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Post by achilles on May 6, 2019 14:25:50 GMT
How DARE you disparage Manimal?   Yes, I'm sorry, just trying to think of shows that were legendary for being bad. I will admit that I've never seen Manimal or My Mother the Car, but there can hardly be as bad as this. |
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Post by SporkBot on May 6, 2019 17:11:08 GMT
When Brainy gave that line about "Lockwood having to deal with him", I knew it wasn't going to be fulfilled. Smartest guy from the future, and the best he can do is close a door. Way to give Batman a run for his money in terms of effectiveness. I forget if Lockwood knows Agent Dox is an alien, and from the future, but I don't think the writers know, either. His speech about following hearts instead of orders needed to be grounded more in following the law, the very thing Lockwood's trying to impose, because "follow your heart" is way too vague for the sensitive subject matter they're attempting to adapt. This is what you get when you have writers (possibly under orders, albeit) write about things they don't really know about, but they CAN hit some easily-attained emotional beats. Which, once again, proves my theory: ![]() James Tynion IV ghostwrites for this show. Not sure why James is wearing armor plating. Because he's practically a Kryptonian, now. But hey, nice seeing J'onn all Martian'd again, even if it came outta the blue. I was counting on the first Eve to be a robot, but, okay, Multiple Woman, whatever. Those must be some impressive stun batons to disable a Kryptonian. Though I will say, I think Kara burning those photos herself made sense, so she could personally assure they were destroyed instead of being found later. Though strange, I don't think she grabbed her diary back...pretty sure it was left on the bed. George's turn is poorly done. A friend we never saw before turns out to be an alien, then his Mom dies, but he somehow manages to rationally discern that his Dad is responsible for fanning the flames. It comes out of nowhere. It feels like it's supposed to be more about Lockwood being abandoned and alone, now his cause the only thing he has left, but at the same time, they wanted to make George his own character and figure things out on his own. Yet they never managed to make either one work, let alone work them together. I kind of suspected something about James' sister, right when I saw her and Alex jogging together. So looks like she'll be sticking around to date Alex for a while. Good thing that 17-year-old Mom decided to keep her kid, requiring Danvers to be comforted emotionally. Oh, look, the cartoonishly evil President did something cartoonishly evil. Any subtlety and nuance the Lockwood subplot might've had when it started just got chucked out the window with this guy. Political satire or parody is fine, but only when the writers know how to do it well. This season has been several interesting ideas, a few decent moments, in an otherwise badly executed atmosphere of ignoring logic so the story can go where they want it to go, mostly by making characters that ought to be smarter and more able, into dumber iterations of themselves. Which, once again proves my theory... |
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Post by sdsichero on May 6, 2019 19:25:32 GMT
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Post by achilles on May 6, 2019 20:19:41 GMT
Oh goody, then Supergirl will use that story? Well, at least it'll be better than most of the episodes... |
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Post by sdsichero on May 7, 2019 19:34:08 GMT
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Post by achilles on May 11, 2019 23:42:21 GMT
So the new trailer for Krypton season two is up, and Lobo/Doomsday centric. I'll give them this, their FX are for the most part very impressive, and their Doomy is VASTLY better looking than the one in B v S, which looked like the rejected model for the cave trolls in LoTR. And Lobo, though a hell of a lot slimmer than the comic book version LOOKS great. But then he opens his mouth, and sounds like a mild mannered Irishman. Not how I pictured the Main Man. Lobo actor Emmett Scanlan, (an Irishman), underplays the character...NOT how you go with Lobo, who is made for scenery chewing. And...he's about as threatening as a hummingbird. Strange, as he managed to lose his Irish accent when playing Jim Corrigan/The Spectre for Constantine. But here, where it is a huge distraction...he evidently doesn't.
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Post by achilles on May 12, 2019 2:33:04 GMT
Lucifer, now on Netflix with a new season. So...my take on this show: It isn't the Gaiman Vertigo comic book. All it really takes from the comic book is the initial set-up. What it does is fit that into a cop show, albeit one that has little bearing on real cops. None of that is a deal-breaker; the comic wasn't iconic enough to be disappointed at the changes necessary to have had it on Fox. If it had started on Netflix, it might have hewed closer to the comic book.
There's a fairly interesting cast, (and the female lead who plays Chloe is gorgeous despite being over 40, and of course genre favs like Tricia Helfer and Tom Welling give you solid performances. Tom Ellis is fine I suppose as Lucifer, albeit again nothing at all like the one from the comics. Netflix in its first season with the show hasn't really done anything much that Fox couldn't, save for some minor nudity with Ellis wearing assless pants, (his "orgy pants), and him and the second female lead, (unfortunately not the female lead who is beautiful), some bare butts and that was it. No real violence, your average episode of Arrow has more. Basically a supernatural police comedy/drama. Not terrible, certainly vastly better than Netflix' own Umbrella Academy, which is IMO unwatchable, (I stopped 35 minute into the pilot as everyone was unlikable and the plot was very generic). Not great either. Certainly a binge watching thing if you haven't seen it, but the Netflix season didn't seem to me to be up to their earlier standard.
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Post by noctournem on May 12, 2019 16:03:22 GMT
Lucifer, now on Netflix with a new season. So...my take on this show: It isn't the Gaiman Vertigo comic book. All it really takes from the comic book is the initial set-up. What it does is fit that into a cop show, albeit one that has little bearing on real cops. None of that is a deal-breaker; the comic wasn't iconic enough to be disappointed at the changes necessary to have had it on Fox. If it had started on Netflix, it might have hewed closer to the comic book. There's a fairly interesting cast, (and the female lead who plays Chloe is gorgeous despite being over 40, and of course genre favs like Tricia Helfer and Tom Welling give you solid performances. Tom Ellis is fine I suppose as Lucifer, albeit again nothing at all like the one from the comics. Netflix in its first season with the show hasn't really done anything much that Fox couldn't, save for some minor nudity with Ellis wearing assless pants, (his "orgy pants), and him and the second female lead, (unfortunately not the female lead who is beautiful), some bare butts and that was it. No real violence, your average episode of Arrow has more. Basically a supernatural police comedy/drama. Not terrible, certainly vastly better than Netflix' own Umbrella Academy, which is IMO unwatchable, (I stopped 35 minute into the pilot as everyone was unlikable and the plot was very generic). Not great either. Certainly a binge watching thing if you haven't seen it, but the Netflix season didn't seem to me to be up to their earlier standard. Wow. Just wow. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
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Post by SporkBot on May 13, 2019 1:02:56 GMT
-Okay, I'll say this much, I did not immediately recognize Benoist in the brunette wig. At first I thought the President and his staff knew Kara was Supergirl, but then they got to talking and I guess Red Daughter just took her to a hotel to shoot her. The Kryptonite was pretty inconsistent...Red D is right there, and it doesn't affect her until it gets a foot closer. And that "I've been dealing with Kryptonite for 15 years" feels like it's contradictory, considering she spent so much time NOT using her powers, she wasn't sure she could use them in the pilot. If they'd left it that she'd trained to resist green-K at the DEO, that'd be one thing. But since she arrived on Earth?
-Brainy loves Dreamer. How terribly uninteresting. Maybe if the latter were better developed or the former didn't seem like a more baritone Sheldon from Big Bang Theory...
-Lena poisoning her Mom to cooperate...okay. I can get behind that. It's morally grey, but it's Lena, so not outside her wheelhouse.
-Brainy-Lockwood...nice twist not having it work out. I feel like as a future-cyber-man, he should be able to circumvent tech that'd he'd call antiquated. But I guess he needed to bleed Ecto-Cooler and go bonkers. Neat breakout scene. Looks like he'll end up being an enemy, but will it be a filler-villain, resolved before the season finale, or the season-long baddie next year? Either way, J'onn should be able to tell something's up, but he probably won't.
-I'd be okay if this was the last we see of Otis.
-Not sure why Red-D has or needs Iron Man interface helmet...I mean, besides making fight scenes easier to shoot. And now she fires energy. And I thought Man of Steel borrowed from DBZ.
-Way to take a page from Frank Miller, Alex. When it happened in DKR, I figured it was Superman grasping at straws, or trying something he'd thought about but never did. Here it felt more like "the power of [familial] love". But whatever. I thought that heartbeat that Soviet Supergirl heard was something significant, but...I guess it was Alex? But...if it was, why? Why would that send her away after all that "screw you and your material possessions" posturing?
-Oh, well, guess we'll never know. Unless she's playing possum.
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Post by achilles on May 13, 2019 16:02:08 GMT
-Okay, I'll say this much, I did not immediately recognize Benoist in the brunette wig. At first I thought the President and his staff knew Kara was Supergirl, but then they got to talking and I guess Red Daughter just took her to a hotel to shoot her. The Kryptonite was pretty inconsistent...Red D is right there, and it doesn't affect her until it gets a foot closer. And that "I've been dealing with Kryptonite for 15 years" feels like it's contradictory, considering she spent so much time NOT using her powers, she wasn't sure she could use them in the pilot. If they'd left it that she'd trained to resist green-K at the DEO, that'd be one thing. But since she arrived on Earth? -Brainy loves Dreamer. How terribly uninteresting. Maybe if the latter were better developed or the former didn't seem like a more baritone Sheldon from Big Bang Theory... -Lena poisoning her Mom to cooperate...okay. I can get behind that. It's morally grey, but it's Lena, so not outside her wheelhouse. -Brainy-Lockwood...nice twist not having it work out. I feel like as a future-cyber-man, he should be able to circumvent tech that'd he'd call antiquated. But I guess he needed to bleed Ecto-Cooler and go bonkers. Neat breakout scene. Looks like he'll end up being an enemy, but will it be a filler-villain, resolved before the season finale, or the season-long baddie next year? Either way, J'onn should be able to tell something's up, but he probably won't. -I'd be okay if this was the last we see of Otis. -Not sure why Red-D has or needs Iron Man interface helmet...I mean, besides making fight scenes easier to shoot. And now she fires energy. And I thought Man of Steel borrowed from DBZ. -Way to take a page from Frank Miller, Alex. When it happened in DKR, I figured it was Superman grasping at straws, or trying something he'd thought about but never did. Here it felt more like "the power of [familial] love". But whatever. I thought that heartbeat that Soviet Supergirl heard was something significant, but...I guess it was Alex? But...if it was, why? Why would that send her away after all that "screw you and your material possessions" posturing? -Oh, well, guess we'll never know. Unless she's playing possum. Hopefully she's not pining for the fjords; I like her better than Wokegirl. |
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Post by achilles on May 13, 2019 17:06:03 GMT
Oh, and can SG stop with having Alex whining about not being able to buy a dog, (er, kid), from the pet store, (er, kid store). A plus to this episode was they didn't have Stache's kid in it either. Whiny little changes without any good reason kid is conspicuous by his welcome absence. Also, Kasnia kid is gone too.
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Post by chap22 on May 13, 2019 20:07:26 GMT
Lucifer, now on Netflix with a new season. So...my take on this show: It isn't the Gaiman Vertigo comic book. All it really takes from the comic book is the initial set-up. What it does is fit that into a cop show, albeit one that has little bearing on real cops. None of that is a deal-breaker; the comic wasn't iconic enough to be disappointed at the changes necessary to have had it on Fox. If it had started on Netflix, it might have hewed closer to the comic book. There's a fairly interesting cast, (and the female lead who plays Chloe is gorgeous despite being over 40, and of course genre favs like Tricia Helfer and Tom Welling give you solid performances. Tom Ellis is fine I suppose as Lucifer, albeit again nothing at all like the one from the comics. Netflix in its first season with the show hasn't really done anything much that Fox couldn't, save for some minor nudity with Ellis wearing assless pants, (his "orgy pants), and him and the second female lead, (unfortunately not the female lead who is beautiful), some bare butts and that was it. No real violence, your average episode of Arrow has more. Basically a supernatural police comedy/drama. Not terrible, certainly vastly better than Netflix' own Umbrella Academy, which is IMO unwatchable, (I stopped 35 minute into the pilot as everyone was unlikable and the plot was very generic). Not great either. Certainly a binge watching thing if you haven't seen it, but the Netflix season didn't seem to me to be up to their earlier standard. You should've given UA a full ep. Between the big musical number and No. 5's first big fight scene, that last 15-20 minutes or so of the first ep is where it picked up. |
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Post by Johnny Smith on May 13, 2019 20:36:07 GMT
So ... farewell to Felicity tonight?  |
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Post by achilles on May 13, 2019 22:00:36 GMT
So ... farewell to Felicity tonight? Someone nukes her? |
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Post by noctournem on May 14, 2019 4:59:06 GMT
Doom patrol is my favorite series
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