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Post by achilles on Mar 7, 2019 15:18:05 GMT
Before Arrow goes out, it will score...Ernie Hudson! He'll be in a role related to Diggle. Nice casting coup, I miss seeing Hudson...even those commercials he's in are a nice thing.
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Post by achilles on Mar 7, 2019 16:28:32 GMT
Nice of Riverdale to close with that in memoriam to Luke Perry. I think with him, it was a shock, since he wasn't very old, seemed in great health...just goes to show that none of that matters, and any time anyone's number can be up. Sobering, I should think.
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Post by achilles on Mar 7, 2019 18:06:23 GMT
Amell seems to want to spend more time with his family, and less time in Vancouver...that seems to have been the main motivation for him to end the show, which is totally understandable. Also, it seems to me to have been a very physically demanding show for him especially to do, and he's getting older, to the age where maybe he doesn't want to beat himself up like that, or have to keep himself in that kind of shape. All in all, I think it's the right call, go out before you start sucking all the time.
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Post by achilles on Mar 11, 2019 13:54:26 GMT
achilles » Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:52 am
Well...a few gripes...
Again, there is no need to repeal that Alien Act thingee, since it never was valid. That requires the signature of the President...which, since President Alien was never a valid President, never happened. Hence, the Act itself, along with all other bills President Alien "signed", are all invalid and void.
I see also that the series is doubling down on the "we are the good guys, even though...we're not, and we're all actually kind of evil" thing. Yes, Supergirl is still a villain. That Manchester Black, one of her former buddies, is also evil doesn't make Supergirl good. J'ohn is still Captain Useless, though at the end there's some hope he might stop being totally useless and might just become the Martian Manhunter, as he proclaims in that scene.
Oh Noes, they shot Kenny! Oh, the humanity...and what was I talking about? Oh, Jimmy, yawn.
I have thought that would improve Supergirl 100%. Kill off Supergirl, and call the show Superman, and use that actor. After all, the series practically IS Superman already, since they seem to mostly just steal Superman villains and stories instead of using Supergirl stuff. Reign being the most notable exception.
Yes, the FX were better, yes, Jesse Rath was a bit better, but the incredible wokeness of being not only didn't stop, it ramped up in that annoying self righteous way they have. If you watch the big mass fight, it's all the humans...the "Children of Liberty", a rather offensive riff on the Sons of Liberty written by writers who essentially hate the US, and thus like to demonize American heroes that way, who are "evil" and being beaten by the woke types. The aliens are all the victims here...they're the ones being saved by our "heroes".
Beyond that. how did Manchester Black know where the Fortress of Solitude was? Is that common knowledge in that world? How did a pair of gloves enable Hat to lift the key? I mean how to gloves help his leg muscles do the lift, (as was clearly shown)? Why can something so heavy just lie in snow, rather than making a deep crater in the ground? Since Hat can only teleport to places he personally knows and has been before, how did he teleport them to the Fortress? There was no indication he'd ever been there before. How did Manchester and Hat seem to know everything about the Fortress, including that there was a sun eater behind that door?
Sorry, but while some things were done better in this episode, the whole thing was still shot through, (hi Jimmy), with the same sort of sloppy writing, and annoyingly self righteous acting as the rest of Wokegirl. That reference to the Women's March was a bit much, since Benoist herself marched in the first one. And, surprisingly, no mention was made that the founders of the Women's March are mostly noted anti-Semites. Guess that wouldn't fit in with the hero label. Or maybe it would, since Wokegirl pushes the narrative that certain groups are good because reasons, and certain other groups are evil because reasons. In Wokegirl, the evil groups of course are those who don't want aliens to kill them, (as the show demonstrates they very often do), or take their jobs by having superior natural abilities, (which the show also shows them doing). Instead, the humans are supposed to be happy with all that, and know their place. And that hasn't changed in this episode. I had held out hope that the show would have a gradual awakening of SG and her stupid, brutal, and fairly evil sister to the fact that she isn't in the right on this one. Instead we have a doubling down on the "we're the heroes even though we don't act like them" narrative that SG and her sister cling to. There's no self awareness on this show.
In real life of course, the sort of people that Wokegirl loves include Antifa types, who engage in the same sort of violence that both Manchester Black and the "Children of Liberty" engage in on the show. Not really shown much in SG. Wokegirl continues to be by far the worst of the Arrowverse shows, and improving a few areas while ignoring the real problems with the show doesn't make it suddenly good.
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Post by SporkBot on Mar 11, 2019 16:28:04 GMT
How was J'onn ever tricked? He's psionic, this Manchester isn't. I know he's all angry and stuff, but you'd think he'd be willing to use his telepathy to zero in on the real guy, not fall for a holographic projection.
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Post by achilles on Mar 11, 2019 16:54:56 GMT
How was J'onn ever tricked? He's psionic, this Manchester isn't. I know he's all angry and stuff, but you'd think he'd be willing to use his telepathy to zero in on the real guy, not fall for a holographic projection. Er...yeah. Well, he IS Captain Useless... Evidently, he's SO stupid, he forgot his own powers. |
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Post by achilles on Mar 11, 2019 16:59:09 GMT
So, will Duncan Macleod behead Ollie to be the One? After all, Arrow is ending, and as we all know, in the end, there can be only one...
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Post by Amoebas on Mar 13, 2019 0:12:04 GMT
Anthro & Kamandi are now part of the DCWU!   Also McNider University...  |
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 13, 2019 0:48:54 GMT
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Post by noctournem on Mar 13, 2019 16:50:24 GMT
I fucking love Brendan Frasier as Cliff Steele.
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Post by SporkBot on Mar 14, 2019 20:21:37 GMT
Barry says he's going to appeal to Cicada as Barry Allen, not the Flash. Okay, figured that meant he'd approach the guy in his civvies. NOPE! Yet again, he takes his mask off like an idiot, even though he could've given his "I loves my daughter" speech without doing so. And he compounds it by basically showing off the identities of the OTHER members of his team. MORON!
And I saw future-grown-up Grace-Cicada coming when she confronted everyone, and none of their attacks were effective because how else can we prolong this season arc?
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Post by noctournem on Mar 15, 2019 18:16:41 GMT
Cicada is the other Richard Diaz
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 15, 2019 19:45:45 GMT
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Post by mothman on Mar 17, 2019 9:59:00 GMT
Doom Patrol is pretty groovy.
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Post by SporkBot on Mar 18, 2019 2:28:15 GMT
Kara: "James has been shot!" J'Onn: "It was Manchester, trying to get to me!" Daphne Moone from Fraiser: "He's a detective, y'know..." Also LOVE how Nia and Brainy somehow make what happened to Olsen all about them. I get they were going for some "burden of responsibility" shtick, and it kind of makes sense for someone with psychic dream visions, but Brainiac 5? Not so much. His whole breakdown felt rather unconvincing. Manchester and J'Onn were decent (speaking in terms of character performance), but I just didn't care all that much about this dynamic between the angry Brit and the worst psionic ever. Reading someone's mind lets that someone access to his mind...somehow...and he suddenly remembers he can telekinetically take the villain's weapon from him after the dam's been... damaged. *rimshot* Kind of hard to feel for Manhunter's plight when the writers insist on relying on the Idiot Ball. Cryer was...a decent Lex Luthor. I'm not sure why (somehow) making the sun red would cause buildings to crumble (people reacting to it, I guess?), and the beard doesn't feel right, but he gave a good performance. Crossing my fingers Olsen becomes Turtle Boy. {Spoiler}
Oh, good. Otis is back. I don't even remember how he died, but at this point, I don't think it matters. They just HAD to get the Donner-era gang back together. And Tessmacher...I guess they left her vague enough that it sort of works in a convenient sort of way. |
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