Weekend of Steel
Mar. 19th, 2006 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I am on a huge and total Superman kick right now. I blame ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat recently adding Superman: The Animated Series to the Tivo--and it's really rather good, as are many of the superhero cartoons that Cartoon Network and Boomerang have been running. It impresses me that they have maintained a long continuity across that series, the Batman animated one, and Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
My Supes kick has been strong enough that I got out my tape of a few episodes from the first season of Lois and Clark--the series premiere, which still makes me giggle with Lois' startled line to Clark as she comes to his apartment and he answers the door wearing nothing but a towel: "It's almost nine! I thought you'd be naked--uh, ready!" "All Shook Up", the episode where Supes has to fly into space to bust up an asteroid that's about to collide with Earth and gets thrown back down to Metropolis by the impact, stricken with amnesia. And the season closer, "The House of Luthor", where Lois comes >< this close to marrying Lex while he's got Supes locked up in a kryptonite cage.
Day-em, I'd rather forgotten the impact of the lovely and talented chest of Dean Cain. >:) Fuzzy though it was on videotape--because day-em, I'd rather forgotten how fuzzy videotape can be compared to DVD and laserdisc, too. Especially what was probably a multi-generational scratch tape I'd gotten from someone else--I seem to remember someone mailing me this tape of L&C episodes. And for giggles I fast-forwarded through the rest of the tape as well to see what was on it, and OHMIGOD the crap.
The Supes kick has even been strong enough that I blew several hours last night um, er, reading Lois and Clark fanfic. Do you folks realize how seldom I actually go read fanfic?
And I've been checking out the aforementioned animated series regularly now, too, and just finally watched all three parts of its premiere, "The Last Son of Krypton". A pretty cool adaptation of the story, and it was fun to see young, hot, buff Jor-El being chased all over Krypton by the Kryptonian police as Brainiac tries to silence his dangerous warnings that the planet is about to explode. Also? This version of Luthor keeps reminding me of Telly Savalas every since time I see him. Even in the current episodes of Justice League Unlimited, too. And I noticed that in JLU, he's drawn leaner and more aquiline as well, which struck me as a neat continuity detail, especially whensolarbird explained that in this continuity, Luthor was pretty much given an entire new body by Brainiac because his original one had been ravaged by cancer.
Anyway, all this Supes-ogling has pretty much kept me from writing this weekend, though I intend to apply myself tonight and be good. After Dara and I go out and do some bike riding, because WOW is it gorgeous out today. A blue sky Kal-El would just love to fly in. ^_^
Friday evening miles: 2.15
Saturday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 792.7
Miles out of Rivendell: 334.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 129.3
spazzkat recently adding Superman: The Animated Series to the Tivo--and it's really rather good, as are many of the superhero cartoons that Cartoon Network and Boomerang have been running. It impresses me that they have maintained a long continuity across that series, the Batman animated one, and Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.My Supes kick has been strong enough that I got out my tape of a few episodes from the first season of Lois and Clark--the series premiere, which still makes me giggle with Lois' startled line to Clark as she comes to his apartment and he answers the door wearing nothing but a towel: "It's almost nine! I thought you'd be naked--uh, ready!" "All Shook Up", the episode where Supes has to fly into space to bust up an asteroid that's about to collide with Earth and gets thrown back down to Metropolis by the impact, stricken with amnesia. And the season closer, "The House of Luthor", where Lois comes >< this close to marrying Lex while he's got Supes locked up in a kryptonite cage.
Day-em, I'd rather forgotten the impact of the lovely and talented chest of Dean Cain. >:) Fuzzy though it was on videotape--because day-em, I'd rather forgotten how fuzzy videotape can be compared to DVD and laserdisc, too. Especially what was probably a multi-generational scratch tape I'd gotten from someone else--I seem to remember someone mailing me this tape of L&C episodes. And for giggles I fast-forwarded through the rest of the tape as well to see what was on it, and OHMIGOD the crap.
The Supes kick has even been strong enough that I blew several hours last night um, er, reading Lois and Clark fanfic. Do you folks realize how seldom I actually go read fanfic?
And I've been checking out the aforementioned animated series regularly now, too, and just finally watched all three parts of its premiere, "The Last Son of Krypton". A pretty cool adaptation of the story, and it was fun to see young, hot, buff Jor-El being chased all over Krypton by the Kryptonian police as Brainiac tries to silence his dangerous warnings that the planet is about to explode. Also? This version of Luthor keeps reminding me of Telly Savalas every since time I see him. Even in the current episodes of Justice League Unlimited, too. And I noticed that in JLU, he's drawn leaner and more aquiline as well, which struck me as a neat continuity detail, especially when
solarbird explained that in this continuity, Luthor was pretty much given an entire new body by Brainiac because his original one had been ravaged by cancer.Anyway, all this Supes-ogling has pretty much kept me from writing this weekend, though I intend to apply myself tonight and be good. After Dara and I go out and do some bike riding, because WOW is it gorgeous out today. A blue sky Kal-El would just love to fly in. ^_^
Friday evening miles: 2.15
Saturday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 792.7
Miles out of Rivendell: 334.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 129.3
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Date: 2006-03-20 11:29 am (UTC)-=Jeff=-
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Date: 2006-03-20 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-21 01:30 am (UTC)What I love is the references to comics and the comic industry, as well as the guest hero appearances in later episodes. Once you get past season one which is FOTW (Freak of the Week) material you actually get into the mythology of Supes a little more.
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Date: 2006-03-21 05:36 pm (UTC)