question meme day 1

[muladhara]

*rubs hands together*

OK, so mr_gent asked me: tell me your thoughts on the new Hellblazer (or rather, "Constantine") NBC TV series?

Well let me tell you a thing. I have not seen it. My reaction to the trailer when it was upcoming (and holy fuck it was back in MAY???) is here. Basically, I was all, DO NOT WANT, although my reaction was less so than for the film (for a start at least the actor they chose looks like John).

I actually intended to watch at least one ep on the NBC wesbite this weekend in prep for this question (as they had the first five episodes up for over Thanksgiving), but I didn't get to it for a variety of reasons which included OH GOD I'M GOING TO HAVE TO USE WINDOWS because, for whatever reason, the actual video wouldn't load, so I presumed it was because I'm using Linux *shrugs*

So anyway, technological problems aside.

I am a bit leery about it, to be honest, but that's because I love the comics, and I am always wary of adaptations of things I love (see also: why I will not be listening to the Radio 4 production of Good Omens, for example). I'm sure it could be good but given the lead can't pick and accent and stick to it, nor hide the fact that he's very, very Welsh, well, I find that off-putting (that may sound like a stupid niggle but I am very picky about voices and, I suppose, I have very specific ideas about John's accent, given I've had nearly twenty years to think about it).

If it gets people interested enough to read the original comics (because I don't know if the reboot actually happened?) then that is freaking fantastic. We need more people in this fandom, for it is small and unloved! (I don't care how people get into a fandom, as long as they're there, and we're all having fun).

I feel like I am being really nitpicky about this, but Hellblazer is like the fandom of my heart (when it isn't Farscape). I don't know if I will ever watch it (apparently I was willing to, back in May, but I've slept since then).

I feel like I should've written more, but I honestly don't have a lot to say other than be all prissy about why it doesn't fit my personal ideals (which it doesn't, but hey ho. My personal ideals would probably be awful to someone else). I also feel like this has been really negative, and I didn't mean it to be but I am running on bad sleep.

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Comments

[inamac]

I'd heard about this, but since it's unlikely to be on UK terrestrial TV for many years (if ever) I've found it easy to ignore.

Besides, I still see Nicholas Lindhurst as the only possible casting for John.

[muladhara]

If it ever is. Me, sceptical about US stuff being screened over here? NEVER.

[ruuger]

I should probably read those four Hellblazer trades that I bought years ago, yes? :D

I was considering watching the TV-show because the showrunner is one of my favourite writers from The Mentalist, but then I heard that they've left out the bisexuality, plus I have this thing that I don't seem to be able to watch any new shows with male leads anymore...

(and yes, I may also be a bit bitter about the fact that I lost one of my favourite The Mentalist writers to this show...)

[muladhara]

YES YES YOU SHOULD. Which ones are they?

Heh, well the bisexuality is mentioned in the comics, like, a grand total of twice so the fact that it's left out of the TV show isn't really surprising to me. Also shit, you know as well as I do that bisexual people don't really exist! (Actually they do, one of them is writing this comment, but whatever).

(hey, no, fair enough! Especially if he was a good writer!)

[ruuger]

I remembered wrong, I only had three unread ones. I think they're The Fear Machine, Tainted Love, and The Family Man? At least those I have marked unread in GoodReads.

I've read only random trades from here and there (I can't even remember which ones I've read) and I few years ago I started buying them so that I could read them in order from the start, but then I kinda forgot about the whole thing :D

(I wouldn't say he's so much a good writer as a writer who tends to write tropes that I like... ;) )

[muladhara]

Ahhh two of those are good ones (I suppose Tainted Love isn't bad, but I don't have fond memories of it, let's say).

Random trades is how I survived for YEARS until I *cough*acquired*cough* nearly the entire run and then spent, like, a year reading it off and on. I need to catch up to the end now. God bless my local libraries is all I can say (for the trades, that is).

(Ahhh, OK, I can understand that).