Friday, July 22, 2005

I've been having trouble sleeping all week, but I managed to get some tonight. It's been an odd week. I've worked on several cd projects, with varried results; Mollie found out she needs to have surgery; this insomnia thing hit me; and the Ann Arbor Art Fair has arrived...which means I don't go downtown because of annoying people, closed streets, zero parking, and the "art" has gone downhill in recent years.

I finally watched "Kinsey" yesterday, which I really enjoyed. I later returned my Hollywood rentals & rented "Eating Out" which was much lower budgeted than I expected, but was saved by some extremely hot moments, and an abundance of clever dialogue, though the acting was pretty hit or miss.

I gave Bryan the Coldplay cd that I promised him weeks ago. I gave Ben the final Justice League tapes last Friday; I wonder if he's enjoying them? I wish I had all the DCAU episodes to share. Now that there have been coda type episodes for Batman, Superman, Justice League, Batman Beyond & Static Shock - the only major plots left dangling that I can think of are the non-ending of The Zeta Project, and the final fate of Nightwing. And actually, Zeta has been given somewhat of a deeper origin on JLU; with so many amazing references in the recent season finale, it's a shame they couldn't fit in a reference to Zee.

But if all I'm hearig is true, it seems that this next set of 13 episodes for JLU will probably be the final 13 episodes of the DCAU that has been an ongoing epic for more than a decade. It's a shame really, because the new season is rumored to include an episode featuring the Legion of Superheroes, who were previously seen in an episode of Superman: The Animated Series. What has been confirmed is that there is a Legion of Superheroes toon in the works. It just seems to me like it would be a natural spin-off of the possibly final season of JLU; especially since it's also rumored that a character from the JLU (probably Supergirl) leaves the JLU to join the Legion in the upcoming JLU episode. But "The Batman" & "Teen Titans" have shown that there is an audience for these characters outside of the DCAU as we've comee to know it over the last 13 years, and while it will probably be successful on it's own - not usiing the bulidup from the Superman/JLU stories seems like a wasted opportunity. blah.

Speaking of Teen Titans, when it was first announced, I was quite excited about it; expecting it to be a spin-off of Batman: The Animated Series. I expected to flesh out Tim Drake or Dick Grayson a bit more, only to learn that it was going to be in a wacky new style, and eventually that it was not Really connected to any previous series. Later, when The Batman was announced, I thought it too was a spin-off of Batman: The Animated Series; that it would be a prequel and explain his origins in more depth, as a tie-in to Batman Begins, but I was wrong again. I don't hate that series, but I have no interest in seeing it. It just doesn't feel like Batman; it feels like something completely different, with 'Batman' thrown on it for it's name value.

Obviously I still need more sleep, because I'm just rambling about silly things that randomly circle in my brain.

   posted by Bald Jason at 02:49 AM
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