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[muji]

Since yesterday's was lame, I'll go basic today: Canon Reactions.

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[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I really need some HIMYM icons on this journal.

Anyway - OMG - the very end of the S3 finale had me and timjr totally boggling.

After we decided to app Barney & Robin to the game, their relationship changed in canon and we have no idea how we're going to play that out. Luckily, we brought them in at the beginning of S3 and we can take our time getting them through canon and wait until S4 begins to decide how we want to incorporate some of that in game.

[muji]

That tends to happen a lot to characters from ongoing canons, sadly enough.

*points at Bones*

*and Stargate Atlantis*

*and Eureka*

*and everything ever*

House of Mystery

[innerbrat]

- holy crap they've made a comic based on Milliways.

Re: House of Mystery

[muji]

:O!!!

Re: House of Mystery

[maxwellsdemon02]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WHEN I OPENED THE SECOND ISSUE.

Dear Barbara Hambly...

[ashen_key]

I choose to app Lord John Aversin over Gil Patterson/Gil-Shalos, because he had one novel and she had a trilogy plus two sequels, and that means less canon to read, less canon to take notes on, less canon to work out for OOMs, and less canon to reread.

And what do you do?

Fourteen years later, you write two more novels!

Am both gleeful over more books, and highly unimpressed

[Admittedly, I have only apped Aversin, and he hasn't been approved of, and there are no canonmates.

Yet]

Re: Dear Barbara Hambly...

[muji]

Of course, especially since you don't have canonmates, you can pick and choose which canon to deal with.

Buffy; Robin/Spoiler

[innerbrat]

Buffy was excellent if you ignore the first two pages - which were well written but so 100% not necessary. Drew Goddard is an amazing dialogue writer, but I wish the plot wasn't so contrived Whedon-at-his-worst.




Spoiler - HOLY SHIT THAT ART IS PRETTY.

Re: Buffy; Robin/Spoiler

[muji]

D: I miss Joss.

Re: Buffy; Robin/Spoiler

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I really am alone in my loving of the first two pages, aren't I?

[newredshoes]

I have no canon reactions, though I did start reading this book called Soon I Will Be Invincible, which has a great title and cover. So far I'm... not terribly impressed, as it seems to be an oh-so-serious-yet-ironic-hipster look at superheroes and supervillains, but I'm willing to keep going. Maybe it'll get better.

OH. And the Chicago Blues Festival is pretty awesome! That counts as canon, right?

Idea for future DE topic! "Things that have happened to me on public transportation."

[ashen_key]

I like this future topic!

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Is politics a canon? It's becoming dramatic enough to be a television show/movie/book.

Skirting ~awaaaaaay~ from any sensitive political topics, though, I like the part of the story where the press got owned (http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/6/5/21948/88346/6#c6).

[muji]

That was kind of awesome, yeah.

Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D

[wakeupnew]

He hasn't been approved yet, and I am playing from movie canon (and possibly occasionally from comic-canon for fun, but definitely not from the modern Marvel-verse; I'd go for the stuff from the seventies and eighties), but WHAT. (Spoilers for Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.LD ... I think #33-36, right there.) I am just ... no, what? Did Tony not learn his lesson the last time he pulled this on Rhodey? Also, the entire thing where Rhodey is magically a cyborg, LALALALA, I am not so much a fan of, either. I mean -- part of what I like about the character is that he is, in essence, a pretty normal guy, who also gets to be pretty damn badass. This reeks of an attempt to inject more danger into War Machine, with the whole thing where he has to recharge or die.

That's the closest thing I have to ongoing canon; The Red Star is technically ongoing, but it moves at speeds that make glaciers look like the Roadrunner. The Iron Man movies are ongoing, but the sequel isn't coming out til 2010, and there are rumors of a third National Treasure movie, but they're just rumors and that wouldn't be for years. In general, I really, really prefer closed canons, besides one character I have elsegame. I couldn't imagine working with something that has the potential to throw massive curveballs at me on a weekly basis. It makes me nervous.

Re: Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D

[muji]

...Sigh.

Also, you people make me want to app Iron Man characters.

[sdelmonte]

All my current pups' canons are over and done with.

Well, except for Kirk, and it's still close to a year till the Trek reboot arrives in theaters. Rumor has it, however, that we will see Kirk's father and thus the things I've done with him in millicanon will be jossed. Though as most writers are convinced that Kirk's father was in the fleet (based on no evidence at all in the series), they are in better shape than i am.

Either way, I am looking forward to this film with some trepidation. JJ Abrams is not as clever as he thinks he is.

I could also say that Barry Allen's seeming return from the dead continues to stir mixed emotions, even though I retired him a long time ago. I have this sinking feeling that after the Final Crisis story is over, I will never want to have my version of him deal with the mess that that DC Comics on its bad days. But....BARRY!!!! Hooray for the return of the legend!!

[muji]

*laughs* I understand what you mean about mixed emotions. You get connected to a character, you're always going to care what people do with him.

[camwyn]

I don't have any new developments in my canons per se, unless you count that in October the Ghostbusters first-person shooter video game is coming out. I reserved a copy at my local Gamestop yesterday.

Other than that... I'm playing through Half-Life 2: Episode 1 at the moment, since I'm not sending Gordon back to his canon until I've played both Episode 1 and Episode 2. I just recently got to a point where the good guys are broadcasting messages over the propaganda network the bad guys had built to keep what was left of the world population down. Part of the HL 2 canon is that no human children have been born in twenty years due to the bad guys' interference. I can tell you right now that while Gordon Freeman is capable of taking quite a lot with equanimity, or at least a straight face, hearing his old mentor, professor, and father figure tell the entire city if not the entire world to 'find yourself a safe place and do your part for the restoration of the human species' is a massively ear-pawing DO NOT WANT moment.

[muji]

...I empathize. O_O

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

I have been trying not to spoil myself for the new Batman movie.

But today I caught about five seconds of a trailer and--

EEEEE.

Aside from my initial reaction of: NO. NO PATRICK BATEMAN AND ANA PASCAL.

Because I? Am silly.

Otherwise,

I BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT!

AND THE JOKER!

[muji]

xD Patrick/Ana: omgtheirloveissouppercrust?

[a-day-of-sky.livejournal.com]

I now own four different recordings of Evening Primrose. They make me ridiculously happy, and they are all so good.

jasjfkslkdjghrgrebrtb I LOVE MY CANON.

(I would be totally willing to upload any of the versions for anyone. The versions are:

Gary Beach and Liz Callaway
Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters
Neil Patrick Harris and Theresa McCarthy
Anthony Perkins and Charmaine Carr

)

In other news, Half-Life canon is generally, 'Aaaagggghhh,' inducing. Portal was, too. :S

[wakeupnew]

... I don't know canon, but Mandy Patinkin + Bernadette Peters is pretty much a recipe for RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING.

Doctor Who

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

OMG 'SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY'.

Especially [Spoiler]. I prefer [Spoiler] over [Other Spoiler RTD Won't Give Up On] every single day of the week. Also?

AHHHHHH [Third Spoiler]!

Also, [Fourth Spoiler] has to be the best [Fifth Spoiler sorta] ever.

>.> I'm done now.

Re: Doctor Who

[muji]

I saw the episode and I lost track after Other Spoiler RTD Won't Give Up On.

[ostro_goth]

I didn't find yesterday's lame.-

Also, I have no canon reactions per se -- Teja's canon is complete since 1876 as I count neither the awful badfic play from 1897 nor the horrid cheap half-Romanian movies from the late 1960s as canon.

And as I play Teja from canon, not from history, new research doesn't count that much. However, I have to fill the barn-door sized holes in his canon from historical research, and that is an iffy business, because people can claim and argue very different things quite comfortable, and will do so to improve their profiles as historians. So, things that I or carolinw happened upon recently include swords forge-welded out of twisted rods of steel and iron, hence Japanese folded steel would not be quite as mindboggling to Teja as I'd made it out at first; and also, if sources suggests that the Germanic tribes of the Dark Ages weren't as morally strict as people claim, then Teja's own prudishness and inhibitions are (IC-ly) more personal than cultural (while OOC-ly, of course, the 19th century canon i entirely to blame).

So, while I luckily don't get new canon that will kill my charrie ded, reveal that he's the murderer, or whatever else can happen to those with ongoing canon, the foundations for him are shifty in those places where I patched up his canon with historical research, because that research is open to debate, re-evaluation, and even archaeological evidence that's either new, or that I hadn't known about before.

[muji]

:D One of the joys of playing historical pups, I suppose.

DC, Lost, Marvel, Iron Man: Director of SHIELD, etc.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

DC: DC is like an abusive boyfriend in the midst of unhealthy triangulation.

Final Crisis #1? ....That's it, Grant? The uber-baddie acts like a third rate Dr. Doom. "Libra"? That's the best you can come up with? Someone that bitch slaps people with a set of scales? But McDuffie did give us Kendra Saunders bludgeoning people around over in the JLA book, which was fun. And also dropping Red Arrow from a somewhat great height.

Marvel: Too painful to talk about. Even the X-titles are going down into a morass. X-Force is beyond painful despite having Jimmy Proudstar and Rahne Sinclair and also despite Clayton Crain's exquisite art, the Young X-Men makes no sense at all, and while Brubaker is still doing good work on Uncanny, it's dragging a bit. X-Factor will have a team up or fight with She-Hulk - I can't quite tell which - and Longshot will be joining the team along with possibly Domino, so that makes me happy.

As for Whedon's end of Astonishing - talk about anticlimactic. Warren Ellis is taking over, so we'll see how that goes.

I will once again pimp the marvelous Helen Killer, (http://www.arcanacomics.com/comicdisplay.php?id=53) though. A Helen Keller given superpowers by Alexander Graham Bell that beats people up with her cane and bodyguards the President? AWESOME. All while wearing high heeled boots!

Rucka and Brubaker's Daredevil limited is outstanding.

Mark Millar's Marvel 1985: Blind drug running Hawkeye. Hulk having incest kids. WHUT.

But really? AMBUSH BUG MINI. Oh, hell yes.

Lost season finale: WOW.

Iron Man: DoS goes to a new limited creative team with Christos Gage writing. You can expect the female characters to be treated like trash. Also, Matt Fraction writes Tony Stark like the eighties version of a man having a perpetual midlife crisis. Do not want, despite the pretty art and Ellie Bloodstone cameo.

Re: DC, Lost, Marvel, Iron Man: Director of SHIELD, etc.

[gotham-knocking.livejournal.com]

The trick with Marvel and DC is still to pick and choose. And just hope that the big crossover event doesn't ruin everything. And maybe to wait and get the TPB just in case the ending sucks and your friends can warn you away.

[ladyiapetus]

We have previews for Runaways 30.

THERE IS HOPE OF MAKING THE JUNE 18 PUBLISH DATE!

[innerbrat]

Ho boy, Joss. Don't mess this up...

[bcgphoenix]

Many months too late, I finally read the end of Y: The Last Man.

Those SONS of BITCHES.

[whitetext for spoilers] I mean, I was half-expecting it through the series' entire run, but I am still stunned and furious that they killed 355. The way those first few panels were staged, I'd almost thought they killed Yorick instead, which...still would've been upsetting, but maybe not as damn predictable as killing the awesome black chick.

*breathes* Okay, I'm done. And I'll admit to (a) being way too amused that they actually worked in a panel with Yorick holding a skull, Hamlet-style, and (b) tearing up a little at "He escaped." in the last issue. [end whitetext]

[no-real-hero.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right?

We could talk about this elsewhere to not spoil people. I probably am one of a few people who has lots to say about the ending to Y.

ReBoot: Code of Hero: Paradigms Lost

[mendanddefend_archive]

I refuse to accept the webcomic as canon. Period.

Re: ReBoot: Code of Hero: Paradigms Lost

[i-brained-clor.livejournal.com]

Uh ohs... That bad?

Kingdom Hearts

[azremodehar.livejournal.com]

TWO NEW GAMES coming out.

I will be importing them. Screw waiting for a Stateside release; importing videogames is the whole reason I learned Japanese in the first place!

DAMN YOU NOMURA FOR MAKING ME BUY A PSP. *shakefist*

(*whimper* I- I want them now. And I will probably be buying the American releases too, because I AM JUST THAT PATHETIC.)

Re: Kingdom Hearts

[i-brained-clor.livejournal.com]

...New Kingdom Hearts? Eeeee!

[mogget_cat]

Yrael's getting new canon in a couple of years! Er.

Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen is a prequel, dealing with the Abhorsen that eventually becomes Chlorr of the Mask. Great fun. Means there will be Mogget. :D

The other, Garth Nix hasn't said much about, yet.

Still. Glee!

[killitwithfire]

DO WANT.

'nuff said.