"I Dreamed a Dream" is near the bottom of the list of the songs in the show for me (pretty much any of Cosette's numbers are lower), but that trailer still gave me shivers.

Oh me too.

And the Eponine girl, Samantha Barks, is apparently most known for her voice, from some British reality show.

In case anyone's wondering if she can carry the role of Eponine, here she is singing On My Own from the Les Mis 25th Anniversary concert: [link]

I'm sufficiently excited about Les Mis that I just downloaded the 10th anniversary cast album from Amazon. Colm Wilkinson! Woot!

As for the new Bourne movie, I admit that while it looks really cool, it also looks like a retread of the first movie in a lot of ways... But at least they're recognizing that Matt Damon played Jason, and not trying to hide that he's not in it.

I forget now: how did the 3rd movie end? He exposes them and walks away, doesn't he?

I came to the Bourne movies via the books, and ended up preferring the books. So the whole "remember when we said we had the ultimate assassin? It got ultimatier." And for some reason I find that irritating. It's like suddenly changing the metrics you were asking us to calibrate by.

And, seriously, can they not make a super-soldier-spy that doesn't turn against them? Have they not figured out they're doing something wrong?

I'm assuming that if they did have some badasses under their wing, they'd send them after Bourne and whoever Renner is playing. But unless I've blanked, Treadstone isn't sending out a horde of highly trained spies after their targets.

Other agents tried to kill Bourne all through the first and second movies, at least. He just killed them first.

But unless I've blanked, Treadstone isn't sending out a horde of highly trained spies after their targets.

Oh, they do, though. In the first movie Matt Damon takes out... damn. British actor of great hotness. Memfault. (I blame the shot of scotch my friend P gave me last night, which was a 17-year Pulteney, so excellent.)

Clive Owen.

Thanks, Sean. I knew there was a C in there somewhere...

He never seems to be reasonably matched, though. I am remembering that Clive said he was Treadstone-formed--did the others get the same treatment?

Its weird--I guess I'm looking for more chance in his successes, which isn't normally what I'd be looking for. Just that "we lost control of the best example of this study" thing it a bit tired for me. If the new version is "oops, we lost our even better best guy. Again." then I think they should start implanting remote controlled explosive devices *really* deep inside their bodies.

But, since I manage to forget Clive was a brainwashed spy too, I'm probably reacting to selective memories.

Everyone who went after him was Treadstone -- Clive Owen, Karl Urban, the guy he fought in the kitchen in one scene, even the guy who found him in the Paris apartment.