New Comic Day + some TV stuff
Sep. 17th, 2008 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6This week I got two books:
Captain Britain and MI13 #5 (my Pick of the Week, almost like a new issue #1)
Uncanny X-Men #502 (kind of a mix of good and questionable)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, not too heavy and got done in a timely manner. On the way home I went by the Scramble interesection near Eaton Centre and legally walked kitty-corner! Woo! ;)
Was disappointed in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles this week. (minor spoilers) The nuke plant was dull but okay, but the John Connor, 'emoteen in love' plot annoyed the hell out of me. I just couldn't buy him or what happened in his story either as a typical teenager, or as a 'future resistance leader in hiding'. I mean, he just meets a girl and decides, "hey, let's take her to the new house I've never seen". This is the family that often has guns hidden in their place, just in case. What if when they walked in there were a stash of grenades on the table? Not to mention skipping school, which is probably forgivable given what just happened the day before, but whatever happened to 'slipping under the radar' and 'absences get you noticed'. Anyway, and then, on a school night with apparently no objections from _anybody_ (either his 'family' or hers), she sleeps over _in his room_. Lax parenting ftw! Their conversations don't feel particularly real either. They really need to get somebody on the writing staff who can do high school stuff, because at this point even cliche high school stuff like over-the-top cliques would be better than this. And I don't dig completely abandoning the plot of Kansas girl from the year before, either. Remember her? The girl he was clearly interested in but was supposedly 'damaged goods' and kept under lock and key? Not even a casual offhanded "she moved away suddenly", just dropped the plotline completely apparently, like it never existed. I mean, it wasn't the best plot in the world, but at least wrap it up. Instead he's given a high school boy's dream, a pretty girl who gloms onto him for no particular reason and instantly is willing to spend the night with him. Kind of like Cameron started, but at least with her she was a plant. Of course, potentially, maybe Riley is too. Hoping this is just a slight misstep, there were a handful of eps in the first season that felt pretty weak too. Unfortunately now's not the time to be weak, it's the time to be kickass all the way through if the show's going to survive.
Fringe wasn't all that great either. Right now it looks like it's going on my "watch if nothing else is on but won't bother to download if I miss it" list. Maybe it'll still improve.
This weekend I finished Avatar Season One. Pretty good. Since I saw most of S2 I'll skip most of it and just focus on the episodes I can't remember too well/at all or that lead up to the finale, and then it's finally on to S3.
Oh, and I know a number of people on my flist were affected by the recent hurricanes, and I apologize for not commenting to you individually since I didn't really know what to say. I still don't. But I _have_ been reading everything, and would like to say I'm happy that you're all alright, and my heart goes out to you for the damage/extended loss of power/other complications I've heard about. Yes, I know that's weak, I'm sorry. :P
Captain Britain and MI13 #5 (my Pick of the Week, almost like a new issue #1)
Uncanny X-Men #502 (kind of a mix of good and questionable)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, not too heavy and got done in a timely manner. On the way home I went by the Scramble interesection near Eaton Centre and legally walked kitty-corner! Woo! ;)
Was disappointed in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles this week. (minor spoilers) The nuke plant was dull but okay, but the John Connor, 'emoteen in love' plot annoyed the hell out of me. I just couldn't buy him or what happened in his story either as a typical teenager, or as a 'future resistance leader in hiding'. I mean, he just meets a girl and decides, "hey, let's take her to the new house I've never seen". This is the family that often has guns hidden in their place, just in case. What if when they walked in there were a stash of grenades on the table? Not to mention skipping school, which is probably forgivable given what just happened the day before, but whatever happened to 'slipping under the radar' and 'absences get you noticed'. Anyway, and then, on a school night with apparently no objections from _anybody_ (either his 'family' or hers), she sleeps over _in his room_. Lax parenting ftw! Their conversations don't feel particularly real either. They really need to get somebody on the writing staff who can do high school stuff, because at this point even cliche high school stuff like over-the-top cliques would be better than this. And I don't dig completely abandoning the plot of Kansas girl from the year before, either. Remember her? The girl he was clearly interested in but was supposedly 'damaged goods' and kept under lock and key? Not even a casual offhanded "she moved away suddenly", just dropped the plotline completely apparently, like it never existed. I mean, it wasn't the best plot in the world, but at least wrap it up. Instead he's given a high school boy's dream, a pretty girl who gloms onto him for no particular reason and instantly is willing to spend the night with him. Kind of like Cameron started, but at least with her she was a plant. Of course, potentially, maybe Riley is too. Hoping this is just a slight misstep, there were a handful of eps in the first season that felt pretty weak too. Unfortunately now's not the time to be weak, it's the time to be kickass all the way through if the show's going to survive.
Fringe wasn't all that great either. Right now it looks like it's going on my "watch if nothing else is on but won't bother to download if I miss it" list. Maybe it'll still improve.
This weekend I finished Avatar Season One. Pretty good. Since I saw most of S2 I'll skip most of it and just focus on the episodes I can't remember too well/at all or that lead up to the finale, and then it's finally on to S3.
Oh, and I know a number of people on my flist were affected by the recent hurricanes, and I apologize for not commenting to you individually since I didn't really know what to say. I still don't. But I _have_ been reading everything, and would like to say I'm happy that you're all alright, and my heart goes out to you for the damage/extended loss of power/other complications I've heard about. Yes, I know that's weak, I'm sorry. :P
