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I was ok with it and can be tolerant but it’s a disappointing finale for sure. I never did like the main character and any plot just unraveled. To be fair it’s the first series I made it through on atv plus.

That said I feel like we’re in a rut. Most services not part of something like prime are paused for me. There’s definitely a lack of good tv. Can’t wait for college sports. Been watching YouTube mostly.

Took my daughter to see Barbie. If not for her I’d have walked out. So boring. How is it doing so well? I didn’t care about messages or politics, it was just boring to me. As was flash. As was guardians. Indy. Just subpar.
My 2c on Barbie here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-movie-are-you-watching.1069107/post-32344377

The issue is that most movies and TV shows now have very little re-watchability value. They might be cool at the theater for the first watch, but then? Empty and boring. Of course there are exceptions (John Wick).
 
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Not my typical post on the matter.

I started watching Hijack on TV+. I shut it down after 30 mins of episode 1. The level of sloppy writing is just off the charts. Spoilers ahead. Not only I have to believe that someone that finds a bullet left by a terrorist in the airplane restrooms (an already sloppy tension creator plot device) but that she just tells a random stranger (which surprise… is a terrorist l!) and not any of the crew. Then, and this is where I shut it down yelling at the screen, I have to believe that in a post 9/11 world a pilot who knows what is going on in the airplane (and even says that if the terrorists get in they will all die) decides to open the secure and bulletproof cockpit’s door - after fighting and beating up his female copilot to a pulp - because a crew member is also his secret lover and tells him “I love you please open the door.” And I hope that the pilot doesn’t turn up being a terrorist too because that would be even sloppier.

Just lazy writing.

You'd be really angry to learn how it ends:

"Is there a doctor on board" apparently doesn't apply to pilots in the Hijack world, because it's not the first officer (sole remaining pilot on board who has a pulse) who lands the plane, but the "aviation consultant" who comes out of nowhere and kills the captain in the penultimate episode. And secures immunity for doing so.
 
You'd be really angry to learn how it ends:

"Is there a doctor on board" apparently doesn't apply to pilots in the Hijack world, because it's not the first officer (sole remaining pilot on board who has a pulse) who lands the plane, but the "aviation consultant" who comes out of nowhere and kills the captain in the penultimate episode. And secures immunity for doing so.

Is there not a film where Doris Day, acting as a hostie, lands a plane?
 
You'd be really angry to learn how it ends:
I am really angry at the motivation for the hijacking. You'd expect it to be something political. But no...
Stonks:rolleyes:. A bear raid on a midsized airline. The richest airline has a market cap of $21B. I estimate the fictional airline market cap to be $5B. To put that into perspective, Apple has a market cap of $2.7T. Way to much effort for lousy returns. Dr. Evil demanding one million dollars level of crappy ROI.
 
Just finished Season 2 of Good Omens.
Interestingly, in both seasons, you got to the end of the story, then there is another half hour or so of follow-up details, so all the loose ends are sorted.
 
Just grabbed myself the 2K blu-ray remaster of Fraiser. Wish the creative team made the effort to frame this for 16:9 safe just like what the X-Files did when both 1st aired in 1993.

The X-Files remaster reaped that reward of extra content to the left and right of the originally aired 4:3 framing.

 
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