I’ve Only included any information that you absolutely need for season 3.
It should be noted that seasons 2 and 3 were produced with overlapping schedules so the lack of continuity was a necessity.
Also as season 2 contained a well know Star Trek trope there wasn’t necessarily a need for events to follow.
Anyone else watching Eurovision?
How could you ever refuse?
I’ve decided to watch this Eurovision instead of just following the comments online, because in recent years it’s SO bonkers that any comment about it just sounds like surrealism 
For example, someone just described the Serbian and French entries as “150k% French song, on after Trent Reznor Fights the Borg”. He’s right, but I wouldn’t have appreciated it without watching.
Not enough has been said about trampolining
Or the brave Human Centipede staging from Finland
The what now? Was this part of the trampolining as well?
I have finished watching all seven A Nightmare on Elm Street films (excluding the 2010 remake, which I’ve never seen). Other than recollecting that the very first and very last film were great, I simply could not remember what I knew of the rest. So now I know:
#1 is still a really great little horror film.
#2 is absolutely dire (and its existence is ignored by the following films).
#3 and #4 are worthwhile for fans, but definitely not essential (and if you don’t enjoy #3 then don’t bother with #4).
#5 admirably attempts something very different, but fails to pull it off, so it’s neither a good Elm Street film nor a good Not-Elm-Street film.
#6 is all over the place… at times it shows genuine promise, but elsewhere is even worse than #2. Ultimately it’s a complete mess.
#7 is a fabulous spin on the concept and (given what preceded it) really a lot better than the series deserved.
In short, the two films I remembered being good are the only two I would happily recommend:
Even better, you can watch only those two and you need know nothing of the intervening five films, other than the fact that they exist.
Topped by the Croatian shenanigans, they ended in their underwear. But underwear that a grandpa wears to sleep. At least it was clean…
I found the 2-part RLM Re:View on the series interesting.
Neat. I’ll add that to my watch-list once I’ve finished with the Never Sleep Again documentaries about the series :)
Currently enjoying our rewatch of Stargate SG1, now up to season 5. So much fun, and surprisingly good continuity (with the exception of the Furlings).
Watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on anticipation of the new film on Sunday and hoping against hope it won’t make me question my entire life path.
The dress scene is very odd. Nobody does that to Indy. ‘Here are some lederhosen,Dr. Jones. I would very much like to see you in them.’
I have no mouth and I must rant. This about a specific episode of Season 6 of Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea
Non-spoiler:
So there are these astronauts on an unspecified 6-year, “deep space” (they mention "4 AU at some time, I think), mission. They have replicant bodies on Earth that they can inhabit and interact with their families on Earth. Cool idea, but why not have the replicants in space instead? They don’t eat* and they can do anything the humans can do. (* This is shown explicitly.) We never see the astronauts doing anything other than system checks and exercising on space.
Even if the replicants needed all the other life support a human needs, it still makes far more sense to leave the humans at home. Maybe… and this is a big maybe… the replicants require so much power that only an Earthbound power grid can handle, but how the replicants are powered is never shown.
I won’t complain about how this is set in the late 60’s. They can transmit their consciousness to these replicants. They have “watches” that can send an emergency signal from the ship to earth to tell the astronaut to return to their bodies. And yet hey don’t seem to have any normal audio/visual communication with Earth.
Spoilery Bit:
That ending was dumb. I don’t care how broken that guy was, it does not translate to brutal murder. While I commend them for not taking the obvious story path, the path they took was far more idiotic.
4 AU or, as we like to think of it, 33 minutes. But yeah, you put the expendables in the dangerous place, that’s why they’re expendable.
I’ve been trying to watch the most recent season of The Bad Batch, and it’s… okay?
Here’s the thing. Twenty years ago I would say that this was among the best Star Wars content they’ve ever made. Five years ago I would say that it was among the worst.
In a universe in which Andor and half of the Jedi Chronicles and the last episode of The Clone Wars exist? It’s like… why? Why bother? There is such amazing Star Wars out there that they could just… not do the “only okay” stuff.
I just want them to put more effort into a few series, rather than this shotgun “We’ll do a fair amount of effort for a dozen series” thing they’re doing. Some of the episode of The Mandalorian are fantastic! There are parts of Boba Fett that I legitimately enjoyed! But Andor is a goddamn work of art from the first two minutes onwards.
Anyway. Bad Batch. “It’s Fine, I Guess.”
“Unending Star Wars content” was precisely what I was expecting the moment I heard that Disney had purchased it.
I recently watched a TV show called “School Spirits” which is a teenage ghost drama. A dead girl finds her ghost is trapped in the school where she died, along with the ghosts of pretty much everyone else who ever died at that school; and with no memory of how she died, she sets about trying to solve that mystery. With a few contrivances they mostly eliminated any need for special effects in the show, and so it’s mainly a character-driven story with a ghostly theme and some light-hearted juxtaposition of the living and dead worlds. It’s certainly not a must see but I enjoyed it, and the way in which they wrapped it up was genuinely neat.
“People are still buying stuff with Star Wars on it? Make more!” See also Marvel, and basically any other exploitable IP, especially when they aren’t owned by the originators. I suspect the money men in film and TV find creative people weird and inexplicable.
(Mind you, I can’t help but think of SJGames staff comments from a few years back: “Why do we keep making more Munchkin? Because you keep buying it, more than anything else we make.”)