I watched:

GLENN BECK

STU DOES AMERICA

SARA UNFILTERED

FAMILY GUY:
Several eps

What did you watch?

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On 2/12/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Despite yesterday being one of my "light" workdays, I only got through
soaps, and a movie I saw off one of the Showtimes:

soaps: DOOL - Well, they are finally killing the soap-within-a-soap
storyline (none too soon, I'd say!) - after all the mayhem, Kate and Abe
decide to pull the plug on the show, and tell the cast and crew. But
they bury the lede! - the "network" bought the show back from them! So
the show is saved! But the network wants to move filming back to L.A.
This will allow DOOL to write out a bunch of people - Hattie will
definitely go to L.A. Bonnie is thinking about it (will the show really
write out Bonnie and Justin?!). And of course Joy wants to go, but Alex
does not, despite her pressuring him to go. On this score, Joy is acting
all strange and clingy with Alex, but doesn't tell him she knows about
him and Stephanie until the end of the epie. Anyway, I guess they're
going to quickly write out Joy(?). But Johnny is almost certainly not
going, instead staying is Salem. And while I thought a break from Leo
Stark would be good for the show, but Leo is definitely not going to
L.A. - the network fired him!
GH - Mon's ep. Nina wears her down and gets Carly to agree to
conspire with Nina to break Willow and Drew up; later Nina sends Carly
to get Tracy to back down so that they can get Drew out of the picture.
Martin tries to get Willow to be aggressive in the custody fight, but
then Nina shows up and talks Willow out of that, confusing Martin! Ava
almost blows it by kidnapping her daughter back, but Ric (and Lizzie)
show up just in time, and Ric prevents Ava from blowing her custody
case; Ava is furious, but then she and Ric "give into passion"! [roll]
Josslyn throws Cyrus for a loop when she "apologizes" to him (it's a
fake apology, Joss is still after him). And Felicia tries to get Cody
and Sasha to bury the hatchet; but later when Jason shows up, Cody loses
it and makes another scene.

Killshot (Showtime Extreme) - This had a really good cast - Diane Lane,
Thomas Jane, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Rosario Dawson.
Heck, even Hal Holbrook appears! Also, so does Canuck Tom McCamus!
(Mason Eckhart from "Mutant X"!!).
Too bad I thought the movie was perfunctory, breaking absolutely no
new ground. It might have something to do with the fact that this is
based on an Elmore Leonard novel, and I am not a fan of Leonard's works.
Gist: Rourke plays Blackbird, a partially Native American mob
hitter. Blackbird eventually crosses paths with Richie (Gordon-Levitt) a volatile psychopath and petty crook, whose girlfriend is a simpleton
played by Rosario Dawson. Richie has an extortion scheme that he's
working on a real estate agent - Blackbird and Richie go to the real
estate office to collect, but run across an estranged married couple,
Wayne and Carmen Coulson (Jane and Lane - ha!), instead. Wayne runs
Richie off pretty good, and they both see Blackbird's face. This means
the Coulsons have to die.
Eventually, the FBI (McCamus) gets involved, and put the Coulsons
into witness protection. But that won't stop Blackbird and Richie!
This all heads to a showdown.
While I liked Jane and Lane here, as I said, this is nothing we
haven't seen before, and done better before. This gets a 6.0/10 on IMDb,
and I wouldn't rate it nearly that high, despite the performances.


What did you watch?

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On 2/12/2025 5:52 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/12/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Despite yesterday being one of my "light" workdays, I only got through
soaps, and a movie I saw off one of the Showtimes:

soaps: DOOL - Well, they are finally killing the soap-within-a-soap
storyline (none too soon, I'd say!) - after all the mayhem, Kate and Abe decide to pull the plug on the show, and tell the cast and crew. But
they bury the lede! - the "network" bought the show back from them! So
the show is saved! But the network wants to move filming back to L.A.
This will allow DOOL to write out a bunch of people - Hattie will
definitely go to L.A. Bonnie is thinking about it (will the show really
write out Bonnie and Justin?!). And of course Joy wants to go, but Alex
does not, despite her pressuring him to go. On this score, Joy is acting
all strange and clingy with Alex, but doesn't tell him she knows about
him and Stephanie until the end of the epie. Anyway, I guess they're
going to quickly write out Joy(?). But Johnny is almost certainly not
going, instead staying is Salem. And while I thought a break from Leo
Stark would be good for the show, but Leo is definitely not going to
L.A. - the network fired him!
   GH - Mon's ep. Nina wears her down and gets Carly to agree to
conspire with Nina to break Willow and Drew up; later Nina sends Carly
to get Tracy to back down so that they can get Drew out of the picture. Martin tries to get Willow to be aggressive in the custody fight, but
then Nina shows up and talks Willow out of that, confusing Martin! Ava
almost blows it by kidnapping her daughter back, but Ric (and Lizzie)
show up just in time, and Ric prevents Ava from blowing her custody
case; Ava is furious, but then she and Ric "give into passion"! [roll] Josslyn throws Cyrus for a loop when she "apologizes" to him (it's a
fake apology, Joss is still after him). And Felicia tries to get Cody
and Sasha to bury the hatchet; but later when Jason shows up, Cody loses
it and makes another scene.

Killshot (Showtime Extreme) - This had a really good cast - Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Rosario Dawson.
Heck, even Hal Holbrook appears! Also, so does Canuck Tom McCamus!
(Mason Eckhart from "Mutant X"!!).
   Too bad I thought the movie was perfunctory, breaking absolutely no
new ground. It might have something to do with the fact that this is
based on an Elmore Leonard novel, and I am not a fan of Leonard's works.
   Gist: Rourke plays Blackbird, a partially Native American mob
hitter. Blackbird eventually crosses paths with Richie (Gordon-Levitt) a volatile psychopath and petty crook, whose girlfriend is a simpleton
played by Rosario Dawson. Richie has an extortion scheme that he's
working on a real estate agent - Blackbird and Richie go to the real
estate office to collect, but run across an estranged married couple,
Wayne and Carmen Coulson (Jane and Lane - ha!), instead. Wayne runs
Richie off pretty good, and they both see Blackbird's face. This means
the Coulsons have to die.
   Eventually, the FBI (McCamus) gets involved, and put the Coulsons
into witness protection. But that won't stop Blackbird and Richie!
   This all heads to a showdown.
   While I liked Jane and Lane here, as I said, this is nothing we
haven't seen before, and done better before. This gets a 6.0/10 on IMDb,
and I wouldn't rate it nearly that high, despite the performances.

I saw this when it first came out, but I don't remember it.

What did you watch?

I watched:

Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" - Centauri Prime
falls. Wayne Alexander returns to play yet another alien. I wonder,
does he hold the record on this show?

"The Wheel of Fire" - Garibaldi's alcoholism finally catches up to him.
The Luker's Guide said this was a must watch episode. But it was
actually skippable.

"Objects in Motion" - G'Kar leaves B5 and takes Lyta with him. Good
riddance. Not to G'Kar, the other one!

"Objects at Rest" - Penultimate episode - As the show continues to wind
down Sheridan leaves for Minbar and Lennier just watches as Sheridan
almost dies. I remember when this episode first came out Bill Mumy said
he strongly disagreed with what his character was being written to do.


Babylon 5: The Road Home (4K disc) 2023 direct to video Animated movie
set between the events of "Objects at Rest" and the season finale,
"Sleeping in the Light." Upon arriving on Minbar to take up his new
duties as President of the Alliance, Sheridan becomes unstuck in time
and "Lost in Space." The general plot has Sheridan popping into various
points in B5's history and alternate history. Some of the timelines he
visits are better than others. It's the alternate history timelines
where the writers have the most fun. I guess it was OK. It relies a
little too much on nostalgia and not nearly enough on telling a new
story. All the surviving actors (Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian,
Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman) return
to voice their roles. There's a commentary track on the disc. I'll be
sure to watch it again soon so I can listen to the commentary.

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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Killshot (Showtime Extreme) - This had a really good cast - Diane Lane, >Thomas Jane, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Rosario Dawson.
Heck, even Hal Holbrook appears! Also, so does Canuck Tom McCamus!
(Mason Eckhart from "Mutant X"!!).
Too bad I thought the movie was perfunctory, breaking absolutely no
new ground. It might have something to do with the fact that this is
based on an Elmore Leonard novel, and I am not a fan of Leonard's works.

I've read some of his novels (there are hundreds; he was prolific) and
like the humor in a lot of them. The adaptation that best captures his
black humor was the tv series Maximum Bob. I didn't read this one.

I have seen the movie and agree with you that it's relentlessly
mediocre, waste of a good cast.

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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" - Centauri Prime
falls. Wayne Alexander returns to play yet another alien. I wonder,
does he hold the record on this show?

There's more of the story in the Centauri trilogy novels which are
supposed to be quite excellent and I've never tracked them down.

"The Wheel of Fire" - Garibaldi's alcoholism finally catches up to him.
The Luker's Guide said this was a must watch episode. But it was
actually skippable.

"Objects in Motion" - G'Kar leaves B5 and takes Lyta with him. Good >riddance. Not to G'Kar, the other one!

What became of Lyta, post-Byron, was more about having been abandoned by
an ungrateful Sheridan and I never thought the plot went anywhere. I
didn't care for the write out of either character.

"Objects at Rest" - Penultimate episode - As the show continues to wind
down Sheridan leaves for Minbar and Lennier just watches as Sheridan
almost dies. I remember when this episode first came out Bill Mumy said
he strongly disagreed with what his character was being written to do.

He's right. The character became pathetic and didn't deserve that fate.
Maybe he could have learned a lesson like that early on, but as the
write out?

Babylon 5: The Road Home (4K disc) 2023 direct to video Animated movie
set between the events of "Objects at Rest" and the season finale,
"Sleeping in the Light." Upon arriving on Minbar to take up his new
duties as President of the Alliance, Sheridan becomes unstuck in time
and "Lost in Space." The general plot has Sheridan popping into various >points in B5's history and alternate history. Some of the timelines he >visits are better than others. It's the alternate history timelines
where the writers have the most fun. I guess it was OK. It relies a
little too much on nostalgia and not nearly enough on telling a new
story. All the surviving actors (Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian,
Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman) return
to voice their roles. There's a commentary track on the disc. I'll be
sure to watch it again soon so I can listen to the commentary.

Quite frankly, I was so disappointed in Babylon 5: The Legend of the
Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (which killed Andreas Katsulas)
that I still haven't tracked down other post-series movies like this or
The Lost Tales.

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Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:

What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

I tracked down THE IMMORTAL (1970) movie and (brief) series. There is
supposed to be a fairly recent DVD but all I could find was one copy each
of an old airing from SYFY.

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In article <voic2a$2c18d$1@dont-email.me>, arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:

On 2/12/2025 5:52 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" - Centauri Prime
falls. Wayne Alexander returns to play yet another alien. I wonder,
does he hold the record on this show?

"The Wheel of Fire" - Garibaldi's alcoholism finally catches up to him.
The Luker's Guide said this was a must watch episode. But it was
actually skippable.

"Objects in Motion" - G'Kar leaves B5 and takes Lyta with him. Good >riddance. Not to G'Kar, the other one!

They should have made a spinoff of this called "Touched by a Vorlon".

"Objects at Rest" - Penultimate episode - As the show continues to wind
down Sheridan leaves for Minbar and Lennier just watches as Sheridan
almost dies. I remember when this episode first came out Bill Mumy said
he strongly disagreed with what his character was being written to do.

As do I. I guess they needed something for him to do?

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