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Black Friday

My only purchase from Black Friday was something that I didn’t think I would pick up.

I didn’t get BB-8 a couple of years back, and I didn’t get any of the new droids on Force Friday.

But for Black Friday, Best Buy dropped the price by $50(!) AND threw in a free Force Band.

I played with both, and found them both amusing, and I’ll probably play with them more over time.  The Force Band takes some practice to drive the droid.  But the Holocron mode is kinda cool, finding holocrons and unlocking things within the app, like weapons and characters and ships and planets.  The weapons allow you to pretend to armed with those weapons (so far a blaster and a bowcaster) and make gestures to make pew-pew sounds.

The app is much more fun to play with, because you can make R2 ’emote’ and make sounds.  I have yet to try watching one of the films with R2, who is supposed to respond to scenes throughout the movies.

Overall, I’m happy with this little guy, as I’ve wanted a full-sized R2 unit since I was 10.

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MoviePass

I signed up for this card a month ago.  I finally used it today.

I saw Justice League for the third time.

I do think it’s weird that you have to be within 100 yards of the theatre in order to pick a movie, but it works okay.

I may try to go see another movie sometime this weekend.  I should have done that all this week since I was off for staycation.  Oh well.

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Marvel’s The Punisher

Definitely one the better Netflix Marvel shows.  I think it’s tied with Daredevil as my favorite of all of them.

And Episode 10 was my favorite of this series.

I liked most of the characters, though Agent Madani sometimes got on my nerves.

And it took me a moment to recognize a couple of actors in their roles.

3.5 out of 4 stars.

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The 50s

November 17, 1967: premiere date of the Star Trek episode ‘Journey to Babel’.

While transporting dignitaries to an important peace conference the Enterprise is pursued by a mysterious vessel and an assassin is discovered among the passengers.

This one is my favorite Spock-centric episode.

We meet his parents, Sarek of Vulcan and Amanda Grayson of Earth.

We also meet the Andorians and Tellarites  for the first time.

And it’s the first reference to the Pirates of Orion.

The one scene in this episode that gets me is when Amanda tries to convince Spock to assist Dr. McCoy with a blood transfusion to save his dying father.

When you were five years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished, because the other boys tormented you saying that you weren’t really Vulcan. I watched you, knowing that inside that the human part of you was crying and I cried, too. There must be some part of me in you, some part that I still can reach. If being Vulcan is more important to you, then you’ll stand there speaking rules and regulations from Starfleet and Vulcan philosophy, and let your father die. And I’ll hate you for the rest of my life.

My own Mom was protective of me as well.

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Look, up in the sky…

I loved it.

Sure, it wasn’t perfect.

It was entertaining. It was fun. It was a live action episode of Super Friends.

And that’s all that I wanted.

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I really didn’t expect to see it on Thursday night, but after my cousin sent me a text asking if I had seen it yet, and after watching the final battle from Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice on cable TV, I said “screw it”, bought a ticket online, and dashed off to the movie theatre.

And I still plan to see it Friday morning.

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SUPERMAN IS BACK.

Restrained giddiness is the best way to describe how I felt when he showed up at a key moment.

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Booyah.

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Amazingly, most of the audience stayed for BOTH credits scenes.

They were AWESOME.

The scenes, not the audience.

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Justice League

When I was 6 years old, Super Friends premiered on Saturday morning cartoons.

Ever since then I’ve been waiting for the movie that premieres on Friday.

Or Thursday, technically.

Anyways, I’m trying to stay away from reviews and such, even though I personally liked both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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Midweek Mutterings

I feel… 80% better after this Election Day than I did a year ago.

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Why are vanilla-flavored Tootsie Rolls a ‘limited edition’?

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My dream Marvel film would be a team up with Korg, Groot, and Luis.

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While I enjoy watching basketball now, I really wish my Broncos or the 49ers were doing better in football.

Or maybe baseball should just start already.

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November 17th is gonna be a busy day.