Running a bit late today. Yesterday wiped me out and of course this is the one I watch two shows for comparison.
“I told you to call a plumber!”
Robotech: The New Generation #5
Comico The Comic Company (January, 1985)
“Curtain Call”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Jeff Dee
INKER: Sam Keith
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
Here’s another victim of how DisneyFilm approached Star Wars badly by not having a shared vision in a trilogy. Bounding Into Comics has an article up in which Pablo Hidago has let people know that J.J. Abrams wanted to destroy Coruscant, the city planet capital of the Republic, but one of the later directors wanted to use it for his movie before being removed. I don’t know if that was a slap at the prequel trilogy (which have been reassessed in light of the disjointed mess of the sequel trilogy) or just the same “blow up famous stuff” that led to him wiping out Vulcan in the first Star Trek movie of the Kelvin timeline. Either way it shows both how three directors working on no shared vision (see also Rian Johnson not knowing what a trilogy is by ending plot threads better left to the third movie, like Finn’s final battle with Phasma) can derail a trilogy and another example of how little concern Abrams has for what came before.
When William Hartnell became too ill to continue working on Doctor Who back in the 1960s the producers were in a jam. They had replaced other characters before but this was the title character. How do you do a show without him? The solution was something that would later be called regeneration: a different face with a different outlook and different physical and personal traits becoming dominant over others but at the core still the same man, even if that man is a woman. This has allowed the show to go on for decades (with a break while sci-fi haters ran the BBC and an attempted American revival made the mistake of going with Fox, a network with a science fiction failure rate so large that its one success not called X-Files ended up moving to Hulu) without a reboot. Unless you count the two Peter Cushing movies and nobody does. I mean, I like them and will defend it partially based on when it came out, but they’re better off as their own thing.
Now the current Doctor, Jodie Whitaker, will be leaving the show, meaning she’ll be regenerating soon. And I’ll say this about the rumors of David Tennant coming back…save him for the Big Finish audio dramas. The “familiar faces” bit between 11 and the Curator was cute but the Doctor shouldn’t return to old lives. He should move forward, not backward. The other “big deal” about this regeneration has been that she doesn’t do so within the walls of the TARDIS like this is some big deal. While this tends to be a thing in New Who, especially when a new showrunner wants to destroy a console room and internal design–a sin Chibnall doesn’t get marked enough him as he replaced the best console room in New Who with the worst–is it really that unusual? Sorry for those of you on slower systems or those of you who may not have time to watch this now, but let’s take a look back at all the regenerations of the Doctor and get a proper count, as well as how those regenerations were handled. Luckily the official YouTube channel has them all.
Well, thanks to Prodigy we’ll never escape Janeway!
Star Trek: Voyager #12
Marvel/Paramount Comics (December, 1997)
“Leviathan” part 2
WRITER: Laurie S. Sutton
PENCILER: Jesus Redondo
INKER: Sergio Melia
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
Call him GINO (Godzilla In Name Only) or call him Zilla (they took out the “god”), but the Tri-Star Godzilla movie is agreed to not be a proper representation of Godzilla even by those of us who actually like the movie. (The cartoon at least tried to bridge the gap but this ain’t no Godzilla no matter how you try to work him in.) It might surprise you that Roland Emmerich himself wasn’t a fan of this movie and you can tell he didn’t really want to make a Godzilla movie. Well, technically he didn’t. 😀
You can tell who actually read a story, watched a movie, played a game, and who didn’t.
Peter Dinklage, known for playing an angry short person in a show full of horrible people…and he also made Game Of Thrones as well as Pixels (I kid; I didn’t see the movie and don’t plan to), has come out against Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White. Not because Disney is not only de-animating another classic but the movie that helped showcase that animated movies could work and was Walt Disney’s first animated feature and thus almost as important as Mickey Mouse to the company (hence the Seven Dwarves popping up a lot, surpassed only by their take on Tinker Bell, and Snow White being a popular character at the theme parks). No, no, he’s modern Hollywood and they couldn’t care less about animation because it doesn’t feature live actors…aka them. He’s not even bothered that Snow White is being played by someone who isn’t white as snow…and yes, that is the reason for her name. Kind of like Red Sonja and we know the system doesn’t care about that either.
Instead Dinklage has a problem with Snow White’s friends, the Seven Dwarves. He believes they are some kind of insult to the dwarf community for promoting “negative stereotypes”. The only stereotype listed in the article is living in caves, so if he gave any actual examples in the podcast he was in they really should have brought them up. Disney was quit to respond by saying they had no plans to use dwarves, were trying to talk to the dwarf community, and were going with “magical creatures” instead. So we have a Snow White & The Seven Dwarves that is more Snow Brown & The Seven Somebody Or Others. This is not sitting well with other dwarfs in the entertainment community, who are upset that these roles will now not be going to dwarf actors, while one dwarf Olympic athlete is against cancelling Doc, Dopey, and the rest of the boys. So despite what he and presumably Disney thinks he’s apparently not speaking for the whole community.
I don’t think Dinklage has actually seen the movie or knows anything about the story because this is a tale that is actually supportive of little people. I have a happy little list of how, and you may have seen this info on the internet in articles and comments, so let me start by one that might not be, because already he doesn’t understand…
This cover needs 100% more Wolverine abuse. Wait, it’s the Ultimate universe, that’s still too low.
Ultimate X-Men #1
Marvel Comics (August, 2003, reprint from February, 2001)
“The Tomorrow People”
WRITER: Mark Millar
PENCILER: Adam Kubert
INKER: Art Thibert
COLORIST: Richard Isanove
LETTERER: Wes Abbott
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Pete Franco
EDITOR: Mark Powers
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
