"Everything that's wrong with network TV" won the ratings battle last night, and also appeared directly following Fringe.

I was kidding (I think?) about Fox canceling it so soon, though I have no idea how it did in the ratings.

On a positive note
The pilot sure had some high production values and some interesting editing, camerawork, stunts and scoring. The opening sequence, the snowy chase in the storage yard, and the post-explosion delerium were particularly interesting, I thought.

Vin Diesel garnered the goodwill of audiences by providing the voice of the Iron Giant in Brad Bird's classic animated film, which he rode into the ground after Pitch Black, a decent enough B-film.

I wasn't so much dismissing "Dark Knight" (which, like Batman Begins was much classier and more clever than it had a right to be) or even the upcoming "Watchmen" movie, so much as the Hollywood appropriation of comic book superheroes and the comic book industry's propensity to beat a dead horse for three quarters of a…

I wasn't laying blame on anyone (though I could go on and on about those asshole Image guys), just lamenting another dead American art form.

The irony of discussing Watchmen now
The year that Watchmen was published was supposed to be the breakout year that comics went legit as an artform. Frank Miller and Alan Moore talked in interviews that year about their Dark Knight and Watchmen as being "the big brass band funeral and eulogy" for the superhero comic…