A little over eager

As I was checking the news this morning, I came upon something that made me get a little excited, that was my mistake. The thing in question was the cover art for "Batman Arkham city", and the reason I bring it up is not for the purpose of cover analysis. That would be pointless, and I’m sure there are many others who have done a better job than I would ever do.

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No, what I want to get into is the anticipation that comes with waiting for anything your excited with. See, a couple years ago I used to do this all the time. I would hear about some big Hollywood adaptation of one of my favorite comics, a video game or even just a TV show. So I would spend months finding every news story, trailer, picture and everything else I could find on that thing I was obsessed with. And while its all good and well to walk into a movie and have a good feeling about what your about to see, its never a good idea to get over excited and expect the greatest thing ever. Because you will more than likely feel the opposite about the experience walking out, than you did walking in. As I did many, many times over the years.

I guess the feeling of surprise is what I really miss from going to the movies, or reading a comic or playing a video game. Its like I've come to a point where I've seen all the things that would make me feel child like innocence. And then I watch a trailer for "Batman Arkham city", and I just can't help myself. Every moment I look at the game, I just start to imagine all the things I'm going to do and then I'm lost to all its "greatness". And that’s where I fall into the trap of OVER-EXCITEMENT!!!

DAMN IT BATMAN!!! Stop making me creep out my friends.

Fortunately I've noticed the symptoms of this problem and I'm lowering my excitement, so that the game doesn't disappoint. But I'm not the only one who falls for this trap. Oh so many geeks such as myself fall for this trap. When a friend and I saw TRON: legacy, I walked out quite happy with what I had seen. Nothing special in the story area, but the special effects were good enough for me to have a good time. But my friend had walked in expecting to be blessed by the gods with the perfect movie, and so he walked out with a bad taste in his mouth. We both saw the same movie and noticed the same problems, but where as I was not bothered at all by the lack of quality in those areas, his experience was ruined. And it happens all the time to all kinds of people, but especially geeks.

TRON LEGACY: why did you have to look so good?

Because anyone who knows how to make big amounts of money in any form of entertainment knows that brand recognition is the biggest selling point of any product. And geeks recognize a lot of things in pop culture. They just don't recognize sometimes when a studio is waiting to give a sucker punch to the gut after taking your money (pun, kind of intended), and although geeks are getting better about it with every terrible, terrible movie (i.e. wolverine origins and batman and robin), there still learning. But every year those geeks automatically give movies that are bad a good opening weekend, means more movies that are geared towards them that are terrible.

Do you WANT nipples on your batsuit?

But were getting better about it, even the most fan-boyish of us are starting to take a second look at what there getting excited about. Which makes me a little happier. Now after reading all that you might think hype is a bad thing, but its okay to get a little excited. I'm just saying, try to be a little careful with what you follow and don't get too excited about anything; allow what you’re following to fail on its own merits.

Now all I got to do is not think too hard about batman arkham city and I will be fine.

I'm a little excited

Damn it.