An orange in an apple orchard
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Not sure if the ratio between on my watch later list for years versus yeah, I’d say watch that; is a good or bad ratio.
Also, this reminds me that I never watched the finale of Maid-sama. That was a surprisingly good comedy.
Watching The Outer Limits – s02e9 – Trial by Fire, I find myself wondering somewhat just what kinds of civilizations we could find out there amongst the stars.
Based on our own civilizations throughout history, I rather think there’s three ways that works out.
In a perfect world, we would probably have a first contact out of Star Trek. But I don’t really have that high a hope for humanity, so I expect our early associations to look more like Avatar or Enemy Mine.
In a way though, I worry that a more likely scenario given how difficult truly foreign beings are, and how fucked up we are, things would turn out more like the Earth-Minbari war in B5. Which could be summarized as a hot head meets cultural differences kicks off the near extimerination of the human race. Except I don’t think the Battle of the Line would turn out so fortuitous, so much as like an ID4 assault ship firing its primary weapon.
In my continuing binge watch of The Outer Limits, the s1e19 episode “I, Robot” is a nice one.
Leonard Nimoy turning up as the lawyer defending Adam is a treat; in a series that often had good talented actors pop up. Looking up the episode, it’s also interesting that apparently, it was directed by Adam Nimoy.
The episode also touches ona subject that I’ve always found fascinating, the issue of where biological man and mechanical machine intersect as person. In particular, I would say that Adam Link’s story is that of a persons, and if his actions aren’t human in the end, I don’t know what is.
One side effect of watching old TV, is sometimes you squint and go, “Hey, is that?” or “Gee, they were younger then”.
Like watching the S1:E09 episode of The Outer Limits: Corner of the Eye and spotting Luís Ferreira as the younger preacher, in an episode involving demons from outer space. An actor, I probably remember most for his role as the C.O. in Stargate: Universe.
I’m also pretty sure that my grandfather would have enjoyed this episode, going by his notion that Christ would probably involve a space ship. Among a few Fox Mulder tendencies, and a fondness for Erich von Däniken’s books.
Perhaps it comes from being raised by negative people, I kind of like the Cigarette Smoking Man’s Life is Like a Box of Chocolates speech more than the more famous one.
I also find the character curious and unique as a villain. The CSM’s position yields a little power, and in The X-Files, he might very well be considered one of the most powerful people in the country in terms of influence from the shadows. But on the flip side: his life is largely a sad, little one. In which about the only good things are a pack of Morleys. Like really, if you laid out what you don’t want your middle aged life to look like: Cancer Man’s off duty time is what you don’t want yours to end up becoming.
And odds are, his best friend is the nearest seven eleven or vending machine with his brand in stock.
Watching Stumptown, I think I’m definitely going to enjoy this series and how full of character is. Characters make entertaining stories.
Also, I’m not sure what’s worse: how much Dex’s car reminds me of the two most significant Fords in my life thus far, or that I too, would probably take that deal for the price, lol.
Sitting down to watch an episode of The Good Place during an afternoon break, and ending up binge watching all of season three: reminds me that is kind of how the rest of the show went.
A couple years ago: I had heard about it from a friend and decided to try a couple episodes. Didn’t think much of it at first but then fork, I found myself binge watching the crap out of the first season. #TheGoodPlace was definitely worth watching ^_^.
In Battlestar Galactica ’04 there is a reoccurring greeting between Adama and Starbuck that goes something like this:
What do you hear?
Just the rain.
Then grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Watching s04e13 The Oath, when Galactica defends into mutiny there’s a scene where Kara saves Apollo’s ass, showing up with a pistol in each hand as he’s being led away by a hit squad.
I may have recalled this greeting and pictured Lee with whiskers….lol
The painful math of availability: when you start calculating the cost of pre-ordering a recent series about to land on disc, versus how much of your wishlist could squeeze into the same price.
I’m a touch tempted to nab the pre-order of That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Season while the first part of season one is both available and cheaper than release pricing. But at the same time checking my Amazon list: the same price range when you factor in shipping (and Prime) would equal nabbing two series–older ones more likely to disappear. Where as Rimuru might disappear before I get around to acquiring it someday.
Many series see a western releases these days but I’ve generally find availability becomes a problem within the decade. One of my favorites is quite expensive and very scarce if you want the Blu-ray, and the series only aired ~5 years ago; even its license holder only offers DVD versions on their store front :'(. Many older series often I can only find DVD releases if they made a bargain bin recycle or apply a bit of careful hunting. One in particular on my shelf kind of fit both scenarios but over a decade ago, having been adapted from a visual novel that is now ~15 years old and quite damned unavailable today.
This leads me to worrying about how much good stuff might simply disappear.
Actually that makes me think about Robot Jox. As a film that impacted me greatly as a child, I kind of leapt at the DVD offering and was disappointed by the ultra-craptacular release. It was nearly unwatchable. And then bloody amazed when the Blu-ray came out with an excellent transfer–for a film so little known that I never really expected a post-VHS anything to happen.
Sigh. It’s both a good and a bad thing that I don’t buy many discs per year, be it anime or film. Actually, I’m pretty sure Marvel’s release schedule would bankrupt me otherwise, lol.
Seen “The Umbrella Academy” on Netflix yet?
When this first showed up in the listings I debated whether it would be worth the time and filed out under worry about later.
Well after two days of watching the crap out of it: I’m pretty sure I’ll be watching season two when it happens 😙.