No I haven’t snuck a look at Dollhouse (but I would quite happily do so if anyone wants to sneak me out a copy).
I was over at Scotchneat’s blog and discovered that there is a little Whedon mini series about to launch online and it looks like a barrel of fun. Plus it has Captain Mal (Nathan Fillion) in it with a cool super shirt (I smell T-shirts for sale.. I hope) and someone who is making me laugh more and more these days Neil Patrick Harris.
Season four of Dr Who has had some excellent episodes in it, all building up to the extended finale that airs next week in the UK, I felt a little cheated last week as I thought that episode was a bit of a filler and that Rose’s proper return deserved a little more.
This week’s episode The Stolen Earth was a lot better but still felt if it were simply leading up to better things, and yes better things are definitely coming!
I can’t really talk about the episode without spoilers so I’m going to resort to the trusty sonic spoiler saver:
It was so good seeing Torchwood again, can’t wait for their next season to see what the hell they’re going to do with the show - especially with all the rumours flying around. Â I only watched one episode of the Sarah Jane Smith series but she is such an ultimate amongst the companions it is always nice to see her!
I love their reactions to the Dalek invasion fleet appears and we hear ‘exterminate’, Jack is great as a tear rolls down his face and he apologises to Gwen and Ianto that there’s nothing he can do and that they’re going to die. Â I think though that Sarah Jane Smith steals the show with her reaction, it’s been a long time since she’s faced the Daleks and Davros.
Davros, brilliant he’s back but I thought it a bit of an anti-climax, granted I knew he was coming but I don’t know if the episode conveys the magnitude of the event. Â Also the Shadow Proclamation might have been handy to fight the Daleks?
Rose is the one that really gets me, I know she’s been in an alternate universe but she sure is a misery guts, I’m depressed everytime I see her, I think that she’s a little over rated anyway, Martha is gold.
The Harriet Jones former PM joke got taken a little far, to a point where it belittled her death scene in my opinion.
I loved Gwen declaring that she won’t go down without a fight, like Hoshi and Owen.
So the Doctor is regenerating and they’re keeping it all a big secret for next week, where I can tell you that something will happen to stop him changing, as we know Tennant isn’t going anywhere. Â It may be an appearance of one of the other Doctors but ultimately Tennant will be restored as the current Doctor, or maybe that’s the thing, maybe he won’t be.
Either way next week’s episode should be pretty awesome!
I believe it may have been Quentin Tarantino (probably in Kill Bill if I’m remembering it right) who commented about the interesting thing about Clark Kent and Superman is that Kent is the alias, at his core Superman is exactly that, Superman and it is Clark Kent who is the mask.
It is something that always interests me about the character and despite my commitment to all things comic bookish there is actually very little that does interest me around the character. Batman has always been the more interesting of the DC comics titans (no I’m not talking Teen Titans I mean titan in its classical term).
I also think people often forget that he is actually an alien despite looking like the ‘perfect’ human.
I wonder if this is not similar to the way the Greek gods were portrayed. Although on second thoughts the gods were always portrayed with the human traits of envy, jealousy, anger and greed. These are not the traits that are often associated with the Man of Steel.
Except of course in Superman III which we don’t tend to give very much credit to.
A testament to the acting ability that Christopher Reeve had inside him are the extraordinarily impressive display of duality found amongst the mess of the Superman III plot.
The thing from a writing point of view is that Superman is very hard to write for. He can’t lose control because if he does he can wipe out an entire city.
Everything in his life is about control, from the smallest thing such as holding a coffee mug without crushing it to dust to not leaping too far over the tallest building and launching himself into space.
The problem then becomes that the character is flawed in his flawlessness, something that is often brought out by writers like Frank Miller and characters such as Batman.
Looking at our storage facility the other day was a little sobering when we realise how many of our boxes are dedicated to books and DVDs. Â Books certainly out number the DVDs, we could set up a small library and it makes our removalists miserable. Â But then I noticed how many boxes of DVDs we have and have many boxes we have actually out.
You own Batman and Robin because you can’t bear to have an incomplete set, no the commentary is really interesting and… *sob* god I know… they just look better on the shelf all together.
You know what Amaray packaging is and know that it will make the most of your shelf  space when it comes to season two of 24.
You start sorting them in groups other than alphabetical (it doesn’t have to make sense to other people!)
You find yourself staring longingly at the new Collectors Edition version of Serenity even though you have a copy of Serenity and can’t work out what the bloody difference is between them so it tortures you in the middle of the night…
When people talk about having 100s of DVDs you think to yourself “amateur”.
I don’t think I’m giving anything away by confirming that Captain America does not make an appearance in the new Hulk film.
But just because we don’t see him he’s not completely absent though. Â When discussing the super soldier serum a character is asked if there were any successes with the program.
The answer of course is a big yes (with interesting results) and all of us Marvel geeks know and excitedly elbow our non Marvel geek partners that the success was Captain America.
I’m actually a little relieved that they didn’t try and jam Cap into the film, for one thing they haven’t cast him yet and secondly I doubt the costume has already been designed.
In my previous post I talked about that sensation you get when you visit what is called a childhood artifact. Â In that case I was talking about the comic book artist Kelley Jones, artist that I didn’t really like at the time but have warmed to recently.
Recently I’ve been encountering more and more of these artifacts in my life. Â Maybe they’ve always been there which is what I suspect is the case and I’m purely becoming more aware of their existence.
Surprisingly not all of these artifacts have their roots in commercial popular culture (collective sigh from those hoping I was going to talk about Voltron).
The internet has been a remarkably effective catalyst for these nostalgic episodes. Â When doing some research recently I discovered some photos online of a small town that I lived in when I was around ten to twelve years old. Â Binnaway is a small (very small) town in New South Wales and I lived there for three years (which in my childhood was a very long time) so it was a large part of my developmental years.
For a child even though Binnaway was small it had everything you could want. Â A river, parks, quiet roads, a pool, showgrounds (that had town xmas parties) and squash courts (ok not everyone needs a squash court but it’s where I was introduced to the game!).
The photo I found online is of a pump shed that was used for the town’s water. Â For us kids it was a monster’s shed or some other sort of fantasy. Â It was a mystery, all this giant equipment which probably wasn’t all that big in reality.
Just down the road from there was a dirt path going down to the river which was really steep and thrilling to ride down on your bike.
It was just really cool finding this photo online and brought back a few memories.
I don’t think I’m giving anything away by confirming that Captain America does not make an appearance in the new Hulk film.
