Posts Tagged ‘tv’
The Incredible Hulk Complete Series DVD [DaddyDeals]
For today’s DaddyDeal, allow us to introduce our guest columnist, The Incredible Hulk.
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If there one thing Hulk hate — almost as much as Hulk hate puny humans — it’s not being able to watch Hulk’s favorite TV show. Read more »
Excercise Good, TV Bad
Two news items today that apply to parents and kids alike. Simply put — exercise good, TV bad.
Also — floor down. Ceiling up. Read more »
Wonder Woman Complete Series DVD [DaddyDeals]
Today’s DaddyDeal is a superhero TV classic – the complete Wonder Woman series on DVD for only $35.49. This deal brings back many fond memories. Read more »
Too Young To Hold Hands in the Philippines?
According to AdFreak, “McDonald’s, under pressure from Catholic leaders, has agreed to pull a TV commercial because it shows a young boy and girl having an innocent romance and almost holding hands.”
Here’s the ad: Read more »
Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Actually The Governator
Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually The Governator. No, not just his nickname. An animated character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing a cartoon where he plays a character called The Governator.
Seriously.
Real news is sounding too much like The Onion.
Quotes from Ah-nuld: Read more »
Young Justice Cartoon Will Air November 26
The new Young Justice cartoon will air November 26, according to a report from New York Comic Con on Poptimal.
We’re always excited about any new superhero cartoon. For some reason, it was hard to find an exact date anywhere online. But we did — Cartoon Network will air a one-hour premiere of Young Justice on November 26, 2010. The series starts up for real in Spring of 2011. Which isn’t specific enough for my taste, but whatever.
What is Young Justice? It’s kind of like Teen Titans, but different. You’ll see the young heroes/sidekicks like Robin and Speedy, but some things will be different. UGO.com says that the Young Justice cartoon will “reboot the reboots“, which could be OK as long as it’s not “Infinitely Finally The Last Crisis Ever No Really We Mean It” type of nonsense.
For those who want even more background on Young Justice, it all started with comics, as usual. There were some issues written by Peter David (one of my favorite comics writers), and there are trade paperbacks although some, such as Young Justice: Sins of Youth, are out of print. Then there is the 2-issue miniseries JLA: WORLD WITHOUT GROWN-UPS, which is being reprinted as a plain ol’ overpriced comic book under the title DC Comics Presents Young Justice #1. My guess is that there will be more of these reprints leading up to the premiere on November 26; hopefully they will reprint the Peter David issues, because I like his writing. And let’s face it, it’s all about my needs.
Here’s the official video preview with the Young Justice cartoon producers Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman discussing the characters.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOjAmXDjW4]
And here is five minutes of slightly shaky Young Justice footage from a New York Comic Con panel.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsnuMjbaqbM]
Poptimal also has video of the producers discussing the show.
What do you think? Looks good? Gonna watch? Read the comics? Let us know!
NY Comic-Con 2010: Young Justice Preview : Poptimal.com
New Incredible Hulk TV show has us asking why
There will be a new Incredible Hulk TV show. The question is, why?
This is live-action, not animated.
I loved the old show when I was a kid. But, as I explained to my son when I showed it to him and he looked at me like I was asking him to ingest a weasel on a bun, this was back when we only had three or four channels. And very few of those channels featured super-heroes on a regular basis.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg]
I watched the pilot of the old Bixby/Ferigno Hulk recently. It was fun, although the series is very much of it’s time, which is the 70’s. BIG pants. BIG hair. And for Ferigno as Hulk, BIG eyebrows.
One observation worth noting is that having a real person playing the Hulk makes it feel more real. Sure, you can do more with CGI. But Ferigno, as silly as he looked in that green body paint, managed to convey the idea that he was an actual living thing struggling to figure out what the hell to do in a world that hates and fears him.
That’s significantly more thought than I ever gave the show when it was actually on the air, however. Mostly I wanted to see something, ANYTHING that had to do with super-heroes.
In retrospect, the old Hulk TV show was only slightly related to the comic book. Yes, he turns into the Hulk. But this Hulk doesn’t talk. There’s no Betty, at least not that I can remember. There’s no Rick Jones. (Although there’s no Rick in either of the two movies. Why TV people not like Rick? Rick Hulk’s friend! Hulk smash people who cut Rick Jones out of Hulk storyline!)
Something else I noticed when I saw the show recently: with limited special effects and no supervillians, they had to rely on, you know, dialogue and stuff. Remember why David Banner (not Bruce, his name in the comics) got hit with too much gamma radiation? Because some technician in the office was tinkering with the equipment, and he didn’t mark the dial correctly. In other words, Banner thought the machine went to 11, but it really went to 11,000. (Puny Banner. Thinks he smart. He not smart. He stupid. Hulk smash puny Banner!)
It should be noted that I will absolutely be watching this new Hulk TV show, should it ever actually see the light of day. Hopefully it will be at least good enough for me to watch with the kids. Even if it’s not, we’ll probably stick it out for a few episodes. Why? Because it’s the Hulk, dammit.
Frankly, it can’t be worse than The Incredible Hulk Returns, which featured Thor and Daredevil.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYZs7jHf97w]
Well, it shouldn’t be worse than that. In theory.
