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Feb. 14th, 2024 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. In my attempt to watch "Tracker" on DVR, I ended up seeing the last hour of the Superbowl instead. Actually I fast-forwarded through 90 % of it.
Take aways?
* 1:48 seconds in the game, in reality takes an hour, interspersed with commercials.
* If there were good or even watchable commercials for this game? They weren't in the first half, nor in the last hour. Maybe they tucked them in when I wasn't watching?
* Most of the action was walking around aimlessly and focusing the camera on grumpy coaches, while the commentators rambled. I personally find this boring, and have no patience for it - but some people are entertained. The media to entertain itself - would switch from grumpy and somewhat ugly coaches to Taylor Swift's reactions. (I honestly don't blame them. I'd rather look at Taylor Swift too.)
* The purpose of the commentators was revealed whenever they made a play. Mainly because you can't see the plays. What you see is a bunch of people tossing the ball and ramming into each other very quickly (it lasts maybe five seconds, so blink and you'd have missed the play.)
[To clarify to those who've never watched an American Grid-Iron Football game in their lives (I'm certain you exist somewhere?) - it's a game where people toss the ball down the field, in hopes of making a field goal, while people ram into them or try to kill them. The foot is really only used to kick a field goal. In order to get it down the field - you have to strategize ways to get around all the people trying to kill you. Hence the reason they wear a boat load of protective gear. I played touch football once, to say this is a frustrating game to play is an understatement. Worse? Each time the person carrying the ball gets tackled to the ground, the play stops. Everyone gets up, wanders about and then huddles to figure out a new play to get the ball down the field or prevent it from getting down the field and send it the other way. As a result, we get maybe five minutes of play, and ten to fifteen minutes of wandering about. So the plays? Are kind of hard to see. Blink - and you will miss them. I don't know how people in the stands see them.]
If you are watching on television - you are in luck. After the play, the commentators will replay it about five times, and show you bit by bit how it worked - by using yellow lines and circles. So you can see in slow motion, how they distracted their opponent, threw the ball, and walked it across the final yard line to make a touch down. On screen - without the slow motion replay, it looks like they just walked across the final yard line.
I will state the ending of this game was hilarious. The Chiefs basically distracted the 49ners, while passing the ball to the guy near the edge of the field, away from everyone, and he walked it across. That was the winning touchdown.
I gave up on trying to watch Tracker. I may try it on Paramount Plus at some point. I think this was CBS, or it will repeat.
2. Tried "Fire Country" which is kind of entertaining. It reminds me a little of Virgin River and Sullivan's Crossing in concept, which is a combo procedural/family drama/soap opera.
Canada seems to be making a lot of these, and a good portion of them are based on Robin Carr novels. (I don't read Robin Carr.)
What I noticed about Fire Country, was the young detective on Lucifer had aged and is now playing Manny on Fire Country, with gray hair. I'm like - whoa, how did that happen? Actually a lot of actors who are recognizable in the parent roles, aged.
3. Barbra Streisand makes an interesting comment in her Memoir about her film the Mirror had Two Faces, she's discussing directing Lauren Bacall (aka Betty Carlson). The comment is one that Bacall actually makes. "The odd thing about growing older, is inside you are still young, and raring to go, excited to start, but on the outside you are old. The mind stays young while the body ages."
I thought that was interesting. I don't know if I agree or not.
4. Work
Well, I took care of the thing that was keeping me awake last night - and I couldn't stop thinking about - first thing this morning, with two carefully worded emails.
And got praise from management regarding my handling of it. So yay?
Take aways?
* 1:48 seconds in the game, in reality takes an hour, interspersed with commercials.
* If there were good or even watchable commercials for this game? They weren't in the first half, nor in the last hour. Maybe they tucked them in when I wasn't watching?
* Most of the action was walking around aimlessly and focusing the camera on grumpy coaches, while the commentators rambled. I personally find this boring, and have no patience for it - but some people are entertained. The media to entertain itself - would switch from grumpy and somewhat ugly coaches to Taylor Swift's reactions. (I honestly don't blame them. I'd rather look at Taylor Swift too.)
* The purpose of the commentators was revealed whenever they made a play. Mainly because you can't see the plays. What you see is a bunch of people tossing the ball and ramming into each other very quickly (it lasts maybe five seconds, so blink and you'd have missed the play.)
[To clarify to those who've never watched an American Grid-Iron Football game in their lives (I'm certain you exist somewhere?) - it's a game where people toss the ball down the field, in hopes of making a field goal, while people ram into them or try to kill them. The foot is really only used to kick a field goal. In order to get it down the field - you have to strategize ways to get around all the people trying to kill you. Hence the reason they wear a boat load of protective gear. I played touch football once, to say this is a frustrating game to play is an understatement. Worse? Each time the person carrying the ball gets tackled to the ground, the play stops. Everyone gets up, wanders about and then huddles to figure out a new play to get the ball down the field or prevent it from getting down the field and send it the other way. As a result, we get maybe five minutes of play, and ten to fifteen minutes of wandering about. So the plays? Are kind of hard to see. Blink - and you will miss them. I don't know how people in the stands see them.]
If you are watching on television - you are in luck. After the play, the commentators will replay it about five times, and show you bit by bit how it worked - by using yellow lines and circles. So you can see in slow motion, how they distracted their opponent, threw the ball, and walked it across the final yard line to make a touch down. On screen - without the slow motion replay, it looks like they just walked across the final yard line.
I will state the ending of this game was hilarious. The Chiefs basically distracted the 49ners, while passing the ball to the guy near the edge of the field, away from everyone, and he walked it across. That was the winning touchdown.
I gave up on trying to watch Tracker. I may try it on Paramount Plus at some point. I think this was CBS, or it will repeat.
2. Tried "Fire Country" which is kind of entertaining. It reminds me a little of Virgin River and Sullivan's Crossing in concept, which is a combo procedural/family drama/soap opera.
Canada seems to be making a lot of these, and a good portion of them are based on Robin Carr novels. (I don't read Robin Carr.)
What I noticed about Fire Country, was the young detective on Lucifer had aged and is now playing Manny on Fire Country, with gray hair. I'm like - whoa, how did that happen? Actually a lot of actors who are recognizable in the parent roles, aged.
3. Barbra Streisand makes an interesting comment in her Memoir about her film the Mirror had Two Faces, she's discussing directing Lauren Bacall (aka Betty Carlson). The comment is one that Bacall actually makes. "The odd thing about growing older, is inside you are still young, and raring to go, excited to start, but on the outside you are old. The mind stays young while the body ages."
I thought that was interesting. I don't know if I agree or not.
4. Work
Well, I took care of the thing that was keeping me awake last night - and I couldn't stop thinking about - first thing this morning, with two carefully worded emails.
And got praise from management regarding my handling of it. So yay?