( Books I’ve read since last time I posted )

I’ve also read some short stories by Osamu Tezuka and some comics, but bookwise that’s the whole lot.

Ok, so, it's been now nearly half a year since DC decided to change all the Batuniverse completely and reshape it in a new, suposedly exciting, way. Yay... sigh.



( really long rant about spandex diggers under the cut. It's spoilery for sure. )

Anyways... So, I like what they are doing in the individual titles even if I don't like what they have done as a global event.

And I just wanted to rant about it and that's all. You don't have to read it all if you don't really care about superheroes.

Ahir vaig tornar a la Biblioteca Nacional per veure Hamlet.

No sóc una persona a la que es pugui considerar imparcial, molt menys en el teatre. No sé si es una virtut o un defecte,però en el moment en que es tanca el llum i els actors comencen a desgranar les seves alegries i desgracies... molt desapassioants han de ser, o molt poc interesant la trama, perque no m'agradi. No puc evitar crear un vincle empatic amb aquella gent que está tan aprop i els hi estan passant tantes coses. Explico aixó perque entengueu que la meva crítica teatral potser no és la més idonia per saber si quelcom és bo o és dolent. Si summem aixó al fet que m'encanta Hamlet, me la sé gairebé de memòria i l'he vista en desenes de versions i al menys tres idiomes...

Sí, em va agradar. Molt. vaig gaudir com una berra.

La escenografía no em va semblar tan espectacular com al rei Lear (d'una banda, l'escenari era més petit), però sí igual d'efectiva. De npu, una cortina, una taula, un banc i, de tant en tant, algún petit element extra (una espasa, unes flors, una estora...) configuraben tot l'atrezzo i eren més que suficientes per mostrar-nos l'imponent tamany d'Elsinor. Cert és que la Biblioteca en sí ja és prou escenari per transportar-nos a on sigui, però els elements estaven molt ben escollits i els actors eren prou sólids per fer-nos empassar les il·lusions una darrera l'altre.

Els actors, com he dit, solids i més que correctes. En Julio Manrique fa un Hamlet jove, trist, enfebrit i enfonsat a l'hora per uns aconteixements que superen la seva capacitat de pena i de greuge. Un xic cruel, més que d'altres Hamlets que he vist. També força més extravagant i divertit. Hamlet és un personatge complex, un heroi d'aquells que si no sabessim la seva motivació no sabriem molt bé que fer-ne de les seves accions i crec que en Julio el va brodar. També molt encertat en Carles Martinez com un xerraire, llepaculs i afable Poloni. I no només com a Poloni! excepte en Julio, tots els actors passen per més d'un personatge. I per més de dos! Així na Gertrudis es alhora un actor apassionat, i la bella Ofelia un soldat, o un alt dignatari. I tots els papers igual de creïbles, igual de ben interpretats. No tinc cap ni una queixa en aquest apartat.

Finalment, la versió interpretada la vaig trobar molt encertada. Com he dit, en Hamlet és més cruel (o inconscient del mal que podaía causar, potser?), més disbauxat, i a l'hora més trist que altres Hamlets. La melangia de la que els actors que he vist en el mateix paper acostumen a fer gala es transforma en aquesta versió en una pena capaç de trencar el princep, i de rebot tots els del seu voltant. Evidentment, el Claudi continua sent massa culpable i manipulador i la Gertrudis massa ingenua (o més aviat massa interesada en no volver saber) com perque el jove hereu s'endigui tota la culpa de la tragedia final, però el que no em va quedar tant clar es si en Hamlet está fingint o realment está com una regadera. Fins i tot el detall de que el princep fumi, com un gest de suicidi cobard, lent i a llarg plaç, el vaig trobar molt encertat. A més, la inserció de troços en altres idiomes (el fantasma parla anglés, els actors representen en Italiá) donava un toc molt curios a l'obra.

En fi, que van ser tres hores i mitja genials, molt amenes i entretingudes. I fins i tot tinc un programa tope xuli per només 2 leuros!!


Hamlet i Laertes, que no saben el que els espera.

Ok, film watched.

I, personally, find it's a good addition to the saga, and not only because Christian Bale is in it. I've enjoyed it, even if not as much as I enjoyed Star Trek. The story has a pair of nice touches, some hints for the fans and lots of evil robots, explosions and action. Loads and loads of action. Sometimes it felt like they dices were really good to them (come on, how many natural 20's do one need to come out alive in that bridge scene?), but all in all it was good action, as belivable as a war against evil robots can get.

Oh, and I've liked that John Connor is not the main character of the film, even if, as always, everything revolves around him (I mean, he is the key to the future, is he?).

But let's review. ( watch out for spoilers from here on )

Anyways, as I already said, film is ok. Way better than Terminator 3 and a good addition to the saga. I'm quite happy with the choice.

Ok.

Complete season watched and I have to admit that the season finale totally did it for me. I want to see a second season.

It was a complicated story to tell and Joss and company had 12 episodes (13 in fact, but Fox only aired 12. Whatever) so sometimes it felt that they just gave us nothing, and sometimes it felt just midly interesting. I didn't even liked the main character much. Up until today, that is. Still not my cup of Tea, but I don't hate her anymore. And the two "cops"... they are just cute toghether.

So, yeah, Joss did what he did with Buffy and even Angel. He introduced characters, gave them some eight episodes to make them look cute and more or less interesting, and then just changed completely what the story was about. Yeah. it still was a story about vampires and cheerleaders, but not the story you thought it was. And this is still a sci-fi story about an organisation that erases people's memories and changes them into whatever they need. But it's not just that. And it's just a tad more complicated.

I've liked some of the paths opened with this finale and I'm glad to know there'll be a second season, because I totally want to go into those recently opened doors.

Oh, and for the record... anything is just better with a bit of Alan Tudik.

I like it when my comic book writters make me happy.

( Yes, I'm talking about Robin adn Angel, but it will be under this cut )

I still have to read Trinity, but for now I'm happy with my read so far ^^

You know, Comics used to be that nice place where the good won, no matter what, where evil was always overcomed even against the worst odds of all, and where people with cool powers fought each other for the craziest reasons.

Well, this december it feels like only one of these sentences is true.

In Morrisons F**cking Final Crisis (wich I'm not sure makes any sense at all) evil is suposed to be winning. Yeah, I know, things will turn out good an all, but still. I like evil to be rough and dificult to win, but I don't think I like what Morrison is doing. It doesn't feel right. Also, I'm not sure when it's supoosed to be happening. So, it's after RIP, or so its seems. OK... Yeah...

And Trinity? Even if I'm kind of liking the WTF feel of it? When the fuck is supposed to be happening?? DC tends to make little sense when timelines are involved, but that's just ridiculous.

But that's just the part that I really don't care much about. So, here come the spoilers.

( BEWARE )

This episode was quite ok too.

( Review! )

And that's all. It wasn't great, but it was ok. We'll see if changing writters does any good.

In other order of news... GAH! Thursday already?? What have they done to my week??

So, good episode this week. They seem to have thsi tendency. They do a good beggining, then they begin to write crap, tehn tehy stop for a break, then they do good things again, then they do crap...
well, like comic books! Perhaps they are trying to make a DCU-like thingie.

Anyway, let's review:
( holly flashback, Hiro! )

Just one more thing:


He DOES look good in a suit.