^The Rip was pretty good.

Netflix Just Made All Your James Bond Dreams Come True

I'm watching Pluribus. It stands out so much over anything I've watched in years, acting, cinematography, attention to details...it is also totally about ChatGPT AI in general, isn't it. 

Ok, I've now seen the modern version of The Running Man.

It was ok, as such things go. Not a very good film, really, but at least it did feel more like it actually used the book as inspiration. The main chr/actor tho - I was assuming the uber angry/max bad temper posture/walk/expression was intentional, and it didn't work. It was like a bad SNL angry-man satire. The pacing/editing killed it, like many things these days. I mean, I felt more attachment to everything going on (and chrs) in ye old Lethal Weapon series. These days it's just set piece after set piece sewn together with nylon threads.

Edit: actually, a lot of stuff these days feels akin to doing a TikTok scroll pattern.  "Set piece", finger-scroll, "Set piece", finger scroll. Makes sense I suppose.

2nd Edit: I saw Matt Damon/Ben Affleck's interview re: Netflix asking them to put a huge action sequence in the 1st 5 minutes to keep phone-users attention at the start, and they made it sound like that's a totally new thing/ruining movies. Matrix? Bond, sometimes? It's more how it's done - plus whether the film makes that 1st attention grabber worth the rest of the time, to the end.

Edited January 25Jan 25 by LadyCrimson

I am watching The Pitt right now. Can't remember the last time a tv show was stressing me out so much. I've just finished ep8 and it feels like I need to take vacation from being overworked. 

a knigth of the seven kingdoms. 

It's..... alrigh I guess. It's deliberately slow paced, and world build focused, which is great. I'm just not sure whether I care about the protagonist. 

 

We've been rewatching Schitt's Creek.

On 1/27/2026 at 11:16 AM, Lexx said:

I am watching The Pitt right now. Can't remember the last time a tv show was stressing me out so much. I've just finished ep8 and it feels like I need to take vacation from being overworked. 

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Yeah it's a stressful setting.
I remember when my sister was doing her internship stuff in Boston area. She came home to visit once and looked like she'd lost 20 pounds (she's 5' 10" and wasn't overweight to start with). That was also when her attitude shifted dramatically for a while, towards the negative. My mother worried about her a lot.

Finally finished watching Rings of Power after a bit of a summer hiatus. Overall, still rate it as being OK, and the first season would have got a lot less criticism if it had been more like this. Most of the criticisms of the first 6 episodes still stand, though most of them are just kind of annoying more than anything. Rather less of the extremely annoying once you notice it indirect speechifying in the last two eps at least due to all the ackshun.

However, much of the improvement was due to what we seemed to deliberately not get much of in S1: aping the still far superior movies. Balrog, Sarumanesque wizard standoff; the siege of Eregion was... strongly reminiscent of Helm's Deep, even allowing for both having to have similarities ie both being sieges. And it still has the ultimate problem: if Sauron can subvert Celebrimbor's mind- and he'd be at worst the third greatest elf on ME behind single G and double G- then what does he really need the rings for?

Fallout tv show season 2 ended today. Tbh, not sure what to make of it. Was it bad? Not really. Was it good? Meh. Felt really short to me. 8 episodes and barely anything happened. I couldn't even tell you what exactly happened in those 8 episodes except a very rough outline. At the end of the day it was a lot of fan service and memberberries. Don't think I care too much about the changed lore implications, but I'd be lying if I say it doesn't hurt at least a little bit.