Kel Varnsen

Speaking of the fighters the only other thing that I thought should have been different (besides Wim using the force) was that when the fighters showed up instead of swooping in to save the day they should have used the come out of hyperspace effect where they appear out of nowhere. Because I love that visual and the associated sound effect.

I am way behind but I just watched this series this past week and it was amazing. Super hard to watch but amazing. I mean I figured that I was going to see stuff like cops beating on people, racial profiling and stealing from suspects. But I never even thought that arresting huge numbers of people and then making them sign a document that they won't sue in exchange for charges being dropped (without a lawyer present) was even a thing. Or the fact that so many people were affected by shitty police that they can't even put a jury together. Bernthal was pretty awesome. It was amazing how delusional he was the whole time about how he was untouchable because his work was so important. Even when he knew he was under federal investigation he didn't slow down because he thought he was protected. The Suiter stuff was interesting. I have the book requested from my local library and I am looking forward to reading it. Curious to see how many times he was actually shit since if you commit suicide how do you shoot yourself more than once in the head? The only thing that didn't work was when the Civil Rights lawyer met with the academy instructor guy. Like I agreed with what he was saying but it sounded like a super basic blog post it was so obvious.

Especially since we already know that Late Night has a massively long video of Trump pronouncing words.

I don't know, having the kids as basically hostages would probably make it easier to get the people of At Attin to do what you want when you get there. I also hope enough people eventually watch this for it to get a second season. I found it way more enjoyable than pretty much any of the other live action star wars shows (except probably Andor and the first season of Mandalorian). It was way better than Ahsoka though and I am happy that there was zero cross over with those Favreau/Filoni shows.

That was a hell of a lot of fun. I wish more Star Wars shows and more shows in general could be action packed like that. The hover bike chase was amazing and "trust KB" should be like the tagline for the show. Fern's speech about good people everywhere they went was also really well done. She is a talented actress. My only wish was that the previously recap didn't show the Owl lady, since you knew right away she would help. That was the only thing missing for me. When they were fighting over the barrier lever it would have been awesome if Wim had used the force to pull it. Hoping we get a season 2. It could be as simple as the parents exploring the galaxy with their kids. I mean if they can do Home Alone twice with the same kid why not two adventures with these kids. Not to mention it seems like the obvious trope for this type of story would be to have a 2 weeks later scene at the end. But they didn't.

Or he realizes that kids as hostages become a way better bargaining chip, when dealing with At Attin than dead kids. I am also curious to see where the last one goes. Did we ever get any actual confirmation that all the original pirates of the Onyx Cinder actually died?

Interesting, I had assumed they knew they were only getting 2 seasons at some point before S2 came out. Just because S1 was 10 episodes and S2 was only 7. Plus most of the first season episodes were around an hour while in 2 most were around 45 minutes. Plus if they didn't know from the start then the pacing is super weird. Like in season 1 the actual NBA season doesn't start until episode 5 and goes until the last episode. But then for season 2 they burn through 4 NBA seasons in 7 episodes. I would have thought if they thought they might have a chance they would have slowed it down and given each of those seasons a bit more attention. Like the Magic/Westhead thing seemed to come out of nowhere, and then is forgotten shortly after because each episode (which is now shorter) is covering months worth of time, if not more.

I finish the series tonight and it was weird. With how much things were rushed, and how the episodes were generally shorter I wondered if maybe they suspected they were going to be cancelled. But then they ended on the loss so maybe not? I did like the Magic/Westhead showdown although I could have used a bit more time explaining why Westhead turned into a jerk like he did. Although when Magic demanded the trade I really wondered if that was an option. Like they spent all that time talking about how Buss was giving guys way above average contract extensions and Magic's was the biggest contract in pro sports. With how little money the teams seemed to be able to generate (even the Lakers were staying in a Howard Johnson) how many other teams could take the risk of taking on that huge contract that was 25 years long? Also I would love to know how the show got What is and What Should Never Be by Led zeppelin for the final episode. Zeppelin are pretty notorious for not licensing their songs (unless you're Cameron Crowe) so that can't have been easy and must have cost a ton.

I watched this last night and it was good but not great. Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal are good actors but neither are early 2000's Russell Crowe. Although to be fair his run of great performances in the late 90's-early 2000's is pretty hard to beat. The action was good although the sharks were a bit corny. Reuse of some of the famous dialogue from the first movie was pretty corny too.

A couple of nights ago I watched the HBO documentary Student Athlete about US University athletes. It was really good. And while I knew that the NCAA screw over a lot of athletes (especially football and basketball), I never really understood the extent of how badly athletes are screwed over. I mean I knew they didn't get paid while schools take in millions. But I never considered things like athletes left with permanent debilitating injuries or useless degrees or in some cases both. It made it especially crazy when they showed the number of athletes recruited for football and basketball and then the tiny number that make the NFL/NBA.

Finished season 1 last night after starting it about a week ago. It was good although I thought it started a bit slow. But it really picked up once the season started. I was a fan of the Lakers as a kid in the late 80's and I still have my kids sized 32 jersey from a family trip to California in 1988, but it was cool to see the story of the Lakers from earlier in the decade. I mean I had no idea that Jerry Buss was super gross. And when he got called out on being gross that made him even worse. But John C. Reilly made it work. After seeing him do nothing but comedy for so long it's nice to see him get back to drama. I really liked Jeanie's story and wish she got more screentime though. At the very least there should have been a scene in the finale where she confronts here dad and says her useless brothers shouldn't be treasurer. And that she wants the job but she knows she isn't ready so Claire should have the job. It was also hilarious to see how low the dollar numbers were. Like Magic's $100,000 endorsement deal or than the team was staying in a Howard Johnson hotel. Although those shoes that Converse wanted Magic to wear, I have a pair of 40th anniversary version of them and I am not curious how long it would take pro athletes to break them in. It took me a few weeks of wearing them around the house and I got mine from a thrift store.

That scene was pretty great. I loved how Wim responded almost instantly that he and Neel would always be KB's friends. Although what kind of jerky kids are the parents of At Attin raising of KB had zero friends before Fern because of her limitations due to her disability. Also curious that we didn't really see what happened to SM-33. Did they just leave him on the spa planet?

Google tells me it made a few million shy of double it's budget? That wouldn't make it a blockbuster but for a movie that only cost $45 million wouldn't that be at least a moderate success?

Way behind the times but I watched this tonight with my wife. It was a lot of fun and both of us liked it. I wish Hollywood would make more comedies like this with A list actors. Especially more R rated comedies. But even though this movie seems to have been a success, when I look at my local 12 screen multiplex, there are zero comedies playing. Wow that is interesting. With the way it was shot I thought it might have been CGI nudity. She looked amazing throughout the movie and the only thing I couldn't buy was that anyone Percy's age would think she looked old.

This was a great episode I can definitely see Ted Danson getting some more Emmy attention from this one. I mean the guy only has 18 nominations he is probably due for at least one more. Although I think my favourite joke was the fact that Charles knew nothing about baseball, considering Danson's most famous role is as a former baseball player.