Hey, would you look at that! I was right for a change. Sure, only about Aella, but I'll take what victories I can get. I always liked Rhiannon's mermaid character and had hoped that she'd one-day become more involved in the main cast and happenings, so it's great to see it come to pass. Of course, I'm not sure that I don't regret it what with her apparently falling in with Hacker-9...
And we get a pay-off to the mysterious Key that she protected all those years. So my question is this: Was this always in the cards for the character, or did you get permission to tie up the lose ends of that story by folding her into Untold Tales?
Fun to see the convergence of big bads, and especially to see Wilbur done in by Knifey. Quite a lot of double-crossing done in that showdown in the underpinnings of the PV. I liked how HH's plan was dashed by those pesky heroes at the last moment as well... it was not a happy day for any villains' long scheming goals.
Hallie's last stand was wonderfully done, and her exploding into imagery was both horrific and beautiful. I look forward to seeing her on the other side... as if things hadn't been trippy enough to this point...
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It had to be done. Best to include a kidnapping and a threat of imminent death to leaven the verbage.
Next chapter I resort to my other go-to (also beloved by Game of Thrones), the exposition scene with the naked person.
It does liven up the info drops some, doesn't it? In truth, I quickly forgot that Lui Xi was doing all of this naked. Probably wouldn't be the case during the HBO adapation.
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Watching you juggle all of this is all almost enough to make me feel bad that I could never get a handle on my one story about rescuing some unhappy bunnies from a theme park to finish it.
I'm sure you'll get back to that shortly.
I honestly don't recall where I was going with it. I used to be much more clever. I may now be wiser, but I find that's significantly less fun.
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NTU could probably alter the front door to launch spring-loaded beavers at any intruders. Or visiting dignitaries.
By now the mansion could probably alter itself that way.
Assuming it wasn't always a setting just waiting to be tried out.
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I'm all for her breaking out into a song about what she's looking for in life...
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Zania or Rhiannon? Because Rhi is way ahead of you.
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Nice! Get enough of those songs together and she can license a "Rhiannon on Ice!" theme show to tour. Once the toy residuals come in, life gets real easy. Is that what she happened to sing about?
This week it has mostly been lyrics from Galavant.
Ah, I watched that... it was fun. More than a bit of a Parodyverse bend to it.
After dropping the reference to it, I ended up downloading the cast recording to Hamilton and listening to it on my trip. Damn good stuff with a bunch of tunes that get stuck in your head. Plus, I learned some history, so that's a bonus.
Apparently the musical has done so well in winning over fans that the Treasury had to scrap plans to remove Hamilton from the ten dollar bill in order to replace him with a female of historic note (Harriet Tubman was chosen eventually.) I believe Andrew Jackson's going to get the boot from the face of our $20 instead.
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Honestly, I haven't been keeping track of him... Now I'm paranoid that he's loose and closing in on my beloved characters once more...
Didn't he fall out big time with Marvel and will never work for them again? That's why he had to go off and ruin Wonder Woman and Doom Patrol.
Could be. To be fair, I doubt that modern Marvel was pounding on his door to begin with.
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It was a fun, light-hearted episode that had some great riffs on old-school superhero tropes: the troubles of a shy adolecent boy whose X-ray vision won't turn off at school, an open-minded enquiry into the sexuality of someone who flies around in rubber with a big G on his chest; a jealous love triangle between a nosy reporter, her mild-mannered nanny, and his heroic alter-ego. And a nice subtext about what really makes a hero heroic. Also with Christopher Reeves-level flying effects and not even a smudge of "modern" superhero grimness to darken the day! Recommended.
I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Another artist whom I thought great but who seriously passed his sell-by date is Frank Miller. Daredevil remains my favourite of his work.
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He did seem to go a bit off the rails there from what I heard about his recent DC work. Still, with major entertainment based off his work on Batman, Daredevil, Sin City, 300 (and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in a way), he definitely had a run of massive influence in the last decade based on his prior works. That had to feel nice.
I think he also did RoboCop.
I know that he worked on some of the (somewhat horrible) sequels writing the story and screenplays... did he have a hand in the original?
I watched the attempted reboot of that last year. I may have forgotten almost everything about it within 24 hours. It's odd to me that something that seemed like a sure-fire hit with the original could not produce any good follow-ups.
