G.I. Joe: Resolute

[Mister Andersen]

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There's no conceivable way that the Flagg was completely evacuated given just how many people it takes to run a (presumably nuclear) carrier, so the evacuation sequence felt rather akin to the "...and the pilot parachuted to safety" cop pouts of the 80s series. And everyone in the Hercules should have been dead with the amount of ammo (presumably AP or at least high velocity) being pumped at what is essentially a glorified tin can.

It felt like there was no real sense of rage or loss driving them. They knew from Moscow the effect of the weapon, the scale of its power, the shock and awe of it all. Simply redemonstrating that with the attack on the Flagg an not upping the effect on the Joes themselves was a mistake. It felt rather anticlimactic.

As did the confrontation with the Commander. The coda was pure meh -- of course the saferoom was going to be absent given that the entirity of Springfield had just been vapourised. If you're going to pull the "...and he got away" rick, then do it properly and have CC taunt Duke over a screen (or a screen disguised as a shielded door that rezzes out after Duke leaves). There needed to be an entire other episode wrapping things up, showing the Joes and the world morning the horriffic loss of life, some intimation of what happens to Russia after effectively having two WMDs set off that eviscerate its civil and military chain of command, the effects of the fallout generated by the particle beam, the hint of CC or someone else getting ready to take advantage of it all...

[Gentry]

Hmm.  Kind of a letdown at the end. I certainly wish we'd been able to meet more Joes, especially with Duke so conveniently wounded.

[Aldus Vertten]

Hmm.  Kind of a letdown at the end. I certainly wish we'd been able to meet more Joes, especially with Duke so conveniently wounded.

From the Warren Ellis Blog

FAQ: why do so many “important” GI JOE characters have little or no dialogue? Simple. Budget. Voice actors cost money. I originally wrote WAY too many speaking roles, and had to remove a bunch of them in the second draft of RESOLUTE, move some dialogue from excised characters to remaining characters, and so on. We could only support so many speaking roles. So some of your favourites didn’t get a line.

[Mister Andersen]

I reckon that once a Joe's in and they die, the person brought in specifically to replace them inherits the codename. So KittyPryde hot new Dial Tone is simply the original's replacement, not his reimagining.

Because I loved the Marvel comic's habit of routinely killing off old characters to give the new year's range airtime

[Txabier_Arrizotegui]

This Dial Tone is the original's lil' sister.

Trust me on that one. 

Now, that I've seen the last episode, I just can't help but think it was rushed or not well thought-out, at least.

Let the "budget" issues and not "enough Joes" (as if in any doggone episode on the old series or comic books you got to see twenty of them running about... it's exactly the same formula here). It just got to end too quickly and without something more interesting.

Still, anticlimatic and all, I'm glad they did something with the franchise... I for one hated the lasers and zero lethality in the original series.

[VisualStatic]

so that was really a pretty good show but is it just me or did that seem anti-climatic in the last episode?

[Txabier_Arrizotegui]

I think at least 5 of us agree with you.

Anti-climatic after the nice build-up, but hey I felt the same with many of the original series episodes.

[Forcegypsy]

Didn't really like the finale. Favourite episode was the ninja showdown.

[Mister Andersen]

Not Resolute, but...

With only a handful of specials and a run of Hamlet to occupy his time this year, it looks David Tennant is grabbing himself some face time in the prequels to the forthcoming GI Joe movie.

Issue 1 focuses on a pre-Joe era Duke on a mission in Papua New Guinnea, taking out an unknown party's ground station with which they've stolen control of a spy sat. Tennant has more of a supporting role in this, and there's a couple of places where we get a really good look. Here, where they're planning on how to hit the ground station:

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and then again when things start going a bit pear shaped after the hostiles twig onto the deception that allows our heroes to hack the override:

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After blowing the station, they lug the wounded to an evac and Duke, as the team leader, gets offered a spot on the GI Joe team which he refuses though the general recruiting him intimates the offer will be made again.


Next issue we're following Destro as we learn the 4 secrets to his family's success as dynasty of arms dealers, which mostly come down to the French & their country suck. Here, Destro is kicking back in his private jet which is parking at Paris airport and look who happens to be walking past at the time but a couple that look suspiciously like the Doctor & Martha:

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There are more than a few times in the 2nd issue when you could be forgiven for thinking you're reading a 9th Doctor comic. It really doesn't help that Destro's essentially wearing the 9th Doctor's costume