News that makes me numb

News that makes me numb

Aug 17

Story the first: Third-season changes in store for Lost.

Season two cranked things up enough at the end to grab me again, but this show has become for me a slow deterioration from the first season’s effortless brilliance. Maybe it’s one of those cases where nothing could ever have kept the creepy momentum going forward, save the kind of complete creative reinvention that is anathema to TV. But since I get the sense more and more that they don’t know where they’re going and they’ve never known, fuck it–if they don’t really give a shit, why should I?

Story the second: Fantastic Four 2 (or just “Number Two,” referencing a biological human function that seems commensurate with the quality level the film will eventually offer to its audience) has a new title, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Boy, that first movie was a cesspool of failed potential, percolating promise, and wasted money, weren’t it, though? So I’m super shrugged about the sequel. It does strike me as VERY odd to imagine any actor portraying the Silver Surfer…maybe the first comics character where I can’t easily imagine someone actually wearing makeup and playing the role. Maybe CG? Even so, still strange.

Man, maybe it’s summer or distractions or gas. But nothing on the movie or teevee front is really greasing my chops lately from a geek perspective. It’s all about the comics, comics, comics. And reality TV, glimpsed in fits and starts, when I’m not cradling a baby or trying to communicate with my wife for ten minutes before or after cradling a baby.

Meh, I say. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!