• What Did You Watch? 2026-08-11 (Tuesday)

    From Ubiquitous@weberm@polaris.net to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 04:30:41 2026
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    I watched:

    Identical Myths Every Ancient Culture Somehow Shares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6b5BJZ3U6I

    Gimmick Trek: Strange New Worlds
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3DpiGDE8s

    JAMES BOND Casting "Really Different" Threatens Amazon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMci3ShQPhM

    MGM Declares Bond Will Be "Really Different" in Reboot | So Stick a FORK in 007, He's DONE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTGm4eefIs

    Spider-Man Review - Has Sony FIXED The MCU? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4CFR7SfGs

    Strange Patterns In Nature That Keep Repeating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrJZ0drUtU

    The Lost Civilizations We Keep Finding Evidence O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxVpdfqLa0

    What did you watch?
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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 07:35:03 2026
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    Ubiquitous wrote in article <UBI20260811@dont-email.me>:

    JAMES BOND Casting "Really Different" Threatens Amazon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMci3ShQPhM

    MGM Declares Bond Will Be "Really Different" in Reboot | So Stick a FORK in 007, He's DONE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTGm4eefIs

    Oh, that's not good.


    What did you watch?

    Nothing worth mentioning.

    Today I plan to check out that all-AI channel. I'm already sure
    it will suck, but I'll report back anyway.
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    But I'm not so easily sold.
    For supposing they should,
    It would do them no good --
    They'd lose it at once to the bold.
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  • From Ian J. Ball@ijball@mac.invalid to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 09:25:39 2026
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    On 8/12/26 4:35 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

    Ubiquitous wrote in article <UBI20260811@dont-email.me>:

    JAMES BOND Casting "Really Different" Threatens Amazon!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMci3ShQPhM

    MGM Declares Bond Will Be "Really Different" in Reboot | So Stick a FORK in 007, He's DONE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTGm4eefIs

    Oh, that's not good.

    What did you watch?

    Nothing worth mentioning.

    Today I plan to check out that all-AI channel. I'm already sure
    it will suck, but I'll report back anyway.

    An AI-generated TV show, with a human-written script, *could* be good -
    heck, you could probably do some things that would not be possible
    otherwise.

    But an AI-generated TV show, with an AI-generated script, will indeed be pretty much 100% guaranteed to suck.

    IOW, AI-generated doesn't necessarily equate to "it sucks" (always). But
    the way most of it is being done now (with no human "proofing" or
    improvement) does suck.


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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 12:55:59 2026
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    Ian J. Ball wrote in article <115i6q3$t9vr$1@dont-email.me>:

    On 8/12/26 4:35 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Today I plan to check out that all-AI channel. I'm already
    sure
    it will suck, but I'll report back anyway.

    An AI-generated TV show, with a human-written script, *could* be good - heck, you could probably do some things that would not be possible otherwise.

    But an AI-generated TV show, with an AI-generated script, will indeed be pretty much 100% guaranteed to suck.

    Yeah, that's what the new Fairground AI is supposed to be. AI
    stories, AI scripts, AI scenes.

    I watched an AI's take on a black version of Family Guy. It
    wasn't good, but I suppose it could have been worse. The jokes
    are all old (of course), and some of the lines are mangled by odd
    AI pronunciations.

    It got worse as it went, making less sense and throwing in more
    random crap. Then again, real Family Guy episodes also increase
    the rate of random crap as the episode progresses.

    Come to think of it, Family Guy is so incoherent and inconsistent
    that it's a very poor test case.

    Overall, it felt more like a Family Guy knockoff than like a
    black take on Family Guy. It wasn't completely unwatchable,
    though.
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    The meek shall inherit, we're told,
    But I'm not so easily sold.
    For supposing they should,
    It would do them no good --
    They'd lose it at once to the bold.
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  • From anim8rfsk@anim8rfsk@cox.net to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 14:10:06 2026
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    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    I watched:

    Identical Myths Every Ancient Culture Somehow Shares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6b5BJZ3U6I

    Gimmick Trek: Strange New Worlds
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3DpiGDE8s

    JAMES BOND Casting "Really Different" Threatens Amazon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMci3ShQPhM

    MGM Declares Bond Will Be "Really Different" in Reboot | So Stick a FORK in 007, He's DONE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTGm4eefIs

    Spider-Man Review - Has Sony FIXED The MCU? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4CFR7SfGs

    Strange Patterns In Nature That Keep Repeating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrJZ0drUtU

    The Lost Civilizations We Keep Finding Evidence O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxVpdfqLa0

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    The first four episodes of season two of The Librarians the Next Chapter.
    It was strangely uninvolving and hard to follow, but I was sick and dozing
    on and off.

    Beneath the 12 Mile Reef which sadly wasnrCOt in cinemascope, although maybe
    it was and was just stretched tall.
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  • From anim8rfsk@anim8rfsk@cox.net to rec.arts.tv on Wed Aug 12 23:04:56 2026
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    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    I watched:

    Identical Myths Every Ancient Culture Somehow Shares
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6b5BJZ3U6I

    Gimmick Trek: Strange New Worlds
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3DpiGDE8s

    JAMES BOND Casting "Really Different" Threatens Amazon!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMci3ShQPhM

    MGM Declares Bond Will Be "Really Different" in Reboot | So Stick a FORK in 007, He's DONE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTGm4eefIs

    Spider-Man Review - Has Sony FIXED The MCU?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4CFR7SfGs

    Strange Patterns In Nature That Keep Repeating
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrJZ0drUtU

    The Lost Civilizations We Keep Finding Evidence O
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxVpdfqLa0

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    The first four episodes of season two of The Librarians the Next Chapter.
    It was strangely uninvolving and hard to follow, but I was sick and dozing
    on and off.

    Beneath the 12 Mile Reef which sadly wasnrCOt in cinemascope, although maybe it was and was just stretched tall.


    Oh, yeah, I watched two episodes of REACHER, although articles say three dropped.
    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.
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