Hey there, peeps, this is my first blog post, ever, and I guess I’ll start by talking about two things important to me: comics and Doctor Who.
I’ll talk about comics first. Personally, I’m more of a DC fan than Marvel, and Secret Invasion hasn’t got me that thrilled. Final Crisis, however, does. Trying to forget the joke that was Countdown (It had it’s moments, but the story felt like: Let’s throw all these people together and pull stuff out of our asses as we go along), I went into the first issue fully expecting to know what’s going on…and boy was I wrong. I mean…I could follow the events, but half the characters I didn’t know. Who the hell is Metron? And who the hell is Libra. I read DC Universe 0, and he appears to just come out of nowhere, saying I’m all powerful and you should follow me. Then he boomtubes J’onn J’onnz (spoilers, sorry!) into his little hideout, and torches him. I thought Martian Manhunter went out like a chump, he didn’t even have some awesome final words. The use of Turpin I thought was weird…he’s a great character( I cried when he was killed in Superman TAS) and I guess his link with Darkseid in that show kinda leaks into Final Crisis here. In the cartoon, Turpin takes Darkseids Omega Beams for Supes. In Final Crisis, Turpin goes to the Dark Side Club (Cute, Morrison, Cute…) and speaks to Darkseid, who is in some human form now after his crappy defeat by Jimmy Olsen ( : | ) and Orion.
Now…the part where I was really confused was Metron and Kamandi. I know nothing about Kamandi and Metron, other than they were both created by Jack Kirby.
And the Monitor becoming Human…I was confused about that at first. I couldn’t figure out who this weird guy was until I looked at his hair.
It’s very well written, but still incredibly confusing. And this being the “Final Crisis” (Final my ass), this story can go anywhere…and this first issue really doesn’t tell us where just yet. It felt like seeing only a small, minute, fraction of a big, huge, massive story that doesn’t really have many issues left.
Now…for my second thing, Doctor Who. OH! How I love it…even the newer episodes, which a lot of people aren’t that fond of. I only started watching it last year, and totally fell in love with it (Well…Captain Jack mainly…I want to have Barrowman’s babies so bad, but I’ll save that explanation for another day). Anyway…I cheated, and I’ve already seen the newest episode that us Yanks will have to wait a few weeks for, and I must say it’s spectacular (I say that about anything with the Doctor, but this time I REALLY mean it). Moffat’s stories tend to play off fears. His first story, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, plays off of the fear of becoming a mother, I guess. The Girl in the Fireplace starts with a monster under the bed, literally. Blink plays off of the fear of the unknown, because the main characters of that episode weren’t even the Doctor and Martha, but Sally Sparrow, who really had no clue what was happening to her life. This new episode, The Silence in the Library, plays off of the fear of the darkness. It starts off with a little girl talking to her psychiatrist Doctor Moon, played by Colin Salmon. When the girl closes her eyes, she enters this massive library. The Doctor and Donna appear, and freak her out. She’s never seen anyone else in her library before.
This Library is an interesting concept, I think. Despite it being the 51st century, an entire planet is dedicated to books. Despite being so technologically advanced, where people can have things beamed into their head upon demand, they still take time to read a book.
Now...Spoilers is another big theme of the episode(s). The Doctor meets his future wife, River Song, played beautifully by Alex Kingston. She has this little book, which contains spoilers about the future of the Doctor and Donna.
She’s an archaeologist (WOOT!). Which leads me to the first time I’ve ever been offended by the show: After learning the professions of these intruders, he says he laughs at Archaeologists (WHAT?!). I wasn’t really offended, ‘cause I know that statement was all in good fun.
There was one scene which, honestly, nearly brought me to tears, and that was the death of
Miss Evangelista. Sure... she was a complete idiot, but she was an adorable idiot. She "ghosts", which means her little communicator saves her neural signal for a few minutes, and she basically talks from the dead. It brought poor Donna to tears, because she had befriended the girl not long before she died.
Anyway…There are a few cliffhangers I won’t spoil…and the reference to Rose is very subtle. Look for a picture of a blond girl on the little girl’s wall, with a wolf below it.
