Have you watched Captain Marvel or read the comics?
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Finally got sick of binge-watching Glee, so now I’m watching:
Anglo-French detective cosy set on a fictional Caribbean island.
Extremely lightweight and formulaic, and you don’t want to think too seriously about the historical/political aspects of the setting, but good low-stress fun. The early seasons are better than the later version.
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Glee got really mean after a while and I stopped watching after a season or two.
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Have you watched Captain Marvel or read the comics?
Just a few times. I’m saying that I assume flerkins to be shape-shifting empath cousins to the ravenous energy-eating nightmare beast who attempted to eat the Sovereign stash of batteries in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. If that wasn’t already clear. That’s why the Skrulls recognized that it wasn’t a cat and why the Kree scan everything they meet. If the flerkin could disarm Fury just by being a cat, imagine the trouble a flerkin could get into as a pupps with does big sad eyes and those look at those ears!
I should have drawn a picture. I need coffee.
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I decided to go back and pick up Inspector Morse before moving on to Lewis in the timeline.
OMG, the misogyny of the 80s – Morse is is a functioning beer-only alcoholic who actively seeks romantic relationships with at least half of the women he’s investigating. Yikes!
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Because he only ever meets new people through work, which is even sadder.
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But that, of course, is intentional not inadvertent. Morse is a self-destructive old man who’s life is in a downward spiral and is only good at one thing: solving crimes. And John Thaw does it so well.
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So at long last Prime video has a Chromecast feature.
Since Amazon and Google are supposed to be mortal enemies, it only seemed right to try it out by rewatching Good Omens.
And you know? Most of the way through episode 1, and it’s working far better than direct-to-phone or off-my-laptop ever did.
Obviously either a sign of the apocalypse or a back room deal. Probably both.
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I rewatched Marjorie Prime tonight – a really lovely indie SF film – and it references My Best Friend’s Wedding, so I thought I should finally watch it.
And, um, I’m at the email part? And so far all I’m getting is weddings are awful and make everyone involved with them awful.
And Julia Roberts keeps doing these acrobatic pratfalls with furniture which I think are supposed to be endearingly charming or something.
ETA: autocorrect
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Yeah, I’m sorry, I give Kimberly and Michael 6 months. Sure Julianne is a POS for breaking up the wedding, but Kimberly is a total doormat who’s incapable of making herself happy, and Michael is too oblivious.
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This is like a watered-down version of Othello with an inept Iago as the main character.
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Okay, that… that was a shitty ending. I mean, yay, even after being awful you still can have friends left, but.
And I still give Kimberly and Michael six months. Besides a common tendency to stridently insist, “but I LOVE him/her!” they seem to have nothing in common.
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@gadgetgirl and any other interested Canadians
Just got an email that Archer S10 has hit Netflix.
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I saw that, thank you!
It will be good brain bleach after that… well, it was marketed as a rom com, but it wasn’t.
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@knoxblox
Not to say there isn’t sexism in Morse. In the early episodes, for example, the policewomen are never given anything substantive to do. They just appear in the background of scenes to assist when a female character is being arrested. I assume this must reflect actual police procedures at the time.
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Ignoring two hours of US military propaganda with bad dialogue.
BiL and dad decided to watch Maverick.
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Damn. This American tried searching for Archer on Netflix and instead got Pacific Heat.
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And The Dark Crystal has dropped. Decisions, decisions.
(I did all of She-Ra Season 3 in one evening).
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Went with The Dark Crystal. I have many feelings and it is late, but I am glad that for one character, they went with a voice actor who understands that certain things must be done right instead of putting their own spin on things.
Simon Pegg and his “Hmmmm…” bring my childhood right back.
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Finished The Boys.
Thought it was decent.
Good casting. Erin Moriarty really sold the bright-eyed, do-gooder to me.
Looking forward to S2.
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