Justice League: The Kind of Oldish, but New Frontier

Wow. Was my first reaction to this film. Its been a while since I saw something truly original in terms of the Justice League: this wasn’t original but it is a fantastic film.

I never read the original graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke, but every member of the league is there and it is a very good JL movie.

The story centres mainly on two characters; the Martian Manhunter and the original Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

The film primarily tells the tale of the Justice League’s first task together against a universal evil, (a big plasma that spouts out flying dinosaurs) The Centre.

Center if you’re American.

David Boreanaz is great as Jordan, although I think he would have made a batter Batman that Jeremy Sisto. That’s not to say he wasn’t good as The Dark Knight in the movie, but he just seemed way too similar to Kevin Conroy from the original animated series.

Bruce Timm helms the project like he did with the original JL series and also Superman: Doomsday. And he’s still as pioneering in Super Hero animation as he was 17 years ago when Batman: TAS first aired.

Before Timm, super heroes were not taken very seriously in cartoons, usually being turned into poor excuses for kids TV and Saturday morning ratings.

Timm and his team took this lethargic stereotype and turned it on it’s head, producing one of the finest pieces of animation of the early 90’s with engaging stories and dark characters.

Many heralded it as the truest interpretation of The Dark Knight, and still do. Kevin Conroy, for me, is still the best Batman there is….well that might change once The Dark Knight enters theatres this summer.

Scrubs: the greatest television show on freeview.

I've seen almost every episode of this great show. I've not watched the second half of season 7 yet, but I am looking forward too it.

Back in 2001, TV was starting to take a dramatic lull in terms of comedy. Everything was the same. Friends was becoming less interesting and Sex and The City didn't appeal too me ( I was 15 at the time), but then Zach Braff came along as the insecure, camp, commitophobe John Dorian in a slap stick comedic melodrama that was so fresh, you could smell the Janitor's new mop.

Over the course of the next 7 years Scrubs would become the biggest comedy on the planet.

Set in the hospital of Sacred Heart, Scrubs is fantastical in it's approach to comedy. It goes from in your face funny to in your face hearbreaking. Anyone who has seen the episode I have just finished watching, My Musical, will know exactly what I'm talking about.

Dr Cox, Carla, Janitor, Turk, Kelso, Elliot and so much more...they're all great characters and played by great actors. It's great, brilliant and original. Fantastic.

My favourite character is JD, but second too him is Ted. I think Sacred Heart's excuse for a lawyer is superb. Played by Sam Lloyd, the man is what we all strive not too be a....a pee-on, walk-over.

As we bid farewell to Scrubs this year and say hello to whatever new comedy we come across, one can only hope it was as fresh as this was back in 2001.