Worst birthday present ever...

[locker_monster]

- Ugh, I have jury duty. :-P Went through the selection today and my number was called within the first 12 people. As a jury consists of 12 people, I wasn't not going to be picked. It's only for three working days for me (as I have the Friday off), but the trial starts on my birthday and that's the last thing I want to be doing on my birthday. Alas, nothing can be done. It's a civic duty. Unfortunately, that means we're down to one admin at work, as I was supposed to cover for the other admin who's on vacation right now. I just hope the remaining admin doesn't get overwhelmed. Fingers crossed that the rest of the team actually helps her out.

- I see that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got renewed. 13 episodes, so not a whole season, but that's still good. I was worried it would be cancelled. I guess the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier gave the show the boost it needed. To my surprise, I saw that ABC greenlit the Agent Carter TV show, too. That's so great. Peggy's such a great character and that's an interesting time frame for the Marvel Cinematic universe. And we need more shows with strong, female leads. And the showrunners are women, too, so the show is in good hands. Entertainment Weekly has a good article online about why Agent Carter will be awesome and I totally agree with all points.

- So that means there will be quite a few superhero/comic book TV shows in the fall. The Flash show got picked up, too, and there are a few others. I'm dubious about Gotham, though. A Batman TV show without Batman? How can you have Bat villains without Batman? A TV show strictly about Gordon in his early days sounds great, but I don't need to see Catwoman and Poison Ivy and Penguin before they became villains. I mean, how will you sustain the show? The good stuff is with Batman and his crazy villains. How they turned into villains might be interesting, but I don't know. Plus, it's on FOX and I don't trust FOX to treat it right.

- Is it bad that I hope I come down with the flu before my jury duty starts on Tuesday?

Comments

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the trailer for Gotham?

Apart from the weirdness of OC guy playing Gordon, I think it looks really interesting. Bruce is there, he's just a kid at this point though, since it basically starts with his parents getting murdered.

My mom was like, Does he get older?
I responded, Maybe if it goes long enough?

I figure Agents of SHIELD proved that you can have a show without the major superheroes but then, Arrow's shown how you can also do origin stories within the show, like with Flash. If they took the lessons from both series, this could be seriously awesome.

Of course, you also had how many people complain, How can they have a series about Superman as a teenager? And Smallville went on for how many seasons?

Of course, this is Fox which is cancel happy but CW would probably pick it up for a season or two if that happens.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Funny thing about Ben Mckenzie, the guy playing Gordon. He voiced a young Bruce Wayne in the Batman: Year One animated movie. So it's Batman playing Jim Gordon. :-)

I did watch the trailer, but it still wasn't enough to thrill me. Maybe it was in the way it's presented. Probably better to watch the pilot and then decide. Or not watch at all and let other people decide for me later on. I didn't start watching Arrow until it was well into its first season and I heard good things about it. The CW does seem like a better place for it; they are definitely kinder to genre shows.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

I am super excited about the Peggy Carter series! Thanks for the link to that article.

I hope your jury duty is as painless as such things can be.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

I need to track down the Agent Carter one shot. I read a synopsis but it's not the same.

Sounds like a minor case, so fingers crossed, it takes less time than they said it would.