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After an arduous workout, I watched:

Nothing.

What did you watch?

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On Aug 29, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

After an arduous workout, I watched:

Nothing.

What did you watch?

I watched the first two episodes of DARK WOLF, the prequel to THE TERMINAL
LIST starring Taylor Kitsch and Chris Pratt. It's a good show, the military battle sequences are well done and highly realistic.

The only drawback is that I feel like I'm watching the STAR WARS prequel movies, where Anakin Skywalker is made out to be a heroic figure for 90% of
the movies, but you can't really get behind him because you already know who
he becomes and what's going to happen to him. The same applies here. You already know from THE TERMINAL LIST that Kitsch's character is going to turn out to be an absolute monster who betrays the Teams and his best friend in the most unconscionable and unforgivable way possible, so it's hard to root for
him now.


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Verily, in article <UBI20250828@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
deliver unto us this message:

After an arduous workout, I watched:

Nothing.

What did you watch?

I watched more ST:TOS. This time it was "Who Mourns For Adonai?"

Kirk screws up another chance at paradise for humanity, but in this case
the guy was probably lying anyway. I don't recall Classical Greece as a paradise -- an admirable civilization, sure, but it had plenty of
interesting times.

I'd forgotten a genuinely funny joke at the beginning. ZpPbl'f zbnavat
gung n srznyr bssvpre jvyy varivgnoyl trg zneevrq naq
yrnir gur freivpr. Xvex ercyvrf, "V yvxr gb guvax bs vg abg nf ybfvat na bssvpre ohg nf...," urfvgngrf, gura pbapyhqrf jvgu "Npghnyyl, V'z ybfvat
na bssvpre." It's a cute line, and Shatner delivers it well.

I couldn't help wondering what might have happened if Kirk weren't so naturally belligerent. He becomes challenging upon first meeting Apollo. Imagine if, instead of bellowing that humanity doesn't bow, he had
*kindly* explained that humanity has outgrown the need for gods. He
could have become a powerful older brother to us, but Kirk yells at him
until he decides to follow his family to another dimension instead.
Starfleet really should consider some training in deescalation.

I also watched more Superstore reruns. I started watching a video essay
on the nature of consciousness, but I fell asleep at the beginning, so
I'll have to try again.

What did everyone else watch?
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On 8/29/2025 10:06 AM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

I started watching a video essay
on the nature of consciousness, but I fell asleep at the beginning, so
I'll have to try again.

There's a joke in there, I just know it.
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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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