02.03.10
The Storyteller: “The True Bride” (1987): Thoughts
This was a great story. I love how the dog participates in the telling of the stories, asking questions and getting wrapped up in what’s happening just like an attentive audience might! The trolls were creepy and the impossible tasks were well done. I found it interesting that the girl did not save her betrothed by herself, but rather his own curiosity about her helped. I’m sad that there are no more episodes of this show! It was such a brilliant show!
This is a very boring backstory for what has been trumpeted as such an amazing big bad. He’s a two-bit villain with an overdone neurosis and really a pretty boring drive. I’ll grant you that “put out the light” is a nice, simple goal, but it’s a little flimsy as the motivation for this guy and feels like it kind of came out of nowhere.
Wow, this really played up what a total jerk Theseus was. He’s usually portrayed as the shiny hero who selflessly saves Athens and the part where he abandoned the woman who helped him is generally glossed over. This version kind of dwelled on his selfishness and cruelty, though. I don’t have a problem with that (I’ve never been a big fan of Theseus), but I do wonder why that particular choice was made, since it is so unusual.
Mr. Darcy believing Jane to be stricken is actually a reasonable explanation for his behavior with Mr. Bingley. I still can’t understand how nobody suspects Charlotte, though. The episode with the wall in the city was extremely random and unnecessary. It added nothing to the story, I’m afraid I don’t see the point. The same goes for the church scene on the way to London. I just don’t see why they were included.
What do the Guardians have against the Blue Lanterns? They seem particularly upset by that corp, but why? They’re willing to bargain or at least parley with just about every other corp they’ve encountered, despite rhetoric about intolerance for them, but the blue light seems to make them crazy. It makes no sense! They really aren’t very good at their job, if you ask me. Maybe they need to retire.
So the Guardians traded orange light for green? Why? And I’m guessing that Hal losing his arm and Larfleeze gaining a blue ring are probably both bad things. The Star Sapphires are seriously freaking me out. Kind of like the witch-fighter women in Warhammer Online freak me out. Someone with major issues is behind them.
The Orange Lanterns seem awfully similar to what the Black Lanterns are supposed to be, only maybe more instant and less discriminating. And Fatality still seems like a terrible candidate for a violet ring. I’m thinking that the rings don’t actually run on emotions at all, they just run if you know how to trigger them and it’s the people in charge of each corp who has put meaning to them and selects members based on that. That goes for the Green Lanterns too.
This was wacky. This comic uses Mxyzptlk and Batmite entirely too much. They are stupid and overpowered and tend to always be the same joke (”it’s a game!”). Anyway, the whole Marvel-crossover with fake Marvel characters thing was cute, but also felt kind of mean in a way since the Marvel characters were all very cookie-cutter, were said to be based on DC characters and weren’t “real” anyway.