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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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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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-How to get people out of a cult

-January 6th Committee 

-COVID is not over

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

-Get your information from credible sources (BBC Global News Podcast), NPR Up First, The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, etc.)

-Get vaccinated and wear masks (N95s)

-Knowledge is Power

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