Archive for September, 2009
The FlashForward Analysis

No More Good Days White To Play 137 Sekunden Black Swan Gimme Some Truth Scary Monsters And Super Creeps The Gift Playing Cards With Coyote Believe A561984 Revelation Zero Blowback Better Angels Queen Sacrifice Let No Man Put Asunder The Garden of Forking Paths Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Course Correction The Negotiation Countdown Future Shock [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under television.
Tags: a more interesting huey lewis, baby moles, blaming children for divorce, brain scan snogging, bullet wombs, court-mandated flights, dangerously untrained alcoholics, dead crows, die hard tributes, dr seuss, emulating galileo, evil ambulance drivers, evil bert, flashforward season one, folding chairs, forgotten characters, gandalf's incessant charlatanry, giant toothpaste conglomerates, green lantern power rings, half-assedness, hobbit terrorists, icelandic pop, lesbian chefs, negotiating with nazis, not lost, orlando bloom lookalikes, penchants for strangling people, pigeon factories, precognitive slacking off, pregnant ninjas, roboticists who hate tea, rogue window washers, russian roulette, saucy many worlds hypothesis talk, skippy the bush kangaroo, squabbling over acronyms, stolen fedoras, the fluoride kid, toilet geniuses, tourism somalia, wedding vows, whitney houston concerts, who wants to be a millionaire
Comments: 18
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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