{"id":5157,"date":"2010-06-19T09:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2010-06-19T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:47:01","slug":"on-blue-beetle-the-television-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5157","title":{"rendered":"On Blue Beetle, the Television Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Beetle.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/dcu.blog.dccomics.com\/2010\/06\/15\/opening-the-vault-\u0096-a-live-action-blue-beetle\/\">Geoff Johns posted some images of a live-action screen test of Blue Beetle<\/a> for a possible television series.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I would like to see a Blue Beetle <i>movie<\/i>.  A super-hero buddy comedy &mdash; Blue Beetle and Booster Gold.  There&#8217;s no reason that superhero movies need to be <i>so<\/i> serious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1653\">I&#8217;ve said this before<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll say it again &mdash; Jason Bateman as Blue Beetle\/Ted Kord, Will Arnett as Booster Gold.  If you know the characters, if you watched <i>Arrested Development<\/i>, tell me you can&#8217;t see that.  It <i>works<\/i>.  And there&#8217;s no reason that super-heroes can&#8217;t be in the mid-thirties. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d watch this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Beetle. Yesterday, Geoff Johns posted some images of a live-action screen test of Blue Beetle for a possible television series. Personally, I would like to see a Blue Beetle movie. A super-hero buddy comedy &mdash; Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. There&#8217;s no reason that superhero movies need to be so serious. I&#8217;ve said this<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5157\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Blue Beetle, the Television Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[521,522],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","tag-blue-beetle","tag-booster-gold","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}