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On 5/22/2024 at 6:33 PM, catsitter said:
There is a lot in this season of Discovery that reminds me of Andromeda, especially of its final season (which is not a good sign!) Such as that space map thing.
Andromeda, lol. It makes me laugh now to think I used to watch that. I mean, Trance Gemini, lol.
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Damon Lindelof. Ugh. Will he ever go away?
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3 hours ago, Tenshinhan said:
I honestly don't think that the general public knows or cares who Dick Grayson is. Robin isn't exactly a popular character to the masses.
I never suggested he was popular. For most of my life I have found Robin unbearable. ( The one exception was Brenton Thwaites' Robin/Nightwing in Titans.) My favorite Batman was during the 1970s Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams/Jim Aparo, et al. era, when Robin went off to New Carthage to do his own thing, freeing up Batman to return to solo adventures.
However, I think more people than you suspect would know that Bruce Wayne's youthful ward is Dick Grayson, and that Dick Grayson is Robin, in large part thanks to the 1966 television series.
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Been so long I can't recall the last time I didn't hate the winner, but now it's finally happened. I should probably stop watching now.
I think Charlie lost it at "law school." The jury members either thought "Just what the world needs -- another lawyer" or "He's going to law school whether he wins or not. He has a more promising future than Kenzie."
I have to say, never have I seen a more crushed expression in a Survivor finale. And when Maria explained why she didn't vote for him, Charlie looked dazed, like you see in movies when a warrior takes a dagger in the chest and he looks down unable to comprehend what has just happened.
There were a couple lesser betrayals in this episode. Kenzie waffling even one second to consider whether she should bring Liz to the Sanctuary was the first -- you don't do that to the person who just made it possible for you to go to the Sanctuary in the first place. And second, when Ben threw Kenzie into fire-making after she got him through all that high maintenance, at the cost of her own sleep. Yeah, he sucks. Shred that, Ben.
As for social butterfly Kenzie, she's worked in salons for years. Relating to strangers, getting them to open up, it's part of what she does. No surprise she got to know the other players so well. Even before the vote you could see there was a lot of Kenzie energy in that jury.
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On 5/22/2024 at 9:30 AM, tessabq said:
I agree that a toned-down Remy is easier to watch and also allows the other members of his team to shine.
I don't know about toned down. Did you see that russet suede duster? I was like WTF, lol. I'm not even sure it fit him properly.
And did he really say, "We went all the way." I haven't heard that since senior year of high school.
It's too bad the evil corporate woman didn't turn to Remy and sarcastically say, "Ooh, burn" when he called her "jackal."
The wedding was nice although I kept expecting tragedy.
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On 3/5/2024 at 11:13 PM, Frost said:
Casting Christopher Walken as the Emperor was a mistake. I swear, he sounded like a bad impersonator! He has a distinctive cadence, but he needs to be able to tone it down when he's acting.
All I could think was that he looked like Dr. Zachary Smith.
I haven't read any of the books, don't think I will -- the character names and languages seem like they'd be too much work.
Chalamet's performance was bloodless and uninspiring.
Normally in a movie like this, the heroine is beautiful, vulnerable, heroic or has some other quality the audience can latch onto ... Chani's only quality, apparently, was petulance. I don't get the Zendaya appeal at all.
The Austin Butler character could have been pulled from any number of other movies. Ooooh, he's being filmed in black and white! Skeeery!
Rebecca Ferguson's snarling became annoying after awhile.
Florence Pugh is probably still confused about why she or her character were in this movie.
The fat baron floating around seemed like an idea salvaged from a Mad Max remainder bin.
After the build-up by Javier Bardem's character --djinn, centipedes, etc. -- I expected Paul to face a grueling trial in the desert, but he just kinda walked off and flashed forward.
2001 A Space Odyssey called: they want the Space fetus back. That this one talks was absurd.
The Fremen vs. the big lumbering attack vehicles was like the opening of Empire Strikes Back, except the desert wasn't frozen.
The majesty of the sets, setting and cinematography informed my senses that I should be very, very impressed by this film ... but my takeaway feeling about this movie is that I can't understand what all the fuss is about. It was long, often boring, at times confusing ...
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The Brave and the Bold is one of several movie projects announced by DC Studios co-CEO and co-president James Gunn earlier this year. The film will take cues from the 2006 Batman story arc, "Batman and Son," with Gunn saying, "This [film] is the introduction of the DCU Batman. Of Bruce Wayne and also introduces our favorite Robin, Damian Wayne, who is a little son of a bitch." No casting news for The Brave and the Bold has been announced, though Guardians of the Galaxy franchise star Karen Gillan expressed interest in playing Poison Ivy in the DCU.
As a lifelong Batman fan, why would I want to see this? IMO, Damian Wayne is the worst thing to happen to the Batman mythos, worse even than Harley Quinn. What makes Gunn believe people want a Robin who is "a little son of a bitch?" Seems utterly tone deaf. Either that or it's just a big fuck-you to people like me. As far as the general public goes, it's etched into peoples' minds that Dick Grayson is Robin. Not everybody follows comic books. Most people don't know about the uninteresting parade of Dick Grayson surrogates foisted on us by DC over the years. Probably even fewer have heard of the Bat-bastard Damian Wayne. So far, the "DCU Batman" sounds like a suck-fest.
On another note, I think Karen Gillan is greatly overrated.
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10 hours ago, Kemper said:
And yes, what is happening with Meeka's "look" .. on one tv she looks all arched eyebrows and heavy no-color foundation. On my other tv the eyebrows still stand out; but the makeup looks pretty orange.
I had a sudden urge to visit St. Louis.
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12 hours ago, Kemper said:
I just saw an article on Mediaite where things got tense between Joe and Heileman today. Oakville ... did you sense that?
Heileman put his fingers too close to the snapping turtle, lol! It was beautiful to behold.
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Aww, I thought it was a bad shooting. I wanted it to be a bad shooting. It looked like a bad shooting. OA, Maggie and Scola thought it was a bad shooting! (they just didn't say it). Their feeble reassurances and attaboys sounded like they were collectively whistling past the graveyard. Hakeem hadn't even drawn the gun, still Tiff emptied her whole clip into his ribcage. Bang bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
But he had a gun in his waistband under his coat. I think he was thinking of shooting me!
What a lifeless season finale. Totally color-by-number. Not even an expansion or resolution of the Gemma-does-drugs sub-plot. I still don't get all the sturm und drang over the dead agent who appeared in half an episode. And right before our very eyes, Maggie is slowly evolving into Olivia Benson. Now Ella's going on playdates supervised by some guy Maggie just met (and did you notice that "Ella" kinda sounds like "Noah?") . If she were a fully-developed Olivia, that playdate would have gone seriously wrong by the second act. But since Maggie is still in the Olivia larval stage the playdate was allowed to simply vanish from the episode.
I'm considering a change.org petition to FREE ISOBEL CASTILLE. She is being restricted to a 25' x 25' office space and forced to wear drab clothing every day. She needs to get out once in awhile and add some color to her wardrobe, especially now that it's spring. Jubal somehow escapes the JOC every other episode so that he has free time to resolve family matters while supervising tense hostage situations. Isobel cannot thrive under these claustrophobic conditions!
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9 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
It should be available sometime in the next few hours via cbs.com on a laptop.
I haven't figured out why I get asked to provide a cable TV subscription provider login if I use my Roku TV or my iPhone.Thanks, I just figured it out. When you choose the series directly from the Prime Video homepage (it comes up for me because I have the Paramount+ subscription), the only option you are given for episode 13 is to pay $1.99. Apparently Prime is hoping users will do this rather than make extra effort. But if I search for "FBI Season 6" via the Prime Search Bar, I get search results that take me to all the episodes of Season 6, except now there are two choices for Episode 13 -- the "pay extra" option, and right below it, another choice that says "Included with your Paramount+ subscription." Basically, Amazon is trying to double-dip and make money off customers already subscribed to Prime by initially blocking access to the season finale.
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I have been watching FBI this season on Amazon Prime with a Paramount Plus subscription. All previous 12 episodes have been available to me. But now Amazon is trying to squeeze me for another $1.99 to watch this episode even though I already pay extra for Paramount+. Does anyone know a way around this?
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Most lackluster, predictable season yet. No suspense, no twists of fate, no challenges that pushed teams to their breaking points. Very little shuffling of the finishing order in the last half of the race. Too much time spent in countries where Spanish is the predominant language, giving one team an edge (not to mention "I grew up in Philadelphia," "I was a mascot," etc.).
I enjoyed Rod and Leticia (though I was offended to hear Rod dismiss the Declaration of Independence as "silly little words"). Shane and Juan were amusing too. Amber should have run away from that proposal with every bit of strength she had left.
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Well, that's because Mika knows her value.
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22 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
Detmere was supposed to drive the spaceship from the mirror universe to the museum.
I would greatly prefer an episode built around the title "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Space Museum" than anything featuring Burnham and Book.
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7 hours ago, dleighg said:
"if something happens to me, MAKE SURE you keep ordering my Balance of Nature!
I thought she might say, "If anything happens to me, Balance of Nature did it."
How is the Allegra headphone girl commercial still on the air? Is she Mr. Allegra's daughter? In the last moments of the commercial, the closer she gets to the camera, it seems like her eyes might cross.
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Enjoyed Scarborough's spirited take-down of the Supreme Court this morning. He's the only commentator I've seen who has addressed the problem from the perspective of everyday people versus the pseudo-academic posture assumed by other analysts.
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Well, at least I got a laugh from that final scene of Shirley Temple leading the off-brand Cylons in a "Long will he reign!" chant.
What are the odds that of all the worlds in all of the galaxy, the Archive would have an artifact that requires bringing the Captain's boyfriend into the main action? What an incredible coincidence! 🙄
Maybe next episode a wounded Book will have to leave Sickbay to join Michael on an away mission because they'll discover that the Progenitors all had British accents and the Power can be accessed only by someone who has a British accent! It's tragic that the rest of the cast gets short shrift for the sake of showcasing this useless character.
Why must every episode devolve into pop psychology? Oooh, I'm afraid of failing! I'm afraid people will see! TOS gave us The Immunity Syndrome. Discovery, impostor syndrome.
(and did the Booker avatar really say "the great Michael Burnham?" -- ugh.)
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I turned it off when they said Pablo was coming up.
It has irked me for 50 years and still irks me to this day that Billy Joel's music is considered rock n' roll. It's pop. Period.
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Somebody had to say something about the NYT's monthly outlier polls.
What irks me is that I had to endure 10-15 minutes of boring, self-indulgent sports banter before they got to anything resembling news. I'll probably start tuning in 5-10 minutes after the hour from now on.
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I was a bit disappointed Jubal wasn't shot. He's a very one-dimensional character. If the writers couldn't hang every Jubal-centric script on his drinking, they'd have nothing. I'd like to see more of Isobel's story.
Enough of the trope of victims fleeing through the woods at night. I have some trees in my backyard. I know I couldn't make it more than ten steps in the dark without running into one head-first and knocking myself out cold. Let alone finding a secret cave to hide in.
Benito Martinez has been around for something like 30 years, but I have never been able to watch him without seeing that blackmail scene from The Shield.
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2 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
It seems clear that Rayner has PTSD
Watching one awful episode of Discovery after another has given me PSTD (Post Star Trek Disorder)
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This one was painful to watch.
Most annoying was the Book character, constantly trying to insert himself where he doesn't belong. Orders don't apply to Book! He's the Captain's boyfriend! He can fire photo torpedoes at Discovery and the worst that happens is he has to join the Peace Corps. He can question said Captain's decisions, argue with Commanders (and the commanders go easy on him because Michael), invite himself to dangerous negotiations with deadly enemies so he can add his two cents regardless that it is disrespectful of Starfleet's highest officials AND his soulmate ...
Running a close second, Burnham acting as his apologist. "He's a good man. I trust him." Awwww. Isn't that how Book brought things to the brink of disaster last season?
I guess the writers of this show are all so young they have never seen an episode of Star Trek or A HUNDRED OTHER SHOWS where somebody escapes a cell while their partner creates a medical distraction. They probably thought they had come up with a really fresh idea.
There was no tension to the Breen negotiation. Because the Breen aren't threatening. The name Breen sounds like a shampoo. The whole scene was about as riveting as a prolonged exchange between Tilly and Adira.
But there is a silver lining. It makes me happy that this dysfunctional series is going to end with what could be its worst season yet.
Plus no Saru!
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Following up on my Laurel comments above:
As I watch each episode I keep reminding myself, "Laurel is a veterinarian."
Is there anybody here who would be okay with Laurel treating your dog or cat?
And what about the people who are clients of Dr. Stuckey? Do they watch this and think, This is my veterinarian?
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Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk
in Morning Joe
Scarborough and Mika repeatedly went MIA during this morning's show. A conversation would start and I'd be waiting for one of them to chime in ... then the camera pulls back and they're nowhere to be seen. And this was during the first hour. Then without warning they reappear again joining the conversation like they never left. Ten minutes later, repeat.
One of the times they phased back into this dimension, Mika attempted to interview one of Biden's campaign people. I think she was trying to do hard news, but she came off like a scold.