Saddo that I am, I enjoy spending time on Youtube looking for nifty fan-made openings to Doctor Who.   I thought I’d share  few of the ones that caught my eye.

I really love this Tom Baker-style opening for the 10th Doctor:

And here’s quite a cool 80s-style Eccleston opening:

I’d forgotten I had this in my drafts…

Green Lantern Corps brings the Ring Quest story line to a close. Admittedly there perhaps wasn’t as much ring questing as I’d have liked (I really enjoyed the idea of them spending a good few issues going after the various Sinestro Corps rings, and the first issue or so used this idea brilliantly), however what we got instead was a cracking Mongul story.

Mongul was always one of those “generic space tyrant” type baddies to me, that I find quite disposable. However Peter Tomasi’s clearly got a love for this character, and it really came across in his writing. Mongul’s dialogue in this last issue really popped off the pages of this issue, and I really enjoyed it. The part where he gets sick of his henchman bickering and tears him into his respective halves, held together by yellow ring energy was a really great villain moment.

The resolution to the Mother Mercy storyline was really interesting, as for the first time we see someone get offered two rings simulataneously (previously the only person to be offered both rings was Batman. Well, I guess we can count Sinestro as well…). Of course, it was no surprise that Mother Mercy chose the GL ring.

We also have Guy Gardner’s first kill since lethal force was enabled (but not his first kill ever of course, only since rejoining the Corps). It really helpped to hammer home how tired they all were from being constantly beaten down. And with even the Honour Guard starting to crack, you wonder how this Corps war is affecting the rest of the Corps. Of course, we as readers know that the Guardian’s new laws are going to go hideously wrong, and Ganthet’ll turn up with a big “I told you so” badge, but its still interesting to watch the slow erosion of the GL Corps, as Sinestro’s ultimate plan comes together.

This has been a great issue. Peter Tomasi has (as is obvious from my posts) rapidly become one of my favourite DC writers. I’m really looking forward to his next arc.

So, the San Diego ComicCon brought a tonne of news over the weekend. The big news from the Knight Rider TV show, aside from the sneak peak posted earlier, was the official reveal of the new attack KITT.

Replacing the attack mode from the 2-hour TV movie, Gary Scott Thompson’s quoted as saying he felt the original looked too similar to the regular-mode KITT (something I can kind of agree with. I know that during the pilot, I had to keep checking for the spoiler to tell the difference in some scenes). He also felt that the attack mode needed to look more aggressive and threatening. Which there’s no doubt this certainly does.

I’m still undecided though.  I really don’t like the big vents on the bonnet (although I appreciate that they’re there for a practical purpose).   Its a bit too fast-and-the-furious for me, whereas the fanboy in me cries out for a KITT that looks sleek.  Certainly, anyone that was still struggling to accept the Mustang is really going to be bothered by this I suspect.

I do get a really good vibe from the 1 minute preview though.  For me, the tone came off well, and it felt suitably action-packed.  Mike adopting the Michael Knight name is a good move as well.  While I liked the iPhone inspired main screen for KITT in the pilot, the new windshield display does look cool.  Unsure about KITTs new vocaliser, but I do like how its more of a tribute to the classic three bars the original KITT had.

Slightly baffled by the repeat of the “are you a homosexual” joke however.  It wasn’t particularly funny the first time, and it seems odd to directly lift some dialogue from the pilot like that.   I wonder if it’ll make the final cut of the episode…

Only last thing I will comment on is the blue neon lighting under the attack mode KITT.  In the States it may be cool, but over here, its generally associated with muppets who’ve got a stereo more expensive than the rest of the car, and drive like complete idiots.

Not to mention, excessive neon lighting on cars gives me Joel Shumaker Batmobile flashbacks.