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The shape of things to come
Nov. 24th, 2019 06:25 pmHard at work at my Yuletide tale now.
Doctor Who: New trailer for the next season, which unless I misunderstood is starting in January. With the exception of one episode, I had liked the last season, though I'm still waiting for a truly fantastic episode featuring this Team TARDIS, which I've grown rather fond of. (Last season had some good and some okay episodes, as well as the one I truly disliked, but not one that immediately me go "future classic!!!")
MCU, tv division: According to this article there is some hope Disney will pick up the Netflix versions of Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Luke Cage, but Danny Rand/Iron Fist will get a complete reboot.
And speaking of tv shows based on comics:
Sandman:
: will indeed happen. Neil Gaiman says the first season will be based on Preludes and Nocturnes, plus a few other things. I'm torn. On the one hand: a tv/streaming series is pretty much the only way you could hope to approach Sandman and convey some of what made the comics series so compelling. On the other: American Gothic has rather let me down in terms of Gaiman-based tv involving mythological storylines and suburban fantasy. The first season contained some things I thought great and some I thought meh and already was only loosely based on the book, and the second season managed to both lose the original to tv aspects I had enjoyed in the first season and practically every bit from the book characterisation and plot that had still been there. So that's a bad omen, no pun intended. Which of course brings me to the non existant third hand: Good Omens was excellent, and it's the first of these filmed versions Neil Gaiman had complete creative control over. Then again, hand number four: it's based on a book that's co-written with the late Terry Prattchet and thus sui generis in the works of both authors anyway.
Doctor Who: New trailer for the next season, which unless I misunderstood is starting in January. With the exception of one episode, I had liked the last season, though I'm still waiting for a truly fantastic episode featuring this Team TARDIS, which I've grown rather fond of. (Last season had some good and some okay episodes, as well as the one I truly disliked, but not one that immediately me go "future classic!!!")
MCU, tv division: According to this article there is some hope Disney will pick up the Netflix versions of Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Luke Cage, but Danny Rand/Iron Fist will get a complete reboot.
And speaking of tv shows based on comics:
Sandman:
: will indeed happen. Neil Gaiman says the first season will be based on Preludes and Nocturnes, plus a few other things. I'm torn. On the one hand: a tv/streaming series is pretty much the only way you could hope to approach Sandman and convey some of what made the comics series so compelling. On the other: American Gothic has rather let me down in terms of Gaiman-based tv involving mythological storylines and suburban fantasy. The first season contained some things I thought great and some I thought meh and already was only loosely based on the book, and the second season managed to both lose the original to tv aspects I had enjoyed in the first season and practically every bit from the book characterisation and plot that had still been there. So that's a bad omen, no pun intended. Which of course brings me to the non existant third hand: Good Omens was excellent, and it's the first of these filmed versions Neil Gaiman had complete creative control over. Then again, hand number four: it's based on a book that's co-written with the late Terry Prattchet and thus sui generis in the works of both authors anyway.
