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sdelmonteFirst off, a trip to the other comic shop...
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes 23 - On a planet called Rokyn - home of the descendans of the Bottle City of Kandor - Supergirl is finally made to accept that it's all NOT a dream. She isn't happy about this, Brainy is even colder than usual, and Cosmic Boy isn't sure this is worth doing.
The team is ready to leave Rokyn when the naxscent Legion of Super-Villains - led by the assasin Cham arrested a few months back - coincindentially rob the local museum. The bad guys seem to be winning, but then we get the sudden appearance of a ghost. Or maybe a phantom. One probably named Mon-El.
On the whole, this was readable and well-scripted, but suffers from the same scattershot appraoch we've been getting of late. Events in one issue seem to be shoved aside in the next and not brought back for months. This is okay in a book like 52, which is meant to be all over the place. It doesn't work so well here, even if I am sure Waid and Kitson will get bck to all the things we are forgetting.
But never mind that. This issue is notable for two things. First, the existence of the original Kandor - not the non-Kryptonian version that's been in the Superman books for about 10 years - is confirmed in the New Earth continuity. This will probably have reprecussions in Superman's own comic. What's more, the fate of Kandor is the same as it was in the Silver Age, as Supes succeeded in enlarging the city on a planet named Rokyn during the 70s. The Silver Age, it seems, is back.
But the big thing for me is Mon-El. If you are a LSH fan, it would take too long to explain his background (and keep in mind there are three versions of him). The short form is that he was one of the Legion's stalwarts, and one of my all-time favorite Legionnaires. I can't wait to see which elements of his earlier incarnations make into this version, but I suspect that I will be pleased.
And now brief thoughts on Ms. Mars, the Lost-aways, and the Winchesters.
Veronica Mars finally felt like itself this week. Thr pacing was right, the use of Logan was perfect (if painful, of course), and Keith seems like himslef again as well. I'm still not engaged very much by the Hearst Rapist plot but it does feel like Veronica is handling it as only she can.
Lost was surprisingly predictable. I like Sawyer, but nothing he did in the past or the present was unexpected. Maybe the Others picked Jack and Sawyer because of their predictability? Either way, while Josh Holloway and the rest of the cast did good work, the meat of the episode was a bit thin. The best moments, interesting, involved Jack. I am feeling that Jack is only interesting when he's with interesting characters. Opposite Benry or Juliet, he's quite engaging. Opposite his ex-wife, he's a total bore. Either way, I loved the scenes with him as a doctor again.
Supernatural this week boasts a script by Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick and the man who gave us "Smile Time" on Angel. It wasn't quite the usual flavor of screenplay for this show - it was certainly lighter and a little more Whedonian than we normally expect - but it worked. Currently, I am enjoying SN more than my other shows. The stories are done in one, the cast is strong, and the mythology is not overwhelming. I'll leave the longer analysis to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dotfic but have to note that one of the songs on Dean's tapedeck this week was "Stonehenge" by Spinal Tap. An ackowledgment that Tap is now part of the heavy metal canon they made fun of, or just an in-joke? You be the judge.
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes 23 - On a planet called Rokyn - home of the descendans of the Bottle City of Kandor - Supergirl is finally made to accept that it's all NOT a dream. She isn't happy about this, Brainy is even colder than usual, and Cosmic Boy isn't sure this is worth doing.
The team is ready to leave Rokyn when the naxscent Legion of Super-Villains - led by the assasin Cham arrested a few months back - coincindentially rob the local museum. The bad guys seem to be winning, but then we get the sudden appearance of a ghost. Or maybe a phantom. One probably named Mon-El.
On the whole, this was readable and well-scripted, but suffers from the same scattershot appraoch we've been getting of late. Events in one issue seem to be shoved aside in the next and not brought back for months. This is okay in a book like 52, which is meant to be all over the place. It doesn't work so well here, even if I am sure Waid and Kitson will get bck to all the things we are forgetting.
But never mind that. This issue is notable for two things. First, the existence of the original Kandor - not the non-Kryptonian version that's been in the Superman books for about 10 years - is confirmed in the New Earth continuity. This will probably have reprecussions in Superman's own comic. What's more, the fate of Kandor is the same as it was in the Silver Age, as Supes succeeded in enlarging the city on a planet named Rokyn during the 70s. The Silver Age, it seems, is back.
But the big thing for me is Mon-El. If you are a LSH fan, it would take too long to explain his background (and keep in mind there are three versions of him). The short form is that he was one of the Legion's stalwarts, and one of my all-time favorite Legionnaires. I can't wait to see which elements of his earlier incarnations make into this version, but I suspect that I will be pleased.
And now brief thoughts on Ms. Mars, the Lost-aways, and the Winchesters.
Veronica Mars finally felt like itself this week. Thr pacing was right, the use of Logan was perfect (if painful, of course), and Keith seems like himslef again as well. I'm still not engaged very much by the Hearst Rapist plot but it does feel like Veronica is handling it as only she can.
Lost was surprisingly predictable. I like Sawyer, but nothing he did in the past or the present was unexpected. Maybe the Others picked Jack and Sawyer because of their predictability? Either way, while Josh Holloway and the rest of the cast did good work, the meat of the episode was a bit thin. The best moments, interesting, involved Jack. I am feeling that Jack is only interesting when he's with interesting characters. Opposite Benry or Juliet, he's quite engaging. Opposite his ex-wife, he's a total bore. Either way, I loved the scenes with him as a doctor again.
Supernatural this week boasts a script by Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick and the man who gave us "Smile Time" on Angel. It wasn't quite the usual flavor of screenplay for this show - it was certainly lighter and a little more Whedonian than we normally expect - but it worked. Currently, I am enjoying SN more than my other shows. The stories are done in one, the cast is strong, and the mythology is not overwhelming. I'll leave the longer analysis to
dotfic but have to note that one of the songs on Dean's tapedeck this week was "Stonehenge" by Spinal Tap. An ackowledgment that Tap is now part of the heavy metal canon they made fun of, or just an in-joke? You be the judge.
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Date: Oct. 27th, 2006 04:34 pm (UTC)The second thing was that I got to yell at the screen some, because Sawyer SOOO did not have an artificial pacemaker put in him, because he had way too much mobility of his arms right after the fact, his left arm especially, and if it was done by amateurs as the drugged dialog implied, he'd probably have died anyway. Oh well. I knew they were just playing on his more or less uneducated background to pull it off. Jack would never have fallen for it.
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Date: Oct. 27th, 2006 04:50 pm (UTC)Another reason I didn't think Sawyer had a pacemaker was that he was just too awake. The effects of being knocked out linger for days, as i know from my own minor surgery. Sawyer would have been weak as a kitten. Again, they knew their patsy's lack of medical knowledge.
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Date: Oct. 28th, 2006 08:30 pm (UTC)Veronica Mars for the win. Just, really getting into it. To the point where after seeing this week's I developed a sudden craving for more and went back and rewatched the first four episodes of season 1. :o
I've decided this is because I like "small" shows that focus on character rather than big plotty grand geopolitical epics (although after this week's SPN, I'm having a hard time with the mytharc and choosing to ignore that so the show stays small. Veronica Mars makes more sense, plot-wise.)