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Post by K-Box on Jun 2, 2011 17:07:15 GMT -8
The problem being that Crisis on Infinite Earths failed right out of the starting gate because only SOME continuity was rebooted, while editorial's pet projects weren't thus leading to exactly the same sort of snarling confusion that supposedly necessitates this current reboot.
Rebooting to fix a reboot is like taking another drink to ward off the symptoms of withdrawal.
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Post by K-Box on May 31, 2011 20:16:40 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on May 31, 2011 20:10:56 GMT -8
... And in the process, takes one step forward and two gigantic steps backward: Bleeding Cool Flashpost: DC Confirms Full Reboot: September Brings 52 First Issues and Day and Date DigitalThe good news? Day-and-date digital. It's about time one of the Big Two joined us here in the 21st century. This should have happened industry-wide at least a decade ago, but at least DC is making a respectable effort to catch up to the modern market. The bad news? This is going to be a Crisis On Infinite Earths-style half-assed partial reboot that desperately tries to cling to the most popular (or at least the most editorially mandated) aspects of the current continuity, while at the same time regressing the characters into more junior players, even though a great deal of the current DC continuity draws its greatest storytelling strengths from the age and experience that the characters have been allowed to gain (see also: Batman turning his brand into a franchise and the Green Lanterns being joined by an entire rainbow spectrum of equal peer corps). As much as I harbor mixed feelings about many of those new elements, they're topping the sales charts right now, and the simple fact of the matter is that you can't have Bruce Wayne as a biological and adoptive father to an entire Bat-family, or Hal Jordan as a seasoned veteran who's regarded as a god even among Green Lanterns, if you're dragging them back to their rookie status. The REALLY bad news? Jim Lee is an indefensibly shitty artist, and he always has been, so the fact that he's being allowed to redesign all these characters, when his art skills are even worse now than they were in the 1990s, is OBJECTIVELY terrible. Hey, let's give EVERY character the EXACT SAME plunging V-neckline, and stylize Superman's S-symbol with EXTREME ATTITUDE that would have been embarrassing even coming from the old-school Image crew, AND genericize the holy living fuck out of every other feature of their outfits. Jim Lee's costume design skills make even Bryan Hitch's blandly crap ripoffs of The Matrix in The Ultimates seem appealing and unpredictable by comparison.
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Post by K-Box on May 30, 2011 17:53:21 GMT -8
In a series that includes scenery-chewing from genetic supermen, frequent godlike beings and William Shatner, it's funny that the most bad-ass of all Trek moments belongs to DeForrest Kelly: HARD. CORE. Kelly never lost the talent he developed, from playing bad guys in cowboy films, for projecting a total air of Either Leave Me Be Or Fuck Off.
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Post by K-Box on May 29, 2011 16:27:55 GMT -8
Elvira and Bruce Campbell is such a perfect pairing that I'm amazed it hasn't already happened yet.
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Post by K-Box on May 28, 2011 20:56:15 GMT -8
Thanks.
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Post by K-Box on May 19, 2011 22:02:33 GMT -8
"General. Would you care to step outside?" I love how Reeve could infuse such an unfailingly polite challenge with such menace. Christopher Reeve really has proven irreplaceable as Superman.
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Post by K-Box on May 18, 2011 18:50:47 GMT -8
From "The Closer"'s Facebook page: "It’s confirmed: The Closer will be followed by new series Major Crimes, starring Mary McDonnell, starting in 2012. Major Crimes comes from the team behind The Closer, including creator James Duff. Stay tuned for details." NICE.
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Post by K-Box on May 17, 2011 23:01:14 GMT -8
There was also a little-known animated series in 1988. (I didn't even know about it myself until a couple of weeks ago) I actually remember that one. Complete with one episode they blatantly stole from one of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV movies (mutated immortal mad scientist killer living in the "Metropolis Underground," blatantly ripped off of the Seattle Underground).
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Post by K-Box on May 17, 2011 22:58:13 GMT -8
4) Wachowski Brothers Plastic Man - You've got to be fuckin' kidding me. Now, maybe say, doing that as a comedy film with Jack Black, I could almost buy...nah, sorry, nope. Requires some more comedic talent. I could see Black as Woozy Winks. Nah. Paul Giamatti.
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Post by K-Box on May 4, 2011 23:29:26 GMT -8
Wasn't that covered in The Big Bang? Eleven comes back, and puts her to bed. In "The Big Bang," the Doctor puts her to bed at night after she's fallen asleep. In "The Eleventh Hour," she's still awake the next morning, and smiles when she hears the TARDIS. Two entirely different scenes.
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Post by K-Box on May 4, 2011 17:51:24 GMT -8
Regarding events in "The Eleventh Hour" that have yet to be explained:
Amy Pond, as a child, waiting for the TARDIS to show up ... and it does, just before she wakes up from what we thought was a dream, but is most likely a memory of how the Doctor DID come back for her after all.
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Post by K-Box on Apr 26, 2011 15:33:37 GMT -8
Actually, Moff said that he planned to fix the fact that the Doctor is so well-known by the rest of the universe this season, so perhaps River fools the universe into believing that she's killed the Doctor, thus allowing him to become the anonymous stranger that he used to be for most of the original series?
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Post by K-Box on Apr 24, 2011 11:41:19 GMT -8
Best season-opener in six seasons.
I'm going to have to watch it again just to catch all the brief bits I missed the first time around.
I love that father-and-son actors Morgan and Mark Sheppard (Blank Reg and Romo Lampkin!) got cast as the older and younger versions of the same character.
And Matt Smith is an awfully good sport about his looks, to do a joke that implies that the statues of Easter Island were based on the Eleventh Doctor's head.
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Post by K-Box on Apr 22, 2011 16:30:40 GMT -8
This thread is good, and you should feel good for making it.
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