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Started to watch the remake of the Beauty & the Beast tv series and almost immediately recognized a now-older Kristin Kreuk (Lana from Smallville... and don't tell Scotty that she also played Fiona from Eurotrip). It's a little weird to see her now. I wouldn't say that she's aging well or badly, she's just older. (Unlike Jordana Brewster who, while visibly older the Lethal Weapon show, rocks her age.)

I don't remember that much of the original Beauty & the Beast show (which was one of GRRM's earlier writing credits) and was a little surprised that this new show -- which I *might* have seen announced at some point or seen a poster at a mall -- is intended as a remake.

And, tbh, if not for Kristin Kreuk, I'm not sure I would have bothered watching much past the first terribly written scene.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If I remember, that was a case where Disney got the opportunity to reclaim the rights after they bought Marvel, and decided they'd rather do their own cartoon in-house rather than farm the rights out to Sony (especially since the cartoon was already airing on Disney XD), which is why we got Ultimate Spider-Man instead.

The creator mentioned that there was a tie-up with the rights.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never watched either (I didn't have Disney XD at the time), but I do remember at the time that the comic geeks over on /co/ basically praised the hell out of Spectacular, complained about Ultimate killing it, and whined that Ultimate was bad (though that might have just been because it killed their beloved baby).

I've never had Disney XD. I think I watched it either on YT or NFI. And I was a hard sell, but the show is just that good.

As for Ultimate, it's terrible on its own merits so it's not just the fact it replaced a better show. It has a far more kiddy presentation and an annoying gimmick where Spidey frequently breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience -- freezing the action while doing so -- or changing the animation style. Honestly, had they used that approach in a Deadpool cartoon, it might have worked. (They did have a Deadpool episode -- can't remember if I saw the whole thing -- which seemed moderately amusing.)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I definitely think TV works better for lower-level, street-based heroes than movies do, and Punisher's sort of a quintessential street-level character for Marvel. He just feels like the first character I'm going to go to if I'm trying to build a TV shared universe franchise (especially considering the supposedly hostility between the TV and film divisions of Marvel, which is a shame).

Given that the Punisher is less team-up friendly than other heroes, I'd kinda feel the reverse is true. However, I agree that tv is a better medium for the less-epic-scale heroes. It's also a *much* better way to push a lot of supervillains, since somebody like Kingpin would have been completely wasted in film... which he basically was with that Daredevil movie.

And I'm assuming that the movie and tv halves will be more cooperative if they're sharing talent. However, it's bad enough that you kinda have to watch a bunch of other movies before starting a movie, having to also follow tv shows to get the complete story is really going to suck.
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