I woke up early yesterday morning. I watched Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord S01E03 (“Chapter 3: Whispers in the Unknown”) and started S01E04 (“Chapter 4: Pride and Vengeance”) before getting distracted by a stray thought about how my sister Janice recently told me that she doesn’t enjoy Star Wars much, which I thought was odd. But then I remembered that I didn’t like it much either until I started reading the books. And then watching The Clone Wars and the other shows as they were released and I think that’s key for me, because that’s where all the character development really happens. I mean, there are so many background characters who just die without being named on screen in “Revenge of the Sith” but The Clone Wars develops all of those characters so losing them because far more tragic. That kind of thing really helped. So I started making a list for her of the things to watch, which I worked on for like 40 minutes before stopping, realizing that my sister would never watch this stuff! lol
I returned to bed soon after to cuddle with Aaron before he left for work. Later, I took some photos with my once fancy, but 20 year old camera. I went to therapy. I read the news. I walked to Little Caesars for a pizza. I talked on the phone with my cousin Katie, my friend Mark Adams and finally my grandmother. Later I snapped a few more pictures and started getting ready for bed. I still haven’t gone to the bedroom though because my sleeping medication hasn’t really been working well the last few nights which means I need to give it a break. It will good for me. But it also means I can’t just fall asleep quickly and so I’m awake. So I watched the new Daredevil episode.
Daredevil: Born Again. Season 1 was a mixed bag which I felt was due to creative issues behind the scenes, so I cut them some slack. I was assured that Season 2 would be the series at its best, only to have the first 3 episodes leave me disappointed again. But episodes 4 & 5 have been incredible! These 2 episodes have easily been the best of the entire series to date. I cried. There are 3 more episodes this season and Season 3 is filming now, likely to be released about a year from now.
I have the Star Wars episode to finish. I have 2 more episodes in Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. I have one more season to watch of His Dark Materials. Euphoria Season 3 started on Sunday but I think I might wait and binge that when it’s finished. There are many shows that I’ve started and not finished, which I’d like to, it has just all piled up now over years that I don’t know that I ever will get to a lot of it.
I read the news out of Cinemacon. So many release dates announced. So much movie news in the last 48 hours. I love this stuff. And Disney is closing out the convention on Thursday, likely with news of “Avengers: Doomsday”, so I’m looking forward to that.
But I am actually getting tired. I may try to sleep.