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Patriot S1:E3 ”McMillan Man” Commentary

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Patriot S1:E2 ”C-19” Rewatch and Commentary

I rewatch and comment on Patriot, Season 1, Episode 2, “C19”.

 

Recorded July 24, 2022

 

Show notes:

 

-The theme song in my head

 

-C19

 

-New Lord of the Rings show

 

-Timens and Saperstein songs

 

-Mark Boone Jr.

 

-Amsterdam

 

-The Internet

 

-Afternoon Spray

 

-Train Song

 

-Cool Rick

 

-Little things

 

-C19

 

-Leslie

 

-Back to the stressors

 

-Taking its time

 

-Luxembourg detectives

 

-If there was a third season…

 

-Sophie

 

-United States government interfering

 

-Misogyny 

 

-Leslie and jargon

 

-Kurtwood Smith

 

-Gregory Gordon

 

-Cool Rick before Dead Serious Rick

 

-Beastie Boys monologue

 

-Alice’s tattoo

 

-Tavner father and sons

 

-Tavner brothers loyalty

 

-Social Security number stress

 

-Birdbath’s bizarre blackmail

 

-2017

 

-Air horn

 

-Ducks

 

-Harmful coping mechanism

 

-Lakeman’s descent

 

 -The villains

 

-Establishing characters

 

-Ichabod

 

-Agathe in the States

 

-The end

 

-LInks!

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Review (Spoilers)

There was construction outside of my apartment.

Recorded June 22, 2022

-Why didn't he kill Vader?

-Who Obi has actually killed

-Still feelings for Anakin

-Arresting Vader?

-Nitpicking

-Leia seeing Ben in Episode IV

-More seasons?

-Alluding to Leia

-Ringerverse with Jo and Mal 

-Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of squaring that circle

-The prequels

-Writing a political tale

-How the prequels are relevant

-Problems with the prequels

-The spirit of the prequels

-Ewan McGregors

-Obi-Wan and Anakin in the prequels

-The cartoons

-Criticism of Obi-Wan Kenobi

-Vivien Lyra Blair

-Children in films and TV

-Children in general

-Leia and the Force

-The sequel trilogy 

-Rebellion origin

-Andor

-Obi-Wan refusing the call

-Both lightsaber fights

-Hayden Christensen

-Cinematography

-Owen and Beru

-Reva on Tattooine?

-Moses Ingram

-Kelly Marie Tran

-Ewan McGregor and support

-The real disgrace of Rise of Skywalker

-John Boyega

-Duel of the Fates script

-Ingram's performance

-Reva's arc

-Uvalde and Obi-Wan Kenobi 

-Trauma and an un-trained Jedi

-More Reva

-Moving away from Skywalker

-Qui-Gon Jinn

-Overall

-Spoiler weary

-The high ground

-Ian McDiarmid

-Vader and Palpatine

-What's in Vader and Obi-Wan's heads?

-Brotherhood?

-Plugs

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Patriot S1:E1 ”Milwaukee, America” Rewatch and Commentary

This is the second time I've seen each episode. Spoilers are ahead for not only the episode but the whole series.

-One of the best shows ever made

-Non Official Cover and the definition before an episode

-John's interview

-Kurtwood Smith

-Jargon is poetry

-John will do anything 

-No witnesses?

-Opening song and montage

-The soundtrack

-Steven Conrad

-What makes this show so great

-Tom Tavner

-John's songs

-Conflict of interest?

-Amsterdam

-Michael Dorman

-Coping with trauma

-Series of errors

-Michael Chernus 

-Cool Rick

-Alice

-Intro

-Charles Grodin and self-destruction

-Tom, John, and Ed Tavner dynamic

-Tom's test (Eddie protecting John)

-Father and son relationships

-Efram

-Giving John another mission

-Mechanical bull

-Amsterdam

-Impotence

-How the Tavner family gets along

-Explaining the mission

-Playing the guitar

-2012

-Birdbath

-Drug testing

-Dennis

-Making friends

-Persuading Dennis

-Finding purpose

-Birdbath and the terrible blackmail

-Birdbath's arc and the show taking its time

-Edward's title and badge

-Never from A to B

-Parallel between the money, oil, and piping

-The stress begins

-Dennis and purpose

-John fighting Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners

-Violence

-Physical trauma

-A song not on the soundtrack

-Attache badge

-Cool Rick's loyalty

-Agathe 

-Misogyny 

-Money to the wrong guy

-Back to fathers and sons

-Introduction of Cool Rick

-Politics and Efram

-Stressors

-John's face

-End of episode

Plugs!

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This Is Us Review (Spoilers)

I review the whole series as well as analyze the main and supporting characters. I was also on a walk so please enjoy the relaxing sounds of cars passing #Multitasking 

 

Show notes:

 

-How it ended

 

-I cried after every episode (except one)

 

-Rebecca and Jack

 

-Miguel

 

-I’m walking home

 

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

 

JACK

 

-A fixer

 

-Relationship with Nicky

 

-Jack’s death

 

-Kate’s guilt

 

-Idealizing Jack

 

-Jack’s pain

 

-REBECCA

 

-What she wanted at first

 

-The anchor of the family

 

-The cast revolved around her

 

-MIGUEL

 

-Loyal

 

-His relationship with Rebecca 

 

-“His favorite person”

 

-Another fixer

 

-Reconciling and closure

 

-RANDALL

 

-Sterling K. Brown’s performance

 

-Randall’s arc and identity

 

-Adoption and grief

 

-Beth and the worst case scenario game

 

-WILLIAM

 

-Substance abuse

 

-Guilt

 

-Redemption

 

-Randall and fixing

 

-The good and bad of fixing

 

-Closure

 

-William’s life

 

-KATE

 

-Kate’s arc

 

-Jack 

 

-Body image

 

-Finding purpose

 

-Marriage, kids, money

 

-Her life at the finale

 

-The Pearsons and their issues

 

-Madison

 

-Eating disorders (Kate, Madison, and Kevin)

 

-KEVIN

 

-My least favorite character

 

-Things usually just worked out

 

-What would have been a better arc

 

-Sophie

 

-Group therapy scene - Watch it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD7CqBYEq8Q

 

-Tension with Randall

 

-TOBY

 

-Chris Sullivan and The Knick

 

-Geek and nerdy in adulthood

 

-My apartment

 

-My nephew

 

-Depression

 

-Pressure

 

-Tension with Kevin and Randall

 

-“Being Jack”

 

-Idealizing someone after death

 

-Still loving Kate

 

-Toby’s relationship status?

 

BETH

 

-R&B!

 

-Relationship with Randall

 

-Relationship with her mother

 

-Jobs

 

-Strong character

 

-Using humor

 

-Anxiety and pressure

 

NICKY

 

-His personality compared to Jack’s

 

-Drafted to Vietnam

 

-Recovering from Vietnam

 

-Griffin Dunne and Johnny Dangerously

 

-Void, non-support, substance, abuse, PTSD

 

-Kevin and Nicky

 

-Kevin’s resources and easier writing

 

-Kevin and Toby

 

-Using humor

 

-The writing

 

TANGENT

 

-Why I turn to music, movies, and TV

 

-Expressing feelings

 

-Growing up in the 80s and 90s and “acceptable” emotions

 

-Destructive and constructive coping mechanisms

 

-Seeking therapy

 

END TANGENT

 

-Great overall

 

-Ran its course

 

-Rebecca and Alzheimers 

 

-Respecting the kind moments for people with Alzheimers

 

-Jack’s speech to Kevin and Randall

 

-Going back 

 

-Appreciating the moment

 

-Healthy fondness of the past without overly nostalgic

 

-Goals

 

-Plugs!

 

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Picard Season Two Review (Spoilers)

I made it so and reviewed season two of Picard. Spoilers are inevitable. 

 

Show notes:

 

-Holding back tears

 

-This season of Picard

 

-One long story

 

-TNG and Missions on the Week

 

-Best of Both Worlds and Chain of Command

 

-Time travel

 

-The season finale and cramming 

 

-Wesley Crusher

 

-Nemesis

 

-Planting seeds

 

-Picard as a tragic figure

 

-Picard and relationships

 

-Picard and therapy

 

-The stakes

 

-Elnor

 

-Rios

 

-Season 3

 

-Characters and comfort

 

-Shadows of the Night

 

-Pat Benatar 

 

-Sound of Thunder

 

-Guinan

 

-Q, his lessons, and abuse

 

-The Q Continuum 

 

-Reconciling with the past

 

-James Callis

 

-Memory playing tricks

 

-Trauma

 

-How it ended

 

-The Borg

 

-Season three

 

-Back to Wesley

 

-Q doing damage

 

-John DeLancie

 

-Spock vs. Q 

 

-Plugs!

 

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The Batman Review (Spoilers)

Recorded April 26, 2022 from my Batcave.

 

Show notes:

 

-I finally saw it

 

-What I thought

 

-What made this different than the others

 

-Robert Pattison’s Bruce Wayne

 

-The villains

 

-The dialogue

 

-Seven

 

-The Riddler

 

-Defensive Batman

 

-The riddles

 

-The Penguin

 

-Makeup and acting one’s age

 

-Colin Farrell

 

-Falcone

 

-Jeffrey Wright

 

-Andy Serkis

 

-Alfred

 

-Zoë Kravitz and Catwoman 

 

-Michelle Pfeiffer and Julie Newmar

 

-Married to your job

 

-Bruce Wayne as a recluse

 

-Being an orphan

 

-Extreme inequality

 

-A more effective Bruce Wayne

 

-Changing systems and environment

 

-Batman and Police

 

-The Boys and Watchmen

 

-Power

 

-My hopes 

 

-The Joker (Barry Keoghan)

 

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Hotel Song (Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers) Review

I talk about the song while I watch its video

 

Recorded April 6, 2022

 

-Ear worm

 

-I always have a song in my fan

 

-Against Me!

 

-I’ll also watch the video

 

-Vocal phrasing

 

-Encapsulates the anxiety

 

-“Always be preparing to leave…”

 

-Laura Jane Grace and her lyrics

 

-Hotel room metaphors

 

-Self destruction

 

-Future tripping

 

-The video

 

-More self destruction

 

-Self fulfilling prophecy, pattern and habit

 

-Chaos 

 

-Cigarettes?

 

-My favorite part of the song

 

-Laura’s rage

 

-Early Against Me!

 

-Laura’s voice evolution

 

-Sleeping in my jeans

 

-Sleep

 

-Metaphorical death

 

-Life on the road

 

-Back to the rage

 

-It builds

 

-Back to the video

 

-A flood

 

-Short and powerful

 

-All kinds of music 

 

-Hits you hard and then she leaves

 

-Grace’s work

  

-Supposed to see Against Me! in March of 2020

 

-Seeing Against Me! Live

 

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Hard Times by Miko Marks and the Resurrectors

I listen to and comment on the song Hard Times from the EP Race Records

Show notes:

 

-I just found out it’s a cover

 

-Race Records and Our Country

 

-The history of Hard Times

 

-Reclaiming through her own voice

 

-The term Race Records

 

-The music

 

-Money and happiness

 

-I’m rambling

 

-Helping people

 

-The build

 

-Her voice

 

-Relaxing, uplifting, and validating

 

-The Resurrectors 

 

-Live

 

-Taking back the song

 

-Reaching a peak

 

-What music does

 

-The lyrics

 

-Taking stock in the pleasures and tears

 

-Feeling your feelings

 

-Solidarity

 

-Pause

 

-Drinking while sad 

 

-Anxiety, future tripping, anticipation

 

-Game face

 

-Expressing instead of bottling up 

 

-Constructive ways to express yourself

 

-Ways that don’t help

 

-Find a safe space

 

-Whiskey River

 

-When Race Records ended…

 

-Goodnight America

 

-I hope to see them live

 

-Concerts

 

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Book of Boba Fett: Stranger in a Strange Land (S1:E1)

I had a running commentary during the first episode of The Book of Boba Fett: Stranger in a Strange Land. There are spoilers.

 

Recorded December 30, 2021

 

Commentary notes:

 

-Second time I’m watching

 

-Fighting sleep

 

Commentary notes:

 

-Intro montage

 

-Seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater in 1983

 

-Jabba’s Palace play set

 

-Bacta

 

-Boba’s physical trials

 

-PTSD as a child and adult

 

-The Sarlacc Pit

 

-Cleanliness of Book of Boba Fett

 

-Jawas

 

-Hero’s Journey

 

-Motivation of the Sand People

 

-The Mandalorian and the Sand People

 

-How did Boba survive?

 

-Score (yes, it’s the same composer as Mandalorian)

 

-Conan the Barbarian

 

-Temuera Morrison

 

-Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent Iron Maiden song

 

-Child Tusken Raider

 

-Is this an initiation?

 

-Sand Peoples’ faces

 

-Boba’s childhood

 

-Fighting sleep

 

-Chewing gum

 

-Massiff and subtitles

 

-Rodian

 

-Projecting emotions

 

-Too much like a set

 

-Dangerous desert

 

-Another trial

 

-Brain damage in Star Wars?

 

-The Tusken Raider language

 

-Back to the batch

 

-Ming-Na Wen

 

-ER and Must See TV

 

-The Godfather

 

-Getting ready for work

 

-Difference between Boba and The Mandalorian

 

-Getting protection money

 

-Trandoshan

 

-Bossk

 

-Subtext

 

-The mayor

 

-Claiming the throne versus keeping the throne

 

-Physical and mental acumen

 

-Fett’s code and morals

 

-Mos Espa and cleanliness

 

-Not extravagant

 

-A cantina scene

 

-Jennifer Beals

 

-Parkour

 

-A little too choreographed

 

-Gamorrean guards

 

-Marauders

 

-Water

 

-Reading action subtitles=

 

-The Kraken

 

-Clash of the Titans

 

-Looks like hybrid of practical and digital effects

 

-Rodian

 

-Centaur/Kraken

 

-Fett and the Tusken Raider child

 

-Color of outfits

 

-Robert Rodriguez, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni

 

-The Last Jedi is still the best

 

-The Mandalorian

 

-Something new while being grounded in the original trilogy

 

-The artwork

 

-Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett

 

-Fully awake

 

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