What Are You Watching?

[Jeff]

Nothing. I really cannot seem to find anything of value on any of my known channels (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu). Last thing I watched was Queen's Gambit, which was OK.

I've sworn off watching any real time murder mystery stuff (Murder in the Heartland, Joe Kenda, etc.) as it just seems to depress me. Same with the war documentaries. I find that I watch them when I start spiraling into thoughts of deployments from last decade, which then just pulls me further into PTSD/MDD territory, so I've chosen to eschew those as well.

Maybe I'm trapped by my own inhibitions.

I've recently started watching the long slog of Marvel movies in timeline sequence with my wife. I'm not a huge superhero fan, but they're something decent to fall asleep to.

I'm going to try the Sword and the Sorcerer. I've heard Schitts creek is ok, maybe I'll give 3 episodes of that a test.

[TRP]

Schitts Creek and Community are both 30 minute bite sized comedies, and each episode is mostly self contained. So the investment is small. If one episode doesn't grab ya, then it's at least short, and a different story is up next.

[TRP]

If you haven't seen it before, Farscape (on Prime) is good bedtime material. It's just interesting enough, but no great loss to fall asleep on.

My latest late night TV sominex is the original Perry Mason (CBS All Access) series. I'll watch it for the same reason I gave for Farscape. I'll usually go to sleep in silence or sometimes music, but occasionally tv.

[Flambeaux]

Are you familiar with the French film Micmacs?

I am not. Should I be?

[Juju EyeBall]

Are you familiar with the French film Micmacs?

I am not. Should I be?

Probably not, but it might be a good one for all ages to watch with the family. Has that same "Oceans" trope of many people doing small things to make a rube goldberg sort of caper fall into place. Shot with a sort of Wes Anderson makes cartoons style. Clever, silly, and artsy if you're into that.

[Flambeaux]

Are you familiar with the French film Micmacs?

I am not. Should I be?

Probably not, but it might be a good one for all ages to watch with the family. Has that same "Oceans" trope of many people doing small things to make a rube goldberg sort of caper fall into place. Shot with a sort of Wes Anderson makes cartoons style. Clever, silly, and artsy if you're into that.

Sounds very cool. I will check it out.

[Juju EyeBall]

I am not. Should I be?

Probably not, but it might be a good one for all ages to watch with the family. Has that same "Oceans" trope of many people doing small things to make a rube goldberg sort of caper fall into place. Shot with a sort of Wes Anderson makes cartoons style. Clever, silly, and artsy if you're into that.

Sounds very cool. I will check it out.

LMK what you think!

[rredmond]

Schitts Creek

Agreeing with this one. The "depressing" stuff, happens to a sorta-spoiled rich family - and the endings are generally happy ones. I definitely averaged a couple chuckles an episode and, as TRP noted, the time investment is minimal.

[Joe Mohr]

I remember it being pretty terrible back in the 80s when I first saw it on cable. But it had a lot of hot chicks in it so I watched it anyway because I was a teenager in love with this new thing they called cable TV.

cinemax never had a headache.

Yeah we had Cinemax back then. As someone else pointed out it really should have been called "Skin Max". There was a lot of soft porn (dry hump) movies along with other stuff along those lines. I have not had the "premium" channels in a while. Perhaps it still does have that stuff even now. I found that those channels were not worth paying for long ago. Sword and the Sorcerer may well have been on Cinemax at the time. I really do not remember now.

[Joe Mohr]

I saw the Blitzkriege episode of "WWII in Color" last night.

I was shocked to learned that the Nazi's achieved their greatest military victory of the war (defeating the French and taking Paris) in part because their soldiers could march through the night for 3 days straight without sleep because they were hopped up on methamphetamine (Pervitin)!

The other bits focus on how important morale was. The French morale broke when dive bombed by screaming planes, and the meth'd-up Nazi's felt unbeatable.

I find myself watching a lot of the WW II in color and the other WWII docs. I probably have seen all of them a hundred times or more by now.

[JCBoney]

I saw the Blitzkriege episode of "WWII in Color" last night.

I was shocked to learned that the Nazi's achieved their greatest military victory of the war (defeating the French and taking Paris) in part because their soldiers could march through the night for 3 days straight without sleep because they were hopped up on methamphetamine (Pervitin)!

The other bits focus on how important morale was. The French morale broke when dive bombed by screaming planes, and the meth'd-up Nazi's felt unbeatable.

Not only was the Wermacht methed up... so was the German population in general. They passed that stuff out like candy.

Keep in mind, that was a time period in which people regularly consumed chemicals we've banned today. Check the ingredients on a lot of cough syrups back then, for example. Also keep in mind where Coca-Cola got its named.

[squeen]

Yes, they did point out it was over-the counter and that the soldiers were asking for it to be sent to them from home in many case. It was in boxed chocolate for housewives too.

But the marching 3-days without sleep! That's some serious behavioral alteration.

Related to D&D, I want to think more---like the original wargamers obviously did---about the implications of tactically trying to break morale.

Incidentally, my spell checker wants to replace "wargamers" with "legwarmers".

[TRP]

Beautiful Starship 10 test flight video.

https://youtu.be/ODY6JWzS8WU

Of course, a few minutes later it go boom, but somebody's gotta be the first to try this stuff. And, now at least they're in the ballpark.

[JCBoney]

Beautiful Starship 10 test flight video.

https://youtu.be/ODY6JWzS8WU

Of course, a few minutes later it go boom, but somebody's gotta be the first to try this stuff. And, now at least they're in the ballpark.

Is it just me, or did some of that footage, especially toward the end, look a little CGI?

[TRP]

Beautiful Starship 10 test flight video.

https://youtu.be/ODY6JWzS8WU

Of course, a few minutes later it go boom, but somebody's gotta be the first to try this stuff. And, now at least they're in the ballpark.

Is it just me, or did some of that footage, especially toward the end, look a little CGI?

I think it's we're not used to that much detail for a non- Hollywood launch scene. Those were some crazy shots, but if anyone would spend as much to video a launch as the launch itself, that'd be Musk.

I'm sure the flat Earthers and fake moon landings crew are on the case.