Still catching up on soaps.

Yesterday, I focused on DOOL - I basically got through the episodes from Mon-Thur of last week. These were more enjoyable, now that we're finally
past the dead John and Bo/Hope naval gazing! In the end, Gabi ends up
throwing Johnny under the bus to Rafe (who didn't appear in the episode)
after Marlena and Roman try to figure out a way to keep Johnny out of
legal jeopardy for EJ's shooting. More Sarah/Xander drama. Stephanie
discovers her manuscript at the hospital and is irate, confronting Alex,
but Alex talks his way out of it by telling Stephanie that her trashy
smut is "best-seller" material!

I watched reruns of "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" in the evening.

What did you watch?

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On 7/3/2025 9:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Still catching up on soaps.

Yesterday, I focused on DOOL - I basically got through the episodes from Mon-Thur of last week. These were more enjoyable, now that we're finally
past the dead John and Bo/Hope naval gazing! In the end, Gabi ends up throwing Johnny under the bus to Rafe (who didn't appear in the episode) after Marlena and Roman try to figure out a way to keep Johnny out of
legal jeopardy for EJ's shooting. More Sarah/Xander drama. Stephanie discovers her manuscript at the hospital and is irate, confronting Alex,
but Alex talks his way out of it by telling Stephanie that her trashy
smut is "best-seller" material!

I watched reruns of "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" in the evening.

What did you watch?

I watched:

Jurassic World Rebirth (theatrical) Gareth Edwards ("Godzilla" and
"Rogue One") directs this latest entry in the franchise. Scarlett
Johansson stars as a fixer hired a pharmaceutical company to lead an
expedition to extract blood samples from three different dinosaurs (one
water dinosaur, one giant land dinosaur, and a giant flying dinosaur).
The pharmaceutical company wants the blood samples to create a new
miracle drug. But the blood samples must be extracted from living
dinosaurs, because plot. And Johansson's team is ridiculously under
staffed and pretty much unarmed because if they all had guns and could
just shoot the dinosaurs it would be a shorter movie. To help add to
the length of the movie, Johansson's team rescues a family that comes
under attack from the giant water dinosaur which adds several more
characters to the movie. And more characters means more people
available to be eaten by dinosaurs. Did I say dinosaurs, I should
correct myself and say giant genetically engineered monsters that don't
look anything like dinosaurs. If this was a "Jurassic Park" sequel they
would have been battling dinosaurs, but this is "Jurassic World" sequel
so instead of dinosaurs we get genetically engineered hybrid creatures.
Anyway, the movie exists, and that's about all I have to say about the
movie. See it or don't. It's pretty much critic proof.

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

On 7/3/2025 9:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Still catching up on soaps.

Yesterday, I focused on DOOL - I basically got through the episodes from
Mon-Thur of last week. These were more enjoyable, now that we're finally
past the dead John and Bo/Hope naval gazing! In the end, Gabi ends up
throwing Johnny under the bus to Rafe (who didn't appear in the episode)
after Marlena and Roman try to figure out a way to keep Johnny out of
legal jeopardy for EJ's shooting. More Sarah/Xander drama. Stephanie
discovers her manuscript at the hospital and is irate, confronting Alex,
but Alex talks his way out of it by telling Stephanie that her trashy
smut is "best-seller" material!

I watched reruns of "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" in the evening.

What did you watch?

I watched:

Jurassic World Rebirth (theatrical) Gareth Edwards ("Godzilla" and
"Rogue One") directs this latest entry in the franchise. Scarlett
Johansson stars as a fixer hired a pharmaceutical company to lead an expedition to extract blood samples from three different dinosaurs (one water dinosaur, one giant land dinosaur, and a giant flying dinosaur).
The pharmaceutical company wants the blood samples to create a new
miracle drug. But the blood samples must be extracted from living
dinosaurs, because plot. And Johansson's team is ridiculously under
staffed and pretty much unarmed because if they all had guns and could
just shoot the dinosaurs it would be a shorter movie. To help add to
the length of the movie, Johansson's team rescues a family that comes
under attack from the giant water dinosaur which adds several more
characters to the movie. And more characters means more people
available to be eaten by dinosaurs. Did I say dinosaurs, I should
correct myself and say giant genetically engineered monsters that don't
look anything like dinosaurs. If this was a "Jurassic Park" sequel they would have been battling dinosaurs, but this is "Jurassic World" sequel
so instead of dinosaurs we get genetically engineered hybrid creatures.
Anyway, the movie exists, and that's about all I have to say about the movie. See it or don't. It's pretty much critic proof.

There are all sorts of problems with the word dinosaur in these movies. Dinosaurs are land creatures that lived in a certain (Mesozoic) era by definition. If they live in the water or fly, they aren’t dinosaurs. If
they came before that (Demetri Dan) they aren’t dinosaurs. If they’re around now, they aren’t dinosaurs. And of course similar creatures of the Xenozoic period are right out. Although I suppose if we actually started growing them, it would pretty much throw the definitions out the window.

I left the spiel Chuck change for Dimetrodon in because I found it amusing.

I watched an old episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea a couple nights ago, I think it was “The Shape of Doom“ where guest star Kevin Hagen needed blood samples from the biggest whale that ever lived, but they would be
useless if Nelson killed the whale first. I wonder if that’s where this
movie got the idea.

In the end, they got the whale to swallow the biggest atomic bomb that ever lived and blew him and the guest star to smithereens.

The reason they had the biggest atomic bomb that ever lived was because
they were going to set it off in the middle of the ocean to dig a gigantic trench to create shipping lanes. Is there actually a part of the the middle
of the ocean that’s so shallow we need to trench it out? And how come it’s deep enough for whales?

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

I ended up watching ST:TOS.

One was "The Apple." That's the one where there's a super-dangerous
planet with one village which is a safe paradise, protected by a machine
the villagers serve as a god. The Enterprise is stuck, and they decide
the only way to proceed is to destroy the natives' god and thus their
entire way of life.

Afterwards, Kirk tells the natives that now they get to know the full
joy of life on their hyperdangerous planet. Oh, bliss! He seems
unconcerned about murdering the Prime Directive, but I guess there
wasn't much left of it anyway.

From “Bread and Circuses”

SPOCK: Then the Prime Directive is in full force, Captain?
KIRK: No identification of self or mission. No interference with the social development of said planet.
MCCOY: No references to space, or the fact that there are other worlds, or
more advanced civilisations.

Kirk’s biggest loophole seems to be the little known addendum “unless they threaten my ship”

But I have to tell you, as a kid in 1967, Vaal was just amazing.

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The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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Damn - messed up the date in the original header.

Fixing with this followup (in case anybody ever makes Usenet searchable again...)


On 7/3/25 9:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Still catching up on soaps.

Yesterday, I focused on DOOL - I basically got through the episodes from Mon-Thur of last week. These were more enjoyable, now that we're finally
past the dead John and Bo/Hope naval gazing! In the end, Gabi ends up throwing Johnny under the bus to Rafe (who didn't appear in the episode) after Marlena and Roman try to figure out a way to keep Johnny out of
legal jeopardy for EJ's shooting. More Sarah/Xander drama. Stephanie discovers her manuscript at the hospital and is irate, confronting Alex,
but Alex talks his way out of it by telling Stephanie that her trashy
smut is "best-seller" material!

I watched reruns of "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" in the evening.

What did you watch?

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