Assuming you’re not all too busy watching the first two episodes of DC’s new cartoon series for girls, DC SuperHero Girls, which feature a young Wonder Woman on some kind of exchange trip to Superhero High in the US, shall we mosey on over the jump to look at last week’s comics featuring Wonder Woman?
DC Bombshells found Second World War Wonder Woman getting a new uniform and facing off against both Nazis and Allied Forces, while 1977 Wonder Woman has to deal with a familiar member of the walking dead over in Wonder Woman ’77.
Meanwhile, over in Detective Comics #45, DCYou Wonder Woman is testing both old and new Batmans (or should that be Batmen?) and in Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four #23, weedy Wonder Woman is saving the world from nuclear missiles. I do hope that means we’re not going to getSuperman IV next issue.
It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.
The usual “TMINE recommends” page features links to reviews of all the shows I’ve ever recommended, and there’s also the Reviews A-Z, for when you want to check more or less anything I’ve reviewed ever. And if you want to know when any of these shows are on in your area, there’s Locate TV – they’ll even email you a weekly schedule.
So I got a bit snowed under with work on Friday and then went out for the evening, which meant ‘What have you been watching?’ didn’t happen. Sorry about that. Fingers crossed, things will be back to normal by the end of this week.
Anyway, here it is now. Unfortunately, I’ve not yet had a chance to watch last night’s Quantico, Blood &Oil, and Y Gwyll, but never fear third-episode verdicts of the first two will be arriving in the next few days, as will a third-episode verdict on The Player and a review of BBC America’s new Vikings v Saxons show The Last Kingdom.
However, the delay does mean I’ll be able to provide my thoughts on Friday’s Dr Ken and the last ever Continuum, as well as Saturday’s Doctor Who. You’ll find them after the jump, snuggled in the warm embrace of reviews of the latest episodes of: 800 Words, Arrow, Blindspot, Code Black, The Flash, Grandfathered, The Grinder, Scream Queens and You’re The Worst.
Just in case you think I was slacking, though, elsewhere I did manage to review the first episodes of new shows This Life (Canada: CBC) and Dr Ken (US: ABC), as well as provide third-episode verdicts on Blindspot (US: NBC; UK: Sky Living), The Muppets (US: ABC; UK: Sky1) and Limitless (US: CBS; UK: Sky Living).
And, I went to see a movie, too:
The Martian (2015) (in cinemas now) Ridley Scott and Drew Goddard’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestselling ‘MacGyver in space’ novel, in which an astronaut is accidentally left behind on Mars and must use his advanced knowledge of science and engineering to survive, re-establish contact with Earth and then somehow get home again. Despite being very faithful to Weir’s original plotline and dialogue, it’s neverthless a different beast to the book, which was originally published online a chapter at a time, presenting a different scientific or engineering challenge with each installment. Most of the science and a lot of the tension have gone, to the extent that huge chunks get replaced with a ‘seven months later’ caption, although you can still see some of it left behind in various places.
All the same, it’s different, rather than inferior to the book – a cinematic experience rather than a literary one that’s more about survival than solving problems single-handedly – and is easily Scott’s best work in years, as well as probably his funniest ever. A great cast in a movie that largely tries to get science right, doesn’t pick sides and actually looks great in 3D for a change.
It was shown at this year’s New York Comic-Con – no idea if it’s part of an episode or just for fun, but it’s entertaining to watch the cast do impressions of each other as The Machine misidentifies them.
