Hmmm… just can’t get into House. Same story every week. I mean really, how many people in that town come down with mysterious diseases on a regular basis? It reminds me of Murder She Wrote. Wherever that woman went, someone died. Wherever House goes, someone comes down with a mysterious disease.
Angela Lansbury went way downhill after her marvelous Manchurian Candidate role. I mean… Pirates of Penzance? - The Movie. That was a pretty bad idea. And it had Linda Ronstadt in it. And Rex Smith. And that was the last time we saw Rex Smith.
See, I can go off on weird tangents too. Might not be about the Legion, but if its about any sort of pirate, I might just know a little somethin’ about it.
]]>Sorry for the break. Dinner came and we started watching “House.” With no background music. Nothing like no incidental music to show you how they try to manipulate your emotions with background music.
Mojo is fussretating. He is being inspired by my changing jobs. His advisor is being a total prick — keeps adding more and more and more to the dissertation, and Mojo is about through with the whole process. He is hating his fussretation as much as everyone who does one eventually hates it.
]]>And as far as the Mary Jane is concerned, I’m not sure, but whatever it is, its over-priced.
]]>We also got into Veronica Mars because of the first season, but the second season with the out of nowhere strange ending wasn’t as good as the first and the third season go the show canceled.
Do you notice that Bas and Shelley never talk about sitting around and watching TV shows. And Mojo doesn’t do it much either.
I guess we should talk about something more important. Like, for instance, is this a cutesy play on Spider-Man’s domestic bliss, or just complete misogynistic crap?
]]>Now Mars is back.
Glaring…
]]>Sorry about the Legion. I love them. The first comic book I ever remember getting was the Legion of Super-Heroes. My dad bought it for me because I was sick and in bed. So maybe it represents all that love my father couldn’t display in any other way except buying me a comic book.
Or maybe I just like stories.
]]>Anyway, I can’t say anything from last nights show ‘SHOCKED’ and ‘AMAZED’ me. And I agree about the flash forwards but really, with a show like Lost I think they can be a little more flexible with the future. Like on Heroes (by the way, I’ve finally got caught up with Heroes, because the Sci-fi channel had a marathon). Anyway, I don’t think Lost has to get locked into a future, but with JJ Abrams, well I think he has these good ideas, then has trouble actualising them.
But I did like Sawyer shooting that guy, and I liked Hurley’s rescue too. I like Hurley most of the time, he’s a good character, but when the writers use him for little more than comic relief, it gets annoying. If they’re going to use him, then use him to his full potential, not just as a stooge.
I have to admit my eyes started to glaze over with the stuff about the Legion. I was thinking… huh? Cuz I’m clueless.
Still I concur with the point you were making.
Season finale of Smallville tonight. I know you guys don’t watch it anymore, but its been getting kinda gritty lately.
Oh and I finally see the big-bush statue. Yeah that is a big bush, but its very nicely coiffed. Like someone took a curling iron to it.
]]>I just think the “now we are a couple of years in the future” thing is weak writing. “Alias” nearly died when they had Sydney wake up suddenly 2 years older than the previous scene to discover Vaughn was suddenly married to a woman who couldn’t act, her father was in jail, and her mother had quit the show.
I guess JJ Abrams just thinks that future shock is GREAT! somehow.
I think it just limits your story-telling possibilities. Any “Future” flash locks you in to a story line that you may think is FANTASTIC at the moment because you were oh-so-clever to think of it. With some hindsight on it, though, you realize it kinda sucks, or limits growth of characters.
Let’s take for instance the “Adult Legion” stories from the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1960s. (and it wasn’t Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad getting it on in some sexy Legion porn, it was a glimpse into the Legionnaires futures as adults).
It froze the future of the Legion to a mid 1960s version of the future, and crippled storytelling for some of the members for a long time.
So we learned Cosmic Man (no longer Cosmic Boy) smokes a pipe! Cosmic Man is Balding!
Ok. That was an amusing scene, but we knew he married Night Girl at some point. So in the “present” stories, we just kept waiting for them to hook up.
We also knew that whoever Shadow Woman and Chemical King were, they were going to die.
So when they finally joined the Legion in the “present time”, we just kept waiting for them to die. Hell, with Chemical King, the writers just said, “It’s been a few issues since we introduced him. Let’s kill him already.”
And when the cover of the story where he died screamed, “One these Legionnaires will die in the issue!” you thought, “Oh, must be Chemical King.”
And when did Shadow Woman die? Never. They finally “voided” the Adult Legion stories with another story. They were tired of being shackled.
So although stories from the close future can open up possibilities, more often than not, it is simply a story killer.
I love the Legion.
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