Well, it really feels like we’re entering the home straight now, as RTD resume writing duties for the last 4 episodes.

Midnight was a cracking little bottle show. With minimal sets and a small cast, it gave the characters a chance to shine, as the Doctor’s tendancy to swan in to a situation and take charge lands him in bad trouble.

David Tennant always shines in these kinds of scripts, and this was no exception, as we saw the Doctor fighting against the influence of the creature.

I’d say this was definitely one of my favourite RTD scripts from the new series. Great episode. And this Saturday it all kicks off, as Donna finally meets Rose. Looking forward to it

I finally got around to watching the trailer for the Life on Mars US remake today.

Can’t say I think it looks that good to be honest.  On one hand, the 70s US cop show feel actually works well, but other than that, I think it looks pretty awful.

A pity, as I thought Colm Meaney could be a good choice for the US Gene Hunt, but from this trailer I’m not convinced at all.

I’ve been a bit unsure about Geoff Johns’ Superman run. Superman is one of those characters that I enjoy, but I’m not a big enough fan to invest in buying his book every month. I think, much like Batman, if I did start buying his monthly title, it’d spiral out of control, until I was buying all his monthly books, and so was broke and homeless.

However, I do like picking up the odd mini-series or arc that looks interesting. I picked up Last Son, but while there was some nice ideas (I liked the addition of Chris Kent, pity that it turned into such a mess), and the revamped story for Zod, Ursa and Non was really interesting (especially Non’s backstory and link to Jor-El). However, that particular story’s lateness killed it for me, and stuff like the Legion of Superheroes, I’m just not really bothered about.

However, the teases for the Brainiac storyline caught my attention, and I’ve always found Brainiac one of Superman’s more interesting villains. Luthor is good, if over-used a lot of the time, and Zod has been badly-handled over the years (I’m looking at you Smallville). But there’s always been something creepy and (appropriately) alien about Brainiac. I loved his reinvention as a Kryptonian supercomputer in Superman TAS, and his portrayal in Smallville was really good too.

This was a really good first issue. The setup with Brainiac was really creepy, and I enjoyed the flashback to Kryptonite with Kandor being stolen. It’ll be interesting to see how this storyline handles the character, and if they can sort out the muddle he’s become. I tend to get a bit confused by his nature, as Brainiac is commonly shown as a supercomputer of some description, despite starting out as an alien scientist.

A great 10th issue from Booster Gold as well. If I’m honest, much like JSA this title’s been struggling to keep my attention for the last while. I really enjoyed the first arc, with Booster travelling back in time to protect the Justice League from nefarious time travellers, but this arc with Blue Beetle and the alternate time line just seemed to lack the fun of the first 6 issues, and was really dragging for me (surprising, given how few issues its actually been running for). This was a fun story though. Mister Mind popping up was a surprise, but another nice tie in to 52, and Ted’s final sacrifice was touching (although I was holding out hope that they’d broken time enough that Ted would somehow survive, but be forced to keep his existence a secret, so as not to change things further).

I’m really interested to see what happens to this title after the DC 1,000,000 issue. We know that Jeff Katz and Geoff Johns are moving on, but there’s not been any hint as to who might be taking over (which fuelled rumours of a relaunch as Blue and Gold, with the resurrection Ted Koord). I’m hoping whoever it is, captures the fun of the first 6 issues.

Came across this in today’s post of the Shortpacked! blog.

Its just mad.