What Are You Watching

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Yes, i realized that. I should have elaborated but getting him to watch anything twice is oral surgery sans anesthesia. (Should not have mentioned that; having that tomorrow my own self, damn.)

The oral surgery or the oral surgery sans anaesthesia. The former is bad enough, the latter would need me to be dragged out from under the bed—screaming.

[mlewis78]

I have been watching some shows that are not the kind that I enjoy:

Finished Alice and Jack Tuesday night. PBS Passport but also on my PBS station. I didn't like it at all but ended up sticking with it. Wednesday I watched The Beautiful Game (2024, Bill Nighy, about Homeless World Cup Soccer. (Netflix) and then I watched 1-1/2 episodes (of 3) of Testament: The Story of Moses on Netflix. I hope I don't have any dreams of snakes, plague of frogs and locusts when I go to sleep in a while.

I also finished watching Nolly (PBS Passport and my PBS station) Tuesday night.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Yes, i realized that. I should have elaborated but getting him to watch anything twice is oral surgery sans anesthesia. (Should not have mentioned that; having that tomorrow my own self, damn.)

I'm not much of a re-watcher (or re-reader for that matter) myself. I would certainly need a good deal of time between re-watchings of a television series.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'm not much of re-watcher (or re-reader for that matter) myself. I would certainly need a good deal of time between re-watchings of a television series.

Exactly. Mr. H either, and honestly, while there are things I can watch and rewatch (yes yes yes, PERRY!), 99% of stuff, I can barely bring myself to sit through once. I've lost interest in a lot of the Acorn/Britbox stuff I used to watch...kind of a bummer, really. Like the Murdoch Mysteries, which I used to like but somewhere the past few years, meh.

Hitch

[poohbear_nc]

Finished a re-watch of Lewis - it held up quite well.

Now starting Netflix's new version of Ripley - with the marvelous Andrew Scott - filmed in glorious B&W.

@Hitch - I too do double viewings of foreign shows with subtitles - esp. the Astrid series - once I've read the dialogue I can then focus on the actors' faces on the rewatch - and fill in the dialogue from memory.

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'm not much of a re-watcher (or re-reader for that matter) myself. I would certainly need a good deal of time between re-watchings of a television series.

Same here - doesn't seem likely I'll live log enough to read every book I want to read for the first time. Fiction, that is - I have re-read science stuff in hopes of understanding it better. Same for TV/films, though I wouldn't rule out re-watching some series where I subsequently read the books they're based on. .

BTW, finished another very good Scottish thriller Payback - a few minor plot holes but kept me guessing to the end.

[Solitaire1]

YouTube videos featuring anime characters made to look like real people via AI. Here's an example using characters from Naruto:

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Finished a re-watch of Lewis - it held up quite well.

Now starting Netflix's new version of Ripley - with the marvelous Andrew Scott - filmed in glorious B&W.

@Hitch - I too do double viewings of foreign shows with subtitles - esp. the Astrid series - once I've read the dialogue I can then focus on the actors' faces on the rewatch - and fill in the dialogue from memory.

The double-trouble challenge here--and I'm not making this up--is that Mr. H is literally face-blind, or near-as as makes no never mind. It's...an uphill battle, now that we're (cough) well-aged and some of "our" hearing has left the room (a lot, really. He has the world's most expensive gd hearing aids and he still struggles mightily, plus tinnitus) and...it's just difficult, that's all. I feel sorry for him.

Hitch

[DNSB]

My spouse had developed a bad habit of pausing the show, reading the subtitles and then hitting play again. Well to me, it's a bad habit, to her, it's a necessity of life though it makes watching a 60 minute show take closer to 2 hours.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DNSB

My spouse had developed a bad habit of pausing the show, reading the subtitles and then hitting play again. Well to me, it's a bad habit, to her, it's a necessity of life though it makes watching a 60 minute show take closer to 2 hours.

I tried to get Mr. H to use the "only on replay," thinking that would split the baby but his patience does not reach that point.

Hitch

[pdurrant]

I'm watching Stranger Things. All the hype put me off starting it, but I'm rather enjoying it.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm watching Stranger Things. All the hype put me off starting it, but I'm rather enjoying it.

I confess it--I thought it was going to be absurd, too. And yup, it was, and yup, would I miss it now if I couldn't watch it? You betcha. The hype over the girl actress particularly can be off-putting, but to my mind, the boys steal the show. Actually, no, not just them. There's pretty brilliant casting and some solid writing to go 'round.

Hitch

[ownedbycats]

Star Trek S2E26 - Assignment: Earth

Yeah, this one's kinda... something. It makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's a pilot episode for a different (and never realized) series hastily rewritten to include the Star Trek characters.

Honestly, the crowning moment of this is Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock beaming down in civilian clothing into the middle of a military base that is launching a nuclear weapon (this is 1968 Cold War too -- time-travel episode) and being surprised that they're quickly arrested. I guess the scriptwriters couldn't figure out a better way to get them out of the way.

But hey, we get Spock holding a cat.

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Star Trek S2E26 - Assignment: Earth

Is this your first time watching through the OG Star-Trek series? Or a nostalgia binge?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Is this your first time watching through the OG Star-Trek series? Or a nostalgia binge?

Second time. The first time I watched in November, but between being very sick (one specific season-three episode gave me some very weird fever dreams ) and having no idea how to turn the closed-captions on, some of it was a bit lost to me.

Then I was sent the DVD set for Christmas (with subtitles) so I've been going through it again.

I've also been watching Next Generation and Voyager on CTV Sci-Fi channel. (Still can't figure out how to turn the captions on.)