with better opening credits! As it turns out, one of Joe's
subordinates had gone rogue without his knowledge.

WAR OF THE WORLDS:
"My Soul to Keep". The aliens are trying to hatch their eggs in a nice cooler
place so they ntake over an ice factory but seem to have forgotten they
already have freon and refridgeration equipment to live in that cave in
Nevada. Meanwhile, Quinn, the rogue alien from several eps ago told Suzanne's
ex-huband reporter that his wife and the Blackwood project are a secret death
squad killing illegal aliens, which makes zero sense b/c he left on good
terms with Blackwood.

LIFE, LIBERTY, & LEVIN:
Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell and Allen West, former Florida congressman
and retired Army lieutenant colonel, join Mark Levin to discuss race
relations in America.

PARANORMAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA:
A mother and daughter team investigate a haunted basket. A high level
reconnaissance marine sees something in the sky that amazes him. Two intrepid
investigators come face to faceless with the slenderman. This questionable
show lost me at Slenderman, an urban legend created within the last decade on
a scary story website.

FAMILY GUY:
"Baby Stewie". Stewie builds a DNA-altering machine that will allow him to
remain smart forever, but the invention has the adverse effect and he instead
transforms into what he should have always been - an actual baby. This was an
odd episode, but worth it to watch Brian drown himself in the toilet. I hated
the Cleveland short.

What did you watch?

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2020-06-29 14:13:49 UTC
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Post by Ubiquitous
"The Watchers". Duncan's search for Darrious's killers leads him to The
Watchers and their leader who owns a bookstore. Hey, it's new season of
Highlander with better opening credits! As it turns out, one of Joe's
subordinates had gone rogue without his knowledge.
I loved it from beginning to end, even if the use of Queen's "Who Wants to
Live Forever" gets to be excessive as the episode went on... when it isn't
recaping the immediately previous episode, making for reapeat viewing
troublesome and remote control-friendly. However, it has the introduction of
Joe Dawson, bad-ass extraordinaire, and I will always be grateful for that.
Arthur Lipscomb
2020-06-29 16:30:54 UTC
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Post by Ubiquitous
"The Watchers". Duncan's search for Darrious's killers leads him to The
Watchers and their leader who owns a bookstore. Hey, it's new season of
Highlander with better opening credits! As it turns out, one of Joe's
subordinates had gone rogue without his knowledge.
I loved it from beginning to end, even if the use of Queen's "Who Wants to
Live Forever" gets to be excessive as the episode went on... when it isn't
recaping the immediately previous episode, making for reapeat viewing
troublesome and remote control-friendly. However, it has the introduction of
Joe Dawson, bad-ass extraordinaire, and I will always be grateful for that.
I always loved it when they would work in the Queen music in an episode.
I'm pretty sure it's been scientifically proven that playing Queen
music makes any movie or TV series better.


I watched:


Boogie Nights (blu-ray) 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson movie staring Mark
Wahlberg as a young man who rises and falls in the porn industry during
the 70s and 80s. In addition to Wahlberg, the movie has an all star
cast including Burt Reynolds as the porn director who just wants to make
real "film" with actual plots, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, John C.
Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham and Philip Seymour Hoffman as
the actors and crew along for the ride. This holds up very well.


Magnolia (blu-ray) 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson movie which reunites most
of the cast from Boogie Nights and adds Tom Cruise to the mix. This is
an odd movie that follows the actors in several different loosely
connected stories. I guess this is a love it or hate it type of movie,
but I liked it when it was first released, and I think it holds up well
enough. Just don't ask me to explain the frogs!


Punch Drunk Love (HBO) 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson movie staring Adam
Sandler as a man with some serious anger management issues who falls for
Emily Watson. Paul Thomas Anderso regulars Luis Guzman co-stars as
Sandler's friend and Philip Seymour Hoffman also co-stars as a conman
trying to extort money from Sandler. I'm pretty sure I haven't watched
this since seeing it in the theater in 2002. This is one of those
movies that I've recorded and deleted many times over the years due to a
lack of interest in watching it again. But when I realized this was a
Paul Thomas Anderson movie and I was revisiting his films anyway, I went
ahead and finally watched it again. I guess it's OK, but I'm sure I
liked it a lot more the first time I saw it.


Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
anim8rfsk
2020-06-29 16:53:51 UTC
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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20.

But the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's only 20
cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?

The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.

So they each get their own car?
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2020-06-29 17:11:47 UTC
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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20.
But the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's only 20
cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?
The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.
So they each get their own car?
There's a lot of community space, garden space, there was a livestock
space but I'm not sure if they lost all of it, and mechanical space.
There's 3000 people plus those in the drawers (maybe that's the 1000 you
heard), plus some in stasis, according to this post from reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/snowpiercer/comments/hdt8g4/snowpiecers_population_tv_show/

10 miles of 1001 cars makes each one over 52' long, which seems about
right for a train car.
Arthur Lipscomb
2020-06-29 19:45:42 UTC
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Post by suzeeq
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:30:54 -0700 Arthur
Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20.
But the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's only 20
cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?
The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.
So they each get their own car?
No. There are currently 400 people crammed into 1 car. They are the
people who forced their way on board without tickets. The show adds
third class passengers who weren't a factor during the movie. For the
most part, the third class passengers tend to feel like stand ins for
the tail end passengers. The third class are crammed in as well, but I
think it's probably like 4 people to a car for them, with no amenities
like desert or recreation. The first and to a lesser degree second
class people are living the good life.

During the episode someone from the third class complained to Layton
that the people in the tail would crowd out the people in 3rd class if
they joined his revolution. He replied first class has a bowling alley,
and there is more than enough space on the train for everyone.
Post by suzeeq
There's a lot of community space, garden space, there was a livestock
space but I'm not sure if they lost all of it, and mechanical space.
There's 3000 people plus those in the drawers (maybe that's the 1000 you
heard), plus some in stasis, according to this post from reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/snowpiercer/comments/hdt8g4/snowpiecers_population_tv_show/
10 miles of 1001 cars makes each one over 52' long, which seems about
right for a train car.
Thanks
anim8rfsk
2020-06-29 23:58:34 UTC
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Post by suzeeq
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:30:54 -0700 Arthur
Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20.
But the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's only 20
cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?
The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.
So they each get their own car?
No. There are currently 400 people crammed into 1 car. They are the
people who forced their way on board without tickets. The show adds
third class passengers who weren't a factor during the movie. For the
most part, the third class passengers tend to feel like stand ins for
the tail end passengers. The third class are crammed in as well, but I
think it's probably like 4 people to a car for them, with no amenities
like desert or recreation. The first and to a lesser degree second
class people are living the good life.
During the episode someone from the third class complained to Layton
that the people in the tail would crowd out the people in 3rd class if
they joined his revolution. He replied first class has a bowling alley,
and there is more than enough space on the train for everyone.
Post by suzeeq
There's a lot of community space, garden space, there was a livestock
space but I'm not sure if they lost all of it, and mechanical space.
There's 3000 people plus those in the drawers (maybe that's the 1000 you
heard), plus some in stasis, according to this post from reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/snowpiercer/comments/hdt8g4/snowpiecers_population_
tv_show/
10 miles of 1001 cars makes each one over 52' long, which seems about
right for a train car.
Thanks
Except the car interiors are at least 25' - probably double that - which
makes the length of the cars 100' to 200'

so 1000 cars is like 20 to 40 miles long.
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2020-06-29 17:39:53 UTC
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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20.
But the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's only 20
cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?
The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.
So, "The 'Thousand[sic]"?!...

;p
Post by anim8rfsk
So they each get their own car?
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2020-06-29 19:41:31 UTC
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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big. I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
I just watched some trailers. The most cars I can count in any one scene is
20, but the cars are clearly much bigger inside than outside. Maybe it's
only 20 cars long on the outside, but 1000 cars long on the inside?
The trailers say it has 1000 PEOPLE on it.
So they each get their own car?
Ha! I never got past the ridiculous concept that this train is traversing the
globe and no one is maintaining the tracks.


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BTR1701
2020-06-29 18:26:04 UTC
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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Snowpiercer - "The Universe Is Indifferent" - They are finally picking
up the pace as Layton (Daveed Diggs) who is now free and in hiding is
starting to actively organize the rebellion while getting the word out
that Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is pulling all the strings. I was
caught off guard when they said the train is 10 miles long. I had *no*
idea the train was *that* big.
Well, it's 1001 cars long... as we're told at the start of every episode.
Post by Arthur Lipscomb
I did some quick googling to confirm if
I heard that right or not and all I could find was a reference to the
movie train where someone did the calculations and concluded the train
in the movie was 14 miles long. So I guess I heard right, the TV series
version has a 10 mile long train. It certainly doesn't *look* that big
on the external shots, but they have repeatedly said on screen that
there are 1000 cars, and just visually, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere
near that many cars either.
Ubiquitous
2020-06-29 19:38:42 UTC
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Post by Ubiquitous
"The Watchers". Duncan's search for Darrious's killers leads him to The
Watchers and their leader who owns a bookstore. Hey, it's new season of
Highlander with better opening credits! As it turns out, one of Joe's
subordinates had gone rogue without his knowledge.
I loved it from beginning to end, even if the use of Queen's "Who Wants to
Live Forever" gets to be excessive as the episode went on... when it isn't
recaping the immediately previous episode, making for reapeat viewing
troublesome and remote control-friendly. However, it has the introduction
of Joe Dawson, bad-ass extraordinaire, and I will always be grateful for
that.
I always loved it when they would work in the Queen music in an episode.
I'm pretty sure it's been scientifically proven that playing Queen music
makes any movie or TV series better.
I'm not a huge fan of Queen, but are they the only source of music for this
show and why are there so many musicians appearing on it?

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tenworld
2020-06-29 15:54:38 UTC
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i watched Alicia Keys but then deleted the rest
anim8rfsk
2020-06-29 16:11:09 UTC
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WE ARE THE 80'S
WE ARE THE 80'S
WE ARE THE 80'S
"The Unknown People". Clark and Lois investigate why the world's
deepest oil drill suddenly closed up. It turns out they hit a cavern of
sone sort and pulled up some radioactive materials, leading the owner
to think the Earth is hollow. Naturally, a couple hairy dwarves crawled
up the shaft to investigate, leading to all sorts of trouble. This ep
was actually the "Superman VS the Mole Men" movie, retitled for TV!
"The Sport of Penguins/A Horse of Another Color". The Penguin is after a rare
book on parasols located at The Gotham Library. Luckily, Barbara Gordon, ex-
fiance of The Penguin and alias of Batgirl, happens to work at the library.
Meanwhile, Pengy seems to be making a bid at horse racing as well, in cahoots
with the beautiful Lola Lasagna
"The Man Who Made Volcanos". We begin with a scientist testing his volcano
ray in some rocky desert. Hey, isn't that where the Gorn lives? After
creating a volcano in China, he hints at something more ominous to come
before the opening credits begin.
Steve meets Diana at LAX as she leaves, pretending to be reading a
newspaper. Diana sees him, then remembers she's sppsd to be acting like
she doesn't know him. Thanks to expositionary dialouge, we learn that
Steve got promoted while Diana was on a mission in the Philipines. He
tells her that scientists said the a volcano that recently erupted in
China was unexpected and she's to followup on the last agent who was
last seen getting his hotel room in Baja. Meanwhile, at a undisclosed
Chinese restaurant, a man arrives accompanied by ominous chinky-sounding
cheesy Chinese music. The Calgon Man, wearing a ridiculous Chinese costume,
muses over an ancient wooden printing block, then introduces his poorly-
disguised female coworker for the mission who then karate-chops the wood
block in half and calls her coworker a capitalst chauvenist. Back at the
airport, an oriental man tails Diana Prince as she boards a plane to Mexico,
quickly followed by the two Chinese agents. Once in Baja, Diana Prince drives
a dune buggy to what appears to be a ghost town. She stops at a hotel run by
Roger Davis and requests room seven, the room of the missing AIDC agent.
Diana snoops around her room while Roger Davis calls the scientist from a
secret radio in the basement, but he already knows she's there and orders her
to be eliminated. Outside, the two Chinese spies decided to spend the night
in their car watching Diana. Diana finds a note hidden under one of the
bedposts, which for some reason triggers an alarm in Roger Davis's office.
That makes no sense at all! Pat opens a trap door in her second floor room,
dumping Diana into one of those pit traps with with walls to crush whoever
is insde. Wait, whut?
When we return from commercial break, Diana twirls into Wonder Woman and
holds the walls at bay, then punches a hole through the wall to escape.
The mad scientist activates a volcano in the Soviet Union. Back at the
AIDC, Joe gives a report on the incident to Steve, telling him that
witnesses say they saw weird lights in area before the volcano erupted.
Wait, does Joe work for Steve now? I am so confused by this! That
morning, a pair of Soviet agents arrive au pied at the hotel in Baja
and, seeing the Chinese spies sleeping in car, comment on how soft they
are for not sleeping under the open sky on the ground. Diana Prince
leaves the hotel, followed by the Chinese and Soviet agents. Back at the
mad scientist's super secret base, he tells Roger Davis to get ready
to push the button. Diana follows her map to the base, located atop a steep
cliff and almost twirls into Wonder Woman when the Chinese agents arrive. The
female tries to subdue Diana in a karate catfight accompanied by more of that
dreadful chinky-sounding Chinese music but fails, so the guy stops the fight
by brandishing his gun. The Chinese think America is behind the volcano and
refuse to listen to Diana's side of the story while unseen by them, the
Soviet agents arrive on foot.
The scientist creates a volcano in America while forcing the lost agent to
watch. Wait, why wasnt he crushed to death in that pit trap Diana escaped?
The Chinese agents assume China got hit again, but realize the beam direction
is wrong, so they have no idea what happened. The Chinese agents and Diana
take a forced hike up montain with the Soviets in close pursuit. Diana does a
little Stockholm syndrome about them being conquered throughout history but
always defeating their conquerers. The agents decide to leave Diana behind
for some reason. After they leave, she quickly shreds her ropes and twirls
into Wonder Woman, just in time for the soviets agents to pass. The Soviets
catch up with the Chinese and Wonder Woman interupts them to plays "bullets
and bracers" and to wrestle Sergie, who once wrestled a grzzly bear. Is his
last name "Putin", perchance? Roger Davis and some goons arrive with guns to
interupt the festivities.
After the commercial break, Roger Da vis threatens the group if they don't
surrender and Wonder Woman runs away. Roger Davis decides Diana Prince will
do and goes looking for her. Oh no! Diana attempts to tie herself up before
Roger Davis arrives. He tells her the missing agent is OK and wonders how she
escaped the death trap. Diana tells him Wonder Woman rescued her. Back at the
AIDC, Joe tells Steve more about the case. Why is Joe acting like Steve's
secretary? Diana is taken to the mad scientist and immediately recognises him
as Arthur Chapman, then expositions how they met a couple years ago. Arthur
is embittered about not getting paid for his inventions and about them being
used for weapons. He wants to stop war and enforce world peace with his
volcano-maker. He then interupts all radio and TV broadcasting in the world
to announce his plans. Steve and Joe exposition about Arthur some more while
watching the show. To prove he can do it, Arthur gives some propriatary
coordinates instead of using longitude and lattitude to create a volcano in
the Black Hills, where no one will get hurt. Umm, what? He then threstens to
make entire world into a volcano if they don't give up their weapons. As we
head to commercial, Diana is like "Oh shit! He IS crazy!".
Diana makes a break for it, evades the guards, and twirls into Wonder
Woman. Meanwhile, Steve and Joe are amazed that no one got hurt by the
Black Hills volcano, but seem to have forgotten about the previous ones
he created. Joe tells Steve the world leaders are ready to attack or
nuke Arthur's base but don't want to harm the (five or six) hostages. As
Arthur rants some more. Wonder Woman busts in through the door. Wonder
Woman tries to disuade him from doing this and Roger Davis agrees. Oooh,
burn! The Soviet and Chinese agents also agree. As soon as Wonder Woman
convinces Arthur to give up, he gets a telegram that the bombing will begin
will six minutes. Enraged, Arthur triggers a doomday setting, so Wonder Woman
runs off to stop it. By standing in front of the beam. For thirty seconds.
Later, back in Chinatown, that ruined ancient printing block is reconnected
as the two agents hold hands and announce they wish to retire as a married
couple. Diana hints about the woman wanting to have children and their boss
suggests they "get lost in Chinatown" after dinner. Are they saying Chinese
spies are not allowed to retire? Over dinner, the boss says he wants to meet
Wonder Woman some day, to whch Diana replies "I think she'll like Chinese
food as much as I do!" and laughs. It's not THAT funny, Diana!
"Marabunta". An army of killer ants proves to be Sheena and Cutter's greatest
challenge after the little critters trap them in a shack. The special FX for
ants in Kingdom of the Ants was more believable.
"Rescue". Dar and Tao must once again set out to rescue Kyra from the
Terrons. Did I mention I now remember I wasn't really watching Beastmaster
for the adventures of Dar and Tau. The godlings(?) have far more interesting
things going on! The sorceress figured out how to undo, if temporarily, her
master's spell on hawkman and King Zad's 2nd in command from last week staged
a coup.
"Dancing on the Razor". The GSA and Mutant X race to find a recording of
their fight that could expose them both to public scrutiny. It turns out the
guy Mutant X rescued from the GSA was a reporter who made the recording.
"The Watchers". Duncan's search for Darrious's killers leads him to The
Watchers and their leader who owns a bookstore. Hey, it's new season of
Highlander with better opening credits! As it turns out, one of Joe's
subordinates had gone rogue without his knowledge.
"My Soul to Keep". The aliens are trying to hatch their eggs in a nice cooler
place so they ntake over an ice factory but seem to have forgotten they
already have freon and refridgeration equipment to live in that cave in
Nevada. Meanwhile, Quinn, the rogue alien from several eps ago told Suzanne's
ex-huband reporter that his wife and the Blackwood project are a secret death
squad killing illegal aliens, which makes zero sense b/c he left on good
terms with Blackwood.
Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell and Allen West, former Florida congressman
and retired Army lieutenant colonel, join Mark Levin to discuss race
relations in America.
A mother and daughter team investigate a haunted basket. A high level
reconnaissance marine sees something in the sky that amazes him. Two intrepid
investigators come face to faceless with the slenderman. This questionable
show lost me at Slenderman, an urban legend created within the last decade on
a scary story website.
"Baby Stewie". Stewie builds a DNA-altering machine that will allow him to
remain smart forever, but the invention has the adverse effect and he instead
transforms into what he should have always been - an actual baby. This was an
odd episode, but worth it to watch Brian drown himself in the toilet. I hated
the Cleveland short.
What did you watch?
Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
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2020-06-29 19:32:01 UTC
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.

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2020-06-29 23:55:27 UTC
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.

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2020-06-30 02:42:47 UTC
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to show it on
it's own, which is possible.
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to show it on
it's own, which is possible.
On H&I? I think El Ray or "Charge!" plays it, too.

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2020-06-30 17:01:49 UTC
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..."
ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to show it on
it's own, which is possible.
On H&I? I think El Ray or "Charge!" plays it, too.
Probably H&I.
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend
who..."
ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to show it on
it's own, which is possible.
On H&I? I think El Ray or "Charge!" plays it, too.
Probably H&I.
Magic DVR says you're right. It recorded "Cute Vampirettes Want You" on the
21st, and "Chalice of Unholy Truth" a week later.

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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to
show it on it's own, which is possible.
On H&I? I think El Ray or "Charge!" plays it, too.
Probably H&I.
Magic DVR says you're right. It recorded "Cute Vampirettes Want You" on the
21st, and "Chalice of Unholy Truth" a week later.
Sorry about that.
Ice cream would help.


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2020-07-01 00:41:03 UTC
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Wait? No Relic Hunter? With hot Vampires?
No vampires this week. I think it was another "Syd helps a friend
who..." ep.
I watched it. Hot lady vampires. Episode title POSSESSED.
You must be a week behind. They played that last week.
No, I watched it live, yesterday. Unless the DVR just decided to
show it on it's own, which is possible.
On H&I? I think El Ray or "Charge!" plays it, too.
Probably H&I.
Magic DVR says you're right. It recorded "Cute Vampirettes Want You" on the
21st, and "Chalice of Unholy Truth" a week later.
Sorry about that.
Ice cream would help.
I think DT owes me some, right?
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2020-06-29 16:46:02 UTC
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What did you watch?
Graded, and cleaned part of my place yesterday, so TV viewing was not
the priority...:

Roswell, New Mexico (recorded) - "Crash Into Me" (ep. #2.12, the
penultimate episode of season #2).
The highly uneven series flips back to a mostly decent episode, as
Liz and co. find out/figure out what Liz's mother is up to (as well as
figuring out what EVOL!!1! Jesse Maines (Trevor St. John) is up to (if
the season doesn't end with this guy dead, it will be a failure!!), and
try to stop it. And all hands are on deck for this one, even Rosa
(Amber Midthunder).

golf - The Travellers in Conn. was pretty much bottled up by Dustin
Johnson, when the Day 3 leader (Brendon Todd) completely fell apart,
earning Johnson his 21st(!) career win.
But there were some good stories just below the line, like Kevin
Streelman who came in second, reviving a flagging career. Or rook. Will
Gordon who earned himself a temp. PGA card for managing to tie for
third. Or Canadian Mackenzie Hughes who surged at the end to earn part
of third place.

His Dark Materials (recorded) - "The Fight to the Death" (ep. #1.7).
Yes, I certainly see Arthur's problem with the conclusions from the
previous episode's "cliffhanger" - Lyra apparently falls hundreds of
feet (let's say at least 100 feet) - actually, so do Roger and Iorek -
and Lyra basically just gets up off the ground and brushes herself off
- no injuries!! - and that was that. That was beyond STOOpid!! And
pointless.
Anyway, Lyra is captured by the forces of the "bad bear" - King
Iofur - but she maneuvers him into fighting Iorek for the prize of
being king of the bears, and the "battle to the death" goes exactly
like you'd expect it to. Lyra then links up with Roger, and she, Roger
and Iorek head off to Lord Asriel's mountaintop lab, except that Asriel
isn't exactly happy to see Lyra, but is unsettlingly happy to see Roger.
Elsewhere, Mrs. Coulter, acting increasingly unhinged, continues to
manipulate the Magisterium to her advantage. And stuff goes down on
"our Earth" with Will, but Will seems to outsmark Lord Boreal and his
henchmen.

Aside from golf, I mostly left the "Wrong" marathon on Lifetime on as
background noise - these are all the "Wrong" movies from Hybrid
Pictures and produced (and featuring!) Vivica A. Fox, e.g. The Wrong
Housesitter, The Wrong Tutor, The Wrong Stepmother, etc.
I did actually watch "The Wrong Cheerleader" at 8pm, because I've
only seen it once before, and didn't exactly remember what happened. I
did like the actress who played Cristine Prosperi's cheerleader best
friend, Kalen Bull - hopefully she'll get more work (e.g. from Lifetime
- looks like that's a "Yes!", as she has a flick named "Killer
Cheerleader" coming up!!).


Recorded for later: NOS4A2.
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2020-06-29 19:25:44 UTC
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"My Soul to Keep". The aliens are trying to hatch their eggs in a nice cooler
place so they ntake over an ice factory but seem to have forgotten they
already have freon and refridgeration equipment to live in that cave in
Nevada. Meanwhile, Quinn, the rogue alien from several eps ago told Suzanne's
ex-huband reporter that his wife and the Blackwood project are a secret death
squad killing illegal aliens, which makes zero sense b/c he left on good
terms with Blackwood.
For once, not a Biblical title, although it's from a common children's prayer
(published in The New England Primer in the 1680s, if anyone's curious). The
occasion is that the aliens are trying to procreate, but the caverns are too
nuclear-hot for their babies to survive, and if they lose this litter, they
won't enter pon farr or whatever again for nine years. So they need to ship
them someplace cold (conveniently forgetting that whole plot thread from
episode 2 where they successfully stole a large supply of coolant so they
could survive in the caves). They do this by taking over a refrigeration
plant. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," says a security guard when the
aliens park their truck there on a Sunday. "Yes, you would," says one of the
aliens, and proves it by becoming him.

Meanwhile, we meet an obnoxious reporter named Cash McCullough (Michael
Parks), Suzanne's ex and Debi's father. He's meeting (in a Korean bathhouse,
of all places) with a "mysterious" source who stays hidden, but whose voice,
despite a feigned Southern accent, is unmistakeably that of John Colicos.
Quinn is back! More, he alleges to have been the actual Deep Throat, and now
he has an even bigger expose than Watergate: the Blackwood Project. Except he
tells Cash that they're a death squad killing illegal aliens from Mexico.

So Cash contacts Suzanne for the first time in two years (he hasn't even
remembered Debi's birthdays) and claims to be a changed man wanting to
reconnect with family. Ironhorse, knowing Cash's reputation as an
investigative reporter, is skeptical, but Suzanne finds herself responding to
his charm against her better judgment. At least until he confronts her at
dinner with the "death squad" story, something he evidently does specifically
to make her storm out angry so he can tail her to the Cottage. Why he does so
is unclear, though, since he then rushes back to Quinn for more intel.

Meanwhile, Norton has noticed transmissions that sound to him like "baby
talk," and he pinpoints their location (which, judging by the computer map, is
exactly the same location as the hospital from the last "alien baby" episode,
except now it's the industrial district in the town adjacent to the Cottage).
Ironhorse and Harrison stake it out and determine it's an alien operation with
tight security - security that becomes conveniently lax when they sneak in and
abscond with one of the totally unmonitored eggs. Suzanne's fascinated at the
scientific potential of this find, until it hatches and almost tears her arms
off through the isolation-box gloves. Paul kills it with fire, and then they
go off to make sure the other eggs don't hatch. Suze tags along, though she
stays outside when the big strong menfolk go in, so she spots Cash and his
camera crew going inside, tipped off by Quinn. She follows Cash, who's
convinced he's seeing a death squad in action - but then she's attacked by an
alien that's both conveniently "naked" (not inside a human) and conveniently
very, very inefficient at strangling her, giving Cash enough time to follow
her screams, see the alien for himself, and tackle it, only to be verrrrrry
slowwwwwly strangled himself while Suzanne screams helplessly (who would've
thought the '80s were so much like the '50s?), until Paul shows up and
ventilates the alien. Somehow Cash's camera crew got killed by other aliens
while this was going on, and then Cash sees the fiery finish as Omega Squad
torches the eggs, and says that nobody would believe him if he reported what
he's seen.

As a return episode for Quinn, this is very weak. We never learn why Quinn,
who parted with Harrison on reasonably good terms last time, is suddenly
trying to hurt the Blackwood Project. And the idea of a story about the
heroes trying to kill hundreds of babies, even monster babies, is rather
distasteful. On the plus side, Suzanne really looks gorgeous when she dresses
up for dinner with Cash. Big '80s hairdos have their merits.
Jim G.
2020-07-04 22:45:00 UTC
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What did you watch?
NOS4A2 / 2x02 / Good Father

[Charlie Manx fights for his life; Millie Manx determines to never let
the lights go out in Christmasland again; Bing receives a long awaited
call; Wayne McQueen, attempting to understand his mother, walks headlong
into danger.]

Just bullet points again:

* There are hints of the X-Files in the cold open.
* We get interesting backstory for Manx and Millie.
* Manx meets Bats.
* Manx journeys back to Bing, who has...food.
* Things end with just a brief reunion for Manx and Millie, and she's
not happy about the quick turnaround.

Grade: B
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