I watched the final episode of Agents of Shield yesterday. It was a lovely farewell, but it made me sad. I used to watch the show with the kids. New episodes were a big deal. They gave up on it after a couple of seasons, but I pressed on. It still connected me to them in some weird way, even if they didn’t agree. That’s why I’m sad that it’s over.
Last night, in my sad, I started watching from season one, episode one. I was hoping to binge all seven seasons today, but I don’t think I’ll finish it. Oh well, I can keep going tomorrow too.
Okay, so I was pretty convinced I wasn’t going to watch Star Trek Lower Decks because… frankly a goofy cartoon was not something I had any interest in.
This morning I had half an hour to kill before I had to start work. Usually that means an episode of Rick and Morty, but for some reason I couldn’t get HBO Now to run anything. What the hell, I’ll give Lower Decks one look and then that will be it.
Well…. It wasn’t bad. It was actually kinda cute in a goofy way. I don’t think I’m going to be able to stay interested for long, but when the next episode comes out I’ll give it a watch.
I mean, I need to find something to replace Marvel’s Agents of Shield, which is ending tonight. It is tonight, right? Two episodes in one night and everything wraps up?
I’m actually a little sad. I don’t want Agents of Shield to go away. Maybe next January we can get Vice President Kamala Harris to talk ABC and Marvel into bringing it back. There’s two things to hope for!
Thanks to 50/90 and the return of some pro sports, my quarantined TV watching has fallen off the cliff. At least prior to this past weekend.
The second season of The Umbrella Academy came out. I liked the first season, so I popped on the first episode. It started with a quick recap of season one. While watching that I had two thoughts. The first was, wow, I had kinda forgotten a lot of this. The second was, wow, that season might have been a whole ton better than I remembered, and I did really like it.
I was planning to watch one episode, and spread the season out for a couple of weeks. Nope. Once I started watching I was hooked and couldn’t stop. I started the season on Saturday and finished it on Monday. Yikes. It was so good.
Prior to the start of 50/90 I started watching The Watchmen on HBO. I was only a couple of episodes in, but I was enjoying it quite a bit. I started up again last night. The second season of The Boys is coming on Amazon in a few weeks. I’ll be jumping back into that. I’ve also been picking my way through a Rick and Morty rewatch. When I’ve got 25 minutes or so to kill before work I’ll watch an episode. I’m in season two. I just watched the Unity episode where Rick creates a life form just to test out his chosen method of suicide. Is that the most colossally depressing thing you’ve ever seen or what? The show is so good.
Then there is the 800 pound gorilla in the streaming television room…. The Handmaids Tale. It’s out there. Its supposed to be amazingly good. I want to watch it. I haven’t watched it yet because I am afraid of it. I know it’s going to hit too close to home. I don’t want to find out how that show is going to make me feel.
That and sports. There’s a Bruins game at 4:00 today. I have a meeting at 4:00 today. Damn it.
When Marvel’s Agents of Shield first premiered the kids used to chant the name of the show when a new episode was available to watch.
Agents of Shield! Agents of Shield! Agents of Shield!
After a season or two they got tired of it and stopped watching it. I didn’t. I’ve stuck with it all the way through.
Now that the show has begun it’s last season I should have expected them to throw in easter eggs like they were going out of style. This week’s episode has a good one. No spoilers, but let’s just say that there is a reference made to the show Agent Carter.
It was a nice touch, but it also pissed me off a bit. We watched both shows and I think that Agent Carter might have been the better of the two. That pretty much guaranteed it was going to get cancelled, and it was after two seasons.
It’s available on Disney Plus. I’m one episode in.
I guess I don’t have a good pun for a name. Oh well.
The binge watching continues. My step son saw a subscription deal for HBO Max and signed up, even though he hasn’t worked a day in almost three months. We put an end to that and took over the monthly payments.
So now on top of Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime we have HBO.
Harry, Jen, and I are working our way through Silicon Valley. I am correcting a mistake I made when Game of Thrones ended. I had a deal with Jen that I would cancel HBO when Game of Thrones was finished, and I did. Unfortunately I forgot to finish the second season of Westworld before I did. I don’t know where I left off so I started season two from the beginning.
Breaking Bad is back in the picture (pun intended). I tried to watch it once and got a few episodes into season two. Bellana was recently binging the crap out of it at world record pace. When she finished I felt inspired to give it another go. I found where I left off and started watching. After a few episodes Jen said she wanted to watch too so we started from the beginning. the last season two episode I watched was the first to have Kristen Ritter in it, so I had to start season one of Jessica Jones too.
As for current broadcast shows, there are only two and I’m getting them both from Hulu. What We Do in the Shadows is hysterical. Also, the final season of Agents of Shield started two weeks ago. So far it’s really good.
And that is the state of the quarantine TV binge watching nation. YippeeSkippee.
I’m doing my best not to let every little thing bother me, but today is starting to feel like one of those days where the whole lock down thing gets to me.
I slept okay last night. That’s a tick in the good things column. The kids are here. That is another one. I played guitar last night and I didn’t suck (any more than normal). Tick. It’s only been a small amount of use, but so far I’m not seeing the same issues I saw with the new MacBook Pro the last time I tried to use it. My backup from the old computer took without issue this time, and with the exception of my copy of the Vivaldi browser acting screwy this morning there hasn’t been any software problems (I closed Vivaldi and re-opened and it’s been fine since).
My wife and my step son have spent the last few weeks becoming excellent cake bakers. Not only that, but they are teaching themselves how to decorate too. They baked their cakes and made their frosting from scratch and are doing all sorts of fun things with the design. Unfortunately they have decided to take a break from baking for a while because… well… we’ve had a lot of cakes to eat lately. We can put the baking and the creativity into the good column, and the lack of more cake forthcoming into the bad column. I haven’t made any of my now legendary Tewksbury Tweets in the last couple of weeks. I don’t think I’ll have time before the kids go back to their dad’s for the weekend. Maybe I’ll have some for when they get back next Wednesday.
The kids are going back to their dad’s tomorrow. That’s a tick in the negative column. We get them today though, so I won’t be upset about it for now. Harry has started watching 30 Rock. I am 99% sure I binged the entire series. He showed me a youtube video yesterday of something hysterical that I totally missed. Apparently, there is a thread throughout the show demonstrating that Kenneth the NBC Page is immortal. They actually come right out and say it once, but you can laugh it off as goofy hickish behavoir, but with all of the little throw away lines lined up one after another… Kenneth is some kind of immortal being.
We can add that as a tick in the good column.
I mentioned in a post over the weekend that I sent an email to Gibson’s repair site. They haven’t responded. Under non-coronavirus circumstances I’d tick that under bad, but with things being as they are the staff are probably stuck at home… maybe… I don’t know how strict Tennessee is being, or how strict Gibson itself is being. I don’t know. I will invent a new category and call it the ambiguous, grey area list and put this there.
There were other things I was going to mention but I’m working now and all non-work related things have been flushed from my memory buffer (that’s a technical phrase).
I’ve always thought the idea of a Star Wars day based on a really lame pun was kinda… dumb. This year is a little different. This year May the 4th gives us the final episode of The Clone Wars TV series. The last Star Wars project that George Lucas worked on has now ended.
I don’t remember the whole back story. The show ran for six years on… Cartoon Network? I think? It was canceled with a major story line left hanging. I can’t remember if it was the network that shut it down or Lucasfilm itself, but I knew the seventh season was written and ready to go when the show stopped.
Season seven has now been released on Disney+. The first few episodes were the normal sort of storyline where a Jedi is working with a squad of clone troopers. Next they picked up the unfinished story line from season six for a few episodes. All of those were decent enough, but nothing to write home about.
The final four episodes, including the finale which was released today, are almost like a separate story. They do pick up where the previous arc left off, but instead of just running a new story they actually mirror Revenge of the Sith. There is one scene from the movie that is reproduced in the show from a different point of view, and some actual sound is used as well. Also, spoiler free, they are just fantastic. Go watch them. So good.
Happy Star Wars Day, indeed.
Well… given that it’s the end of the Clone Wars, maybe not happy per se. You know what I mean.
Today is the first day since this all started where it feels like we’re quarantined, and the introvert in me is kinda pleased.
We’ve spent most of the day just hanging around and doing our own thing. Harry’s playing Minecraft, Bellana’s doing logic puzzles, Jen’s been tweaking her computer setup, and I’m on my laptop alternating between mixing RPM music (three songs in the can, babie!) and trying to find a new TV show to binge. There’s Lock and Key, Altered Carbon, You, Brews Brothers, and a rewatch of The Walking Dead. I also thought about starting Smallville from the beginning, but I just couldn’t do it. Sadly for originality, TWD is kinda in the lead at the moment. Oh well.
We had a Zoom with Jen’s folks earlier. We’re having another one with my siblings and their families. I thought about making some Tewksbury Tweets today (if you don’t know what they are then you are unworthy and should suffer an eternity of wondering about it) but Jen was working on lunch and I would have been stepping on her toes. Maybe after dinner I might look into it again. Probably not. Not tomorrow either, as Jen is going to cook an Easter dinner for us. She’s… what’s the word I’m looking for here… starts with an A, I think… Amazing! Yeah, that’s the word! She’s amazing!
I still need to take my photo-a-day picture today. Don’t forget about that, dumb ass.
I’m all caught up on the three CW DC Comics shows that I’m still in to. I finished Bojack Horseman, Picard, and Discovery. Now what? I watched the first five episodes of Altered Carbon something like a year or more ago. I just started episode six… if I can remember what’s going on I’ll try to run with it… I don’t have a lot of optimism on that. I want to watch Lock and Key too. You is also out there unfinished. I don’t know. Part of me wants to just do a full Walking Dead rewatch. I don’t know.
Over the last year or so I have sort of rediscovered King Crimson. Big time. Listening to the 1981-1984 line up is making me think… is it time to start playing with guitar synthesizers? Back then you needed to buy a whole new guitar to do that. Later you could do it with just a new pick up. Now you can do it with pedals alone. I’ve been watching demos. It’s a major rabbit hole. I don’t really want to go there. I mean, Albert King never used a guitar synthesizer, right? I don’t know.
The weather has been shitty for a week. Rain rain go away and all that shit. April showers bring May showers and everything. Next week we might hit the 60’s. That would be nice. I very much want to go outside, even if it’s just to sit on the patio. If we’re all going to be stuck at home for… ever… then I want the weather to be nice enough for me to take my conference calls outside. I want to cook on the grill… at least until it runs out of propane. Not sure how we’ll replace that. Gas stations are essential, right?
I’m gonna play some guitar today, I think. It’s not much, but it helps.
The kids are at their father’s this weekend. I wish they were here. All of this crap is somehow easier to deal with when all four of us are together. It’s easier to worry about how they are holding up when I can actually see them.
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