What I've been watching

I watched the first season of Jessica Jones a while back.  The idea of people with super powers not fitting in with the superhero types (i.e. Batman and Superman) is interesting.  It's a little darker than what I normally watch, but the acting is good, and I love David Tennant.  His performance as Kilgrave is excellent, although the rest of the cast is good.  David's time with the show is done so I probably won't continue watching it.

I finished the first season of Hercules:  The Lengendary Journeys.  Admittedly the show can be a little cheesy, but that isn't unusual for shows from the 80s and early 90s, and Kevin Sorbo is likable.  I like Greek and Roman mythology, so the concept of a Greek demi-god helping people is interesting.

I'm almost finished rewatching the first season of Murder, She Wrote.  This is a favorite show from the 80s.  Angela Lansbury has a lot of class.  The show was filmed in Northern California coastal area (Mendocino), which is not too far from San Francisco, and the setting is pretty.

Debbie Reynolds

I was saddened to hear about Debbie Reynolds passing, and so soon after her daughter passed away.

I especially love Singin' in the Rain.

I enjoy Tammy and the Bachelor tremendously also; the song Tammy is pretty.  RIP.

Carrie Fisher

I was saddened to hear of Carrie Fisher's passing.  I loved her in her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies.

Carrie Fisher

Christmas wishes

The Holidays

The Christmas season is here, and I did some Christmasy-type stuff last weekend.

I went to the annual Christmas play at Anaheim Baptist Fellowship on December 3.  This is the second year I have gone to this production and I enjoy it tremendously.

I went to the Banning House's annual Victorian Christmas on December 4.  I hadn't been to the Banning House in a while, so this was fun.  I didn't stand in any lines, I just walked around looking.

 

I love the gardens.

And the park next to the house is pretty.

Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them

Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is completing a project to find and document magical creatures.  Things become complicated when he arrives in New York, runs into a Muggle (or No-Maj in America) named Jacob Kowalski (Dan Folger), and some of the Fantastic Beasts escape from Newt’s magical case.

Newt discovers that the New Salem Philanthropic Society has an agenda to find and kill witches and wizards, and that a secret group, the Magical Congress of the United States of America, wants to keep the magical world secret.  With the help of Jacob and two magical sisters, Portentina “Tina” (Katherine Waterston) and Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), Newt prevents the wizarding world from being exposed.

This is a fun movie.  I like the setting, the 1920s, and I like the references to Hogwarts before Harry Potter’s time.  Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them is first referenced in the Harry Potter books as a textbook written by Newt Scamander that belongs to Harry, and I like origin stories.  The cast does a good job in their roles, and the interaction between the main characters (Redmayne, Folger, Waterston and Sudol) is entertaining.  The special effects are well done and the creatures are interesting.  I would recommend this movie.

Rocketship Park

I visited a park in my area recently.  It's a pretty place.