Heads up to Hartley who sent me an early email that the Watchmen trailer for leaked but I think soon after it did, the trailer went up all official on the Apple site here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

As much as I enjoyed seeing the Owlship come out of the waters in front of downtown Vancouver (then CGI into New York is it?), I couldn’t care for what I saw and it really made me realize that I never wanted to see this comic book series (f***k GRAPHIC NOVEL, I know and understand that it got MUCH more popular via the graphic novel version but that doesn’t mean it EVER WAS ONE TO BEGIN WITH YOU IGNORANT F***KS DC COMICS! Ah hem…) as a movie. It would be like someone making my favorite childhood memory into a movie, it just won’t happen. I was not a fan of the new costumes and I still ain’t. Rorschach (aka The Question), looks far too CLEAN for my likings plus if that is the voice for Rorschach — how LAME, why another Batman/Christan Bale ripe-off (?), Night Owl (aka Blue Beetle) looks like Batman with Hawkman’s headpiece and in shape (WTF!?!?! — Anyone READ the WATCHMEN while making the movie?!), Ozymandias just looks BORING in black & greys plus what he’s all of 16 yrs old (and I mean BORING — like I would prefer the plastic ears of the 80’s Captain America costume compared to that sh*t), Silk Spectre looks frightfully like they really wish they cast ANYONE else, The Comedian (aka Peacemaker) looks like he’s still the only one having fun for the 2 mins he’s in the movie and Jar Jar… I mean Dr. Manhattan (aka Captain Atom) is yet another CGI character in a movie. *YAWN*

Seriously, is anyone excited about this movie? I sure ain’t, I know I will go see it just to be sure how bored I will be but I ain’t excited to see this movie, the trailer or the f***king action figures at SDCC this year at all. Nope.

Now make me The Question movie and I am all over it! Better yet, Ambush Bug!

Oh and here is one other thing that bugs that sh**t outta me while watching this trailer? Why are they not talking about the story itself? Why are not selling the line “Who watches the Watchmen?“. Why tell me, the viewer,  how f***king popular that graphic novel was / is or will be. F***k if I care, tell me about the movie yeah Yahoos! DC gets a FAIL on this marketing attempt!

Okay I will admit it, I really do l♥ve the BBC TV show, Doctor Who, and this weekend (thanks to the power of the ‘net) I got a chance to watch all of season 4 & the big finale (the last 3 episodes in one big sitting: Turn Left, Stolen Earth and Journey’s End). It was a great way to start feeling better & getting energy. The show may not appeal to all but it appeals to me on a big level. I loved the old shows and now the new Dr. Who is one of my favorite shows on the telly (even if its via DVDs/Internet). Thank goodness my PS3 can play DivX movies!

a great snippet of Doctor’s Girl’s by mimi-na found here:
http://mimi-na.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-s-Girls-46247500

William S. can attest to the fact that I stopped watching the show after Christopher Eccleston  (who played the Ninth Doctor) and I could not get into watching David Tennant but after sitting down and watching seasons/series 2 - 4, I found out that I was stupid not watching until now. Granted much of my appeal for the 10th Doc ‘ta came from long discussions with William S. over coffees late in the next morning.

So what did I think of the 4th season/series finale — Stolen Earth & Journey’s End? Brilliant. Just brilliant! I became a sap and was tearful when it called for it (moment the Doctor and Rose finally meet-up), cheering on Jack, the Torchwood team, Sarah Jane Smith, Martha Jones (to me, on par with Rose Tyler as favorite companion!), the strength of Donna Noble and laughing out loud at 3 am when the Doctor / Donna pull the ace out of their sleeve! I loved how everyone that has been apart of the run of the new show was in the finale episode — one thing that doesn’t happen much on shows these days! Good job! One bit I was waiting for was the “what? What? WHAT?!” from the Doctor at the end of the finale episode but I think perhaps it had enough drama of the story that we needed to end on a dramatic bit than comedic.

Many thanks to Russell T. Davies (really EVERYONE) for the show and his swan song episodes if he truly is leaving the show! I cannot wait to go out and get these DVD sets now!Now it’s the long wait until Christmas 2008 episode (or a few hours after it airs for us ‘net folks)! Will David Tennant still be the Doctor? Who will be the new companion?

More about Sat night’s episode Journey’s End reaching 9.8 million viewers here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2257483/Dr-Who-viewing-figures-reach-9.8-million.html

This is for William S. and anyone who is interested,
Canadian Dr Who fanfic:
http://www.thedoctorwhoproject.com/

I end this with two words for William S:

BAD WOLF!

So while I am still on my back pain meds this thought came to me. I stopped working on the Best Bang Reborn issue 3, I stopped working (not great but I needed to write this down) and I got thinking, writing and blogging…

Is Final Crisis like The Infinity Gauntlet?

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