WATCHMEN and SMALLVILLE mutterings

[thehefner]

The producer of WATCHMEN speaks openly on the current legal battle.

Frank, insightful, inspiring, and infuriating. Now, more than ever, I feel there is no finer response to this debacle than this.

Coincidentally, I've discovered that there are several fans out there who think that WATCHMEN won't be better than THE DARK KNIGHT. While I agree that may be the case, it depresses me because it should be better.

I don't think WATCHMEN will be perfect, and I'm sure I'll have criticisms just like I performed several autopsies on TDK. But if I have any serious hopes here, it's that WATCHMEN will raise the bar above and beyond how TDK already did. Because that's exactly what frickin' WATCHMEN did and should do.



And in other superhero media news, holy crap, SMALLVILLE is getting a ninth season?

To quote CHUD.com: "OK, think about this for a moment: nine seasons of Smallville. That's longer than any Star Trek series by two years. That's going neck and neck with X-Files, which itself should have ended two years before it did. That's approaching the current genre record holder, Stargate: SG-1, and that show had to retool itself bigtime after Season 8."

Did anyone see the Legion of Superheroes episode? Geoff Johns wrote it, right? Certainly gives me hope. Heck, that alone might actually interest me to finally catch up where I left off around the Zod episode, and I subsequently avoided the rest because of things like sexy Mr. Mxyzptlk and dialogue like in the Bizarro episode, "I'm like you, only... bizarre."

I say it's time to don the tights. Let's see some actual Superman versus Lex action in the final episodes.

Comments

[gnort.livejournal.com]

The Legion ep hasn't aired yet. That comes up next week I believe. Johns is indeed writing it.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything yet! Cool cool!

[insaneboingo.livejournal.com]

The Fox nonsense is infuriating. I agree with that response, completely.

I say it's time to don the tights. Let's see some actual Superman versus Lex action in the final episodes.

As awesome as that would be, Lex is gone from the show. Rosenbaum left and has absolutely no plans to return ever, according to his letter to fans and everything.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh duh, that's right, I'd forgotten that about Rosenbaum. Sadness. Well, tights then. And... hmm, who haven't they used yet? Metallo? I'd take Metallo. Hell, Darkseid! Ew, wait, no, I fear to think how they'd Smallville-ize the New Gods.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

SHELDON ICON NOTED.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

I predict an entire portion of the fannish population will implode if Watchmen isn't released on time because of this daft WB/Fox legal pissing contest. I'll probably be one of them.

And for the love of all things holy, Smallville is getting a ninth season? It's like some kind of horror movie monster that just will not die, no matter how many times I burn it in effigy and beat the ashes with a baseball bat.

(Did they really do Sexy!Mxy? I think a piece of my soul just withered and died at the mere hint of the thought of such an image. Oh, CW, why? Why?)

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

(Also, before I go conk out on the sofa and forget, I think it bears mentioning: when you're mid-geekgasm, you sound just like me. Except, you know, an octave or two lower.)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Allow me to introduce you to Mikhail Mxyzptlk:



He's a teenage metahuman from the Balkans who can influence others with vocal commands.

In case anyone's wondering, this is NOT an improvement over a godlike imp in a bowler derby voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

HE fixed football games.
Even Gilbert would have shown more chutzpah, gone for the big money.
Next up: Carrot Top as The Joker and that girlyboy vampire from TWILIGHT as Batman...

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

Next up: Carrot Top as The Joker and that girlyboy vampire from TWILIGHT as Batman...

Don't give them any ideas, for the love of God, nobody give them any ideas!

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. Nobody has.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

Ow. Brain. Hurty. How can...how...but...but...the fifth dimension! The bowler! The utterly awful clashing purple and yellow costume that I secretly love so much! It's Mxylptlk! Like the Great Gazoo but less green, more manic and more Gilbert Gottfried-y!

Why?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!

[swimpenguin.livejournal.com]

HOW the FUCK do you make Mr. Mytzplak sexy?????
In my periodic random episode watching, I thought "this is why I never watched this show regularly" after they killed off Lionel Luthor(the always great John Glover) and introduced Doomsday (a not great character anywho) in a total rip off of Cloverfield.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

See above.

Yeah, I heard about Glover. He and Rosenbaum were literally the only things that kept me watching in the first place. Well, Lois was always welcome, hatchi-matchi.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Doomsday: proof that Mary Sues come in all shapes and sizes.

[lairdofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I have never watched Smallville. I didnt get the attraction to a Superman story that was basically 90210 Smallville (well thats what it looked like to me from the various trailers)
9 seasons...I guess there is a market out there for it. The guy from Chud is obviously not counting British Genre shows in his discussion about longevity. Otherwise how could he have forgotten Dr Who?
The recent trailer for the season with the Legion and Doomsday did look good but then I remember the JLA pics that were going about last year....and I realise that mainstream tv is not going to show superheroes in a way that would appease me.

Having said that I would be totally into a Godlike Imp in a bowler hat voiced by Gilbert Gottfried. There must be a campaign to make it so?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Egad, pally, have you never watched SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKe4uEveCN0

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

LOIS LANE IS THE PHANTASM.
DARKSEID IS OVERDOG.
LEX LUTHOR ONCE WORKED FOR ROBOCOP.
>8)X

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Smallville without Lex is just ONE TREE HILL: THE SUPERMAN YEARS.
Hell, even WITH Lex, I quit when Bizarro showed up.
Tom Welling makes Keanu Reeves look like freaking BRANAGH.

WATCHMEN is going to suck. I'm sorry. Snyder is our generation's new Russell Mulcahy, incapable of just shutting up and telling the story when there's any chance he can club you with his cleverness.
I don't understand. Why does EVERY property have to have a movie?

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

I've caught Smallville through Season 6 (which means I got the "bizarre" line but not the Bizarro plot).

I was about to can it after season 5, actually, which was really quite terrible. Season 6 was considerably better. But I'm not exactly pushing season 7 to the top of the Netflix queue. It will sort of moulder at the bottom until I finally have nothing else to watch.

(Which may be sooner than you'd think. I use Netflix for several purposes, one of which is to provide an hour of mindless TV after rehearsal and before bed. All sorts of crap goes into that slot: Buffy, Lost, Scrubs. That sort of crud. Easy to watch and fun, and available in 44 minute chunks. It is NOT the time when I want to sit down and finally catch, say, Aguirre.)

[scooterbird.livejournal.com]

I catch a bit of Smallville while walking through the room; my kids have it on, and they are at the anti-geek stages of their teenerdom, which should give you an idea about that show. It was pretty much stillborn, I think, for the reasons given by Kevin Smith to the fans when he bailed from the movie which became Smallville...