I think I may be looking forward to the Spider-Man porn parody more than the Spider-Man reboot

Because at least with the porno, I can make dick jokes. Amazing Spider-Man -- you know, they say they're basing it off Ultimate Spider-Man, but that was actually really glossy and colorful and they basically turned Peter into Mel Brooks in terms of joking around. This isn't that. This is Spider-Man in the 90s, when Todd McFarlene was writing and Spider-man went around brooding and calling himself "the Arach-Knight" and oh god, pregnant women, I should've warned you, being exposed to that kind of raw stupidity can't be good for a fetus.

So anyway, I think for Amazing Spider-Man 2: Amaze Harder, Carnage should be the villain and Ben Reilly should show up. Just to complete the metaphor.

LotS fic: We're a long way from home and home is a long way from us (14/15)

Title: We're a long way from home and home is a long way from us
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,554
Characters/Pairings: Cara/Triana, Cara/Dahlia, Richard/Kahlan, Berdine/Raina
Author’s notes: Betaed by the lovely and talented susurrusnight
Previous: Part 13
Next: Part 15
Summary: Cara doesn't deal well with emotions. Especially being hurt.

( She needed to be calm. Her anger was one more thing she couldn't rely on. She couldn't trust it to carry her through bloodshed anymore, she didn't have the Seeker's family or her Sisters of the Agiel to stand beside her. She didn't even have her leathers. )

Bulletpoints

Footage from failed Wonder Woman TV pilot -... by kahramanlarsinemada

If my embedding worked correctly, these are the action scenes from the failed Wonder Woman pilot. Comparing them to the admittedly horribly Smallville, they're none too shabby--I do like the use of wirework to show-off Wondy's strength and agility. But once more, the writing lets her down--when would Diana ever cavalierly use someone as a human shield, much less throw a pipe through someone's throat? It's a disconcertingly macho way to show her as a 'badass'.

And check out the uber-cheesy moment where Diana chases down a bad guy and is ordered to surrender him to the police, whereupon she growls "He'll lawyer up!" No! You mean that bastard will use his Constitutional rights? From her reaction, you think he was the Nun Bomber or something, but apparently he's just some goon. What'd she expect the cop to say, anyway? "Good point there. Okay, just kidnap that guy and do whatever with him. Nothing to see here, folks, just some grade-A vigilante justice!"

I guess it's to establish her as a superhero on the edge! Of being a total jerk.

Also, the Superman reboot of the reboot has been pushed back to 2013. Good news if you like waiting a little longer for people to get something right, bad news if you're into instant gratification, in which case you'll only have Captain America, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Avengers to tide you over.

ETA: If you use a rope to snag someone and pull them across the room for beating up purposes, aren't you required by law to shout "GET OVER HERE!"