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You just have to time it to when they check their notifications during the two-month cycle! :lol: :up:

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I am so sorry for not sticking threads - my mind and attention has been on healing a broken leg that happened back in March.

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Yesterday, I watched the worst movie of 2025 to an 2009 anime movie that got added to the Criterion channel. "Fixed" on Netflix is pure dog caca. "Redline" on the other hand was just stunning and I loved it.

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No worries! I think people figured it out. :) I hope that your leg is doing much better!

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thank you... I'm having PT twice a week and unfortunately I was told that the prospect and ability to drive again won't happen til mid to late September (ugh!)

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Oh, that is frustrating. Many years ago, I had to stop driving for about 4-5 months myself because of medical reasons and while the first month I was too out of it to care, it did get annoying not being able to just get in the car and go. But regaining that freedom was amazing!

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I didn't notice the SF/Fantasy one wasn't stickied until the challenge was over... I usually open the list page to my post and keep it open the entire month. Even with it not stickied it didn't drop too far in the thread lists.

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I watched a couple of episodes of ST:Prodigy when it began and just didn't like it at all. I've never felt the need to try again... It's much the same for Lower Decks, but I'm willing to give that one another chance. FWIW I didn't care for ST:The Animated Series for decades (when it originally aired I fully wrote it off after a few episodes and only purchased it on DVD when I found it cheap at WM). It's only in the last 15 or so years that it's grown on me a bit. A large part of my overall dissatisfaction with TAS is due to Filmation being the studio behind it. It looks and sounds like most of the generic junk coming from them in those years. Shatner also didn't do the series any favors with his rather "phoned in" sounding dialog.

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Wow! That royally stinks! You must've really done a number on it for a 6 month healing/recovery process.

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Missed two steps coming down from the third floor to the second, landed on my right leg: fractured my knee and dislocated two bones in my leg, not fun ... so many summer plans went out the window.

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Not even the basic easy errand to run out and by groceries is tough, thankfully I have friends and neighbors that have been helpful in that respect. The worst was not being able to go out to the movies, and I generally go out to the movies at least three times a week. I have had only one friend who's been patient and willing to take me out to the movies.

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Yeah, there's not enough traffic to ever keep the list threads from dropping too far.

TAS has its moments, but in general it's not that great. I was binge-watching it a few years ago, and it's definitely not suited for that lol. Lower Decks took me a while to get into, but I liked it, especially the second season. I haven't tried Prodigy.

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Probably not suited for this thread, but that's why it's so hard to get elder drivers to give up the keys. They lose control over their own lives.

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Oh and I had NO idea that another season of Fraggle Rock had dropped on Apple TV plus, I am loving it - episode "The Glow" with Cynthia Erivo voicing and singing as a Fraggle "Catch the Wind" impressed the hell out of me (I did a lipsync of it on Tiktok)

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I've only watch TAS one time; I was doing a complete rewatch of TOS and went right into TAS since I had just picked it up. I actually liked it better than season 3, tbh. I saw the issues with it, but there was enough there, that I thought some of the episodes faired better than the live action. It's probably been long enough a re-watch would be good, but perhaps next year.

I've actually had this convo recently with my mom. She's almost 81. For the last 2 years or so, I've pretty much done the majority of the driving anywhere past the town we live in (or in town if I am available) and she's been okay with that. So far, she is still good to go in the neighborhood for the doctors, groceries, and what not, but at this point I think even she knows freeway/faster than 55 driving isn't the wisest. I think it's definitely a conversation that should happen widely though once anyone hits a certain age.

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The first few episodes of Lower Decks are really bad. Mariner is insufferable in the beginning but the writers tone that down enough to make her understandable. It gets really good after that. I get what the writers were trying to do with Prodigy but it's part of a larger issue I have with television writers: they writer their young characters to behave in ways that children who are that age, would never act. On Prodigy, the characters make some of the dumbest decisions ever and it makes me wonder how they've survived as long as they did. I was yelling at the TV in frustration but I finished the series. I had never watched TAS until the COVID lockdowns when I watched the entire Trek franchise. There are a couple good episodes but most of it was meh. I'm currently writing a book about Trek and am trying to square the fact that Admiral April is white on a really bad episode TAS and black on SNW.

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Random question for you all, how many of you take advantage of your library? I'm fortunate to have one about 5 blocks from my house, which makes it really easy to pick things up. I also appreciate that it's part of a larger consortium of libraries so I can easily go online and reserve materials. I try to plan a little bit ahead just for travel time of the item if it's for a challenge (though if needed/wanted, about 10 of the libraries are within easy driving distance) but I love stumbling across something that I can use right away. The amount of money I've saved over the years isn't bad either...!

Today I was in my local library and found The Wild Robot. I hadn't even realized it was out on disc yet. I hope to get to it in the next day or so. I do enjoy having access to so many options for these challenges that I otherwise wouldn't pay for or have access too because they are out of print.

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I am all about the local library especially for challenges. As I mentioned earlier, I checked out Prodigy from the library for this challenge. I also checked out The Next Generation Season 1 yesterday for research since that's the one season I don't own. Libraries are great for the Oscar Challenge.

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Do we get a wildcard say for a Jurassic Park movie ?

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I've been watching The Flintstones and encountered a *crossover* episode (S6:E6) of sorts which I'd never seen before. Samantha and Darrin Stephens, voiced by Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York of Bewitched, moved into the neighborhood.

I found it entertaining for sure. I have to imagine kids at the time who were unfamiliar with these guest stars might have been a little confused.

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I rarely get out to my local library in person nowadays. However, my branch does participate in Kanopy, so I do on occasion use my library for that.

Re: TAS. I have always had kind of an affinity for TAS. Mainly because of certain characters. For instance, TAS introduced me to Caitians, in Lt. M'Ress. And I remember particularly enjoying a couple episodes such as the mini pocket dimension version of the Bermuda Triangle.

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As a kid from that era I can say with certainty that the vast majority of kids absolutely knew who Samantha and Darrin Stephens were. If you didn't know your family probably didn't own a TV.

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I think they're great for most challenges...It's been a while since I've done the Criterion Challenge, but I know the majority of my watches came from the library, especially before they had a streaming service.

There is a checklist item: Mostly or all CGI. If you're not doing the checklist, it'd still count as long as the majority is CGI. I'd say 70-80% on screen. I'll trust your best judgement.

I am going to have to see if I can find this. Do you have it on disc or are you streaming somewhere?

I have to admit to never hearing about Kanopy before. That's a pretty cool service! Unfortunately, my library doesn't seem to be part of it. I'll have to bring it up with the librarian and see if it might be an option at some point.

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I watched on DVD, but believe it's available to stream. The episode title was "Samantha" if that helps in locating it.

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I have too many media choices already and don’t need to get more at the library :lol:

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I've been watching a few things from my "unwatched" pile.

One absolute surprise has been Space Stars. I never watched this one during its original airings as that was in 1981 and I'd pretty much stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons by then. My daughter was 2 and too young to care at that point. I read about it many months back and saw it includes new episodes of Space Ghost and Herculoids which made it a "must buy" item.

I started watching it last night, not expecting much, as it'd been 14+ years since those 2 original series had first aired and this one's airing. Wow! It's absolutely superb! If I didn't know I'd think those Space Ghost and Herculoids segments were some I'd somehow missed during the original airings! They're that good. And the new segments, Teen Force, Astro and the Space Mutts, and Space Stars Finale (where all 4 team up), aren't "groaningly bad" like many other Saturday morning cartoons from the 70s but are quite watchable. This series would easily be at home in a 60s cartoon schedule and doesn't feel/look at all like it's from the early 80s.