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>>Having already seen Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wanted and Hellboy II this summer, I'm beginning to feel that The Dark Knight is getting overhyped in that "it's so fabulous because it's really a real movie not some comic book movie" way that makes me fear I'm going to really, really hate it.
Batman is hot, brooding, gothic, violent, deductive and an inherently absurd concept. It's when you loose sight of that last one (as much as when you fixate on it) that things go pear-shaped.
>>Fringe has potential but is ridiculously open-ended. I was on board until the one specific weirdness blossomed into a plethora of weirdnesses in the final act for our heroes to invetigate, leaving me with a sick "oh, good - a TV show with all of The X-Files and all of LOST's weaknesses rolled into one." It's also worth remembering that Abrams was spectacularly unsuccessful at making anything coherent or interesting out of Alias's wacky Rambaldi subplot of doom. So while the pilot itself was good, the series could go either way. Just once, I'd like to get up from watching one of these things feeling like the writers knew how the story was going to end. Ultimately, the series will depend on how whether or not people will embrace what is essentially an X-Files update with Pacey as Scully.
>>I actually wrote a post today breaking down the footage in a new SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES trailer shot by shot. I'm rather horrified.
>>The second episode of The Middleman is slightly better than the first, slightly funnier and the in-jokes are slightly better integrated into the whole so that we're not stopping for someone waving and pointing at how cute the script is every other minute. The deliberate messing with people's Character-of-Colour expectations would be better without the Chinese villain ripped from Big Trouble in Little China but I'm genuinely amused by Ida's onboard coffee maker. If episode one was an F (for fast-forwarded to the end), I'd give this one a C for watchable and mildly amusing.
>>Elizabeth Hoyt needs to get over the fake fairytale epigrams at the beginning of each chapter and the backwoodsman who comes to London is beyond incredible - a corporal in the colonial militia would never be invited to socialize with the aristocracy. Never. Let alone one who was so disdainful of fashion as to parade about London in moccasins. I can only surmise that the either character was intended to be Native American until Cassie-gate broke or Ms. Hoyt has watched Last of the Mohicans once too many times.
Batman is hot, brooding, gothic, violent, deductive and an inherently absurd concept. It's when you loose sight of that last one (as much as when you fixate on it) that things go pear-shaped.
>>Fringe has potential but is ridiculously open-ended. I was on board until the one specific weirdness blossomed into a plethora of weirdnesses in the final act for our heroes to invetigate, leaving me with a sick "oh, good - a TV show with all of The X-Files and all of LOST's weaknesses rolled into one." It's also worth remembering that Abrams was spectacularly unsuccessful at making anything coherent or interesting out of Alias's wacky Rambaldi subplot of doom. So while the pilot itself was good, the series could go either way. Just once, I'd like to get up from watching one of these things feeling like the writers knew how the story was going to end. Ultimately, the series will depend on how whether or not people will embrace what is essentially an X-Files update with Pacey as Scully.
>>I actually wrote a post today breaking down the footage in a new SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES trailer shot by shot. I'm rather horrified.
>>The second episode of The Middleman is slightly better than the first, slightly funnier and the in-jokes are slightly better integrated into the whole so that we're not stopping for someone waving and pointing at how cute the script is every other minute. The deliberate messing with people's Character-of-Colour expectations would be better without the Chinese villain ripped from Big Trouble in Little China but I'm genuinely amused by Ida's onboard coffee maker. If episode one was an F (for fast-forwarded to the end), I'd give this one a C for watchable and mildly amusing.
>>Elizabeth Hoyt needs to get over the fake fairytale epigrams at the beginning of each chapter and the backwoodsman who comes to London is beyond incredible - a corporal in the colonial militia would never be invited to socialize with the aristocracy. Never. Let alone one who was so disdainful of fashion as to parade about London in moccasins. I can only surmise that the either character was intended to be Native American until Cassie-gate broke or Ms. Hoyt has watched Last of the Mohicans once too many times.
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