Seriously, Parthenogenesis in Dragons?
The Avengers 2.11 "Traitor in Zebra"
"Who's side are you on?" "Yours" (after Steed intentionally angers a suspect to try and see if they slip up."
"I'll take a small drink. I've been driving all day." "A large gin." I feel you.
They're looking for the mole jamming a new satellite tracking system in Wales.
They're not looking for a cute dog, but there is one anyway...Carrying the secret messages. Cutest courier ever!
The dog was the highlight, but it was still a fun little episode.
Btw, I will probably never order a large gin...
The Handmaid's Tale 4.5 "Chicago"
Trashing Chicago is a tradition, and boy do they do a thorough job of it. Janine is sleeping with the "resistance" leader, but this resistance is all about survival.
June chases a rumor of a group that is more, shall we say, active. She wants to blow stuff up.
Lydia and Lawrence are working together to try and get their jobs back...and restabilize Gilead. But the hawks are winning... (They do both get their jobs back, though).
...and now Janine is MIA after she and June got blown up... (Although I can't imagine she's dead. Maybe?)
...and guess who volunteered to join the aid convoy into Chicago. June has an opportunity to get out. To join her husband and younger daughter in Canada.
Will she take it?
Cinema Disaster: Curse of the Dragon/Jabberwock
Our DVD said Curse of the Dragon. IMBD said Jabberwock. There was also an actress with a different last name. We joked that we got a copy from a very similar alternate timeline.
The better timeline would be the one in which this stinker didn't exist. Especially if you see it under the Curse of the Dragon title, this appears to be a standard low budget Medieval-fest...what I call a RenFaire movie because it typically has about the same level of respect for historical accuracy...no offense to Rennies.
However, the makers of this flick decided to make it unique by...using Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, dropping the y, and having it somehow exist in a vague Medieval England (Rome is explicitly mentioned) as a prophecy about how to destroy a dragon. Or jabberwock. Whatever.
Jabberwocky was, of course, written in 1871.
And it's not the worst thing. There is, of course, the standard terrible dragon. A couple of horses have to deal with actors who are at best indifferent riders. We also have armor made out of galvanized wrought iron.
This is a thing. It's used to make fences. It's for rust proofing. And why is the armor red?
I don't know.
Also, CW for vague ableism...can't use your arm? Time to die.
The jabberwock is also capable of parthenogenesis. And growing to full size in minutes. And...yeah. Don't ask questions about the biology either.
Not only is the entire movie either an anachronism or a paradox (did Lewis Carroll travel back in time and drop a copy off with a monk after hearing this story), but it also has bad science!
Yeah...I shouldn't have stayed sober for this one, but more fool me, I did.
The Handmaid's Tale 4.6 "Vows"
So, things just got interesting. I know this is when people think the show started to go downhill, but I disagree. The imagery and camerawork, the emotion...it's still fantastic. I think some people may have missed the stark, primary color palette of Gilead, which constantly contrasts with the grayscale...it's an interesting use of color.
Moira smuggles June to Canada against her wishes...and at the cost of her girlfriend, her job, and possibly lives. It's a very Moira thing to do.
Now June is in Canada, reunited with Luke and Nichole, but...can she...there's no way she can lead a normal life, ever again.
And then there's the Waterfords...
The Avengers 2.12 "The Big Thinker"
Sometimes a character is so obnoxious that you know they aren't the bad guy. In this case, it's a mathematical genius who's somewhat autism-coded...in fact, he's kind of like Sheldon, except way less annoying. I mean, not that he'd be less annoying to meet, but he's less annoying as a 'vaguely autism-coded genius'.
There's also a supercomputer that's very futuristic for 1962. Half a building, cryo-cooled, etc. That was the state of the art at the time.
Oh, and math genius counts cards and loses at poker, probably because he's such an asshole (he actually says one of the women belongs "in somebody's bed").
He actually makes Steed look nice. Mostly.