So I finally made it through David Tennant's run of Doctor Who. It was a long time coming, I think the last couple of episodes leading up to the end were the best of all the seasons he did.
Can't we count Rose Tyler as one of the Doctor's wives? I mean the half-Time Lord/half human Doctor is him, or can we count that version of the Doctor as a hybrid child between the Doctor and Donna? It kinda bothered me how long it took him to see Rose in those episodes and even in the last episode, he went back in time and visited Rose before she met the 9th version of himself, Christopher Eccelston. Similar to River Song going back and meeting the 10th Doctor, which I have to say, I prefer River with Matt Smith a lot more than her with David. Anyway, Donna will never remember meeting Martha Jones, Captain Jack H., Micky and Rose Tyler but her granddad will. In a way, I feel like Rose chose Donna to keep an eye on the Doctor.
I didn't expect The Master (John Simms) to come back, love the blonde hair, think he looks better blonde. John Simms, like David T., is what I like to call a "delightfully mad" actor. I'm using the words "delightfully mad" which I first heard Sir Anthony Hopkins say in The Wolf Man with Benecio Del Torro, and I use it as a way to describe actors who play insane characters like David T. in Doctor Who and Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire as Bartie Crouch Jr. "Hello father." Now I must look up John Simms filmography and see what other roles he played as. Handsome gent for a rounded face fellow. I felt bad for The Master when the Time Lord President showed up and admitted to putting that drumming sound in his head. Poor kid didn't deserve such manipulation.
Though the Satan Pit, The Library, Waters of Mars and the episodes with the Oud in them are my favorite, and the first one when Torchwood was established. Water of Mars made me want to cry, you know people are about to die and you know it's for the greater good but how do you ignore their screams and pain? The Doctor couldn't and as a result of messing with things instead of letting them be, Adelaide Brooke shot herself. That was a valuable lesson to learn and I wonder why he hadn't learned it earlier. Seeing the episodes from the POV of people who don't personally know the Doctor, I can see why they would label him evil.
What I don't like is how Captain Jack Harkness started out as Captain Jack Harkness but towards the 10th's end he became John Barrowman as himself. We get it, you're gay John, that's great but Captain Jack was straight, wasn't he? Flirting with Rose and every other woman when he first appeared. J.B's acting skill points got deducted from my book for that. My hats are off for the other actors, main and minor. A lot of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones actors in here. THE UK NEEDS MORE ACTORS & ACTRESSES! It's really the same people over and over, hold an open casting call, sheesh, do something UK. I have no major complaints other than that I don't want to see David go!
I'm wonder if Matt's run is worth watching all the way through, I've seen sporadic episodes like the death of Rory and Amy, the birth of River, the war episodes, the crossover with David, the end of Matt's run, the episode where he got a job and stayed with Craig. Do I need to see the others?
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Happy Star Wars Day!
Gotchu! I'm not going to be doing anything about Star Wars, too many people already are. Don't get me wrong, I like the movies, even the newer ones (while wondering why Disney feels the need to add on to it) but I just don't want to talk about it so instead, I will speak on behalf of an awesome manchua (Chinese comic) FENG SHEN JI.
However, it is very interesting, many characters are very surprising or have surprising back stories. It isn't a philosophical comic or anything but it has a better storyline than most martial arts comics, and no worthless panty shots! Plus the main character, Wu-Geng/Ah Gou really matures through the chapter so it's character development you can actually see although there are a few bland characters like Bai Cai who is Wu-Geng/Ah Gou's wife. I don't see the point of her, I thought perhaps that she was a human descendant of the Dark Ones but there's no real detail.
Emperor of Shang fighting one of the Great Gods.
I don't know how accurate these Gods represent Chinese folklore or mythology other than that the eldest and leader of the Great Gods is Tian (天,which means Heaven) who controls two dragons and Tian was a bad ass. You see Tian once in the beginning and then again in Season II towards the end. You see him seldom between the two Seasons where he has little to say. Actually, this comic has very little to do with Chinese folklore/mythology but look at that artwork and those colors!
Wu-Geng/Ah Gou (black haired kid) and his Uncle Zi Yu (white haired man) fighting one of the Great Gods in his domain of a zombie city. Zi Yu was first in line to become the Emperor of Shang but after losing the love of his life to his younger brother, he just gave up the throne to his brother in favor of traveling the world to forget his emotional pain. He is the greatest swordsmen in their world and is the only one capable of killing the Gods.
Zi Yu fighting Tian the eldest, strongest of the Great Gods. He is the last Ancient God, even in ancient times, his power was so great that the other Gods all turned on him and in his rage of being betrayed by his kin whom he was loyal to, killed all of the other Gods. He created the new generation of Gods that ruled over the era of the Emperor of Shang's rebellion and continues to rule over humans afterwards. Tian has one son and has only married once although he does have a consort. His son is very interesting and is part of a major plot twist so I won't be revealing who or what he is but his consort is a straight up bitch. I like Tian, he doesn't care about humanity, he is very laid back, in fact he's been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years and only wakes up twice in the comic. This page here ^ is the second time he was awakened.
Ni Tian ErXing, the Great General of the Dark Ones, the Dark Ones are the natural enemies of the Great Gods but they aren't demons or anything demonic. The Dark Ones once lived on Earth until they were removed by the Ancient Gods and were forced to live in Hell, since then they have harbored a great hatred for the Gods. They are prone to a disease called Petrification Sickness which turns their bodies into stone, it was inflicted upon them by the Gods. In Hell, they lived in various tribes and some lived in solitude until Ni Tian ErXing rallied them together as one people and one army. Their goal is to destroy all the Gods and live on Earth again. He's my favorite character, with his ninja mask on. He is very calm, even compassionate and understanding. He is the strongest of his race which is how he became the Great General.
It's a bad ass manchua and it deserves more love and more people reading it.
Released: 2010, on going
Rated M for Mature
Authors/Artists: Zheng Jian He & Deng Zhi Hui
Authors/Artists: Zheng Jian He & Deng Zhi Hui
Synopsis: It isn't about the guy on the cover of vol.1 there ^, it's about his son Wu Geng/Ah Gou who is the heir to the Kingdom of Shang which has been oppressed by the Gods for centuries when his father (man on cover) rebels against them. The great Emperor of Shang loses the war and his son is sold into slavery by their enemies, the Kingdom of Zhou. He discovers that his mother was a Goddess and that he himself is half-God (did someone say Hercules?) He takes it upon himself to finish his father's mission to destroy the Gods' rule over humanity but he cannot do it alone, on his quests he meets a defact group of Gods and the Dark Ones, the sworn enemies of the Gods.
So far the manchua is on Season III, it is fully colored and drawn exceptionally well. My only real complaints are that it's open to anime/manga stereotypes such as yelling out attacks as the characters attack, talking way too much at times when words aren't needed, naming attacks and guy falls in love with girl he first meets although, in here, it's extremely different and works and there's no real romance in the manchua anyway. 105 chapters are released and it isn't ending anytime soon but I can see a definite ending in the future so hopefully it won't be like Inuyasha where it went on and on and on and on.
However, it is very interesting, many characters are very surprising or have surprising back stories. It isn't a philosophical comic or anything but it has a better storyline than most martial arts comics, and no worthless panty shots! Plus the main character, Wu-Geng/Ah Gou really matures through the chapter so it's character development you can actually see although there are a few bland characters like Bai Cai who is Wu-Geng/Ah Gou's wife. I don't see the point of her, I thought perhaps that she was a human descendant of the Dark Ones but there's no real detail.
I don't know how accurate these Gods represent Chinese folklore or mythology other than that the eldest and leader of the Great Gods is Tian (天,which means Heaven) who controls two dragons and Tian was a bad ass. You see Tian once in the beginning and then again in Season II towards the end. You see him seldom between the two Seasons where he has little to say. Actually, this comic has very little to do with Chinese folklore/mythology but look at that artwork and those colors!
Wu-Geng/Ah Gou (black haired kid) and his Uncle Zi Yu (white haired man) fighting one of the Great Gods in his domain of a zombie city. Zi Yu was first in line to become the Emperor of Shang but after losing the love of his life to his younger brother, he just gave up the throne to his brother in favor of traveling the world to forget his emotional pain. He is the greatest swordsmen in their world and is the only one capable of killing the Gods.
Zi Yu fighting Tian the eldest, strongest of the Great Gods. He is the last Ancient God, even in ancient times, his power was so great that the other Gods all turned on him and in his rage of being betrayed by his kin whom he was loyal to, killed all of the other Gods. He created the new generation of Gods that ruled over the era of the Emperor of Shang's rebellion and continues to rule over humans afterwards. Tian has one son and has only married once although he does have a consort. His son is very interesting and is part of a major plot twist so I won't be revealing who or what he is but his consort is a straight up bitch. I like Tian, he doesn't care about humanity, he is very laid back, in fact he's been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years and only wakes up twice in the comic. This page here ^ is the second time he was awakened.
Ni Tian ErXing, the Great General of the Dark Ones, the Dark Ones are the natural enemies of the Great Gods but they aren't demons or anything demonic. The Dark Ones once lived on Earth until they were removed by the Ancient Gods and were forced to live in Hell, since then they have harbored a great hatred for the Gods. They are prone to a disease called Petrification Sickness which turns their bodies into stone, it was inflicted upon them by the Gods. In Hell, they lived in various tribes and some lived in solitude until Ni Tian ErXing rallied them together as one people and one army. Their goal is to destroy all the Gods and live on Earth again. He's my favorite character, with his ninja mask on. He is very calm, even compassionate and understanding. He is the strongest of his race which is how he became the Great General.
It's a bad ass manchua and it deserves more love and more people reading it.
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