After an arduous workout, I watched:

Nothing.

What did you watch?

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On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Yesterday? Just soaps:

Y&R - I watched the last two episodes with Summer (Allison Lanier) - I
think that must have been the May 1 and May 2 episodes. This was a
incredibly shoddy write-out - it played liked they didn't even know
Lanier was leaving the show until the last second, which I don't believe
for a moment. But the way this played out, Summer is going to leave town
for a "work emergency"... and then just never come back, abandoning her (adopted) son, and mom and brother in crisis?! If that's the way this
goes, they should probably just never bring the character back.

GH - Wed's ep. Joss the Spy finds out from Emma that she's on her own
mission to take down the Professor dude; Joss reiterates to her handler
and Brennan that she intends to beat Emma to the punch. After the
argument between Dante and Lois about Gio, NuNuLulu is now suspicious
and intends to investigate Gio as Dante's and Brook Lynn's possible son (jackpot!!). I think it was this ep where Brad dropped the dime on
Portia to Drew about drugging Drew for a cash payout (it seems like they
are setting up to write Brad out for good), but Drew is going to want
Brad to do "one more thing" to help take down Portia first.


What did you watch?

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On 5/9/2025 5:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

Fringe S1E20 'There's More Than One of Everything'. Season finale.
IMDb sez: "David Robert Jones comes out of hiding following an attempt
on Nina Sharp's life while Walter leaves accompanied by the mysterious Observer."

The glyphs in this episode spell "Grave".

Agent Olivia Dunham: Why don't we go straight to the source and bring
William Bell in for questioning now?
Phillip Broyles: At this point, I don't think that...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] We have solid intelligence that
William Bell is funding these horrific events that we've seen, most of
which have been carried out by Jones.
Phillip Broyles: I'm not...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] ... at this point, I don't care how
powerful William Bell is or how deep his political connections go, he is
not above the law.
Phillip Broyles: Dunham...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] Sir, with all due respect, I have too
much in this, professionally and personally, that if you stand in the
way now, I...
Phillip Broyles: [forcefully interrupts] Dunham! I came in here to begin
making the calls I'm going to need to make in order to get the interview
that we both agree is necessary.
Phillip Broyles: [exasperatedly] And I would also request that you stop
cutting me off every time I'm about to tell you to stop drilling, you've
struck oil, as I was going to do when we first came through that door.

And a couple of disc "behind the scenes" extras.

What Did You Watch?



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On Fri, 9 May 2025 05:33:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Yesterday? Just soaps:

Y&R - I watched the last two episodes with Summer (Allison Lanier) - I
think that must have been the May 1 and May 2 episodes. This was a
incredibly shoddy write-out - it played liked they didn't even know
Lanier was leaving the show until the last second, which I don't believe
for a moment. But the way this played out, Summer is going to leave town
for a "work emergency"... and then just never come back, abandoning her >(adopted) son, and mom and brother in crisis?! If that's the way this
goes, they should probably just never bring the character back.

GH - Wed's ep. Joss the Spy finds out from Emma that she's on her own
mission to take down the Professor dude; Joss reiterates to her handler
and Brennan that she intends to beat Emma to the punch. After the
argument between Dante and Lois about Gio, NuNuLulu is now suspicious
and intends to investigate Gio as Dante's and Brook Lynn's possible son >(jackpot!!). I think it was this ep where Brad dropped the dime on
Portia to Drew about drugging Drew for a cash payout (it seems like they
are setting up to write Brad out for good), but Drew is going to want
Brad to do "one more thing" to help take down Portia first.

What did you watch?

I got to see a mix of COVERT AFFAIRS alums showing up on two different
shows. Piper Perabo has been playing the mom of a little girl who had
brain surgery and is now paralyzed on GREY'S ANATOMY. While
Christopher Goram (Auggie) showed up on DOCTOR ODYSSEY looking very
much like Billy Bob Thornton. Kept thinking to myself who is the low
budget BBT until we got a clear shot of his face and I knew it was an
older Auggie.

GREY'S ANATOMY is all about the typical medical stuff along with Jo's
wedding with the requisite family drama. While DOCTOR ODYSSEY was
built around a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave that ended
up with numerous people hurt on the ship and off. With the episode
ending with the cliffhanger of another earthquake with Pacey ending up
buried beneath some rubble.

I also got in the latest episode of TOP CHEF where they had a Mission Impossible themed task where they had to make a dish that had some
sort of stunt involved. Not many really pulled off the stunt aspect
but then they had relatively little time to conceptualize and pull off
a successful dish for the judges. In the end it was as usual the
little mistakes that happen during the cooking that ended causing
another chef to get eliminated.

What did you watch?

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On 5/9/2025 7:28 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/9/2025 5:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

Fringe S1E20 'There's More Than One of Everything'.  Season finale.

Is this the one where they reference the alternate version of "Back to
the Future"?


IMDb

sez: "David Robert Jones comes out of hiding following an attempt on
Nina Sharp's life while Walter leaves accompanied by the mysterious Observer."

The glyphs in this episode spell "Grave".

Agent Olivia Dunham: Why don't we go straight to the source and bring
William Bell in for questioning now?
Phillip Broyles: At this point, I don't think that...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] We have solid intelligence that
William Bell is funding these horrific events that we've seen, most of
which have been carried out by Jones.
Phillip Broyles: I'm not...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] ... at this point, I don't care how powerful William Bell is or how deep his political connections go, he is
not above the law.
Phillip Broyles: Dunham...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] Sir, with all due respect, I have too
much in this, professionally and personally, that if you stand in the
way now, I...
Phillip Broyles: [forcefully interrupts] Dunham! I came in here to begin making the calls I'm going to need to make in order to get the interview
that we both agree is necessary.
Phillip Broyles: [exasperatedly] And I would also request that you stop cutting me off every time I'm about to tell you to stop drilling, you've struck oil, as I was going to do when we first came through that door.

And a couple of disc "behind the scenes" extras.

Did they discuss the original plan for the Observers? I get the feeling
they retconned them in later seasons.

What Did You Watch?

This will be a multi-day catch up. I watched:


Andor (Disney+) The next batch of three episodes dropped.

"Messenger" - Episode 7. Meh!

"Who Are You?" - Episode 8. Things definitely picked up with this one
and they showed the Empire's massacre on Ghorman. We also saw some
familiar looking imperial droids.

"Welcome to the Rebellion" - Episode 9 details the aftermath of the
massacre, and Mon Mothma steps up to openly oppose Palpatine. My jaw
dropped when she said his name on the senate floor. She went there!

Star Wars Rebels (Disney+) - "Secret Cargo" - Season 3, Episode 18.
Someone posted online to watch this episode of "Rebels" immediately
after Andor, episode 9. Even though this episode came out in 2017, it
syncs up perfectly with episode 9 of "Andor" and shows what happened
next, and how Mon Mothma became one of the key leaders of the rebel
alliance.


Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock) - "Dante's Inferno" - Season 5,
episode 2. This is the episode from a few weeks ago. It was mostly
background noise. Thanks to the move to Peacock, I'm way behind on this.


Law & Order - "Tough Love" - The team investigate the murder of a sports
agent. I won't bother with more of a recap. It would be nice if they
could tell a story that didn't involve unnecessary twists and stupid
legal maneuvers.


Law & order: SVU - "Aperture" - Team SVU spring into action when a
brother and sister are kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
But the siblings are surprisingly not cooperative in helping SVU pursue
the case. I actually caught on to what was happening early on thanks to
a movie I once saw with a similar plot.


Beat Street (TCM) 1984 movie about some young people in New York who
like to break dance and spray paint graffiti on trains. I know I saw
this once or twice before, but I can never remember it that well, and it jumbles in my mind with "Breakin'" Although I think I can sort of
remember this is the one where someone gets electrocuted.


The Righteous Gemstones - "That Man of God May Be Complete" - Season
finale. I haven't been mentioning when I watch this show. I'll just
say the finale was a wild ride.


Sherlock & Daughter - Already covered by anim8rfsk.

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On May 9, 2025 at 12:50:23 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Law & Order - "Tough Love" - The team investigate the murder of a sports agent. I won't bother with more of a recap. It would be nice if they
could tell a story that didn't involve unnecessary twists and stupid
legal maneuvers.

It would also be nice if they fired their legal advisor and got someone who knows what the hell is going on.

This is third episode this season where, after initially pleading not guilty and going to trial, the defense suddenly stands up mid-trial, admits to the murder, and says "but it was self-defense".

YOU

CAN'T

DO

THAT

Automatic mistrial and referral of defense counsel to the state bar for sanctions.

FYI: The guy who played the murder victim is going to be our next president, according to the current fantasies of the leftist pundit-osphere.

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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 05:33:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I got to see a mix of COVERT AFFAIRS alums showing up on two different
shows. Piper Perabo has been playing the mom of a little girl who had
brain surgery and is now paralyzed on GREY'S ANATOMY. While
Christopher Goram (Auggie) showed up on DOCTOR ODYSSEY looking very
much like Billy Bob Thornton. Kept thinking to myself who is the low
budget BBT until we got a clear shot of his face and I knew it was an
older Auggie.

Wow. I had no idea why he looked familiar. And now he has 746 shards of
glass in him.

GREY'S ANATOMY is all about the typical medical stuff along with Jo's
wedding with the requisite family drama. While DOCTOR ODYSSEY was
built around a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave that ended
up with numerous people hurt on the ship and off. With the episode
ending with the cliffhanger of another earthquake with Pacey ending up
buried beneath some rubble.

The more important thing of course is that this is the ABC slut show. The
slut is just slutting around or trying to slut around, but she keeps not slutting with the guys that will take her and is desperate to slut with the guys who won’t so she’s now turned into the worst slut ever. Here, a slut there a slut everywhere, a slut slut.

I laughed out loud when Pacey told the coroner that his ship was a floating fortress and would be fine. Yeah, unless a shark commits sepuku into your screws.

This is at least the third episode where Pacey is off ship and literally
phones in his part.

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On Fri, 9 May 2025 15:12:55 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 05:33:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I got to see a mix of COVERT AFFAIRS alums showing up on two different
shows. Piper Perabo has been playing the mom of a little girl who had
brain surgery and is now paralyzed on GREY'S ANATOMY. While
Christopher Goram (Auggie) showed up on DOCTOR ODYSSEY looking very
much like Billy Bob Thornton. Kept thinking to myself who is the low
budget BBT until we got a clear shot of his face and I knew it was an
older Auggie.

Wow. I had no idea why he looked familiar. And now he has 746 shards of
glass in him.

746 cuts and places with stitches since the glass has been removed.

GREY'S ANATOMY is all about the typical medical stuff along with Jo's
wedding with the requisite family drama. While DOCTOR ODYSSEY was
built around a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave that ended
up with numerous people hurt on the ship and off. With the episode
ending with the cliffhanger of another earthquake with Pacey ending up
buried beneath some rubble.

The more important thing of course is that this is the ABC slut show. The >slut is just slutting around or trying to slut around, but she keeps not >slutting with the guys that will take her and is desperate to slut with the >guys who won’t so she’s now turned into the worst slut ever. Here, a slut >there a slut everywhere, a slut slut.

LOL. I thought you were talking about GREY'S ANATOMY where a couple
breaks up and the first thing the girl does is head to the bar, get
drunk and then hook up with a guy at the bar, until I remembered who
the slut is supposed to be. Though to be fair she's now not sleeping
with anyone. Not even the guy she promised no commitment, no
consequences free sex to. All because one of the guys told her he
truly loved her and that got under her skin.

I laughed out loud when Pacey told the coroner that his ship was a floating >fortress and would be fine. Yeah, unless a shark commits sepuku into your >screws.

Well no one expects a shark attack on a screw on a cruise ship. Also
no one expects a cruise ship to only have a single propeller.

This is at least the third episode where Pacey is off ship and literally >phones in his part.

No need for any green screen work when you have an actual background.

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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 15:12:55 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 05:33:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I got to see a mix of COVERT AFFAIRS alums showing up on two different
shows. Piper Perabo has been playing the mom of a little girl who had
brain surgery and is now paralyzed on GREY'S ANATOMY. While
Christopher Goram (Auggie) showed up on DOCTOR ODYSSEY looking very
much like Billy Bob Thornton. Kept thinking to myself who is the low
budget BBT until we got a clear shot of his face and I knew it was an
older Auggie.

Wow. I had no idea why he looked familiar. And now he has 746 shards of
glass in him.

746 cuts and places with stitches since the glass has been removed.

GREY'S ANATOMY is all about the typical medical stuff along with Jo's
wedding with the requisite family drama. While DOCTOR ODYSSEY was
built around a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave that ended
up with numerous people hurt on the ship and off. With the episode
ending with the cliffhanger of another earthquake with Pacey ending up
buried beneath some rubble.

The more important thing of course is that this is the ABC slut show. The
slut is just slutting around or trying to slut around, but she keeps not
slutting with the guys that will take her and is desperate to slut with the >> guys who won’t so she’s now turned into the worst slut ever. Here, a slut
there a slut everywhere, a slut slut.

LOL. I thought you were talking about GREY'S ANATOMY where a couple
breaks up and the first thing the girl does is head to the bar, get
drunk and then hook up with a guy at the bar, until I remembered who
the slut is supposed to be. Though to be fair she's now not sleeping
with anyone.

Like I said “worst slut ever”

Not even the guy she promised no commitment, no

consequences free sex to. All because one of the guys told her he
truly loved her and that got under her skin.

I laughed out loud when Pacey told the coroner that his ship was a floating >> fortress and would be fine. Yeah, unless a shark commits sepuku into your
screws.

Well no one expects a shark attack on a screw on a cruise ship. Also
no one expects a cruise ship to only have a single propeller.

This is at least the third episode where Pacey is off ship and literally
phones in his part.

No need for any green screen work when you have an actual background.

They had some bad green screen last week when they were standing at the
rail. Brought me in mind of the actual love boat.

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On 5/9/2025 12:50 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 5/9/2025 7:28 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/9/2025 5:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

Fringe S1E20 'There's More Than One of Everything'.  Season finale.

Is this the one where they reference the alternate version of "Back to
the Future"?

Um, no.

IMDb

sez: "David Robert Jones comes out of hiding following an attempt on
Nina Sharp's life while Walter leaves accompanied by the mysterious
Observer."

The glyphs in this episode spell "Grave".

Agent Olivia Dunham: Why don't we go straight to the source and bring
William Bell in for questioning now?
Phillip Broyles: At this point, I don't think that...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] We have solid intelligence that
William Bell is funding these horrific events that we've seen, most of
which have been carried out by Jones.
Phillip Broyles: I'm not...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] ... at this point, I don't care how
powerful William Bell is or how deep his political connections go, he
is not above the law.
Phillip Broyles: Dunham...
Agent Olivia Dunham: [interrupts] Sir, with all due respect, I have
too much in this, professionally and personally, that if you stand in
the way now, I...
Phillip Broyles: [forcefully interrupts] Dunham! I came in here to
begin making the calls I'm going to need to make in order to get the
interview that we both agree is necessary.
Phillip Broyles: [exasperatedly] And I would also request that you
stop cutting me off every time I'm about to tell you to stop drilling,
you've struck oil, as I was going to do when we first came through
that door.

And a couple of disc "behind the scenes" extras.

Did they discuss the original plan for the Observers?  I get the feeling they retconned them in later seasons.

No but I still have some more extras to watch tonight. I suspect that
if they do it won't be until the season they make the change.


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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

May 9, 2025 12:50:23 PM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

Law & Order - "Tough Love" - The team investigate the murder of a sports >>agent. I won't bother with more of a recap. It would be nice if they >>could tell a story that didn't involve unnecessary twists and stupid
legal maneuvers.

It would also be nice if they fired their legal advisor and got someone who >knows what the hell is going on.

This is third episode this season where, after initially pleading not guilty >and going to trial, the defense suddenly stands up mid-trial, admits to the >murder, and says "but it was self-defense".

YOU

CAN'T

DO

THAT

Automatic mistrial and referral of defense counsel to the state bar for >sanctions.

FYI: The guy who played the murder victim is going to be our next president, >according to the current fantasies of the leftist pundit-osphere.

The midtrial self defense wasn't even the worst aspect of the episode.

What Arthur said. This was a plot frequently explored in literature,
movies, tv, radio, theater, etc. Conflict between father and son. Father
puts extraordinary pressure on the son to be the best, but son
disappoints. It's a plot that's impossible to fuck up, but the writers
on this show are up to the challenge.

Yeah, the younger son was upset about something but nothing in the
police investigation even hinted at anything along these lines. In
opening, my guess was the victim was going to be the moronic 30 year old athlete, just about to go bankrupt but couldn't fire his entourage
leaching off him. They were all committing tax fraud; none of that
spending was business expenses.

I thought we might get a rarity on this show, a decent defense counsel.
He made a decent legal argument before the judge to suppress the younger brother's false statement to police.

I was surprised he was 17; at first, I thought he was a college freshman.

I am familiar with my state's law on whether minors must have a parent
or guardian or lawyer when speaking to police and I'll assume New York's
law is similar. Was the ruling correct? Police were treating the sons
like witnesses, not suspects.

Since the perpetrator was sympathetic and the victim could have been
portrayed in a bad light, you'd really think defense would have sought a
plea deal.

What was the point of bringing in the psychiatrist? Defense should have
laid groundwork for diminished capacity or temporary insanity. "I saw
furtive movements" doesn't get you self defense,

What's with Mauroon? "My uncle can't handle his finances so we all trade
off paying his rent." What, is he gambling his money away? Let him go
homeless.

And then, "Offer him Man 1. It's the ethical thing to do."

For a murder in which premeditation is proveable? No, no it's not. I
hate to agree with Price here, but I do.

Before trial, you might work out a plea because, again, the perpetrator
was sympathetic and victim could have been portrayed as a monster. Nevertheless, once you've gone through trial, with defense counsel
sabotaguing his own client, go for the premeditated crime.

the actors playing the two brothers were decent in scenes
requiring them to show emotion. Once the younger brother cried during testimony, I thought the verdict was going to be an Emmy nomination.

In this script, the writer were perpetrators of bad television.

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On 5/9/2025 3:36 PM, shawn wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 15:12:55 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 05:33:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I got to see a mix of COVERT AFFAIRS alums showing up on two different
shows. Piper Perabo has been playing the mom of a little girl who had
brain surgery and is now paralyzed on GREY'S ANATOMY. While
Christopher Goram (Auggie) showed up on DOCTOR ODYSSEY looking very
much like Billy Bob Thornton. Kept thinking to myself who is the low
budget BBT until we got a clear shot of his face and I knew it was an
older Auggie.

Wow. I had no idea why he looked familiar. And now he has 746 shards of
glass in him.

746 cuts and places with stitches since the glass has been removed.

GREY'S ANATOMY is all about the typical medical stuff along with Jo's
wedding with the requisite family drama. While DOCTOR ODYSSEY was
built around a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave that ended
up with numerous people hurt on the ship and off.

I read that and thought to myself that sounds a lot like the type of
plot they'd do on 9-1-1, then I remembered they did a cross over with
9-1-1, so technically this show is set in the 9-1-1 universe.

With the episode

ending with the cliffhanger of another earthquake with Pacey ending up
buried beneath some rubble.

This is *definitely* a 9-1-1 plot!

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