Pop culture round up for the week.
Thanks to my (pre)birthday and troy_duffy, Graig and I have been consuming the 1st season of Heroes since Monday evening, neither of us really having watched it while it was on.
I know, I know. Right now you're all wondering how two superhero junkies such myself and my husband were not watching Heroes while it was on? I can really only say it happened because we were both rather underwhelmed by the pilot episode, and then we just managed to not really... care? I guess. And eventually, the hype surrounding it was driving me to one of my moments of supreme stubborness where I refuse to watch something just because. I know, it makes no sense, but that's how I am sometimes. And yes, I'm well aware its really annoying :) But anyway, it wasn't just me getting stubborn about watching Heroes, Graig was pretty much with me on this one, even going so far as to cancel his order of Season 1 from Amazon.
But now we are watching it and we are enjoying it. It's not bad, its not Lost (which I admit I enjoy far more), and it is fun. I'm having fun trying to fit all the various super powers into DC Heroes terms, and that is keeping me endlessly entertained. The characters are fine, (I'm guessing you're supposed to want to smack Peter Petrelli alot, right?), although that one girl's (Eden?) super big head is very distracting. Every time she's on screen, all I can hear in my head is Mike Myers from So I Married An Axe Murderer bellowing in a bad Scottish Accent "Look at the size of that boy's(girl's) head. It's like an orange on a toothpick." Anyway, other than that, Heroes, not bad on the whole.
What WAS bad this week was the Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special.
I'm still a little surprised at myself for picking this sucker up. Its not like I'm a big fan of weddings, but I do like Ollie and Dinah and superhero weddings can be fun, so what the heck. But this one stunk. It felt cheap and tawdry, from the too much info on GA/BC's sex life (sometimes show/not tell ISN'T the way to go), to the dialogue that had Canary swearing like a fishwife (insert Aquaman joke here if you'd like), to the wedding dress that was obviously supposed to be a rif on her costume, but just came off looking like cheap-Vegas-ho-wedding dress. Heck, it wasn't even Vegas-wedding tacky, it was more like Reno-wedding tacky. And the story was horribly cliche (oh, oh look, the bad guys are going to crash the wedding! Even though the badguys were already beating up the JLA over in the JLA Wedding Special, where it was done MUCH better) and the ending was just so dumb (guess you conviently forgot what her powers are? Or that she's one of the foremost fighters in the DCU?) that I pretty much just dropped the book in disgust and said to Graig, 'Well that was stupid.' Just bleah.
Thank goodness Robin and Captain America were also out this week to get rid of the bad taste in my mouth. Captain America ended on a really great cliffhanger. I'm still enjoying the hell out of that book.
I know, I know. Right now you're all wondering how two superhero junkies such myself and my husband were not watching Heroes while it was on? I can really only say it happened because we were both rather underwhelmed by the pilot episode, and then we just managed to not really... care? I guess. And eventually, the hype surrounding it was driving me to one of my moments of supreme stubborness where I refuse to watch something just because. I know, it makes no sense, but that's how I am sometimes. And yes, I'm well aware its really annoying :) But anyway, it wasn't just me getting stubborn about watching Heroes, Graig was pretty much with me on this one, even going so far as to cancel his order of Season 1 from Amazon.
But now we are watching it and we are enjoying it. It's not bad, its not Lost (which I admit I enjoy far more), and it is fun. I'm having fun trying to fit all the various super powers into DC Heroes terms, and that is keeping me endlessly entertained. The characters are fine, (I'm guessing you're supposed to want to smack Peter Petrelli alot, right?), although that one girl's (Eden?) super big head is very distracting. Every time she's on screen, all I can hear in my head is Mike Myers from So I Married An Axe Murderer bellowing in a bad Scottish Accent "Look at the size of that boy's(girl's) head. It's like an orange on a toothpick." Anyway, other than that, Heroes, not bad on the whole.
What WAS bad this week was the Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special.
I'm still a little surprised at myself for picking this sucker up. Its not like I'm a big fan of weddings, but I do like Ollie and Dinah and superhero weddings can be fun, so what the heck. But this one stunk. It felt cheap and tawdry, from the too much info on GA/BC's sex life (sometimes show/not tell ISN'T the way to go), to the dialogue that had Canary swearing like a fishwife (insert Aquaman joke here if you'd like), to the wedding dress that was obviously supposed to be a rif on her costume, but just came off looking like cheap-Vegas-ho-wedding dress. Heck, it wasn't even Vegas-wedding tacky, it was more like Reno-wedding tacky. And the story was horribly cliche (oh, oh look, the bad guys are going to crash the wedding! Even though the badguys were already beating up the JLA over in the JLA Wedding Special, where it was done MUCH better) and the ending was just so dumb (guess you conviently forgot what her powers are? Or that she's one of the foremost fighters in the DCU?) that I pretty much just dropped the book in disgust and said to Graig, 'Well that was stupid.' Just bleah.
Thank goodness Robin and Captain America were also out this week to get rid of the bad taste in my mouth. Captain America ended on a really great cliffhanger. I'm still enjoying the hell out of that book.