Ringer
Well, Sarah Michelle Geller is back on the air in her new show, Ringer.
She’s still too thin, but looks better than the last three seasons of BTVS at least. The show does a decent job on makeup at least, showing the difference between the two sisters. Production value is noticeably low, though. They usually don’t mess up bluescreen work like this these days, can’t decide if the show is worth my time yet but honestly it isn’t setting things up particularly well. Feels like a made for TV movie, not the start of a new series.
Rather bland unfortunately to date, but maybe it’ll get better.
Castling in SCAU
A classic series in the making, Castle is a show you need to check out at least once. It started on a high point, with Castle teaming up with Beckett to hunt down someone killing people in the manner he’d written in his books. To date, in my opinion, the series peaked with the scene above. There’s just something about this ending that gets in your head and stays there.
That’s what led to Castle and Co showing up in SCAU in DC’s New York, Gotham City. Expect to see more of them in that story in the future, Castle is a series to watch.
The One and Only Birds of Prey
Batman : Brave and the Bold again. The series is mediocre compared to past entries in the franchise, but it has some moments that utterly annihilate anything else DC Animation put out. Here is one of those moments, Catwoman, Huntress, and Black Canary at the inception of the Birds of Prey team… singing a Cole Porter style song laced with so many adult innuendoes that I didn’t catch over half of them the first few times I listened to it.
Don’t know if I’ll ever get it mixed into SCAU, but I think I’ll have to at least reference it. Love this song clip from BatB.
The Man From Gotham
Every now and then DC comics comes out with some stuff that’s just irresistible, Here’s one of the latest items that has got me writing more of SCAU. The Man from Gotham is one of those tunes that gets stuck in your head and just won’t leave. SCAU was kind of floating along with no real immediate plan until I heard this on Brave and the Bold, I immediately had to dust off the fic and go to work.
Brave and the Bold is probably the most underrated of the batman series… it’s goofy camp quality has turned off so many viewers who never get to see just how dark and powerful some of the storylines are. Is it my favorite Batman series? No, but I’ll watch many episodes of Brave and the Bold over and over again without fail… and none of the other Batman series can boast that.
