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fredericksI got around to wrapping up Starman this evening. I realized the only reason I didn't tear into the GNs immediately after I bought them was because I didn't want my ride with Jack and Co. to end. As a reader you know that characters, like people in real life, never really *leave* - even if they die you hold onto their memories. There's a time where you mourn their departure and things aren't ever the same though, and I foolishly get that way when a series I'm reading and thoroughly enjoying is nearing the end. I sucked it up and turned until I'd reached the last page. I teared up during certain scenes, and when I finally closed the back cover and put the last book down there was a palpable emptiness within me, so much so that I had to take a couple of minutes alone. The ending wasn't a downer per se, but I was left wondering "What happens next with Mik & Tony and Jack & Sadie and The Shade and the O'Dare Clan, and what's with the Stargirl chick? (although she was given time on an episode of Justice League Unlimited, I would have LOVED to see Jack up in that piece wise-cracking and generally being bad ass)" I'm such a softie. I know authors love to close chapters and leave 'em for a while, but I find myself hoping James Robinson revisits Opal City and brings Jack back for a little while.
Then again, I'm still waiting for Williams to lend some closure to the Otherland series, so...
Heh. I just did a search on Mr. Robinson to ascertain whether he was working on more Starman, and I found that he wrote the screenplay that absolutely butchered Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I mean, the movie wasn't hideous - the cinematography was lovely, the acting wasn't cringeworthy, and the script itself was okay - but (cue nerdy nitpicking) the deviations from the comics were slightly disappointing. Making Quatermain the leader of the League instead of Mina was my biggest bitch point (although that can be blamed on Sean Connery's demands more than the writer's prerogative), but then there was making Mina a vampire(!) when the woman had no powers but the strength of her will, and the unforgivable sin of sticking a Tom Sawyer in there who could not act in order to give a father/adopted son dynamic the movie didn't need. I did like Townsend's Dorian Gray though, and not just because Stuart brings teh pretty.
*sigh* I need to flip through those GNs one more time before I hit the hay. Yes, I'm so pathetic - I admit it and yell it from the rooftops.
-Re. Icon : I will stop using the omnipresent "i[blank]" icons when I stop finding new ones that make me laugh. The double entendre contained within this one AND the fact that it has Jack in it has me smiling.
Then again, I'm still waiting for Williams to lend some closure to the Otherland series, so...
Heh. I just did a search on Mr. Robinson to ascertain whether he was working on more Starman, and I found that he wrote the screenplay that absolutely butchered Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I mean, the movie wasn't hideous - the cinematography was lovely, the acting wasn't cringeworthy, and the script itself was okay - but (cue nerdy nitpicking) the deviations from the comics were slightly disappointing. Making Quatermain the leader of the League instead of Mina was my biggest bitch point (although that can be blamed on Sean Connery's demands more than the writer's prerogative), but then there was making Mina a vampire(!) when the woman had no powers but the strength of her will, and the unforgivable sin of sticking a Tom Sawyer in there who could not act in order to give a father/adopted son dynamic the movie didn't need. I did like Townsend's Dorian Gray though, and not just because Stuart brings teh pretty.
*sigh* I need to flip through those GNs one more time before I hit the hay. Yes, I'm so pathetic - I admit it and yell it from the rooftops.
-Re. Icon : I will stop using the omnipresent "i[blank]" icons when I stop finding new ones that make me laugh. The double entendre contained within this one AND the fact that it has Jack in it has me smiling.
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Date: 2005-09-05 06:45 am (UTC)I am one of the few Alan Moore fans who enjoyed the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. While the movie didn’t do justice to the series, it was entertaining for what it was. The movie’s visuals were well done and the inclusion of Dorian Gray was genius. For a Victorian lit junkie like myself, seeing all of those characters onscreen was great.
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Date: 2005-09-05 10:21 pm (UTC)And your comment has me wanting to watch League (or LXG, as the marketing peons wanted the masses to call it) over again to re-evaluate it. I remember my first viewing being tainted by all the nerdy fan-whining that could be found all over the 'net and my own prejudices against the story changes I'd heard about. Lots of eye rolling. The second time around I watched it with my brothers, who'd never read Alan Moore's work. I was a little more open then. It was an okay summer flick, but I kept wishing they'd kept the intelligence that could be found in the comic. And I liked the way that, in the comics, Mina's sensuality wasn't flung in your face...it being Victorian and all. You do have to have the hot chick for a summer flick, though.