It also makes it incredibly easy to clean up timelines and ■■■■ movies 
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I hadn’t seen it in a few years so I started watching “Waterloo” tonight and I’m about halfway through it so far. What a fantastic film. I think Joaquin Phoenix was pretty good as Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s version but Rod Steiger’s performance towers over his in my opinion.
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Started watching “The Peacemaker” series on Amazon Prime.
I kinda liked the first “Suicide squad”, the second was MUCH better, and Peacemaker adds brilliant writing on top of that.
I’m left giggling and positively outraged at the end of every episode.
The BSG remake was one of my absolute favorites in college. I loved how they managed to make the military structure convincingly realistic with CAG/DCAG etc. Wasn’t a fan of the ending or that drawn-out political plotline in…season 2 I think it was, but everything else was solid.
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And now the Grand Tour is done too. 
I just watched what is their final episode, Season 6 Episode 1, of the Grand Tour and I have to say I am going to miss watching those three goof balls having what looks to be the times of their lives filming those shows.
Best advice I can give is do not watch anything other than a trailer or two before you watch the full episode.
Wheels
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It did have a great ending, their shows with Amazon have generally been very good with a couple of not so good … but I did prefer them on the old top gear
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Finished the first season of Peacemaker.
Bloody (pun intended) good fun!
Can’t wait for season 2, apparently coming in 2025.
Meanwhile I slowly keep making my way through the many seasons of X-Files and I started last Saturday with Shogun.
The first episode was harrowing in all the right ways.
Impressive production values.
I have both the dvd and Blu-ray boxed collections for the X-Files. It’s one of my top 5 shows of all time.
What’s both funny and fascinating to me is how the plots for some of the episodes would totally not work today due to the changes in technology we’ve had since the 90’s.
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That’s what I think most of the time when I see it- it was clearly a product of the time.
It’s a lovely time capsule of the 90s.
Even in its most clunky episodes (and there’s no scarcity of those!) it’s still entertaining.
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“Teso dos bichos” from season 3 is the epitome to me of the clunky episode.
It was also a show that didn’t put the episode titles in the aired versions, so if you only ever watched it live you have almost zero idea what any of them were called.
Only in rare cases where the title directly references events in the episode can you work it out.
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I finally watched Deadpool & Wolverine last night. I have to say that this movie achieved a perfect mix of over the top gore/violence and humor. It was great seeing Wesley Snipes again!
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Started watching Shogun.
Oh my, production values are off the roof!
Impressive in all the good ways, especially to my gaijin eyes.
I realized there’s an earlier version, from several decades ago too…
I’m at episode 4 and I am very very impressed.
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How old are you? I ask because I’m surprised you don’t know about the 1980 miniseries with Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune. I thought most of us here on Mudspike were over 50 years old like on other flight sim message boards. 
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I remember when the original Shogun aired, it was a blast! In German TV I remember the Japanese voices were neither subtitled nor sychronize. If I recall correctly the explanaition was that the spoken words would alienate watchers…
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That’s really odd. I guess a huge percentage of the German tv-viewing public then only got to enjoy the visuals when it wasn’t an English-only speaking scene.
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HAHAHAH I’m 46 and a half.
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We have a few young people here as well!
I am just 40 for example.
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That firmly puts you in “young whippersnapper” territory. 
As for me, tomorrow I’ll be the same age Napoleon and Shakespeare were when they died. 
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