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THIS WEEK IN THOUGHT 8/11/08
2008-08-11 16:52:26
Hey everybody! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. Here’s what I’m thinking about today.
BRETT FAVRE – Brett Favre. Eli Manning. Me. All products of Mississippi. You’re WELCOME, New York.
WHAT IF? NEWER FANTASTIC FOUR – Hate takin’ work home with me, but this was actually fun. Me and the writer are chucking ideas at each other, seeing what sticks. This is an unofficial official announcement for this project, so I’m not gonna tell you much about it. But...it’s a sequel to the Mike Wieringo book from earlier this year. It’s a slightly tweaked FF team. And it involves the new team dealing with a problem that they would’ve had to’ve dealt around the time of their formation…
TOP TEN: THE FORTY-NINERS – I won’t say how, but I was presented with a unique situation on Friday, which involved my entering a comic book establishment (for the first time in 2008) and purchasing a large mass of comic-related merchandise for…let us say…less than the cover prices. I got the Justice League International hardcover (love ya, Keith!), the Starman Omnibus, two Mutts collections, another Peanuts hardcover brick, a Goon trade, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, and Top Ten: The Forty-Niners.
Man, have you READ Top Ten: The Forty-Niners? It’s AMAZING. This thing was so good, so pretty, so well told (I read the first page of Chapter 4 four times). I tell ya, when Alan Moore wants to tell a good story, he just does it. It’s too bad he’s all Alan Moore-y and stuff.
MAD MEN – I loved it last year. Slow, but great. And then I heard that the second season was jumping ahead…and they were slowing the story down (as if it weren’t glacially paced already)…and we were going home with the other characters…
Anyway, the first episode was boring (probably due to all the hype), so I took a week off and watch episodes 2 and 3 last night. Phew. Ok, it’s still good. Wearing cool clothes and driving awesome cars. And the smoking! I love the smoking. I don’t smoke, but I love watching people in cool old clothes from cool old eras smoking. It’s the polar opposite of people that smoke now; People that smoke now look all guilty and rushed, standing outside places in a little gray-hued huddle. Sad.
Sorry, I got off topic: What is it about TV shows not being able to get their second seasons right? There are exceptions, of course, but it seems like anytime I really like the first season of a show, every season after that dips in quality? ("Friday Night Lights," "Sopranos," "Lost," "Gilmore Girls") They may still be good…but something’s changed. Like the big corporate guys got involved and made some sort of demand that we see more of certain characters, OR the corporateers give the writers more slack, and they go all navel-gazing.
And speaking of great first seasons…
ED – Patrick Scherberger was nice enough burn Quicktime copies of the entire series for me. Then I put them somewhere and forgot about them for about a year. Found them this weekend and watched the first five episodes. Man, this show was great. Tom Cavanagh is a weird perfect leading man and this show probably features the best friends (Ed and Mike) that would make each other do terrible embarrassing stuff to each other (meow loud enough so that old people would notice, etc). Well written, nothing really happens. Can’t ask for more than that. UNBELIEVABLE that this show isn’t on DVD.
OLYMPICS – I’m barely watching. It’s tape delayed and I don’t really care about any of those sports. I flipped on China Vs. USA water polo for about twelve seconds. Competitive Marco Polo would be more exciting. Heck, BASEBALL might even be more exciting (well…ok, let’s not get crazy).
DEATH TO CATS – I created a fantasy league with eleven other guys here at Marvel (and we are NOT…repeat, NOT playing this thing at work. That would be wrong.) I’m calling it Death To Cats. I’m Brett Favre Lad. Never done an electronic fantasy league before, so I expect to get the tar beat out of me, all in the name of fun.
(And yes, I’m a bigger college football fan than I am an NFL fan. That’s why I’d rather do NFL fantasy, since those are paid grown men playing a game, not unpaid college students. Less guilt involved in using ‘em.)
Mad Men....I hate this show I watched the entire first season and I thought to myself "How did this get 16 emmy nominations!" The show is just way to slow and you spend an hour watching it and realize nothing of interest transpired. The characters are all morally backward and they should all be dead from the extreme amount of alcohol they drink and extreme amount of cigarettes they smoke. I'm sorry you mentioning the show just hit a nerve.
Posted by Web-Head3003 on 2008-08-12 02:05:28
My wife and I loved Ed and were sad to see it go. It could get overly sentimental at times, but the scripting was great. Very similar to the Gilmore Girls banter.
Posted by KentL on 2008-08-12 10:10:54
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