Okay, I think Captain Jack is the sexiest man on television even if he's not likely to go for me because I have the wrong equipment.  I was excited to hear that Torchwood was coming to Starz, and overall I'm pleased though the series got off to a really slow start.

If you are going to wait and watch the season on Netflix please stop reading now because there may be some spoilers.

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First Gwen is awesome, and she's back to being wonderful, old, kick ass Gwen, and not the useless limp noodle she became in Children of Earth.  The American C.I.A. girl sidekick is tedious, and to quote Ian, "she looks like Gwen could floss with her."

Jack is continuing to act stupid and not very focused just as he was in Children of Earth, and that bugs me.  He's supposed to be a great leader who people will follow to the Gates of Hell, and so far he's just dumb and makes really bad decisions.

The pilot is _really_ slow getting started.  After that each episode starts to get more and more interesting, which beats the alternative, but I wish they could have gotten the set up out of the way faster in the pilot.

I thought they were going to go with the idiot plot in one episode where people don't tell each other critical bits of information, but they dodged that bullet.  There are, however, some plot points that just aren't making sense.  The keep doing burn notices on agents who know about Torchwood, to eradicate all knowledge of the group, but when an entire room full of analysists read a computer message that Rex is bringing in Torchwood only Toothpick Girl and Rex get framed and have to run for their lives.  Huh?

I do not buy the idea that people have come to venerate the convicted child molester and murderer just because he cried on TV in an interview.  Unless the Evil Corporation is putting something in the water to cause this reaction from ordinary people it is leaving me unconvinced.  Also, I don't know why the Oswald Danes subplot is even in this show.  Perhaps it will be relevant at some point, but right now it just seems unbelievable even though Bill Pullman is channeling his inner De Nero.

Over all, I'll keep watching because I love Gwen and Jack is amazing eye candy.  Let's see if it gives me a satisfying conclusion and doesn't pull a Galactica or Lost.

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Okay, I totally loved this movie.  The Cap and X-Men: First Class are my two favorite superhero movies of the summer.

What do they have in common?  They both took their time in the beginning.  They really let me get to know Steve, and Charles and Eric.  The action built slowly and even the action sequences were explicable and easy to follow instead of just hectic action for the sake of action.

Both the films celebrated humanity and compassion, and the tragedy is that Eric starts to rejoin the human race, finds friendship, and ultimately is unable to hold onto that humanity.

That was the failure in Green Lantern.  All I knew was that Hal Jorden was a test pilot, daddy had died in a tragic accident and Hal was trying (in a heavy-handed way) to live up to daddy while still being a screw up, and he was in competition with a cute girl.  While that may look like a long list it was really just a collection of cliches.

Thor while it looked great was about gods.  I have a hard time identifying with gods.  It was a Cain and Able story, but it was lost in all the confusion about what, exactly, was the threat?  Frost giants?  Big ass robots that shoot fire out of their head?  Loki?  And ultimately why should I care?

If you look at the first Iron Man movie, which was terrific, that film takes its time too.  You get to know Tony Stark.  You see all his foibles and then you start to see him grow and change.

Aside from the story telling arc of Captain America, I loved the look.  It felt like the 1940's.  The people looked like people from the forties, acted like people from that era.  The Captain America song was straight out of a musical review from that time period and the people next to me in the theater were tapping their toes during the final credits when that tune started to play.

And we had Hugo Weaving as a bad guy.  Who could ask for more?  Oh, and Steve in the beginning of the film reminded me of my little hero from the Edge books so I was charmed by that too.

I will happily see this movie again once I get back to NM.

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