shallowness

I’ve seen the trailer for Fantastic Beasts 3: Dumbledore’s Something, and I’ve got two thoughts:

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Having said that, I doubt that I’ll see it in the cinema – I’m going to miss The Batman and the opportunity to rank it among the other Batman films, even though it features Catwoman and an intriguing cast. But it sounds like its aesthetic is not very me friendly ATM.

But disc 4 of Scorpion season 4:

I liked ‘Wave Goodbye’ less than ‘The Hunker Games’ and ‘Lighthouse of the Risng Sun’, and I liked ‘Nerd, Wind and Fire’ more than the other three.

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The West Wing

3.17 Stirred

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3.18 Enemies Foreign and Domestic

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The West Wing - 3.15 Dead Irish Writers

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3.16 The Poet Laureate

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I’ve seen the Downton Abbey: A New Era teaser trailer, ( Read more... )

Also, I’m glad JRR Tolkien never knew they names a storm after Arwen.


Strictly Week 10

Found out on Friday that Cynthia would be back as a replacement judge but in a different seat because Motsi had a COVID contact/wrong vaccine/lives in Germany but Craig would be back.

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It figures that when I posted about the Strictly results on Monday morning, It Takes Two had some interesting stuff. ( Read more... )

Also, I forgot to do this last week, but Dean Stockwell passed away, and having just finished watching him in BSG, I was touched. I first knew him from Quantum Leap – not that I watched it avidly, bt I saw a few episodes - and then several years later when I watched the The Thin Man sequels, there wee!Dean Stockwell was playing Nick and Nora’s kid. Having read his obit, that isn’t a anything like representative of his career.

The West Wing 3.11 100,000 Airplanes

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3.12 The Two Bartlets

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BSG 4.18 Islanded in a Sea of Stars

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I’ve started watching Miss Scarlet and the Duke. It was sold as being inspired by Sherlock, which is stretching it beyond, perhaps, the opening credits where Miss Scarlet is eleventy times bigger than ‘the Duke’, because otherwise it’s your female private detective in a sexist historical period show. Said period is Victorian, so the show is so less well lit than if it were in the twentieth century.

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