Monday: Coda
This evening, I just… kind of… hung out. MarknTyme and I killed some time by beating on thugs in Paragon City. After that, I watched an episode of Justice League Unlimited, “The Great Brain Robbery,” which I had not seen all the way through before. It wasn’t a bad episode, but not one of the best, either.

Next, I watched… Superfriends. It was an episode called “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” (1, 2) Wow. After watching JLU, this was a complete gear-shift. And, it was SO dated. More than once, I heard someone say “Groovy.” And, as if that wasn’t enough, Superman actually told Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman to “Hang loose” at one point. *jawdrop* However, as weird as some of these things were, they didn’t take me aback as much as seeing a cameo from Plastic Man.

Having just bagged on Super Friends, I’m going to admit that the Boomerang commercial bump for That Time Is Now – a remix of the Super Friends theme – is pretty decent. Check it out:

And, it seems as though someone has done a mashup of this song using footage from Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, instead:

Next, I watched the pilot for the new ABC Family series, The Middleman (1, 2), based on a series of graphic novels by the same name.

The show doesn’t take itself too seriously, in the same way Moonlighting did – but even more so, in some instances. It was…. quirky. And fun. Check out the Newsarama review of the pilot. I just realized something: The Middleman kind of reminds me of Men in Black… meets The Avengers. That’s the British series, not the comic book super-team. And subtract the aliens. The special effects weren’t necessarily ILM-grade, but somehow, they didn’t need to be. The writing was good. Since this was the pilot, the actors are still getting used to their characters’ voices, to some degree… and sometimes the extras’ acting was a little over the top. But, I have to say that I don’t think I’ve had as much fun watching a square-jawed, milk-drinking hero save the world in quite some time.

The pilot is available on iTunes as a free $1.99 download. Check it out. Sure there’s a good amount of suspension of disbelief (sometimes by the truckload), but that’s okay, it’s a fun ride.

Namaste.