Posted on 01/24/2019 1:22:45 AM PST by RoosterRedux
I watched the first two and decided it wasn’t all I had hoped it would be.
Now I’m gonna have to give episode 3 a look.
Season one of the Jack Ryan series was excellent. Am looking forward to more.
I would like to know who the blond woman is who has befriended the professor’s wife. Who are the guys with the hats?
I have a trial subscription to Amazon Prime but can’t figure out what good it is since most of the movies I’ve wanted to watch require you to rent them........go figure.
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Over time, different movies and TV shows appear in Prime. If you’re into sci-fi, Prime is currently streaming, for free, series like “Stargate SG-1”, “Babylon 5”, “Battlestar Galactica” (rebooted series), and “The Expanse” (Season 1 and 2 are free with Prime).
Yes the third episode was better.
Don’t like at all the “coy” looks in the “modern” relationship they are building between the professor’s wife and the blond who is actually using her to spy on her husband. Those looks are way out of sync with female friend relationships of the 1950s, unless they were lesbians, in which they would not have been part of a 1950s show. Apparently the directors asked themselves “how can we get today’s single women to watch the show” and came up with direction for the coy looks to make suggestive hints about where the ladies relationship could go - as in: “if we make some hints, even just if only visually, as in how the gals look at each other, the “modern girls” might keep tuning in to see where things go.
I did enjoy Jack Ryan. That was an exception.
One of the reasons I like that period in time is that it is wholesome compared to today.
Ok, Roswell, New Mexico. Not worried about spoiler alert because believe me you’re not missing a thing.
Starts out the ‘star’ woman is driving back to Roswell from her job in Denver.
She gets stopped by a roadblock. Complains to the cop she’s not been drinking and they are too far from the Border to be illegals checking.
Cop(turns out they grew up together) says he hates breaking up families.
She get into town, visits her uncle who cooks at a diner.
She tells him to leave for Denver, a Sanctuary city for safety.
He likes Roswell and will stay.
Oh. BTW, she left Denver because the government withdrew funds so they could use the money for The Wall.
Three characters in the show are apparently aliens, UFO kind and have powers, healing etc.
A drivebye shooting hits the heroine and one of the aliens healing her.
Another of the aliens decides to ‘come out of the closet’ and the last scene was mawing his lover.
Changed channel. YECH!!
Forgot to add, this was the first 15 minutes.!
I actually do like the show, but, the end of episode 2 was astonishingly bad.
Hynek buys his kid a telescope, sets it up, and points the open in of the scope to the ground. He then tells the kid to look through it and see Mars.
He might have seen a Mars BAR on the ground or something, but, he wasn’t seeing the planet Mars.
Hollywood types know NOTHING about telescopes or astronomy unless they absolutely must. The Big Bang Theory and Futurama seem to be able to do this correctly. But they have smart people on staff as writers.
The broad themes of the Project Blue Book show are grounded in the now established facts of the early UFO era. The US government at that time was desperate to figure out what UFOs were and the level of threat they represented, while also reassuring the public that they were nothing to be concerned about. Meanwhile, because UFOs actually were mysterious and alarming, the government engaged in extensive surveillance and penetration of civilian UFO research organizations.
Hynek was well-regarded and highly capable as a physicist. He was hired by the Air Force to pick apart and publicly debunk the weak or marginal UFO cases that the Air Force sent him while posing as if the official Project Blue Book was a genuine and thorough effort to find the truth. Meanwhile, the most compelling UFO cases were secretly reported to an unknown group via separate channels of communication and kept from Hynek and the public.
In later years, Hynek was said to privately complain that even after all that he did for the Air Force, they never trusted him with the good cases and what they secretly knew about UFOs. As to why Hynek put up with such an arrangement, he referred to the wife and five children had to support -- including four sons bound for college.
After Hynek's Air Force contract ran out, he continued to research the UFO subject via a foundation he set up. Free of the restraints of the official Project Blue Book, Hynek revealed that he had gradually become a believer in UFOs while remaining scientifically grounded. This is how Hynek is now mostly remembered. It is said that the US military and government officials continued to privately seek his advice up until his death.
Have it Tivo-ed to watch later.
Been watching Roswell, NM on the CW. It seems to be just a young adults’ love stories series with the Roswell incident as background and some slight alien relationships in 3 of the characters.
Not sure where it is going or how long I will be watching. Too many shows anymore are ‘iffy’ and end of being a waste of time.
Amazon Prime has been disappointing a times.
They, like Netflix, add a bunch of foreign/bollywood films and series, but fewer ‘English language’ series. Even their own made-for series/movies are so-so.
AP is bad about ‘offering’ a series or movie, then after short period, they move it to ‘pay’. They also will stream one or two seasons of series that have several more unstreamed seasons.
But with Tubi TV, Youtube, Netflix and AP and Tivo recordings, I have plenty to watch.
Who are the guys with the hats?>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Men in Black. Deep State organization which supervises the traffic of aliens onto and out from the Earth in the USA.
These are memorialized in the movie comedy Men In Black:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_(1997_film)
THANKS!!
I fast-forwarded through those scenes with the wife’s friend.
Fan here. But History Channel is bogged down with commercials! Oh, and Ksenia Solo has a crush on me...
Ugh. We watched the third, and last for us, last night. I was once a fan of Project Blue Book (the name the Government gave to their project). Jack Webb did a similar show some years ago, and it was much better. Lasted one season. The current show doesn’t know what it is. Drama? Comedy? Loser?
A movie theater charges $36 for two tickets. Plus $25 for refreshments. With kids, easily passes $100. So you can sit with kids yaking on their phones and talking to one another. Eech.
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