On the 250th anniversary of the US Army, I watched:

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

COVERAGE OF THE 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States Army

FAMILY GUY:
"The Fat Lotus". Peter suspects Lois of betraying his trust with Quagmire at
a swanky vacation resort.
Didn't they make a spoof about streaming shows a couple weeks ago? I was bored, TBH, but did laugh at Consuela refusing to clean up Brian's mess.

KRAPOPOLIS:
"Ty Died". Ty is tired of his family thinking he's not important enough to
be assassinated. He'll show them!
OK, I wasn't expecting the guy who wasn't sppsd to assassinate Ty actually
did it and I did enjoy their takes on the Hades mythology. Sisyphus is a hard worker, tho!

What did you watch?

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Fringe S5E08 'The Human Kind'
IMDb sez: "Following the bread crumbs, Olivia collects a truck with
cargo from a scrap yard but runs into bounty hunters. Peter, with newly
gained powers, has to make a decision."

The glyphs for this episode spell out: PLEAD

Walter mis-remembers Astrid's name yet again; here he calls her "Asner".
At about 17 minutes Walter is using his contraption to revive the brain
to analyze the observer tech. This contraption is made up of (among
other things) a couple of microwave oven magnetrons. (Cook them
Observer brains!)



Fringe S5E09 'Black Blotter'
IMDb sez: "Walter Bishop opens Pandora's Box. He finds a young Observer
once he has hidden in the Pocket Universe." (We find out the fate of
Sam Weiss in this episode.)

The glyphs for this episode spell out: GUILT
When Astrid and Walter are walking though the boathouse, an animated
green frog with huge blinking eyes can be seen to their left, before reappearing in the animated part of the episode. (This is your
amphibian on drugs!)
In a variation of the show's running gag, Walter calls Astrid by her
correct name, an early hint that he's on acid.
The animated section is in the style of Terry Gilliam of Monty Python's
Flying Circus (1969).
Walter's inventions in the note book: the portal opener, matter
displacement can opener, 'something' bionics, potato fueled combustion
engine. (First step, ferment the potatoes....)
The couple taking care of the child observer say that they have decided
to call him "Michael." September, the Observer seen from the beginning
of the show who has periodically aided Walter and Co., is played by
Michael Cerveris.


Fringe S5E10 'Anomaly XB-6783746'
IMDb sez: "Young observer remains muted. The team seeks Nina Sharp's
help to understand him, but the mission is compromised."

The glyphs for this episode spell out: SENSE.
(at around 9 mins) Olivia and Peter see a 'Resist' poster with
Henrietta'a picture. In the background you see two flyers for a missing
child called Calla Dreyer. 'Calla Dreyer' is the head of Makeup for the
Fringe series.
Once again, Walter cannot remember Astrid's name. Here, fresh from his
acid trip in the previous episode, he calls her "Acid".
When the Observers are searching September's apartment, a surveillance
device placed above a doorway can be seen blinking in the familiar Green-Green-Green-Red light pattern just before an explosion occurs.



Fringe S5E11 'The Boy Must Live'
Young Observer's origin is revealed. And his existence and an additional
time travel are necessary to change the history of Observers' invasion.

The coded glyphs at the commercial breaks spell GRACE.
The song of the music box is "Greensleeves", also known as the Christmas
carol "What Child Is This?" The carol's title also serves as a question
about the central mystery concerning the child observer character--who
is he? What child is this.
The Observers are ectogens - persons who were, or are being, gestated in artificial wombs.
When Donald is telling how his kind are created, we are shown several
stages of the gestation. The first stage shown is the same fetal image
that has been part of the apple glyph since Season 1.
This episode takes place in 2036 and 2609
Naked Dr. Bishop, in the tank, without swim trunks. O_O
Donald was "labeled a known offender". He was tagged. His subdermal chip number is 784651. With such a high chip number, it's clear he certainly
wasn't the first "known offender".

Olivia Dunham: Walter, why did you remove your trunks?
Dr. Walter Bishop: They were too restrictive. My body needs to be as
free and open as my mind so I can find September.
Olivia Dunham: Are you feeling sufficiently free and open now?
Dr. Walter Bishop: I am. Let's get started.

[Walter and Donald return to the van, each carrying a covered plastic
milk crate]
Peter Bishop: Is that it?
September: You say that as though we're not carrying technology that can
bend space and time into a M”bius Strip.


Fringe S5E12 'Liberty'
'As the Observers evaluate Michael and begin to learn of his abilities
and potential, Olivia embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue him.'

The glyphs for this episode spell out: LOVED
At 25:27 on the TV Fauxlivia walks by, it says that "Chelsea Clinton
leads polls in Presidential race". In the text scrolling underneath
that, it says "American currency reached record high.", it also says
"Detroit voted safest city in America.", and lastly, it says "Warner
Bros. announces remake of Harry Potter."
This time, Walter misremembers Astrid's name as "Asgard".

Olivia Dunham: I made my choices. You made yours. I don't regret any of
them and neither should you. You deserve all the happiness that you got.


Fringe S5E13 'An Enemy of Fate'
"As the Observers close in, Walter and September desperately work to
complete the plan, but one obstacle after another hinders their progress."

The 100th episode.
The glyphs for this episode spell out: CLOSE
The 'inbetween picture' of the skeleton hand has 5 fingers and a thumb.
In the final episode, when Olivia and Peter are going through the
building with observers and loyalists which they attacked with
chemicals, there is a bloody hand print on the wall. This hand print
also has 5 fingers and a thumb.
In a twist on the ' green, green, green, red' pattern of lights seen on previous episodes, when Peter (Joshua Jackson) shorts out the keypad,
the light flashes 'red, red, red, green.'

The Goofs section of IMDb has a couple of long, convoluted explanations
about how the show could not have ended as it was shown that even I
can't follow.

Dr. Walter Bishop: It's a beautiful name.
Astrid Farnsworth: What is?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Astrid.

Dr. Walter Bishop: Peter, hold on to these tight. Anti-gravity osmium
bullets. Shoot Observers with these and watch them float away like balloons. Peter Bishop: If we shoot 'em, they're dead. Why'd we want 'em to float
away?
Dr. Walter Bishop: ...Because it's cool.
Peter Bishop: That makes sense Walter.

Captain Windmark: Before we arrived here, we sent a team of twelve.
Their mission was to observe and report; however, a strange phenomenon occurred. To some degree or other, they succumbed to irrational
emotions. Your kind infected them.
Phillip Broyles: But not you. You seem to be impervious to everything.
Captain Windmark: I will never speak of it again, but I will admit this
to you, Phillip. I, too, feel something. I believe you call it... hate.
Phillip Broyles: The feeling is mutual.

September/David: It's not about fate, Walter. Yours or mine. It's about changing fate. It's about hope. And protecting our children.

September: When we first came here we did not know the true nature of
our expedition. We were not told.


Then I watched various disc extras for season 5.

And that's the end of 'Fringe'

What Did You Watch?



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On 6/16/2025 7:07 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S5E08 'The Human Kind'
IMDb sez: "Following the bread crumbs, Olivia collects a truck with
cargo from a scrap yard but runs into bounty hunters. Peter, with newly gained powers, has to make a decision."

The glyphs for this episode spell out: PLEAD

Walter mis-remembers Astrid's name yet again; here he calls her "Asner".

At this point, he's got to know her name and is just doing this to mess
with her.

At about 17 minutes Walter is using his contraption to revive the brain
to analyze the observer tech. This contraption is made up of (among
other things) a couple of microwave oven magnetrons.ÿ (Cook them
Observer brains!)

Fringe S5E09 'Black Blotter'
IMDb sez: "Walter Bishop opens Pandora's Box. He finds a young Observer
once he has hidden in the Pocket Universe."ÿ (We find out the fate of
Sam Weiss in this episode.)

The glyphs for this episode spell out: GUILT
When Astrid and Walter are walking though the boathouse, an animated
green frog with huge blinking eyes can be seen to their left, before reappearing in the animated part of the episode.ÿ (This is your
amphibian on drugs!)
In a variation of the show's running gag, Walter calls Astrid by her
correct name, an early hint that he's on acid.
The animated section is in the style of Terry Gilliam of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
Walter's inventions in the note book: the portal opener, matter
displacement can opener, 'something' bionics, potato fueled combustion engine.ÿ (First step, ferment the potatoes....)
The couple taking care of the child observer say that they have decided
to call him "Michael." September, the Observer seen from the beginning
of the show who has periodically aided Walter and Co., is played by
Michael Cerveris.

Fringe S5E10 'Anomaly XB-6783746'
IMDb sez: "Young observer remains muted. The team seeks Nina Sharp's
help to understand him, but the mission is compromised."

The glyphs for this episode spell out: SENSE.
(at around 9 mins) Olivia and Peter see a 'Resist' poster with
Henrietta'a picture. In the background you see two flyers for a missing child called Calla Dreyer. 'Calla Dreyer' is the head of Makeup for the Fringe series.
Once again, Walter cannot remember Astrid's name. Here, fresh from his
acid trip in the previous episode, he calls her "Acid".
When the Observers are searching September's apartment, a surveillance device placed above a doorway can be seen blinking in the familiar Green-Green-Green-Red light pattern just before an explosion occurs.

Fringe S5E11 'The Boy Must Live'
Young Observer's origin is revealed. And his existence and an additional time travel are necessary to change the history of Observers' invasion.

The coded glyphs at the commercial breaks spell GRACE.
The song of the music box is "Greensleeves", also known as the Christmas carol "What Child Is This?" The carol's title also serves as a question about the central mystery concerning the child observer character--who
is he? What child is this.
The Observers are ectogens - persons who were, or are being, gestated in artificial wombs.
When Donald is telling how his kind are created, we are shown several
stages of the gestation. The first stage shown is the same fetal image
that has been part of the apple glyph since Season 1.
This episode takes place in 2036 and 2609
Naked Dr. Bishop, in the tank, without swim trunks.ÿ O_O
Donald was "labeled a known offender". He was tagged. His subdermal chip number is 784651. With such a high chip number, it's clear he certainly wasn't the first "known offender".

Olivia Dunham: Walter, why did you remove your trunks?
Dr. Walter Bishop: They were too restrictive. My body needs to be as
free and open as my mind so I can find September.
Olivia Dunham: Are you feeling sufficiently free and open now?
Dr. Walter Bishop: I am. Let's get started.

[Walter and Donald return to the van, each carrying a covered plastic
milk crate]
Peter Bishop: Is that it?
September: You say that as though we're not carrying technology that can bend space and time into a M”bius Strip.

Fringe S5E12 'Liberty'
'As the Observers evaluate Michael and begin to learn of his abilities
and potential, Olivia embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue him.'

The glyphs for this episode spell out: LOVED
At 25:27 on the TV Fauxlivia walks by, it says that "Chelsea Clinton
leads polls in Presidential race". In the text scrolling underneath
that, it says "American currency reached record high.", it also says "Detroit voted safest city in America.", and lastly, it says "Warner
Bros. announces remake of Harry Potter."
This time, Walter misremembers Astrid's name as "Asgard".

Olivia Dunham: I made my choices. You made yours. I don't regret any of
them and neither should you. You deserve all the happiness that you got.

Fringe S5E13 'An Enemy of Fate'
"As the Observers close in, Walter and September desperately work to complete the plan, but one obstacle after another hinders their progress."

The 100th episode.
The glyphs for this episode spell out: CLOSE
The 'inbetween picture' of the skeleton hand has 5 fingers and a thumb.
In the final episode, when Olivia and Peter are going through the
building with observers and loyalists which they attacked with
chemicals, there is a bloody hand print on the wall. This hand print
also has 5 fingers and a thumb.
In a twist on the ' green, green, green, red' pattern of lights seen on previous episodes, when Peter (Joshua Jackson) shorts out the keypad,
the light flashes 'red, red, red, green.'

The Goofs section of IMDb has a couple of long, convoluted explanations about how the show could not have ended as it was shown that even I
can't follow.

Dr. Walter Bishop: It's a beautiful name.
Astrid Farnsworth: What is?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Astrid.

Dr. Walter Bishop: Peter, hold on to these tight. Anti-gravity osmium bullets. Shoot Observers with these and watch them float away like
balloons.
Peter Bishop: If we shoot 'em, they're dead. Why'd we want 'em to float away?
Dr. Walter Bishop: ...Because it's cool.
Peter Bishop: That makes sense Walter.

Captain Windmark: Before we arrived here, we sent a team of twelve.
Their mission was to observe and report; however, a strange phenomenon occurred. To some degree or other, they succumbed to irrational
emotions. Your kind infected them.
Phillip Broyles: But not you. You seem to be impervious to everything. Captain Windmark: I will never speak of it again, but I will admit this
to you, Phillip. I, too, feel something. I believe you call it... hate. Phillip Broyles: The feeling is mutual.

September/David: It's not about fate, Walter. Yours or mine. It's about changing fate. It's about hope. And protecting our children.

September: When we first came here we did not know the true nature of
our expedition.ÿ We were not told.

And then the writers decided to retcon it. ;-)

Then I watched various disc extras for season 5.

And that's the end of 'Fringe'

Thanks for the recaps.

What Did You Watch?

I watched:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd
as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said
Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But
for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent
until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his
regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't
think that was his real voice at first.


T2 Trainspotting (4K disc) 2017 sequel directed by Danny Boyle. Picking
up 20 years after the first movie Ewan McGregor returns to Scotland to
make amends for stealing $16,000 from his old drug buddies. But some of
his old drug buddies, in particular Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle,
are out for revenge. This is a pretty good sequel that catches up with
the gang to find what they've been up to all these years, and it turns
out, pretty much the same stuff.


28 Days Later (blu-ray) 2002 movie written by Alex Garland and directed
by Danny Boyle. The movie stars Cillian Murphy as a man who wakes up
from a coma and quickly learns that the city of London has been overrun
by people infected by a rage virus. Naomie Harris and Christopher
Eccleston also star. This was pretty much background noise with the commentary.


28 Weeks Later (blu-ray) 2007 sequel which has the U.S, military trying
to reboot England and repatriate its' people. But in spite of best
efforts the virus gets lose again. But to be honest, those efforts
really weren't the best. The movie has a recognizable cast including
Robert Carlyle as one of the survivors who returns to help reboot the
city, and Jeremy Renner, Idris Elba, Harold Perrineau, and Rose Byrne as
part of the US medical team overseeing the reboot. More background
noise with a commentary, although this was probably better than the
first one. On the commentary they mentioned Danny Boyle helped out by directing some of the third unit scenes.


The Crazies (4K disc) 2010 movie (remake of a George A. Romero movie of
the same name) starring Timothy Olyphant as the sheriff of a small town
where the residents become infected by a virus that turns them
homicidal. The U.S. government sends troops to the town, but not
necessarily to help. I haven't watched this since I'm guessing 2010.
It's an OK movie. At some point I need to pair it with the George A.
Romero original version, which I think I also only ever saw once.


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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing
pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter
turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd
as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said >Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But
for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent >until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his >regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't >think that was his real voice at first.

Hahahahahaha

It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

I know you are doing Walter and the Astrid gag, but he spells his first
name like Jonny Quest.

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On Jun 16, 2025 at 9:06:10 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd
as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said
Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But
for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent
until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his
regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't
think that was his real voice at first.

Hahahahahaha

It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

When I was a kid, my dad was in the Army and stationed in England for about a year and my mom says we got out of there just in time because my siblings and
I were developing English accents. She thinks avoiding that was a good thing, but I've always resented them for taking me away before that could set in permanently. Imagine how much more action I would have gotten from girls growing up in the U.S. if I had English accent!



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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Jun 16, 2025 at 9:06:10 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >>Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie >>>stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd >>>as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine >>>addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said >>>Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But >>>for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent >>>until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his >>>regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't >>>think that was his real voice at first.

Hahahahahaha

It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

When I was a kid, my dad was in the Army and stationed in England for about a >year and my mom says we got out of there just in time because my siblings and >I were developing English accents. She thinks avoiding that was a good thing, >but I've always resented them for taking me away before that could set in >permanently. Imagine how much more action I would have gotten from girls >growing up in the U.S. if I had English accent!

But you'd have sounded like Michael Caine and not Cary Grant.

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On 6/16/2025 9:01 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

+1

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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Jun 16, 2025 at 9:06:10 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd >>> as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said
Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But >>> for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent >>> until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his
regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't >>> think that was his real voice at first.

Hahahahahaha

It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

When I was a kid, my dad was in the Army and stationed in England for about a year and my mom says we got out of there just in time because my siblings and I were developing English accents. She thinks avoiding that was a good thing, but I've always resented them for taking me away before that could set in permanently. Imagine how much more action I would have gotten from girls growing up in the U.S. if I had English accent!

I spent three days in Virginia like 50 years ago at a resort my dad was building and came back with a southern accent that by just adding retarded
to it still makes it easy to do Jimmy Carter.


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On 6/16/25 7:07 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

golf - Wow. I don't think I've ever seen a "Major" end quite like this
U.S. Open did. We started the day with Sam Burns in the lead, with I
believe J.J. Spaun tied(?) for second with Adam Scott.
Spaun went on to bogey 5 of the first 6 holes. I assumed he was done.
Meanwhile, the weather was horrid (for the second day in a row). So, pretty much *everyone* was losing strokes! At first, Burns was holding
up OK, and was still under par (for much of the day, he was the only one!!)
Then there was a very long play suspension, due to rain (and
potential lightning) - long enough, that I turned the golf on, and I
think got through most of a movie on LMN!
When play resumed, even Burns started choking, as did Adam Scott. It
was definitely looking like *no one* would end up under par by the end
of this thing!
Then the most amazing thing happened! - Spaun, who had fallen down
the leaderboard, somehow pulled it together on the back 9. The dude even managed to birdie the last two holes, including an amazing 40-ft long
putt on the 18th hole (the longest putt made the entire last day!).
And Burns continued to choke!
In the end, J.J. Spaun ended up being the only one to finish under
par (at -1, which was still +2 for the day for him overall!), and so he
won the US Open in a shocker! (Burns and Scott fell down the leaderboard
so badly that they ended T7 and T12. Robert MacIntyre surged into solo
second place, with Victor Hovland holding on to third.)

soaps: GH - Fri's ep. In a move I didn't see coming, (Nu)Drew goes to
Martin Gray (thank Gawd! Michael E. Knight is back - I wonder if he took
a few months off to do off-Broadway or something...) and appears to be
willing to leave Willow if it will allow Willow to see her kids. (Willow
was not in this episode.) Tracy Q. goes to Alexis to try to convince
Alexis to sue for custody of Drew's daughter, but Alexis wants nothing
to do with it. Natalia (Booby Vista) is summoned by Marco for legal
advice about her recent DUI arrest, and then meets with Sonny who wants
to send Natalia out of town (permanently!) to duck the whole issue.
Maxie (Zenon!) tries to mediate between Brook Lynn and NuNuLulu, but
it's not going well. And Anna is forced to mediate between Chase and
Dante, as Dante continues to act like a total jerk.

The Boy Who Vanished (Lifetime) - The vibe from this 2025 flick from
second #1 was "unsettled/unsettling" (incl. the background music), so
you know that nothing good is happening here.
At the beginning a "teenage boy" (Aiden Howard) appears claiming to
have been kidnapped 12 years before. The parents (Tegan Moss and Matthew
Kevin Anderson - fun fact: he's Jewel Staite's IRL ex-husband!!) of a
boy kidnapped 12 years before show up, and while the dad isn't sure he's
the missing boy, the mom (Moss) is 100% sure it's him. (Later, her
recovering addict brother doesn't think the teen is the missing boy
either, so they want you to think that he's a faker.)
Meanwhile, all this weird stuff starts happening, with an apparent
vagrant woman harassing the dad, and this weird menacing dude (Jesse
Moss, Tegan's IRL brother!) lurking around. It takes a while, but it
becomes clear that the teen is tied up with the weird menacing dude.
Anyway, I wasn't sure where this was going, but it was off-putting
enough that it wasn't really enjoyable getting there.


What did you watch?



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On 6/16/2025 9:06 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd
as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction. The movie holds up very well. On the commentary they said
Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish. But
for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent
until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his
regular speaking voice. When he started speaking normally, they didn't
think that was his real voice at first.

Hahahahahaha

It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

I know you are doing Walter and the Astrid gag, but he spells his first
name like Jonny Quest.

Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but it was just a typo. LOL.

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On 6/16/2025 8:37 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 6/16/2025 7:07 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S5E08 'The Human Kind'
IMDb sez: "Following the bread crumbs, Olivia collects a truck with
cargo from a scrap yard but runs into bounty hunters. Peter, with
newly gained powers, has to make a decision."

The glyphs for this episode spell out: PLEAD

Walter mis-remembers Astrid's name yet again; here he calls her "Asner".

At this point, he's got to know her name and is just doing this to mess
with her.

See below.

Fringe S5E13 'An Enemy of Fate'

Dr. Walter Bishop: It's a beautiful name.
Astrid Farnsworth: What is?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Astrid.

And then the writers decided to retcon it.ÿ ;-)

*whap* :P



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On 6/16/2025 12:46 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 6/16/2025 9:01 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing
pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter
turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

+1

Bits of brain got put back into Walter twice actually IIRC. Once each
in two different timelines. Sort of. The first time was first or
second season and it was the villain of the season who connected the
excised pieces to Walter's brain without actually re-implanting them but
they died off when he was rescued. The final season was the second time
and was off-camera. Walter in the latter part of the season was asking
Nina to take the bits back out because he could feel the "old, mean"
Walter coming back.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/16/2025 12:46 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 6/16/2025 9:01 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing >>>pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter >>>turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

+1

Bits of brain got put back into Walter twice actually IIRC. Once each
in two different timelines. Sort of. The first time was first or
second season and it was the villain of the season who connected the
excised pieces to Walter's brain without actually re-implanting them but >they died off when he was rescued. The final season was the second time
and was off-camera. Walter in the latter part of the season was asking
Nina to take the bits back out because he could feel the "old, mean"
Walter coming back.

Peter never operated? Thanks

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On 6/16/2025 8:27 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/16/2025 12:46 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 6/16/2025 9:01 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing >>>> pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter >>>> turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

+1

Bits of brain got put back into Walter twice actually IIRC. Once each
in two different timelines. Sort of. The first time was first or
second season and it was the villain of the season who connected the
excised pieces to Walter's brain without actually re-implanting them but
they died off when he was rescued. The final season was the second time
and was off-camera. Walter in the latter part of the season was asking
Nina to take the bits back out because he could feel the "old, mean"
Walter coming back.

Peter never operated? Thanks

Not on Walter.

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In article <102pf52$1mugq$2@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

Say, what was the episode of Fringe in which they discovered the missing >pieces of Walter's brain, Peter then put Walter back together and Walter >turned even more evil? I didn't spot it in your decscriptions.

Gray Matters.



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