Things for a Friday
Jan. 16th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonte- Hooray for Chesley Sullenberger III, the US Airways pilot whose skill and calm turned what could have been a tragedy yesterday into a moment of rare relief and heroism. Hooray also for all the first responders and ferry boat pilots whose worked quickly to bring the people on that plane to shore safely. Jsut this once, everybody lives!! (PS: A co-worker was on that flight. No word yet on how she's doing, aside from alive.)
- Smallville, featuring the live action debut of the Legion of Super-Heroes was fun, but not exactly good. I liked the large number of winks to the fans, but I wonder if viewers unfamiliar with the Legion were confused. The actors playing Rokk and Garth were very good, the actress playing Imra was wooden. There were also moments that the script was clearly written by Geoff Johns, which means that some bits were great and others were a little stiff. What works in comic book dialogue isn't perfect on TV. Still, as fan service goes, this one did the job well. Long Live the Legion!
- Supernatural was well done - it's always interesting to go from Smallville to SPN and see the jump in overall quality, even though most of the acting on Smallville is as good as Jensen and Jared's - but a touch disappointing. The plot was well-executed but not something I really loved. And the Thingness of Dean's current state of mind was a little too unsubtle. Still, it's SPN and always good.
- Read Fables and Booster Gold this week. The former is quite interesting these days, if still not as engaging as it once was. The latter, guest starring a DC war comics character that most fans wouldn't know well, was very good and shows that Dan Jurgens can still write. As well as draw, since the art was great.
- Lastly, regarding Final Crisis 6, in case you missed it...Batman is apparently dead. Or so the scans I saw indicate. As does an interview Grant Morrison gave. But it's pretty clear that this is an easily reversible death, and if you wonder why DC didn't make a big deal of this (a la the death of Captain America), I think it's because they aren't pretending his death will last all that long. Even if someone else is apparently going to be in the Batsuit this spring. There isn't much to say here, other than that this seems to render the idea of a story called "Batman RIP" a bit meaningless. In any case, Batman is dead for the moment, and we look forward to both his successor and his resurrection.
- Smallville, featuring the live action debut of the Legion of Super-Heroes was fun, but not exactly good. I liked the large number of winks to the fans, but I wonder if viewers unfamiliar with the Legion were confused. The actors playing Rokk and Garth were very good, the actress playing Imra was wooden. There were also moments that the script was clearly written by Geoff Johns, which means that some bits were great and others were a little stiff. What works in comic book dialogue isn't perfect on TV. Still, as fan service goes, this one did the job well. Long Live the Legion!
- Supernatural was well done - it's always interesting to go from Smallville to SPN and see the jump in overall quality, even though most of the acting on Smallville is as good as Jensen and Jared's - but a touch disappointing. The plot was well-executed but not something I really loved. And the Thingness of Dean's current state of mind was a little too unsubtle. Still, it's SPN and always good.
- Read Fables and Booster Gold this week. The former is quite interesting these days, if still not as engaging as it once was. The latter, guest starring a DC war comics character that most fans wouldn't know well, was very good and shows that Dan Jurgens can still write. As well as draw, since the art was great.
- Lastly, regarding Final Crisis 6, in case you missed it...Batman is apparently dead. Or so the scans I saw indicate. As does an interview Grant Morrison gave. But it's pretty clear that this is an easily reversible death, and if you wonder why DC didn't make a big deal of this (a la the death of Captain America), I think it's because they aren't pretending his death will last all that long. Even if someone else is apparently going to be in the Batsuit this spring. There isn't much to say here, other than that this seems to render the idea of a story called "Batman RIP" a bit meaningless. In any case, Batman is dead for the moment, and we look forward to both his successor and his resurrection.
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