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Old 09-30-2016, 12:51 AM
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Default Re: What are we watching this Fall, y'all?

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Oh, and also, the third character introduced in the opening introduction - a lady technical specialist who was providing technical stuff from the van down the road from the mission - gets killed by a seemingly clever bad guy who found the van and waited there for the mission recovery operation. So, dead lady, who just so you know it was important for them to show she and the title character did the ugly bumpings, is dead even before the opening credits.
I need to addend this. Turns out the lady wasn't really dead! Nevermind how no one knew or suspected that she wasn't really dead because the drama of the reveal is more important. As it turns out she's kind of like the nega-guyver. She has similar ideations of FREEDOM and LIBERTY or whatever, but has a different filter on how to achieve her or her organization's goals. And I'm being charitable at calling her the nega-guyver because I don't think they established that she was a savant at getting a job done in the same way MacGuyver is. She has her computer tech savvy speciality but I think that's the soft limit of her accomplishments.

But still, I'm saying:


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And while I have your attention: FOX started the television franchise LETHA WEAPON based on the movie property. I was bored and decided to check that out as well. What ever black magic bottled lightning the movie had didn't make it to the little screen. Though it's not as bad as NuGuyver, it's not like a must see or anything. At least for the pilot episode, it was a p much plot by number opening.

The Martin Riggs guy isn't the crazy balls on the edge nuts-o like Mel Gibson's was. Though he still has a devil may care deathwish thing going on. (Because his wife was killed in a tragic car accident on the way to the hospital to have their first child.) Sometimes he's playing more like an aw-shucks, look how charming I am but I'm really a deadly hand-to-hand combat and sharpshooting sniper guy.

Damon Wayans is, well, he's Damon Wayans. He makes a p solid straight man to the supposed antics of his wacky partner. We've established that he had open heart surgery, loves his wife and children, and is an otherwise good cop. Not quite as battle worn as Glover's Murtaugh, but this was just the first episode.

True Fact: Danny Glover was younger as Murtaugh (actual age, not character), 41, than Wayans is, 56. Even so, Wayans looks younger than Glover. Makes me wonder who really is too old for this shit.
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