Star Wars VII - The Force Awakens Trailer 2

Who didn’t see the new Star Wars trailer for Episode VII – The Force Awakens?  If you didn’t you must be living under a rock.   This was the second trailer to be released in regards to the movie and it was released of course at Star Wars Celebration.  Ask anyone who has seen the trailer watch how their eyes light up when they tell you about it.  I even scared and surprised my friends when they saw that I was excited beyond belief.  There is just something about the trailer that once it starts you can’t help but crack a smile as you hear the legendary haunting music that John Williams made famous.  And then you see the ruined hulks of an X-wing starfighter and a Star Destroyer in the background as Luke’s voice begins to talk about the Force and how his family is connected to it and a lightsaber is passed like a baton.  After that something in your chest beings to pound as you watch explosions going off left and right.  X-wings take off into the air as TIE fighters strafe a hanger.  The characters Finn and Rey (John Boyega & Daisy Ridley) are running for their lives.  A Sith Lord with his lightsaber grasping outwards with the Force, a phalanx of Stormtroopers and a chrome armored trooper before you reach the finale with Han Solo and Chewbacca claiming that their home. 

There is an electric current that hits you as the music picks up and all you can do is watch and pray that by the time it comes out you’ll have experienced something so profound that it borders on a near religious experience.  Or maybe that’s just me because I get chills up my spine every time I watch it and believe me I’ve seen it multiple times.  What makes this so exciting?  Is it the return of the original characters:  Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO & R2-D2?  Is it the fact that we finally get to see a universe that is completely new to all and has yet to be revealed?  Is it the artistic vision that only J.J. Abrams can bring to it that returns us to on site locations shooting and sparingly used CGI effects where appropriate?  For me it’s all of these things.  To discover the identity of the Sith and what happened to the Empire.  To watch a new battle of the updated X-wings and TIE fighters.  To see a new Jedi emerge on his journey and to take up the mantle that Luke held alone against the Empire from the end of Episode IV – A New Hope to Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.  Damn, my Nerd flag is flying high and will stay there for the next 242 days until the release of Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens.  

Deconstruction of Originality! Iceman from our childhood is officially no more!

Thank you Brian Michael Bendis for ruining my childhood!  A few hours ago Brian Michael Bendis gave an interview to Good Morning America and basically dashed any hopes of me picking up another Marvel X-Men comic book ever again.  He is the writer on the current “All-New X-Men” and has a few years ago he shook up the mutant world and its fans by having the original five students, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast, & Iceman time-jump from their past as teenagers to the current time where they are adults.  Following conflicting truths and battles in which they find out that none of them with the exception of Iceman are the same person in the future.  Cyclops has tried to take over the world and declared war against the humans.  Jean Grey is dead.  Angel is now the Archangel.  Beast is covered in blue fur and of all things looks like a cat???  Anyways in an attempt to try to change things the young X-Men decided to stay in our time. 

Well, today Brian Michael Bendis dropped a bomb on us by outing young Bobby Drake aka Iceman and says that he is gay.  I’m sorry I just don’t buy that.  Is this just an attempt to draw in some homosexual fans to the X-Men?  If so you already have Northstar a mutant from the team of Alpha Force.  It’s long been known that he was gay and that he was not ashamed about it.  No one made a big deal about it then and many of the X-Men fans accepted him for who he is.  So, why try to re-write history of a fan favorite character who is already established with a rich history?  Oh because you brought them from the past into the future and now you think you can write whatever you want?  I’m sorry, if you wanted to try to bring more gay fans to the X-Men why not create a new X-Man who pushes the boundaries?  Oh they already did that with Wolverine’s wayward son who is apparently bi-sexual.  So why ruin everyone’s favorite ice-wielding mutant?  Oh because he’s time-displaced you can do whatever you want?  Thank you Marvel for proving that you have officially run out of original ideas.  

Is CW's Arrow finished at Season 3?

When CW's Arrow first came out  the word was a bit ambiguous but after the 2nd season word was that Arrow was getting stronger.  After binge-watching the 2nd season all the way though I had discovered that Arrow was well written and choreographed for a show based on a comic book hero.  I was excited and enjoyed watching the show's protagonist Oliver Queen dispense justice and revenge week after week.  As his task became tougher and more wide-spread his backup crew grew in size from his chauffeur and personal IT assistant to a street-wise kid who ends up dating his sister.  So where do you go from there?  You kill his mother set his city on fire before his sister runs off with her psychotic father as Oliver fights against the ultimate warrior in Deathstroke the Terminator.

So how did they start the third season off?  They killed Diana's younger sister who was an assassin trained by Ra's Al'Ghul and the League of Assassins.  With the League of Assassins proclaiming that they be handed the murder before too long or they would tear the city apart.  So when did Ra's Al'Ghul become Oliver Queen's archnemesis?  Wasn't he supposed to be one of Batman's ultimate villains?  In the interest of making the Arrow a more compelling character the bigwigs at the CW and DC decided to expand the Arrow's repertoire of baddies and of course with the League of Assassins there is plenty of fodder to go around.  Of course there are other obvious questions that need to be answered and the most obvious being does every villain in Starling City have to use a bow and arrow just as the vigilante and his protege utilize?  With all the world of array of weapons every third villain has to use the same bow and arrow.  Can we see them use something else?  Anything else?  Now that we've seen the emergence of the Atom can we see him actually use his shrinking ability or are they just going to keep having him fly around as their version of Tony Stark and Iron Man?  With the season drawing to an end what will happen?