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hey at least Fox got something out of the deal. think about the studios that completely shot Lucas down about his "space movie". most of those folks are probably janitors by now.

yes, but in the case of Indiana Jones, the folks making the movie are trying to pull a bait and switch. "Hey, this has Indy's name in the title! Did you like his other movies! Well then we're calling this one 'Indy and the macguffin' to get you to watch THIS movie!" and then proceeded to try and use it as a jumping board for a new character.

depending on how the court rules in the next couple of years, it wont belong to them, it'll belong to the siegel & shuster estates. also, this isn't the first time they've gone back to the roots and retold his origin story. but you're right (for once. ) in that there are certain immutable facts that make Superman/Clark Kent who he is and that no matter how much someone might try, those will never change.

of course, that has absolutely nothing to do with the article that idiot wrote. ive seen that same article referenced a couple other times since i first read it, im looking forward to getting my hands on the GN on Thursday and seeing how wrong that frakhat really is.

actually this is the first of a series of such planned stories. there's also supposed to be an Earth One Batman coming out next year. i dont remember or know if anyone's been assigned to work on it yet, but as long as it isn't Frank Miller or Grant Morrison, i think it'll be worth it. The idea is that one such GN will come out every six months or so. So that they can tell a single story without having it be broken up into arcs, i actually dig the concept. also 20$ for 136 pages (no ads, IIRC) isn't too bad a price.

that's always been one of the things that irks me. okay, sure, Shia's an alright dude and ive liked a couple of his other flicks. but for some reason i just can't see him as the 'son of Indiana Jones'. Indiana Jones, a guy so cool the ONLY man that could possibly be his father was James Bond, so we go on down the line and we get... uhm... Even Stevens? no. just... no.

1)this is the grognard in me talking, but if it means we stop getting movies like KotCS, then yes. stop now.
2)most of the fun in the franchise is in the pulp feel of the movie, a feeling they failed to recapture with their latest outing, and one i dont see them being able to run with using just Mutt. worse, is that he'll NEVER be his own character, my gripes aside, he's always going to be "the son of Indiana Jones" as far as any future movies go.
3)not with George and Stephen at the helm. can someone else do a good IJ movie? yes, i just don't know if i want someone else to do it, and unlike with the various franchises where they've switched actors in the main role, i think it's too early to just change the lead and NOT find it too jarring to enjoy a reboot of the series. maybe 10 or 20 years down the line, but not right now.

of course it helps if you understand what the symbol means in the first place, or that this time around that's actually what it means. and of course, a personal gripe, ive never liked that particular explanation about the "S" shield. i've always been fond of John Byrne's idea. That Pa and Clark thought it up after Lois wrote the article naming him Superman in the first place.

*shrug* editorial meddling. it's one of the reasons he eventually left the book. those kids were originally supposed to be Pete and Gwen's, but Joephisto thought Peter having sex, with his girlfriend... during the 1960s.... was unpossible, and thought it made much more sense that Gwen boned Norman instead... not one of the better moments, but im not blaming JMS.

also, i guess im one of like ten fans who thought the totem concept was probably one of the more original ideas to go through the comic in some time. But that's me.

a couple of times, but hey, what's one more shot at the well? it can't be any worse than Red Hulk or more disappointing than ... most of Marvel's event books have been lately.

the question isnt whether or not he would make 3 more Star Wars movies given the chance. but whether or not he'll be able to. George will be turning 68 before the 1st of the SW3D movies hits theaters, and then each one will be released 1 a year until all 6 are out. meaning he'll be 73 years old before any real production work begins on a new trilogy. i bring this up because given how involved he's been with the other movies, he probably won't be devoting full time resources to another trilogy until the first 6 are 3-D'd up and ready to go, which will be a pretty time consuming process. then there's the actual production time and planning time involved in getting 3 more Star Wars movies up and running.

He's also said at some point he wants a 5th and 6th Indy movie to happen. So THOSE need to be done at some point as well. Dude's already on the olden side, so unless he realizes he CANT do it all on his own and delegates to others (in which case, there is the possibility of awesome as much as true suck) i just don't see a new trilogy happening. i doubt they'll even push out another Indy movie.

and yet will meddle with it directly because he doesn't want the people who read the "fanfiction" to confuse what's going on in the books with what goes on in his movies. because people who read books are far more easily confused than people who just watch movies... i guess...

because Lucas wanted the initial narration of the movie to follow through the POV of the droids, and wanted the characters to be introduced to the audience through the droids. it wasn't a bad choice, and it's always interesting to see what could have been. for folks who might be interested in a far more expanded version of A New Hope, check out the NPR Radio Dramas. New Hope and Empire were fantastic!

pfft, this is the future baby. in the 30th century we elect pornstars... you realize who it is underneath that Cobra Commander mask right?

well... technically it wasn't really much of a reboot. it's brought back the original Legion, but with rewrites and ignoring everything that happened between Crisis and Zero Hour...

okay, it's a reboot.

Yup, Gates stuck around to repair the image of this Legion and to provide some non-mammalian perspective while his Legion is out there hoping through the multiverse (since that Legion's universe was destroyed). And the threeboot guys have been relegated to "ignore" and watching over Superboy-Prime.

I still love the Legion, always have. But i almost wish theyd gone through with another reboot. Almost.

Voted Cosmic Boy, because you can never trust a Durlan!

not so much actually. while TV shows definitely get the time factor on their sides, movies have budgets that most TV shows would die for. even if they took a decent budget for one movie and divided it up for an entire season of a show, it's still more than most TV shows could ever hope to get. (and sadly like some movies, the more popular shows end up spending most of that budget on their actors.) also, depending on who makes the show, sometimes it isn't as easy to get certain characters as one might like. using Smallville as an example, it was mentioned at one point they wanted to bring Bruce Wayne or Wonder Woman onto the show at one point, but they weren't allowed because WB was busy focusing on building movie franchises for the two of them. also, in the case of recurring villains, you have to make sure you've secured the same actor you cast the first time around for if you need to use them later in the season. TV shows can be just as big, perhaps even bigger headaches than movies.

At least if a movie is bad, it's usually a one and done sort of thing. If a TV show is bad, it gets dragged out with several poor episodes before getting to a single good one, or canceled before any of the stories can really be fleshed out and finished up.