Huh? (comic book geek post!)

[shadesong]

So I'm reading Entertainment Weekly's fall TV preview, and I come to the article on Birds of Prey.

All right. Big picture, three hot chicks in leather. Black Canary is wearing fishnets. This is good. I turn the page to read the story.

"Huntress (daughter of Batman and Catwoman)"

What? I check this out with yendi, and okay, that was the original Earth-2 Huntress' origin. Fine. But she's hanging out with Oracle, whose story seems to have survived intact as far as I can tell. So they've got an Earth-2 Huntress hanging out with Earth-1 Oracle. And there should be like a 30-year age difference, but they appear to be the same age. Okay.

"Dinah Lance, a 'metahuman' whose power is, well, as she puts it, 'touch-telepathic, which means I can touch you and see what you're thinking or see your past or your future.'"

And she's 17.

WTF?

Touch-telepathic? Black Canary? And as yendi puts it, Black Canary is a veteran, man. She's not a shy high-schooler who's never met another metahuman! Why are they calling this character Black Canary?

*sigh*

Just have to keep reminding myself. Dina Meyer (as Oracle) and Mia Sara (as, heh, Dr. Harleen Quinzel, Huntress' shrink). Dina and Mia. Show will be stupid. Girls will be hot.

Comments

Unaired Pilot

[charleseb.livejournal.com]

Have a copy of the pilot with Sherilyn Fenn as Harley Quinn. Not bad if you can stomach the hodge-podge that you mentioned. The ladies are indeed hot, but the plot left much to be desired.

[yendi]

On top of that, Black Canary is a second generation hero. She's the most immersed in heroics of any character, for Spectre's sake!

Yeah, Dina Meyer and Mia Sara are the only reasons I'm planning on catching this show. I'll watch just about anything for Dina Meyer.

Re: Unaired Pilot

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Oooh! I wanna watch it!



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[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I, too, have the unaired pilot. I've only half watched it really. The new pilot is going to be much "brighter" apparently. Why? It's Gotham! It's supposed to be dark!

And as I understand it, this is supposed to be the daughter of the original Black Canary who just happens to have different powers.

I wonder if there's going to be a link to Smallville, or if this will be completely in its own continuity. If there's a Smallville link, I guess there'll be no young Bruce Wayne showing up to meet Clark.

Re: Unaired Pilot

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Well, I just checked and it appears to be on kazaa. 'course, you can't really tell for sure these days.

Re: Unaired Pilot

[charleseb.livejournal.com]

I am sure that it can be arranged, it is not as if you guys don't know where to find me. :-)

[stronae.livejournal.com]

What continues to amaze me is that y'all *expect* things to maintain continuity with these sorts of things, even though y'all've been let down multiple times on points such as this. At least you're getting hot women....

[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a definite "eehhhhhh" vibe on this one.

Re: Unaired Pilot

[yendi]

'song is over there right now, so if you're home, and by any chance could loan it to her, we'd most appreciate it. :-)

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I'm with stronae. Quit expecting the show to maintain the continuity of the comics. It's like eating meat-substitute, or drinking soy milk. If you don't expect it to taste like meat or milk, then you won't be disappointed, and you'll be more likely able to enjoy the taste that it *does* have. Don't expect it to be like the comics. Give it a clean slate; it just happens to be similar to what you've seen before, and they're trying to *sell* it as a replacement/extention of what you've seen before, but try not to let them skew your judgment with that. Treat it as something wholly new, and see if it's worthwhile.

And yeah, at least we're getting eye candy out of it, worst-case. ;)

to suck or not to suck

[kiwitayro.livejournal.com]

the real question for me is this:

if They could make a movie/tv show/whatever adapted from book/comic/whatever, WHY make it suck for no reason? why fuck everything up & change stuff, when in its original form it would be just as awesome? why change characters' names for no reason? why make Marilla say Anne's line for NO REASON? why couldn't they just have made the second move out of just the one book? or if they wanted the juicy stuff, just skip to the damn 3rd book! and what's with Eric Draven coming back AGAIN? that's just bullshit!! and...

"move along here, she can't harm anyone but herself..."

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

You have to admit, Black Canary isn't a very *butch* name for a male superhero...

[droa.livejournal.com]

Show will be stupid. Girls will be hot.

That has been my mantra. For just about everything. (Except Witchblade, 'cause the boys were hot, but otherwise...)

I'll never tire of comic tv shows, even the comics I don't like, but lordy, I wish they'd be a little more true to origin.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's female in the comics, too! But she's a hardened second-gen hero who predates Oracle and Huntress by decades...


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[kidarrian.livejournal.com]

I agree with the above, this is television....they have a history of never following the details, even the xmen movie changed a LOT of details but managed to still turn out pretty good....

I think something that people forget is that if you follow the comics exactly what is the point of making a tv show? you allready have the comic complete with images...so expect tv or movies to change things around...sometimes its actually necessary for various reasons of filming/time/cost..
also remember this is hollywood here...garanteed to fuck it up somehow with some lame rendition of things...hense the "no plot, hot chicks" routine..
that usually carries most shows up to decent spots just based on the sheep viewers out there who tune in to just see hot chicks....
blah, wish we could get american tv and movies to do something with some mental content more often in the mainstream....