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Saturday Morning Watchmen

Check out this faux trailer for a Saturday morning Watchmen cartoon.  (“WATCH THIS MOVIE!”)

I find this especially funny in light of how odd it is that DC has created Watchmen action figures.  For a great take on this, read Scott Brown’s article about how confusing this is for kids.  “These new angsty comics flicks aren’t for kids, so why are the toys they spawn? I mean, what could the savage 10-year-old me do to a Rorschach figurine that the beautiful lunatic hasn’t already done to himself?”

Angel: After the Fall, Issues #16-18

Okay, so technically, Issue #18 isn’t “After the Fall” — it’s more like “After After the Fall”.  But more on that later.  First, as usual, I’m overdue to recap the last couple of issues, which in this case were literally the last couple of issues of what we could probably consider Season 6 — the end of Brian Lynch’s “After the Fall” plot arc.  Which I have to say, after some clumsiness in the middle of the arc, wrapped up in what I felt was a fairly clever — and true to the series — way.

RECAP DETAILS AHEAD (don’t read if you haven’t read the issues yet) …

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Heroes – Cold Wars

Sorry, I’ve got a cold and too much work to do this week. So I give you one half-assed LOLhero and a brief synopsis: Matt gets inside Noah’s head, giving us a series of black and white flashbacks; Mohinder gets captured; Matt has a vision of DC getting nuked; and it turns out … drum roll please … Daphne is still alive (highlight to see spoiler).

And now the analysis:  In general TV terms, this was a well told episode. But in Heroes terms, it was a bit too low-key and artsy for its own good.  Noah’s moral ambiguity was more entertaining the first time around, in the “Company Man” episode.  But even he seems bored at this point.  The premise of the government hunting down superpowered “terrorists” should be more exciting than this … shouldn’t it?