• What Did You Watch? 2025-11-17 (Monday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 04:30:41 2025
    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    [DISPARU] ALL'S FAIR REVIEW - DISNEY'S COMEDY FOR THE WRONG REASONS:
    All's Fair review of Disney Hulu's divorce laywer drama following the lives
    of people like Kim Kardashian through cases. Yet as regularly happens with these shows it doesn't realise who the villains and heroes are. As such you end up rooting for the people the show wants you to dislike, while the supposed heroes become living comedy pieces, satirical takes on the very points they're trying to make. Is All's Fair worth watching? https://youtu.be/bMTbYyammuY?si=nxElu9GDHA44W8Fm

    SHOCKING: THE VIEW'S SONNY HOSTIN SAYS EPSTEIN EMAILS HELP TRUMP'S CASE:
    Newly released Epstein estate emails, obtained by the House Oversight Committee through a bipartisan subpoena, have ignited a political frenzy
    after Democrats highlighted several references to Donald Trump. The documents include exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and journalist Michael Wolff, with one 2011 message noting a "dog that hasn't barked"-a reference to Trump not publicly linking himself to Epstein. Another message claims Trump "knew about the girls" and told Maxwell to "stop," though
    context strongly suggests Trump objected to Epstein recruiting Mar-a-Lago staff, not underage trafficking. The emails also mention Virginia Giuffre- identified elsewhere in unredacted pages-who has repeatedly stated under oath and in her recent book that Trump never acted inappropriately toward her. While critics insist the emails prove wrongdoing, even mainstream outlets acknowledge the records do not materially change the known timeline of
    Trump's relationship with Epstein. The release has reignited scrutiny of why full Epstein files remain sealed, with both political parties facing accusations of selective transparency. epstein emails explained, donald trump epstein connection, house oversight committee records, jeffrey epstein documents, virginia giuffre testimony, ghislaine maxwell emails, michael
    wolff epstein, epstein estate subpoena, epstein files release controversy, nate the lawyer
    https://youtu.be/SnVN-Z1y00I?si=fZ6m_gvphbKfV-4E

    THE ORIGINAL CRISIS ON EARTH X CHANGED EVERYTHING!:
    We continue to look back at Crisis events pre Crisis on Infinite Earths. This time to the Bronze Age with Crisis On Earth X. A story that brought back the Freedom Fighters, a combination of characters from Quality Comics and also introduced an Earth where the Axis won World War II. It's time for another
    JSA (Justice Society) JLA (Justice League) teamup here on Casually Comics! https://youtu.be/SY9aRJPBcjE?si=XoqsStV8z8wxOebo

    What did you watch?




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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 10:34:09 2025
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    After an arduous workout, I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E02
    This one finally showed up on the gray and it?s the final sad farewell to Johnny Harris, a.k.a. Constable Crabtree.

    I don?t know why they felt it necessary to write him out completely. He
    hardly ever appears anyway. Suddenly out of nowhere he?s offered a high
    ranking and high paid job in his home of Newfoundland. He wants to go there because it?s a good place to raise kids and his improbably tall wife
    blindsides him by telling him she will never have children, she doesn?t
    want to. And she also doesn?t want to move to Newfoundland and it never
    occurs to anybody that they should try it for a couple of weeks and see
    what she thinks of the place. So she hands him divorce papers and he leaves
    the series. :-(

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E07
    This week?s episode, which is what I was looking for when I found the long missing episode two. It?s actually called Murder She Wrote and the guest
    star is a murder mystery author actually named Mrs. Fletcher and PING BTR

    Fur npghnyyl vf n znq xvyyre, geniryvat gur jbeyq, zheqrevat crbcyr sbe sha
    naq jevgvat nobhg vg!


    WATCH THE SKIES
    OK, this is a total cluster fuck of a movie.
    The PRIME suggested it and showed me a trailer so I gave it a try. Problem
    is, it was in Swedish with no English audio options.
    But wait, I think to myself, Self, I think, the trailer they lured me in
    with was in English.
    So I do some exploring.
    The PRIME has both Swedish and English versions of it but they?re different movies. You can?t just switch audio.
    It turns out this is the first film Finished using a technology I first saw years ago and wondered why it hadn?t gone into use yet where they use
    morphing technology to change the lips of the actors to match a different language. The way apps can make a singing greeting or something.
    And that?s why there are two different versions of it because the video is actually different.
    So far so good, but then the trolley goes horribly off the rails.
    First, when I was watching the Swedish version, I noticed that it was quite conspicuous that you seldom saw somebody talk. It was almost always a
    reaction shot or the back of their head. Well, now we know why, it?s so
    they didn?t have to do too much mouth replacement.

    But it gets worse.

    They had the barely English speaking Swedish cast do their own voices for
    the English version and it?s so heavily accented that it sounds like the Muppets Swedish chef and you?re just laughing. It?s not any improvement on 1960s Godzilla movies.

    But wait it gets worse still.

    The mouth replacement doesn?t work at all. They may as well have just
    replaced the voices and not fiddled with the video.
    So you end up with this movie where the mouths don?t match anything and the voices all sound like Muppets.

    It?s good for a few minutes of laughs and then it just becomes too annoying
    to watch.

    I am horrified that this mess made it to the release stage.









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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 12:47:03 2025
    On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:34:09 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    After an arduous workout, I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E02
    This one finally showed up on the gray and it?s the final sad farewell to >Johnny Harris, a.k.a. Constable Crabtree.

    I don?t know why they felt it necessary to write him out completely. He >hardly ever appears anyway. Suddenly out of nowhere he?s offered a high >ranking and high paid job in his home of Newfoundland. He wants to go there >because it?s a good place to raise kids and his improbably tall wife >blindsides him by telling him she will never have children, she doesn?t
    want to. And she also doesn?t want to move to Newfoundland and it never >occurs to anybody that they should try it for a couple of weeks and see
    what she thinks of the place. So she hands him divorce papers and he leaves >the series. :-(

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E07
    This week?s episode, which is what I was looking for when I found the long >missing episode two. It?s actually called Murder She Wrote and the guest >star is a murder mystery author actually named Mrs. Fletcher and PING BTR

    Fur npghnyyl vf n znq xvyyre, geniryvat gur jbeyq, zheqrevat crbcyr sbe sha >naq jevgvat nobhg vg!


    WATCH THE SKIES
    OK, this is a total cluster fuck of a movie.
    The PRIME suggested it and showed me a trailer so I gave it a try. Problem >is, it was in Swedish with no English audio options.
    But wait, I think to myself, Self, I think, the trailer they lured me in
    with was in English.

    I think the problem is more in the skill of the people doing the work.
    I looked at some of the trailers and saw good and bad performances.

    You can see it in this video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTngv5MmtXo


    The good thing to know is this is likely the worst the technology will
    ever be.

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  • From Rhino@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 12:50:13 2025
    On 2025-11-18 12:34 p.m., anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    After an arduous workout, I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E02
    This one finally showed up on the gray and it?s the final sad farewell to Johnny Harris, a.k.a. Constable Crabtree.

    I don?t know why they felt it necessary to write him out completely. He hardly ever appears anyway. Suddenly out of nowhere he?s offered a high ranking and high paid job in his home of Newfoundland. He wants to go there because it?s a good place to raise kids and his improbably tall wife blindsides him by telling him she will never have children, she doesn?t
    want to. And she also doesn?t want to move to Newfoundland and it never occurs to anybody that they should try it for a couple of weeks and see
    what she thinks of the place. So she hands him divorce papers and he leaves the series. :-(

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E07
    This week?s episode, which is what I was looking for when I found the long missing episode two. It?s actually called Murder She Wrote and the guest star is a murder mystery author actually named Mrs. Fletcher and PING BTR

    Fur npghnyyl vf n znq xvyyre, geniryvat gur jbeyq, zheqrevat crbcyr sbe sha naq jevgvat nobhg vg!


    WATCH THE SKIES
    OK, this is a total cluster fuck of a movie.
    The PRIME suggested it and showed me a trailer so I gave it a try. Problem is, it was in Swedish with no English audio options.
    But wait, I think to myself, Self, I think, the trailer they lured me in
    with was in English.
    So I do some exploring.
    The PRIME has both Swedish and English versions of it but they?re different movies. You can?t just switch audio.
    It turns out this is the first film Finished using a technology I first saw years ago and wondered why it hadn?t gone into use yet where they use morphing technology to change the lips of the actors to match a different language. The way apps can make a singing greeting or something.
    And that?s why there are two different versions of it because the video is actually different.
    So far so good, but then the trolley goes horribly off the rails.
    First, when I was watching the Swedish version, I noticed that it was quite conspicuous that you seldom saw somebody talk. It was almost always a reaction shot or the back of their head. Well, now we know why, it?s so
    they didn?t have to do too much mouth replacement.

    But it gets worse.

    They had the barely English speaking Swedish cast do their own voices for
    the English version and it?s so heavily accented that it sounds like the Muppets Swedish chef and you?re just laughing. It?s not any improvement on 1960s Godzilla movies.

    But wait it gets worse still.

    The mouth replacement doesn?t work at all. They may as well have just replaced the voices and not fiddled with the video.
    So you end up with this movie where the mouths don?t match anything and the voices all sound like Muppets.

    It?s good for a few minutes of laughs and then it just becomes too annoying to watch.

    I am horrified that this mess made it to the release stage.


    It sounds truly dreadful. By way of comparison, I saw something on
    Netflix (I think) several months ago in a dubbed version and was very pleasantly surprised to find that the mouth movements and speech lined
    up very well indeed. I nearly always choose subtitled versions over
    dubbed versions so this was a rare exception for me. I expected the
    mouths and speech to be as horribly misaligned as every other dubbed
    show I'd ever seen but I was very much impressed how close the two were.
    I don't know how they managed it but I'm now a lot more willing to watch dubbed versions of shows.


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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 13:38:13 2025
    Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
    On 2025-11-18 12:34 p.m., anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    After an arduous workout, I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E02
    This one finally showed up on the gray and it?s the final sad farewell to
    Johnny Harris, a.k.a. Constable Crabtree.

    I don?t know why they felt it necessary to write him out completely. He
    hardly ever appears anyway. Suddenly out of nowhere he?s offered a high
    ranking and high paid job in his home of Newfoundland. He wants to go there >> because it?s a good place to raise kids and his improbably tall wife
    blindsides him by telling him she will never have children, she doesn?t
    want to. And she also doesn?t want to move to Newfoundland and it never
    occurs to anybody that they should try it for a couple of weeks and see
    what she thinks of the place. So she hands him divorce papers and he leaves >> the series. :-(

    MURDOCH MYSTERIES S19E07
    This week?s episode, which is what I was looking for when I found the long >> missing episode two. It?s actually called Murder She Wrote and the guest
    star is a murder mystery author actually named Mrs. Fletcher and PING BTR

    Fur npghnyyl vf n znq xvyyre, geniryvat gur jbeyq, zheqrevat crbcyr sbe sha >> naq jevgvat nobhg vg!


    WATCH THE SKIES
    OK, this is a total cluster fuck of a movie.
    The PRIME suggested it and showed me a trailer so I gave it a try. Problem >> is, it was in Swedish with no English audio options.
    But wait, I think to myself, Self, I think, the trailer they lured me in
    with was in English.
    So I do some exploring.
    The PRIME has both Swedish and English versions of it but they?re different >> movies. You can?t just switch audio.
    It turns out this is the first film Finished using a technology I first saw >> years ago and wondered why it hadn?t gone into use yet where they use
    morphing technology to change the lips of the actors to match a different
    language. The way apps can make a singing greeting or something.
    And that?s why there are two different versions of it because the video is >> actually different.
    So far so good, but then the trolley goes horribly off the rails.
    First, when I was watching the Swedish version, I noticed that it was quite >> conspicuous that you seldom saw somebody talk. It was almost always a
    reaction shot or the back of their head. Well, now we know why, it?s so
    they didn?t have to do too much mouth replacement.

    But it gets worse.

    They had the barely English speaking Swedish cast do their own voices for
    the English version and it?s so heavily accented that it sounds like the
    Muppets Swedish chef and you?re just laughing. It?s not any improvement on >> 1960s Godzilla movies.

    But wait it gets worse still.

    The mouth replacement doesn?t work at all. They may as well have just
    replaced the voices and not fiddled with the video.
    So you end up with this movie where the mouths don?t match anything and the >> voices all sound like Muppets.

    It?s good for a few minutes of laughs and then it just becomes too annoying >> to watch.

    I am horrified that this mess made it to the release stage.


    It sounds truly dreadful. By way of comparison, I saw something on
    Netflix (I think) several months ago in a dubbed version and was very pleasantly surprised to find that the mouth movements and speech lined
    up very well indeed. I nearly always choose subtitled versions over
    dubbed versions so this was a rare exception for me. I expected the
    mouths and speech to be as horribly misaligned as every other dubbed
    show I'd ever seen but I was very much impressed how close the two were.
    I don't know how they managed it but I'm now a lot more willing to watch dubbed versions of shows.

    The samples I saw those years ago made me hopeful. But this was a failure
    at both the audio and visual levels.



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 15:57:02 2025
    In article <UBI20251117@dont-email.me>,
    weberm@polaris.net says...


    What did you watch?


    I watched "When Did Ice Age Animals Really Go Extinct?"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGa4QKdSL0

    I'd seen this one before, but it was worth rewatching.
    Many of the giants lasted longer than most people think.

    What did everyone else watch?


    Melissa


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