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This evening's television, such as it was, consisted of another viewing of this week's "Elementary" after I'd adjusted the skew on the LNB to improve the signal a bit.
Sky Living still drops out but not nearly as much as it was doing on Monday.
Considering the LNB has used the previous skew setting for years, I don't understand wtf is going on, unless it the satellite constellation changing a bit, or a different transponder being used.
So it still dropped out now & again but at least it was watchable.
This was followed by "Engineering Disasters" or some such on "Blaze", this being about an unfortunate 707 attempting to land at JFK NY in bad weather with poor visibility at night, having low fuel, and ATC effectively ignoring the urgency of the situation since the aircrew said "priority" instead of "emergency".
Killed 72 people when it crashed with empty tanks.
This last being a blessing in disguise since there was no fire.
TFBSZ.
Oh, and the moderately tedious 8 mins of extras on the "Sin City" dvd.
Tonight's biggish screen experience opened with yet another rewatch, this time of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), which is a good example of its genre and worth both a watch and a rewatch IMHO.
After that, a first watch: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), being the true story (or the motion picture version of true) of the attack on the USA's diplomatic compound, and then on their "secret" CIA base, in Benghazi in 2012 during a visit there by the American ambassador to Libya. I understand this got some poor reviews, which seem to have been predicated on a failure to grasp that war is a messy business and doesn't always fit a convenient narrative flow. Anyway, it's a gripping but thoroughly depressing film, because a bunch of people had to go through all this crap for real because of crappy international politics and general ****ups by the US military. Worth a watch, but don't expect to feel uplifted by the end; just relieved that at least a fair few people made it out alive.
Incidentally, have you noticed that they're called "private military contractors" rather than "mercenaries" if and only if they're being paid by a company that has made large financial contributions to American politicians?
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