Big Blue Arndt: September 2006 Archives

Hulk is on Sci-Fi Channel right now (at least from where I am sitting in Pacific Daylight savings Time). When I first saw the schedule I assumed that it was one of the older television movies starring Bill Bixby. As it is Sci-Fi spent their promotional time budget on advertisements for the Travolta/Cage Face-Off. I don't recall seeing one TV commercial for a broadcast of the Hulk.

I can understand why.

Hulk is a movie that starts out boring and ends pretentious.

When I first got back to my motel room and switched on the TV I was surprised and pleased to see the movie right at the start of the chase sequence and it was fun again watching the big-screen Hulk literally tear up some tanks.

Still, the movie is mostly crap with a few broad strokes that run contrary to the source material. That mostly means that the theme is different, the characterization is somewhat altered, and the scale was marginally different. None of the changes were neccessary. A lot of the similarities were coincidental.

I wouldn't bother paying to see it.

This is just a prelude to my mild extrapolation of the Human Fly. I gathered all I could find for now but I'm not writing it yet. There's not too much data available but there's a point. The obvious theme is that the hero is that is cool not only because of seemingly unrealistic assets, aspects, and feats, but that the man is in fact real.

That brings us to Jay J. Armes.

I never heard of him before now; that's odd but my pride will recover.

So I cannot definitely say that the music in the most recent advertisements for the Battlestar Galactica season premiere is pop rock and not rock. I believe it is, however, a piece of pop music despite the guitar riffs at the end of the ads.

Watch the ad:

All of this is just a prelude to ask why instead of a seriously moving piece of orchestral stuff or perhaps a seriously moving piece of instrumental rock n' roll we get pop puff.

Then again, I'm not a serious music critic, so what do I know?

If you were running the Battlestar Galactica ads and the plot of the upcoming premiere involved a quasi-patriotic call for the human race to rise and survive against the evil machine oppressors... with what sort of music, tone, and musical tone would you use to promote the upcoming new season and its first episode?

That's a question, by the way. If you need help, go watch some Battlestar Galactica webisodes. The series is entitled "The Resistance" and it's an immediate prelude to the new season. Then again if you care enough to take part in my informal poll you probably knew that.

Legendary continuity cop and charter member of the Comic Book Historical Society Alan Kistler was hit by a car on Friday, one that was parking, backing up, driven by a guy who parks cars for a living!

As a result Mr. Kistler will be laid up for this week, thus we expect lots of comic book articles from him.

Today's Day by Day:

Whom Zed is talking about:

As it is.... am I the only one who thinks that old guys Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford wearing earrings actually makes the two look less dignified?

Moreover: Does it make them look stupid?

A larger question of course is why would old dudes embrace the "fashions" and trends of the young? Is it emulation? Is it an internal psyche issue or an external projection that they wish people would percieve in a specific manner?

I believe it makes these otherwise wizened folk seem less respectable, in a manner even greater than the effect that excessive piercings have on young males.

and I haven't even started talking politics yet.

Embedded YouTube videos, Robot Chicken episodes, have been posted here. Then removed from the host by the Users or the host.

So I repost copies. You're welcome.

Seth McFarlane plays the Emperor as we realize how he took the news after that whole Yavin 4 deal.

Now we see how Luke reacts to revelations of how the hexology turned out. That is indeed Mark Hamill returning to the role.

It's real. Too bad it's in Washington.

I always wanted a Batcave.

He probably wouldn't understand super-heroes either.

Not an episode concludes without one of Captain Kirk’s sermons, his incessant moralising to troubled alien civilisations that they should follow his lead and cherish life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Star Trek represented... multinational interference firmly under the leadership of Americans. Rather than having succumbed to the urge to boldly go and meddle with strange new worlds he didn’t understand, Captain Kirk should have stayed at home and sorted out his own people’s problems.

This was on about five minutes ago. I watched it. There are no relevent current events links then.

CNN Headline news was interviewing the writer of the new Justice League of America series about his participation in so-called "red cell" projects.

Then they plugged his novel "Book of Fate". There was no mention of comic books, comic book projects, or comic book characters.

It's just as well then. I still think he did an untold amount of damage with his second comic book story ever, which is somewhat odd that someone with only two complete published stories under his belt did so much within the seven issues of the second batch. A lot of lasting change (that's the first problem, having actual change instead of the illusion of change) was performed and sanctioned for a rookie comics writer.