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Sep. 16th, 2023 04:11 pmYesterday, after deciding against watching any more Andor, I poked around Disney Plus to see what else I might watch on my own or with A. After that, A. and I watched the first 3 shorts in Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire. They were really good! Afro futurism, animated shorts (about 15 minutes each), each one very different, but all fun and thought-provoking.
Then we watched the first episode of Ahsoka. We never watched Clone Wars, altho we watched 3 Mandalorian seasons and both seasons of The Bad Batch. With the assistance of google, we muddled through. It was glorious watching a show with five major female characters and lots of representation interact with each other as shifting comrades and as enemies. Altho the go into a temple to get the rubik’s cube and then solve the puzzle associated with it theme felt very Indy Jones, it was fine.
I feel very optimistic that we can continue to watch Ahsoka and Kizazi Moto, and I am also working to assemble a list of other things to try (and things to avoid!) on Disney Plus and elsewhere.
Today, was going to watch maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I noticed the Paramount app as I was navigating to Disney Plus and decided to try an episode of Strange New Worlds. So far, visual imagery of an old-skool telephone monopoly era black rotary dial phone and a horse in the snow are really killing the vibe I was aiming for. I’ll give it at least a few more minutes, tho, because the intro was strong.
ETA: There is a fireplace in Captain Pike’s quarters. Why.
OK, so, this is another one of those Don’t Have a Horrible Nuclear Type Annihilation Like Us episodes, a real staple of ST shows. In this case, they have a warp bomb, because they watched events from Star Trek Discovery? Maybe? I haven’t watched any Discovery so I don’t really know. In any event, a planet that was not nearly developed enough got to see some stuff they should not have and nearly killed themselves except for a heroic speech by the Captain of the Enterprise, in this case, Pike.
ETAYA:
Because A. wanted to watch something, we watched episode 2 of Ahsoka, “Toil and Trouble”.
I especially like Sabine’s new haircut. That’s a great montage in which interior change is depicted through symbolic external changes. The external changes are explicitly acknowledged in ways that implicitly acknowledge and accept the interior changes, and also the adjustment of relationship which goes along with. Really nice!
The visit to the Corellia shipyard mirrors the Coruscant recycling sequences in which the New Republic attempts to repurpose Imperial equipment with mixed results due to the influence of Empire holdouts exploiting mercenary tendencies. Once again, we have 5 women, 2 villainous, 3 heroic but disturbed by their difficult pasts and losses, interacting in comradeship and in conflict. Great stuff!
Edited to add still more:
It would be a stretch to say that I “watched” Black Adam, however, once I realized it was available on Prime, I was like, aha! If I don’t have to pay any extra, I won’t put any more into it than I am enjoying. I enjoyed it immensely while cooking. I left R. a few cobs but nuked briefly and then froze the rest of the corn (minus the cobs). I composted the last of the mushrooms from 2 weeks ago, because they were … not good. I cooked some of this delivery’s mushrooms. I cleaned the counters, emptied the dishwasher and reloaded it. I may run it again. This was nice. I got a lot done and it was really enjoyable. The Pierce Brosnan character was incredibly annoying, but had a great death (oh, yeah, spoilers, whatever). Cavill’s Superman was totally plausible for his 30 second or whatever cameo. I have never found Cavill very compelling, but this round was. I have no idea if he could sustain that for a movie, but for 30 seconds, it was fine. There were a lot of nice family moments in the movie with the mom and her son, and the doofy electrician guy. The villain was suitably villainous. Amanda Waller is always … awful in that Amanda Waller way. As DC entries go, not as good as Wonder Woman, but definitely the next best after a Wonder Woman movie.
Then we watched the first episode of Ahsoka. We never watched Clone Wars, altho we watched 3 Mandalorian seasons and both seasons of The Bad Batch. With the assistance of google, we muddled through. It was glorious watching a show with five major female characters and lots of representation interact with each other as shifting comrades and as enemies. Altho the go into a temple to get the rubik’s cube and then solve the puzzle associated with it theme felt very Indy Jones, it was fine.
I feel very optimistic that we can continue to watch Ahsoka and Kizazi Moto, and I am also working to assemble a list of other things to try (and things to avoid!) on Disney Plus and elsewhere.
Today, was going to watch maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I noticed the Paramount app as I was navigating to Disney Plus and decided to try an episode of Strange New Worlds. So far, visual imagery of an old-skool telephone monopoly era black rotary dial phone and a horse in the snow are really killing the vibe I was aiming for. I’ll give it at least a few more minutes, tho, because the intro was strong.
ETA: There is a fireplace in Captain Pike’s quarters. Why.
OK, so, this is another one of those Don’t Have a Horrible Nuclear Type Annihilation Like Us episodes, a real staple of ST shows. In this case, they have a warp bomb, because they watched events from Star Trek Discovery? Maybe? I haven’t watched any Discovery so I don’t really know. In any event, a planet that was not nearly developed enough got to see some stuff they should not have and nearly killed themselves except for a heroic speech by the Captain of the Enterprise, in this case, Pike.
ETAYA:
Because A. wanted to watch something, we watched episode 2 of Ahsoka, “Toil and Trouble”.
I especially like Sabine’s new haircut. That’s a great montage in which interior change is depicted through symbolic external changes. The external changes are explicitly acknowledged in ways that implicitly acknowledge and accept the interior changes, and also the adjustment of relationship which goes along with. Really nice!
The visit to the Corellia shipyard mirrors the Coruscant recycling sequences in which the New Republic attempts to repurpose Imperial equipment with mixed results due to the influence of Empire holdouts exploiting mercenary tendencies. Once again, we have 5 women, 2 villainous, 3 heroic but disturbed by their difficult pasts and losses, interacting in comradeship and in conflict. Great stuff!
Edited to add still more:
It would be a stretch to say that I “watched” Black Adam, however, once I realized it was available on Prime, I was like, aha! If I don’t have to pay any extra, I won’t put any more into it than I am enjoying. I enjoyed it immensely while cooking. I left R. a few cobs but nuked briefly and then froze the rest of the corn (minus the cobs). I composted the last of the mushrooms from 2 weeks ago, because they were … not good. I cooked some of this delivery’s mushrooms. I cleaned the counters, emptied the dishwasher and reloaded it. I may run it again. This was nice. I got a lot done and it was really enjoyable. The Pierce Brosnan character was incredibly annoying, but had a great death (oh, yeah, spoilers, whatever). Cavill’s Superman was totally plausible for his 30 second or whatever cameo. I have never found Cavill very compelling, but this round was. I have no idea if he could sustain that for a movie, but for 30 seconds, it was fine. There were a lot of nice family moments in the movie with the mom and her son, and the doofy electrician guy. The villain was suitably villainous. Amanda Waller is always … awful in that Amanda Waller way. As DC entries go, not as good as Wonder Woman, but definitely the next best after a Wonder Woman movie.
