On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
little TV:

soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
(kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
is where Clyde is hiding out.)
I didn't even get to GH yesterday...

Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.

What did you watch?

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>little TV:
>
>soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>(kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
>down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
>is where Clyde is hiding out.)
> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>
>Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.

It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.

>What did you watch?

Only thing I managed to watch was TRACKER which was just okay as
described in the previous day's WDYW.

What did you watch?

On 4/16/2024 6:37 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>> little TV:
>>
>> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
>> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
>> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
>> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>>
>> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>
> It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.
>

You're probably right. How did Korg mess up directing the sequel so badly?

This dropped the other week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRDC4UrR0c&t=2s

>> What did you watch?
>
> Only thing I managed to watch was TRACKER which was just okay as
> described in the previous day's WDYW.
>
> What did you watch?

I watched:

Fallout (Amazon Prime) - The Target" - Episode 2. Episode 1 had three
main characters, "Lucy" (Ella Purnell) a young woman from the Vault
where a 1950s/1960s style American civilization survived the apocalypse;
"The Ghoul" (Walton Goggins) who was a pre-war famous actor and somehow
hundreds of years later he's still alive, more or less; and "Maximus"
(Aaron Moten) who basically stole a mech suit of armor. Episode 2 has
the three characters converging on a small town with each taking an
interest in a mysterious man played by Michael Emerson. I know playing
a mysterious character who knows more than he's letting on is a stretch
for Emerson, but somehow he pulls it off.

"The Head" - Episode 3 - This felt like filler with no real character
development or movement, but just stuff happening to fill the running time.

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> On 4/16/2024 6:37 AM, shawn wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>> little TV:
>>>
>>> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>>> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>>> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>>> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
>>> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>>> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
>>> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
>>> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>>>
>>> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>>> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>>
>> It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.
>>
>
> You're probably right. How did Korg mess up directing the sequel so badly?
>

It had Natalie Fortman in it. She ruins everything. It’s in her contract
and if it’s not, she insists it is anyway.

>
> This dropped the other week:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRDC4UrR0c&t=2s
>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Only thing I managed to watch was TRACKER which was just okay as
>> described in the previous day's WDYW.

Oooo ooo that was me!

>>
>> What did you watch?
>
>
> I watched:
>
> Fallout (Amazon Prime) - The Target" - Episode 2. Episode 1 had three
> main characters, "Lucy" (Ella Purnell) a young woman from the Vault
> where a 1950s/1960s style American civilization survived the apocalypse;
> "The Ghoul" (Walton Goggins) who was a pre-war famous actor and somehow
> hundreds of years later he's still alive, more or less; and "Maximus"
> (Aaron Moten) who basically stole a mech suit of armor. Episode 2 has
> the three characters converging on a small town with each taking an
> interest in a mysterious man played by Michael Emerson. I know playing
> a mysterious character who knows more than he's letting on is a stretch
> for Emerson, but somehow he pulls it off.

I stopped about the time we first saw him. His casting just really worked
against the story for me.

>
> "The Head" - Episode 3 - This felt like filler with no real character
> development or movement, but just stuff happening to fill the running time.
>

--
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
> little TV:
>
> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>
> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>

And yet it may be the best of the Thor movies, which is just really sad.

> What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

NCIS 10,000

The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!

No? At least that might’ve been interesting.

A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
(no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).

This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!

These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.

Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
Gibbs. I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene. And
even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.

But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
of their grievances at all.

Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
case.

Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.

This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/16/2024 6:37 AM, shawn wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>>> little TV:
>>>>
>>>> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>>>> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>>>> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>>>> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly taken
>>>> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>>>> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think this
>>>> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
>>>> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>>>>
>>>> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>>>> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>>>
>>> It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.
>>>
>>
>> You're probably right. How did Korg mess up directing the sequel so badly?
>
> It had Natalie Fortman

Hmmmm... What else has Natalie Fortman been in?

;p

> in it. She ruins everything. It’s in her contract
> and if it’s not, she insists it is anyway.
>
>> This dropped the other week:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRDC4UrR0c&t=2s
>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Only thing I managed to watch was TRACKER which was just okay as
>>> described in the previous day's WDYW.
>
> Oooo ooo that was me!

On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
> Hey, thanks for asking!
>
> NCIS 10,000
>
> The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!
>
> No? At least that might’ve been interesting.
>
> A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
> on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
> (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).

Booo!

(Who is the Ice Queen?...)

> This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
> villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
> taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
> taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
> mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
> been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!
>
> These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
> away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.
>
> Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
> via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
> Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
> an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
> Gibbs.

So, this was just archival footage?

(It really seems like Harmon has *retired* retired from acting. It
doesn't seem like he'll show up in anything ever again. Kind of like
Richard Dean Anderson.)

> I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene.

Did they have Kate?! Did they have Jenny Shephard?!! Did they have
Vivian Blackadder?!!!

> And
> even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.

Hopefully with gratuitous Georgina Haig footage!! ;p

> But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
> whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
> target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
> their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
> episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
> thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
> reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
> of their grievances at all.
>
> Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
> case.

So Fornell was actually in the episode?

> Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.
>
> This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
> previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
> BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
> annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
> Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
> from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
> On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>
>> NCIS 10,000
>>
>> The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!
>>
>> No? At least that might’ve been interesting.
>>
>> A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
>> on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
>> (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).
>
> Booo!
>
> (Who is the Ice Queen?...)

That’s the title of the JAG NCIS pilot that they paid off the judge to say
wasn’t actually the pilot so they could steal $100 million from Belisarius.
The actual ice queen actress was jag’s real life wife.

>
>> This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
>> villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
>> taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
>> taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
>> mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
>> been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!
>>
>> These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
>> away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.
>>
>> Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
>> via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
>> Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
>> an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
>> Gibbs.
>
> So, this was just archival footage?

Yeah, just a bunch of de-saturated clips from a long time ago.

>
> (It really seems like Harmon has *retired* retired from acting. It
> doesn't seem like he'll show up in anything ever again. Kind of like
> Richard Dean Anderson.)

At least MacGyver does convention appearances.

While they showed archive footage of Gibbs several times they didn’t
mention him and I don’t think we ever heard his name.

>
>> I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene.
>
> Did they have Kate?! Did they have Jenny Shephard?!! Did they have
> Vivian Blackadder?!!!

There was a clip of Kate and a mention of her sister. I don’t recall Jenny.
They mentioned an old NCIS Director but I don’t know if it was the first
guy or somebody we’d never heard of.

Good grief Ian, I already mentioned to Blackadder and you already
responded!

>
>> And
>> even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.
>
> Hopefully with gratuitous Georgina Haig footage!! ;p

New Orleans was just a shot of Gibbs and quantum Leap and Perth was just a
face shot of the woman who sometimes has boobs and sometimes doesn’t.
Hawaii literally phoned in her appearance next to Danielle.

The IMDb entry for Olivia Swan seems to be totally messed up. It says she
was archive footage in this but doesn’t mention NCIS Perth at all.

IMDb also says there was stock footage of two people from Yankee White, and
one guy from the second NCIS episode that I have no idea, why. But it
doesn’t mention any of the footage of the actual characters.

>
>> But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
>> whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
>> target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
>> their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
>> episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
>> thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
>> reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
>> of their grievances at all.
>>
>> Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
>> case.
>
> So Fornell was actually in the episode?

Yes, they blew up his home, causing no damage so they brought him in to
keep him safe which helped since he was the only one who remembered the
original pilot and now he’s looking for another couch to sleep on.

Fornell was the only person it made any sense for the villain to go after
and all they did was place a harmless charge in front of his house.

I think the only in person guest stars were Fornell and Vance’s annoying
son, and literal phone ins from the two girls from LA and Hawaii. Everybody
else was just old Stock footage. They mentioned Vance’s wife and daughter,
but didn’t show them. In fact, I think Danielle got Vance’s daughter
confused with LL Cool J‘s daughter.

>
>> Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.
>>
>> This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
>> previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
>> BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
>> annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
>> Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
>> from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.
>
>
>

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

On 4/16/2024 2:40 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>
>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2024 6:37 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>>>> little TV:
>>>>>
>>>>> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>>>>> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>>>>> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>>>>> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly
>>>>> taken
>>>>> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>>>>> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think
>>>>> this
>>>>> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
>>>>> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>>>>> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>>>>
>>>> It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're probably right.  How did Korg mess up directing the sequel so
>>> badly?
>>
>> It had Natalie Fortman
>
> Hmmmm... What else has Natalie Fortman been in?
>
> ;p
>
Anim's Skynet controlled phone misspelled "Fartman"....

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 4/16/2024 2:40 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>> On 4/16/2024 6:37 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:26:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>>>>> little TV:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> soaps: DOOL - Mostly Holly/NuTate stuff, with Brady, NuTheresa and
>>>>>> Nicole trying to pour cold water on it. But EJ double-crosses Stefan
>>>>>> (kind of disappointed he is still around - I figured Stefan had been
>>>>>> written out...), and then Brady, so really hoping EJ gets majorly
>>>>>> taken
>>>>>> down soon... Meanwhile, Julie continues to ruin Johnny's and Chanel's
>>>>>> honeymoon... until Chanel goes missing in the snow! (I still think
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> is where Clyde is hiding out.)
>>>>>> I didn't even get to GH yesterday...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aside from that, later in the evening, I left "Thor: Ragnarok" on as
>>>>>> background noise - while chock full of cameos, the movie is just OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was okay with Korg being the best part of the movie.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You're probably right.  How did Korg mess up directing the sequel so
>>>> badly?
>>>
>>> It had Natalie Fortman
>>
>> Hmmmm... What else has Natalie Fortman been in?
>>
>> ;p
>>
> Anim's Skynet controlled phone misspelled "Fartman"....
>

Really too nice a thing to call her

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>> little TV:
>> What did you watch?
>
> Hey, thanks for asking!
>
> NCIS 10,000
>
> The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!
>
> No? At least that might’ve been interesting.
>
> A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
> on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
> (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).
>
> This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
> villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
> taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
> taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
> mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
> been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!
>
> These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
> away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.
>
> Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
> via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
> Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
> an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
> Gibbs. I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene. And
> even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.
>
> But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
> whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
> target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
> their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
> episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
> thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
> reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
> of their grievances at all.
>
> Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
> case.
>
> Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.
>
> This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
> previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
> BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
> annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
> Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
> from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.
>

By the way, all the commercials were either local inserts or ads for other
dreadful racist eye shows. This must’ve been a complete flop with the
advertising agencies.

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:41:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>> little TV:
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>
>> NCIS 10,000
>>
>> The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!
>>
>> No? At least that might’ve been interesting.
>>
>> A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
>> on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
>> (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).
>>
>> This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
>> villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
>> taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
>> taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
>> mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
>> been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!

I don't know that it was three months but it was only at most a years
training. Not exactly what one would expect to be able to pull off
that 1000 yard shot.

>> These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
>> away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.
>>
>> Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
>> via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
>> Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
>> an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
>> Gibbs. I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene. And
>> even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.
>>
>> But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
>> whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
>> target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
>> their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
>> episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
>> thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
>> reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
>> of their grievances at all.

Yeah, I get that the Elon standin (former BONES tech) provided the
attack on the NCIS facility by accident. That one makes sense but as
you say there was no need for trying to keep the NCIS agents busy.
They had nothing to do with the President's security and so wouldn't
have been aware of the significance of the virus even if they found it
before the plane took off. The only reason for the multiple attacks on
NCIS was to provide a reason for their involvement and catching the
bad girl in time to save the President.

I get that writers often need to skip corners in their writing to help
move the story along. When your basic premise is the bad girl does a
bad thing just to help the good guys save the day, that's just a poor
writer.
>> Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
>> case.
>>
>> Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.
>>
>> This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
>> previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
>> BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
>> annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
>> Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
>> from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.
>>
>
>By the way, all the commercials were either local inserts or ads for other
>dreadful racist eye shows. This must’ve been a complete flop with the
>advertising agencies.

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:41:08 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tax Day (I took care of my taxes a month ago!), I got through very
>>>> little TV:
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>>
>>> NCIS 10,000
>>>
>>> The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future!
>>>
>>> No? At least that might’ve been interesting.
>>>
>>> A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE
>>> on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case.
>>> (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder).
>>>
>>> This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil
>>> villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started
>>> taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper,
>>> taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the
>>> mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever
>>> been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs!
>
> I don't know that it was three months but it was only at most a years
> training. Not exactly what one would expect to be able to pull off
> that 1000 yard shot.

There’s actually a line of dialogue when they’re doing the background check
on her that says she started taking shooting lessons three months ago. I
would have thought that would disqualify her as a crack sniper not make her
suspect. :-)

Also, you think they’d be a difference between taking “shooting lessons”
and sniper training! Now the latter would have flagged somebody.

>
>>> These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles
>>> away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever.
>>>
>>> Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo
>>> via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of
>>> Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as
>>> an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see
>>> Gibbs. I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene. And
>>> even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth.
>>>
>>> But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason
>>> whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the
>>> target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with
>>> their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the
>>> episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole
>>> thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some
>>> reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any
>>> of their grievances at all.
>
> Yeah, I get that the Elon standin (former BONES tech) provided the
> attack on the NCIS facility by accident. That one makes sense but as
> you say there was no need for trying to keep the NCIS agents busy.
> They had nothing to do with the President's security and so wouldn't
> have been aware of the significance of the virus even if they found it
> before the plane took off. The only reason for the multiple attacks on
> NCIS was to provide a reason for their involvement and catching the
> bad girl in time to save the President.
>
> I get that writers often need to skip corners in their writing to help
> move the story along. When your basic premise is the bad girl does a
> bad thing just to help the good guys save the day, that's just a poor
> writer.

Yep

Speaking of poor writers, I watched a bunch of NCIS episodes. I’ve never
seen before from season 16 as background noise yesterday. But one stuck out
as being by far the worst episode of the series I’ve ever seen. So much so
that I looked to see who wrote it. it wasn’t a name that meant anything to
me, except that on her upcoming projects, she’s the executive producer and
showrunner of NCIS baby Gibbs. So that’s going to suck even worse than I
could’ve possibly thought.

>
>>> Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first
>>> case.
>>>
>>> Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones.
>>>
>>> This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the
>>> previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some
>>> BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most
>>> annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as
>>> Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever
>>> from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.
>>>
>>
>> By the way, all the commercials were either local inserts or ads for other
>> dreadful racist eye shows. This must’ve been a complete flop with the
>> advertising agencies.
>

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