The book starts off with Willow and her girlfriend and demons.
I enjoy how the story changes when you turn the page.
Willow and her girlfriend are noticeably uglier than they are in the show, making it very anti-Hollywood.
Buffy reveals her reservations of losing Willow after killing the Evil one in the future.
Giles responds wittily by saying that he didn't have time for such an explanation.
And Whedon's writers capture Whedon's universe well by developing characters that want to survive and go on in their next stage in life: parenthood.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
I would rather have Brad Pitt than Jared Leto play the Joker
The Dark Knight showed us certain things:
It should us that fans wanted a darker, more realistic Joker,
But not one that lacks in charisma.
Brad Pitt has worked ensemble movies. He's produced. He's directed. He's well known. He's a great name.
He's played Tyler Durden for Fight Club in his career defining role, a role that is still very popular to this day 15 years later.
He should play the Joker instead of Jared Leto.
It should us that fans wanted a darker, more realistic Joker,
But not one that lacks in charisma.
Brad Pitt has worked ensemble movies. He's produced. He's directed. He's well known. He's a great name.
He's played Tyler Durden for Fight Club in his career defining role, a role that is still very popular to this day 15 years later.
He should play the Joker instead of Jared Leto.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Redoing the Top 15 Batman Films Again Before The 75th Anniversary is Over
- The Dark Knight Returns
- Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm
- The Dark Knight
- Justice League: The New Frontier
- Batman ’89
- Batman Begins
- Batman: Under the Red Hood
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
- Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero
- Batman Forever
- Batman: Gotham Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
- Batman & Robin
- Batman ’66
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Forever
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Batman Forever
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Worst
- Catwoman
- Justice League: Doom
- Mystery of the Batwoman
- Batman vs Dracula
- Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
- Year One
- Batman Returns
Main Street (novel) Analysis: Feminist views
I was really blown away by this decision as many others were.
So often I use the masculine or asexual point of view that I really lack the opportunity to observe feminine voice well, and boy does this book get it right:
The use of the female in Main Street is to give the viewers the perspective of gender equality or the fight for it, in order to show the changing of times in the world, the setting of Main Street.
Less is done in the factories, which'll predicted well by the author, will be done by machines, more time for university, education, liberal arts, feminism and work by females.
The book still does have a Victorian point of view for women, but it's still by all means accomplishes its goals as a great work of fiction.
So often I use the masculine or asexual point of view that I really lack the opportunity to observe feminine voice well, and boy does this book get it right:
The use of the female in Main Street is to give the viewers the perspective of gender equality or the fight for it, in order to show the changing of times in the world, the setting of Main Street.
Less is done in the factories, which'll predicted well by the author, will be done by machines, more time for university, education, liberal arts, feminism and work by females.
The book still does have a Victorian point of view for women, but it's still by all means accomplishes its goals as a great work of fiction.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
What I like about Superman: Red Son
Recently after getting my Superman: Red Son t-shirt, I pondered my fandom towards him and possibly other Elseworlds, new directions for certain brands in different realities.
Superman: Red Son is very interesting. It doesn't feel super patriotic of the US considering that they mainly use Superman villains and keep them that way to fight Superman.
You have to realize Superman's super white washed background, fighting enemies nobody likes in Hitler, and probably a soviet here and there, much like in a campy 80s Hulk Hogan vs Nikolai Volkoff-Iron Sheik manner. It's ignorant, unphilosophical, racist fanaticism and nationalism that really looked down on the rest of Earth's humans, in times where Eastern Europeans were looked down upon. Not to say that Superman: Red Son was a good guy, or worked for an idealistic non-opportunistic uncorrupt government.
But he definitely had a human quality to him that made him relatable. In a time of New Yorkers, treating every southerner like W., Clark Kent's Midwestern roots were still shown in wherever he was in Red Son: he was honorable and had beliefs. He had this bit of Char Aznable to him and had to make a lot more difficult choices that he seemed to do with ease as Superman, because of how he grew up in the Eastern bloc.
Superman: Red Son is very interesting. It doesn't feel super patriotic of the US considering that they mainly use Superman villains and keep them that way to fight Superman.
You have to realize Superman's super white washed background, fighting enemies nobody likes in Hitler, and probably a soviet here and there, much like in a campy 80s Hulk Hogan vs Nikolai Volkoff-Iron Sheik manner. It's ignorant, unphilosophical, racist fanaticism and nationalism that really looked down on the rest of Earth's humans, in times where Eastern Europeans were looked down upon. Not to say that Superman: Red Son was a good guy, or worked for an idealistic non-opportunistic uncorrupt government.
But he definitely had a human quality to him that made him relatable. In a time of New Yorkers, treating every southerner like W., Clark Kent's Midwestern roots were still shown in wherever he was in Red Son: he was honorable and had beliefs. He had this bit of Char Aznable to him and had to make a lot more difficult choices that he seemed to do with ease as Superman, because of how he grew up in the Eastern bloc.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Relics" (The Novel) is a poor adaptation
The book begins with the original Star Trek crew, which was omitted from the actual script for obvious reasons. There's a plot with ensign Darrin Kane, Captain Armstrong and a bunch of minor characters that I'm not too familiar with from my time following the novel. It doesn't get resolved in this novel either and seems to be done just to bad things out.
The novel does capture the characters' voices, and I like how each chapter is basically like a scene and transition from Next Gen, but so much was taken from the Next Generation episode that it's sort of hard not for that to happen.
The holodeck scene is interesting but minor and Geordi's scenes are cut and minor, despite his role in the original episode. Overall, quite disappointing.
The novel does capture the characters' voices, and I like how each chapter is basically like a scene and transition from Next Gen, but so much was taken from the Next Generation episode that it's sort of hard not for that to happen.
The holodeck scene is interesting but minor and Geordi's scenes are cut and minor, despite his role in the original episode. Overall, quite disappointing.
Friday, September 26, 2014
The setting of Cormac McCarthy's the Road and its Western inspirations
I recently went on a trip throughout Arizona. And although, some of the setting may have been inspired from California as well, (adding a sense of loneliness and paranoia due to location of funds to keep the area safe,) I feel like my trip to Arizona really got me into the story.
In the Grand Canyon, there's a large campsite. Near the area, there are many small campsites. There's lots of sand desert, making plants easy to grow, but not much else. There is very little soap, requiring one to eat canned goods, only one-way roads where one can easily possibly get into car accidents with other cars if not 100%
Guns are entertainment in Nevada.
The setting of the Road, is temperate, maybe even Cold, making the setting even more depressing. (I at least picture a hoodie, thanks to the 2009 film.)
There's no police or civilization. In Arizona, you're reliant on the Highway Patrol for safety, and who knows when they show up? It's probably a low taxed town anyway, from a town is very paranoid of funding such type projects, being Republican.
Page is filled with churches NEXT to other CHURCHES.
The setting also has a bit other meaning than that. The main character follows it as if a sign by God, like Moses in the book of Exodus in the Bible/Quran/Torah. He follows it, because he has a faith in something that makes him believe that he will find something that won't require him to use the final two bullets in his gun, to commit suicide with his offspring, in this terrible world, where they're constantly roaming and starving, being uneducated, and hearing things that an otherwise educated world wouldn't do. He has a type of spiritual belief: faith, whether Christian or not. (God is never ever actually stated in the book, although this is an obvious reference to Moses wandering in the desert for 40 days and nights, and when questioned on why doing so, breaks rock to discover water, so that others would continue believing him.)
In the Grand Canyon, there's a large campsite. Near the area, there are many small campsites. There's lots of sand desert, making plants easy to grow, but not much else. There is very little soap, requiring one to eat canned goods, only one-way roads where one can easily possibly get into car accidents with other cars if not 100%
Guns are entertainment in Nevada.
The setting of the Road, is temperate, maybe even Cold, making the setting even more depressing. (I at least picture a hoodie, thanks to the 2009 film.)
There's no police or civilization. In Arizona, you're reliant on the Highway Patrol for safety, and who knows when they show up? It's probably a low taxed town anyway, from a town is very paranoid of funding such type projects, being Republican.
Page is filled with churches NEXT to other CHURCHES.
The setting also has a bit other meaning than that. The main character follows it as if a sign by God, like Moses in the book of Exodus in the Bible/Quran/Torah. He follows it, because he has a faith in something that makes him believe that he will find something that won't require him to use the final two bullets in his gun, to commit suicide with his offspring, in this terrible world, where they're constantly roaming and starving, being uneducated, and hearing things that an otherwise educated world wouldn't do. He has a type of spiritual belief: faith, whether Christian or not. (God is never ever actually stated in the book, although this is an obvious reference to Moses wandering in the desert for 40 days and nights, and when questioned on why doing so, breaks rock to discover water, so that others would continue believing him.)
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