Archive for September, 2009
The FlashForward Analysis: Season One

No More Good Days
White To Play
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Black Swan
Gimme Some Truth
Scary Monsters And Super Creeps
The Gift
Playing Cards With Coyote
Believe
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Episode One: No More Good Days
We open the show in the aftermath of a plane crash, surely the boldest opening for a television show since Mork arrived in his egg, lo those many years ago. Dr Jack Shephard, [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under television.
Tags: a more interesting huey lewis, dead crows, emulating galileo, evil ambulance drivers, flashforward season one, folding chairs, gandalf's incessant charlatanry, green lantern power rings, hobbit terrorists, icelandic pop, lesbian chefs, negotiating with nazis, not lost, penchants for strangling people, pigeon factories, precognitive slacking off, roboticists who hate tea, russian roulette, saucy many worlds hypothesis talk, toilet geniuses, who wants to be a millionaire
Comments: 10
JLA/Avengers Issue Two: A Contest Of Champions

As with all sensible non-showpony storytelling, Issue Two of this tale picks up straight where Issue One ended, namely with the Avengers and the JLA ready for some serious smackdown time. Oh, sure, there was a bit of a prologue with Krona and The Grandmaster, but I, like most sane comic book readers, skipped straight [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under jla/avengers.
Tags: avengers, beverly hills 90210, boomerang, captain america, chaos magic, combatants, comic book readers, dc universe, reserve members, telescopic vision
Comments: 1
The Smallville Files: Season Nine

Are You There, Zod? It’s Me, Brian Austin Green
Doin’ The Robot
The Funk of Forty Thousand Smallville Episodes
Can You Read My Mind?
Mopey Dick
Let The Wacky Win
Jor Session
Ooh, And It Still Makes Me Wonder
Don’t Let The Sun Go Red On Me
Some Things Are Mentor B
Not Fit For Society and Still Not Fit For Society
Smallville Season Nine is [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2009 under smallville.
Tags: smallville season nine
Comments: 5
9.01 Are You There, Zod? It’s Me, Brian Austin Green

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2009 under smallville.
Tags: brian austin green, famous kryptonian sayings, green arrow, kneeling time, microsoft tech support, network settings, robotboy, smallville season nine, two women
Comments: 8
Heroes Season Four, Episode One
For those who care about such matters (and, indeed, those who do not), the new season of Heroes has exploded onto screens everywhere (especially those screens screening the episode – other screens not so much). Equally, Morgan’s awesome recap of the same double episode opener has also exploded onto her blog. And comments? They’ve exploded [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2009 under heroes.
Tags: comments section, guitar hero, gun theory, new season of heroes, peter petrelli, skulky the turtle wonder, us senate
Comments: none
Fun With Keywords – Special Telepathic Octopus Species Edition

Another week in which the beautiful people trundled over to this site via dubious keywords. Let’s see what we have this time around:
telepathic octopus species
Hmmm… don’t know of any telepathic octopi. But I do know that Starro the Starfish Conqueror (last seen in my recent JLA/Avengers recap) is a telepathic starfish. That’s pretty close – [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under meta.
Tags: fun with keywords, mary marvel v supergirl. who won?, my baby takes the morning train by sheena easton, prometheus defeats jla, rorschach in x-men, superhero for greenpeace, telepathic octopus species, television script 'arm-wrestling', who speaks french
Comments: 2
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – The Smoke Monster

He showed up in the pilot to kill the pilot. At that point, we didn’t know much about the monster other than it had something against Greg Grunberg. Since then, we’ve learned a lot more about it. That it’s made of smoke for one thing. That it’s rather judgmental for another. It’s also able to [...]
Posted: September 23rd, 2009 under lost.
Tags: dancing in the streets, electric fences, greg grunberg, jacob, locke, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, manifestation, monster question
Comments: 1
Two And A Half Men

Problem: Now that little shit of a kid is getting older, he probably no longer can reasonably be used as the justification for the ‘half man’ in the title.
Solution: Have him bitten by a werewolf, thereby becoming a half-man, half-wolf lycanthropic monster. Use best judgement as to whether or not to add a parenthetic ‘(plus [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under television.
Tags: alternative solutions, arrested development, lycanthropy, studio executives, undead
Comments: 2
SETI Update
Nope. Nuthin’.
(Keep up to date with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence by following setiupdate on Twitter)
Posted: September 21st, 2009 under miscellany.
Tags: seti, twitter
Comments: none
JLA/Avengers Issue One: A Journey Into Mystery

The team-up several decades in the making is finally here. Where ‘finally here’ means ‘back in 2003′. But, hey, I’m renowned for my scholarly analysis, not my timeliness. So here’s my recap a scant six years or so later. It’s a story of the team-up of the greatest heroes of two comic book companies, written [...]
Posted: September 20th, 2009 under jla/avengers.
Tags: big guns, causing mayhem, chaos magic, comic book companies, crime syndicate, george perez, jla/avengers, kurt busiek, marvel universe, scarlet witch, scholarly analysis, snot, syntactic issues
Comments: 2