JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JJune 7, 2024 at 5:40am
I finally started watching the Fallout series. It's seriously violent, but the first ep has me interested.
ClarkKent_DC > Jeff of Earth-JJune 7, 2024 at 6:06am
The other day, I happened to catch the final two episodes of Maude on some oldies channel. I find I'm less inclined to sing Norman Lear's praises as most people are, as his shows are marked by people always arguing, and at the top of their lungs to boot. That's Maude, and Maude Findlay, all over. But for the final three episodes (I didin't catch the first of the three), Lear blew up the format.
Maude was one of the ladies who lunch in Tuckahoe, New York, a suburb of Manhattan. A flaming, tart-tounged liberal, Lear takes this all the way in the sixth season, with Maude appointed to finish the term of a congresswoman who died in office. The final three episodes are about her and husband Walter getting situated in Washington, D.C., and her meeting her staff and learning How the Game Is Played.
I don't think Maude has aged well, but then, as noted, I'm not the biggest Norman Lear fan.
TWILIGHT ZONE: Now that I'm finished with Friends and am looking for something different to watch, I decided to revisit The Twilight Zone. I thought I had seen all of these, but I've already watched a few episodes (from the middle of season one, which is where ME TV happens to be) I had never seen before.
The Baron > Jeff of Earth-JJune 27, 2024 at 10:53pm
I fell asleep watching Mike and the Bots riff on The Horror of Party Beach.
DOCTOR WHO: We started watching Doctor Who tonight (the Fourteenth officially, but the Sixteenth by my count). Actually, the first episode aired quite some time ago, so we started with the second. The first ended with Ruby Sunday (the new companion) entering the TARDIS, and that's exactly where the second picked up, so this is actually a pretty good "jumping on point." I think this Doctor/Companion pairing has good energy together. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
Of course, if you throw in the Hurt Doctor, and the fact that Tennant 1.0 could be counted as 1.1 and 1.2, then Gatwa could be counted as the Seventeenth, if you wanted, and that's not even dealing with the Martin and other pre-Hartnell Doctors.
I don't count the pre-Hartnell incarnations because they are not "Doctors" per se, but there is no way I don't include the War Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor.
And I'm hoping RTD finally nails down the sequence of the latter. (It wouldn't take much; just a brief conversation.)
On Thursday we finished watching season one of the Fifteenth Doctor* and Ruby, then we went back to re-watch "The Church on Ruby Road." I remembered the plot pretty well but I had forgotten that I didn't particularly care for the episode (which probably, subconsciously, accounts for the fact we put off watching the new season for so long). As soon as we started watching it I not only remembered that I didn't like it, but why I didn't like it. The good news is, I liked all eight of the other episodes better than "The Church on Ruby Road." It used to be, after I discovered Big Finish, I decided that "Doctor Who" lived on audio, and we were treated to televised episodes only once in a while. But now that I no longer have a daily commute, I haven't listened to any audios since COVID hit. (Tracy tells me that Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill have recently signed on to do audios for Big Finish.)
I not only like the rest of Gatwa's first season better than the first episode, I can honestly say that I like the entire season better than any since RTD left. That's no shade on Smith or Capaldi or Whittaker (or any of their companions); I just think Gatwa's first entire season was better than any of the others'. At one point, about midway through, I suddenly realized "This is my favorite episode of the season," even though I had several left to watch. Now that we have finsihed the season, my initial assessment stands. (And the one after that was my second favorite.) As soon as we finsihed watching "The Church on Ruby road" for the second time last night, Tracy said, "I could just watch this season on a loop over and over."
*Since Bob's post last week, I have gone back and re-evaluated how I number the Doctors; I still count Gatwa as 16, however.
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I finally started watching the Fallout series. It's seriously violent, but the first ep has me interested.
The other day, I happened to catch the final two episodes of Maude on some oldies channel. I find I'm less inclined to sing Norman Lear's praises as most people are, as his shows are marked by people always arguing, and at the top of their lungs to boot. That's Maude, and Maude Findlay, all over. But for the final three episodes (I didin't catch the first of the three), Lear blew up the format.
I don't think Maude has aged well, but then, as noted, I'm not the biggest Norman Lear fan.
i watched the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards ("on CBS!" we were incessantly reminded at each commercial break).
I remember watching the first such ceremony.
TWILIGHT ZONE: Now that I'm finished with Friends and am looking for something different to watch, I decided to revisit The Twilight Zone. I thought I had seen all of these, but I've already watched a few episodes (from the middle of season one, which is where ME TV happens to be) I had never seen before.
I fell asleep watching Mike and the Bots riff on The Horror of Party Beach.
DOCTOR WHO: We started watching Doctor Who tonight (the Fourteenth officially, but the Sixteenth by my count). Actually, the first episode aired quite some time ago, so we started with the second. The first ended with Ruby Sunday (the new companion) entering the TARDIS, and that's exactly where the second picked up, so this is actually a pretty good "jumping on point." I think this Doctor/Companion pairing has good energy together. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
The Gatwa Doctor is the Fifteenth, "offically":
Of course, if you throw in the Hurt Doctor, and the fact that Tennant 1.0 could be counted as 1.1 and 1.2, then Gatwa could be counted as the Seventeenth, if you wanted, and that's not even dealing with the Martin and other pre-Hartnell Doctors.
I don't count the pre-Hartnell incarnations because they are not "Doctors" per se, but there is no way I don't include the War Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor.
And I'm hoping RTD finally nails down the sequence of the latter. (It wouldn't take much; just a brief conversation.)
On Thursday we finished watching season one of the Fifteenth Doctor* and Ruby, then we went back to re-watch "The Church on Ruby Road." I remembered the plot pretty well but I had forgotten that I didn't particularly care for the episode (which probably, subconsciously, accounts for the fact we put off watching the new season for so long). As soon as we started watching it I not only remembered that I didn't like it, but why I didn't like it. The good news is, I liked all eight of the other episodes better than "The Church on Ruby Road." It used to be, after I discovered Big Finish, I decided that "Doctor Who" lived on audio, and we were treated to televised episodes only once in a while. But now that I no longer have a daily commute, I haven't listened to any audios since COVID hit. (Tracy tells me that Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill have recently signed on to do audios for Big Finish.)
I not only like the rest of Gatwa's first season better than the first episode, I can honestly say that I like the entire season better than any since RTD left. That's no shade on Smith or Capaldi or Whittaker (or any of their companions); I just think Gatwa's first entire season was better than any of the others'. At one point, about midway through, I suddenly realized "This is my favorite episode of the season," even though I had several left to watch. Now that we have finsihed the season, my initial assessment stands. (And the one after that was my second favorite.) As soon as we finsihed watching "The Church on Ruby road" for the second time last night, Tracy said, "I could just watch this season on a loop over and over."
*Since Bob's post last week, I have gone back and re-evaluated how I number the Doctors; I still count Gatwa as 16, however.
That '90s Show, Pt. 3 drops August 22.
I didn't even know there was a Part Two!
You've got to tell me these things.
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