Blue Beetle live action
Jul. 29th, 2010 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexYou guys, you guys, you guys. The video promo for the possible Blue Beetle tv show's hit the net and I think my heart exploded.
I've talked about Blue Beetle before but to reiterate: we're talking about a series with a Hispanic majority cast, including our hero, his family, and half his friends. We're talking multiple amazing female characters (a quick mental headcount puts them at 50%ish of the main cast) including Traci 13 - sorceress, British born Chinese, Jaime's girlfriend and light of my life. We're talking about a series that's rooted in community, in how important support systems are and how, despite his spiffy magical bug suit, our Hero can't do this alone.
Can they fuck this? Yes. They probably will, I'm not gonna lie to myself about that. But right now I've got just over a minute of Jaime and Khaji Da being awesome (and a glimpse of an aged up Milagro? The hell?) and the potential has me giddy.
And even if it sucks, maybe they'll be enough interest that they'll restart the comic.
/flail
I've talked about Blue Beetle before but to reiterate: we're talking about a series with a Hispanic majority cast, including our hero, his family, and half his friends. We're talking multiple amazing female characters (a quick mental headcount puts them at 50%ish of the main cast) including Traci 13 - sorceress, British born Chinese, Jaime's girlfriend and light of my life. We're talking about a series that's rooted in community, in how important support systems are and how, despite his spiffy magical bug suit, our Hero can't do this alone.
Can they fuck this? Yes. They probably will, I'm not gonna lie to myself about that. But right now I've got just over a minute of Jaime and Khaji Da being awesome (and a glimpse of an aged up Milagro? The hell?) and the potential has me giddy.
And even if it sucks, maybe they'll be enough interest that they'll restart the comic.
/flail
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Date: 2010-08-05 05:02 am (UTC)because it could be so good, so good.
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Date: 2010-08-05 08:38 pm (UTC)And also (more likely) so, so bad. And even from the clip, it look like they're aging Milagro up, which. Why? If they're changing that, what else are they changing? I have the maybe-irrational fear that they'll have Jaime hiding his heroing from his family, to add ~drama~, and I think my head would actually explode.
But, potential! But, precedent! I am torn.