5th February, 2020.
You’ve possibly realised this, already … but I’m job hunting.
So … ?
So I have little cash … but plenty of time.
Just to give you an example? Last night, I manage to rip a Blu-Ray I’d … um … acquired.
Partly, I wanted to watch the contents, and don’t have a blu-ray player to do so.
Partly? I wanted to see if I could get my ageing MacPro would be able to rip a file of the given resolution.
3840 by 2064, so you know: what they call 4k UHD.
I also wanted to see how the MacPro did against my more recent iMac.
Both machines about eight hours: both boiled the files down to an acceptable 2k file size.
Hmmm …
Isn’t it funny, what we find entertaining?
~≈Ü≈~
Possibly, possibly not.
Because, frankly?
I had other entertaining things to do.
I wanted to catch another …
~≈Ü≈~
Episode 8 — Rupture — opens on an alternative 14th December, in an alternative 1974 …
In a hospital in Houston, Texas.
Where Karen Baldwin (Shantel Vansanten) has been called: after her son, Shane (Tait Blum) has been hit by a car.
Hit …
And, according to the doctors, left with extensive bleeding on the brain.
Karen’s husband, Ed (Joel Kinnaman)?
Is still on the Jamestown base on the Moon.
And, at Karen’s insistence?
Ed is not to be told about Shane.
Karen does not want her husband distracted from his job.
Something his former crewmates, Gordo and Dani (Michael Dormer and Krys Marshall) aren’t happy with.
They’re happy to be overruled … as it’s Karen that’s insisted.
But not happy about lying to a cremate …
As Ed is having to protect the Jamestown base from Soviet surveillance.
That surveillance is tough.
Ed is kept in the dark …
Until US media, back on Earth, finds out about Shane’s desperate situation …
With the inevitable result.
The Soviets find out … and send Ed a message of condolence.
~≈Ü≈~
Now …
Did you ever seen an episode of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer called The Body?
It’s the episode where Buffy’s mother, Joyce, dies.
It is quite possibly the best piece of television ever made.
It’s not often I see that.
It’s not often I mention an episode of one TV show, when discussion another: but I would urge you to watch The Body.
It set’s an an incredibly high — possibly the highest — standard for a TV show.
Especially for an episode that — as The Body does — deals with an utter tragedy: the death of a family member.
Something The Body does well.
Rupture?
Deals with the same theme: the death of a loved one.
And, whilst I feel Rupture isn’t on the same emotional level — Joyce Summers, Buffy’s mother, was a long term character, Shane hadn’t been — it is dealing with the same sort of territory.
And?
And, frankly, deals with it both sensitively, well …
Rupture is not as good a piece of TV as The Body.
Very few things are as good as The Body.
But?
Rupture is still a fine piece of TV, and well worth your time.
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