The day I took a CEO bite of a Big Arch, I watched:

Hollywood?s TOXIC Image Obsession: Demi Moore, Jim Carrey, Ryan Seacrest, and Kelly Osbourne Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz4oyDNLjik
[So much for "body positivity"!]

"I Can Prove I'm a Woman" Clip Had Saying "Seriously??" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqy4F8inokI

Iran Just Triggered A Cryptic Shortwave Message! https://youtu.be/ErmbTpxAM7Q?si=dt6ESu1dX7nn38eP

Kristen Stewart?s INSANE Rant on ICE & Daytime Burger Bans Goes Viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0EPoJtXbMQ
[Who?]

Roman numerals from 0 to absolute infinity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAZOsgpYGiY

Should Rulers Be 1 Light Nanosecond Long? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZMXC85J-c4

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTzW-mTQd5w

PCB | Yoda Dodges Acolyte Bullet | Mando & Grogu Leads to Force Awakens | Bond | Beverly Hills Cop!
Pop Culture Breakdown is BACK and tonight we go over the latest
developments in the WB/Paramount sale, we discuss how Acolyte
Season 2 planned to destroy Yoda and how Mando and Grogu links
to The Force Awakens, we lament the latest James Bond rumors,
Wonder Man bombs BIG TIME on D+, and our movie this week is Beverly
Hills Cop! Join us as we break down the highs and lows of the week
in pop culture!

0:10:20 THE BREAKDOWN
0:10:46 Lanterns (HBO, August 2026) ? First Trailer Releases, "No Country for Old Lanterns"?
0:28:51 The Acolyte Season 2 Would Have Seen Yoda Cover Up the Crime on Season 1
0:40:27 Screen Rant Writes, Star Wars' New Return of the Jedi Sequel Confirms Disney's
Episode VII Mistake ...But They Mean The Mandalorian and Grogu
0:59:38 It would be so easy to save Star Wars within the canon
1:01:11 There already are some wild AI Star Wars fan movies
1:05:09 SUPER CHATS
1:05:41 Bruce Campbell diagnosed with cancer
1:07:09 Welcome, Andy Masterson!
1:14:49 R.i.P., Highguard (26 January 2026 ? 12 March 2026) ??
1:17:00 R.i.P., Rob Grant (25 September 1955 ? 25 February 2026)
1:22:01 THE BREAKDOWN continued
1:22:15 Did Paramount Rescue Warner Bros. Discovery Or Not?
1:26:30 HBO and Paramount+ to merge
1:26:50 Studio aims to release 30 theatrical movies each year
1:27:59 Paramount Warner Bros. to be the studio that caters to the Center-Right audience?
1:48:50 The Tampon Incident at Netflix
1:56:46 No Star Trek Series Currently in Production ? Is Star Trek United Moving Forward?
2:08:01 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 8, "The Life of the Stars" 2:16:41 The Entire Plot of Avengers: Doomsday Leaked?
2:22:39 SUPER CHATS
2:36:24 MOVIES WE LOVE -- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
3:08:14 SUPER CHATS
3:18:19 Goodnight, Everybody!
3:18:55 SPECIAL THANKS
3:22:21 The Final CHAT
3:24:37 The last second

https://www.youtube.com/live/1WvMPfvPURo?si=XJr5Sn1tz90jqu69

What did you watch?

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On 3/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One
Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.

I also watched DOOL where it was finally revealed that Stephanie's
stalker is!... GH's Peter August!?!?! (Apparently, Wes Ramsey played the character of Owen Kent for about 5 seconds back in 2009 when Stephanie
was still portrayed by Shelley Hennig.) And now EVOL!! Owen has captured Jeremy Horton (who it turns out was just guilty of acting perennially
sketchy while not actually being a psycho!). He's also apparently (conveniently?) working for Doctor Rolf (and EJ??...).

So that's what I watched.

What did you watch?



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In <10occj2$3ubef$1@dont-email.me> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> writes:

On 3/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One >Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our >heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course >didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and >she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.

I was more amused by the show's use of the residual
claim that CDC would be helpful....




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Subject: Chicago Fire-Med-P.D. "Reckoning" 3/4/2026 (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-03-04 (Wednesday))

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One >Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our >heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course >didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and >she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.

I almost never watch these shows and I feel like I cannot keep up with
having missed decades of melodrama. With just the mystery, it could have
been wrapped up in an hour. They gave me the hard sell during the
Olympics and I got curious.

Amazingly ridiculous but entertaining. So much I didn't follow. Given
that the toxic whatsis turned out to be a chemical used in research, why
did the courrier need to smuggle it in, implanted in his body? Sounds
like it could have been ordered from a catalog or stolen from the right
kind of warehouse or lab.

The argument about FBI calling it terrorism versus drug trafficking
should have made no difference to how you investigate. Either way,
follow the evidence. Of course, both were irrelevant in the end.

Nothing about the secondary exposures made any possible sense. Why could
Oliver Platt have just performed the tracheotomy since it happened in
front of him? Hell, Father Mulchahey on M*A*S*H, on a well-remembered
episode, performed one with pen knife and tube of a ball-point pen.

I didn't like how they went with hazmat and not bio-hazard. My immediate
guess was biowarefare weapon.

I think that was Midway Airport as I think the building in the
background was the former Air National Guard facility.

The corpse handling was absurd. Since they assumed there was a
possibility of exposure from the corpses, there is no way they would
have brought them to the regular County morgue, which lacks the capacity
for 200 corpses requiring Level 1 handling. They'd have set up a
temporary morgue in a closed factory or warehouse nearby; plenty of
those around. Or taken over a hanger, at least for the luggage. Or used
the empty National Guard building.

What was the idiocy of all those Federal Marshals (huh?) being used to
prevent one lousy pregnant woman from receiving surgery? Of course she
died. You need two surgical teams for that kind of emergency, one to
treat the baby, another to treat the mother. The thing about wombs:
Massive blood supply, bleed like crazy. They never even packed the
surgical cavity.

Voight's back story was ridiculous. He felt guilty for saving the boy?
Who cooks meth in an occupied mid-size apartment building? Fumes will
kill people and you don't want witnesses who see the precursor
chemicals. Also, they made it look like the fire began in the boy's
apartment.

Cracked me up that 1634 N Racine would have been in the north branch of
the Chicago River. Also, the Heart of Chicago neighborhood is on the
west side, not too far from the studio and all the acres of land they
own, not the north side.

Not sure what hotel that was. Maybe the Drake? Didn't look like the
Palmer House.

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Subject: Re: Chicago Fire-Med-P.D. "Reckoning" 3/4/2026 (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-03-04 (Wednesday))

On Mar 5, 2026 at 9:07:29 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One
Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our
heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course
didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and
she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.

But the last we saw of them, it looked like Halstead was going to get lucky. I wonder of she smiles inappropriately during sex, too?

I almost never watch these shows and I feel like I cannot keep up with
having missed decades of melodrama. With just the mystery, it could have
been wrapped up in an hour. They gave me the hard sell during the
Olympics and I got curious.

Amazingly ridiculous but entertaining. So much I didn't follow. Given
that the toxic whatsis turned out to be a chemical used in research, why
did the courrier need to smuggle it in, implanted in his body? Sounds
like it could have been ordered from a catalog or stolen from the right
kind of warehouse or lab.

Or at the least, the individual chemicals required to make it could have been ordered separately, then mixed together to create the poison.

The writers also had the thing behaving more like a biological weapon than a chemical weapon the entire time. It was very confusing.

The argument about FBI calling it terrorism versus drug trafficking
should have made no difference to how you investigate. Either way,
follow the evidence. Of course, both were irrelevant in the end.

I think the type of case affects the degree of inappropriateness in Upton's smile.

The corpse handling was absurd. Since they assumed there was a
possibility of exposure from the corpses, there is no way they would
have brought them to the regular County morgue, which lacks the capacity
for 200 corpses requiring Level 1 handling. They'd have set up a
temporary morgue in a closed factory or warehouse nearby; plenty of
those around. Or taken over a hanger, at least for the luggage. Or used
the empty National Guard building.

What was the idiocy of all those Federal Marshals (huh?) being used to prevent one lousy pregnant woman from receiving surgery?

And instead of just standing there in the ER bay pointing guns at the ambulance, why not set up a temporary surgical suite in the parking lot inside a tent? They were there long enough to have had time for the national guard standup a mobile field hospital, for gawd's sake.

Voight's back story was ridiculous. He felt guilty for saving the boy?

No, he felt guilty for telling the FD to delay the fire inspection by two days so he could make drug his case. Which was ridiculous. If the fire started because the building was out of code, performing the inspection on the exact date it was due wouldn't have changed anything. The inspector would have
issued a notice to the building owner to remedy the violations, which would typically take weeks, even with a responsible landlord. It's not like the fire department would have immediately evacuated an entire apartment building the moment they found a violation and put everyone out on the street until it was brought up to code.



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Subject: Re: Chicago Fire-Med-P.D. "Reckoning" 3/4/2026 (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-03-04 (Wednesday))

In <10odneh$dbcm$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One >>Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our >>heroes(tm) survive?!?!!

[lots snipped. Note: possible dupe as I thought I had
posted but don't see it...]

Aside from all the other points of scorn and derision (and rest
assured there are LOTS more), two stuck out at me:

a: the firemen (MEN!) using the rotary saw to cut through
the locking pins holding the door closed (gee, someone paid
attention to Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and its unsecured
pins...) and NOT wearing a face shield, or at least safety
goggles.. there was the scene near the end where Dick Wolf
pretended CDC was still a helpful resource...



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