Nerd thoughts

[terrie]

Isabelle. Let me state that I am one of the many who does not like her. I get the feeling we're all supposed to go "Ooooo, mysterious" when her powers and purpose comes up, but for me it's more like "Huh? I'm sorry. Was I supposed to be paying attention?" She was way cooler when she was simply something Richard and Lily worried about. I was predisposed not to like her for having "super-super powers" as it were. I disliked her even more when she killed Lily. And when she hurt Richard, well... I look forward to her death.

Sean. Sean is being an idiot. He really should be going to Tom, who would understand why Sean first got tangled up with the Nova group. I mean, Tom is really the one out there protecting the 4400, even if they don't get that. I am reminded that the future didn't want Sean. It was going for Kyle. Which leads me to...

Tom. The longer the show goes on, the more I think the 4400 exist for Tom's sake. The show does this neat balance between ensemble show and Tom as main character show. Which explains why they were going for Kyle. The realtionship between Tom and Kyle would have been a big plus for the 4400.

Kyle. Where is Kyle? I mean, I get that he's on trial and all, but, what, no bail? Maybe they were afraid that he'd be killed by a 4400 with a grudge.

Gone. I love this two-parter. Very cool. One complaint, though. When Diana was in the hospital, where the hell was Marco? He was fairly strong in the first half of the episode, but then it was like "Well, we ran out of money to pay Richard Kahan, so he's not here."



Okay, they're trying to build on the 80's movies, which means that in the first movie, they had to be about 18. I get that they're trying to appeal to a young audience, but, if so, they would have done better to break with the previous movies. Seriously, the actors are simply too young for what I being presented with. Someone on my flist also commented that this gave us a slightly wimpy Lois. I missed the "tough as nails" Lois.

Now, don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed this movie. I will be getting the DVD, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. But the ending was only so-so, in my mind. I mean, Clark is the LAST person to say that having Jason raised by a man who loves him and cares for him, but just happens to not be his biological father, is somehow wrong. But I really, really hope Richard knows. Because if Lois is lying to him, that's bad. And she deserves all the fallout that will happen when it comes to light.

The main problem for me is that we got so little of Clark. We get this hint of a great guy, mainly in Jimmy's reponse to him, but we don't really see the guy. Maybe I got spoiled by Lois and Clark, which, for me, will likely always define the relationship between Clark, Kal-El and Superman. But, even if he's a bit more Kal-El and a little less Clark, Superman always comes last. Because except when he's with Lois, Superman is simply an icon. And even when he is around Lois, he's still only partially a person.

A few people have commented that this is simply a relaunch movie, so you really can't judge till the sequel. There's probably some truth in that. It's all about "This is our cast of characters. Superman is really cool." I really hope the sequel does better. What I love about Superman is the characters. I wanted to see Clark tell his mom about Jason. I wanted to see Jason let slip to Clark that he knows Clark is Superman. I wanted to see Clark the guy, not Clark the cover story. Maybe next time.

ETA:</> Totally non-spoilery. How cool was it to hear that theme music? It had me bouncing in my seat. Thankfully, there were only six of us in the theater (it was a noon show), and everyone else was in front of me, so no one noticed me being a big dork.

Comments

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Re: the 4400. I do know that SciFi had an article about it, stating that the reason why they offed Lily had to do with money issues, both from the actress and from the production. Even though they had the means to do a recast, they opted not to do even that, apparently.

I haven't been watching it. When is it even on? I like that Lorne's on it. But it's probably one of those "One day, DVD it to find out what the hell is going on. If even they know" shows.

*uses Lorne icon for teh pretty and the crossover*

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

It's on Sunday evenings on USA. And Lily leaving could have been handled in a way that didn't add to the Isabelle hate. Of course, she can change her fuxking eye color, so I really doubt there's anything that could be done to make me like Isabelle.