Post by Ian J. BallWhat did you watch?
Fringe S1E07 'In Which We Meet Mr. Jones'. An agent has a cyborg worm
wrapped around his heart. Mr. Jones will be back. The glyphs spell
"codes".
Phillip Broyles: I'm hoping you can help. The man lying in that room is
not just a colleague. He's a friend.
Dr. Walter Bishop: I see. Do you have any mints?
Fringe S1E08 'The Equation'. A musical child prodigy is kidnapped and
Walter has to visit a friend in the asylum to help find him. While he's
there, Walter meets himself. Blue and Red become important. The glyphs
spell "taken".
During the original airing, how did people know what the glyphs spelled?
Then since that was another disc of episodes done, I watched the various
disc extras.
What Did You Watch?
I watched
Ant-Man (4K disc) 2015 movie set in the MCU. The screenplay was
co-written by Edgar Wright, who was also supposed to direct, but he was
replaced by Peyton Reed, who would go on to direct all the movies. Paul
Rudd (who also co-wrote the screenplay this one and the sequel) stars as
Scott Lang, a small time criminal who gets out of jail and finds himself
manipulated by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man into
becoming the new Ant-Man so he can team up with Pym's daughter Hope
(Evangeline Lilly) to prevent Corey Stoll from using Pym's shrinking
technology.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (4K disc) 2018 sequel which picks up after the
events of "Captain America: Civil War" to find Ant-Man under house
arrest. But thanks to the events of the first movie Scott now has a
link with Hank Pym's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is trapped in the
Quantum Realm. Hank and Hope guilt Scott into breaking his house arrest
to help them rescue Hope, but first they have to get pass a phase
shifting villain (or maybe antihero) named Ghost.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (4K disc) 2023 sequel which picks up
after the events of "Avengers: Endgame." Scott is now a minor
celebrity, and thanks to the "blip" his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn
Newton) is now a teenager. Cassie decides to secretly investigate the
quantum realm where Hope lived. Let's just ignore the fact Hope was
there for three decades and apparently no one asked her any questions
about how she survived! Anyway, Cassie sends a signal which allows Kang
the Conqueror to kidnap them and bring them into the Quantum Realm. This
one is probably the best of the three, but it has one major problem in
that it is pretty obvious that there's *no* way Ant-Man defeats Kang!
That's just not happening! On the commentary they talked a lot about
Johnathan Majors and setting him up to be the main villain of the
franchise going forward.
I suspect in "Doomsday" they will bring Majors back just to kill him
off, but I hope it's an epic battle and not just Doctor Doom ripping his
spine out in the first 5 minutes.
Watson - "The Dark Day Deduction" - Teem Watson help a vet with past
ties to Watson. This was mostly background noise.
The Equalizer - "Acceptance" - I have some major issues with episode.
The episode opens with the police hearing gun shots and then arresting a
man they found near a dead body. The man is screaming he's innocent,
and later it is revealed there is no footage of the shooting, and the
man has no gunshot residue on him, so he's released. But the man's
*defense attorney* goes to his brother, who is a police detective and
friends with the Equalizer to complain that he thinks his client is
actually guilty, and if it's revealed his client is guilty it will hurt
his reputation. In what universe is a defense attorney's reputation
hurt because a man he briefly represented turns out to be a criminal?
There wasn't even a trial, since there was zero evidence of the man's
guilt, they let him go. How is this the defense attorney's fault? He
would have been released regardless. And another are you kidding me
moment came when the Equalizer shoots a man in front of a room full of
people, including a police captain, and is then allowed to just walk
away. Even if it's a clean shooting, do you really just get to leave?
They don't even know what her name is. I'm pretty sure the news media
who was there covering the event is going to take notice and ask
questions about the unnamed woman who shot a man then was allowed to
just walk away.
Doctor Who (Disney+) - "The Well" - I forgot to mention I watched this
the other day. The Doctor is still trying to figure out a way to return
Belinda home, but she seems to be warming up to their travels together.
They make their way to 500,000 years in the future whey they join a team
of soldiers investigating why they lost contact with a colony. Yeah,
they ripped off "Aliens." But it was a good episode, and a sequel to an
earlier episode.