Aaron’s Blog

Tonight is the series finale of Battlestar Galactica…yes, the series is finally coming to an end.

It is kinda of a surreal feeling, I remember watching the pilot in the basement of Putnam Hall back at K-State oh so long ago and to have it all end tonight is sort of weird. I still consider Battlestar to be one of the best shows on television and the final season certainly hasn’t failed to deliver. We are really looking forward to finding out what the hell is going on in the show.

However battlestar’s completion brings up another question: What is scifi going to get to replace such a masterpiece? They have a couple shows in the tubes, Caprica and another Stargate, but I think bad times are a coming for my favorite channel.

That feeling is only further enhanced by a troubling bit of news I came across a couple days ago, Scifi is rebranding itself and changing their name to SyFy…

Damn it all to Hell!

Amber and I went to Denver this weekend to catch up with the rest of civilization, and one of our main goals was to go see the movie Watchmen.

I had known about the graphic novel for some time but had not actually taken the time to read it until a couple weeks ago. I thought it was pretty good, if not a little disturbing, and it was an interesting take on the super hero genre.

So here is my review: It was really good!

There was a huge uproar from the fans of the graphic novel when the project was announced, most of them whined that there was no way Watchmen could be made into a movie. I would have to disagree, the movie is as close to the comic as it could be. To anyone who says otherwise I would ask you to double-check the size of your ego because you might be a pretentious snot. I do not hold Alan Moore up on a pedestal, nor should you.

Yes, he delivered an extremely complex criticism of human nature and Cold War hero worship…but you know what also does that, The Simpsons…so get over your inflated self-importance and enjoy the movie.

Oh yeah, as for the ending, the psychic space squid would have been way to complex and incredibly stupid to translate onto the big screen, so quit crying.

My only real complaint is that the movie didn’t do a very good job with Rorschach, people in the theatre were laughing at his lines…seriously, and what is even worse, I think people that are uninitiated with the story will think that he was supposed to be the good guy.

Of all of the comic book adaptation movies that have come out in the past years I feel like Watchmen got it right most often, which is amazing considering the source material.