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The Nora stuff is sorta driving me nuts.  She's a fairly interesting character, but understanding her timeline is a bit of a fake-out since we know it'll be erased at some point.  The future where Barry is gone forever is probably not happening.

The shows have made more references to Gotham City and a couple indirect references to an Earth-1 Batman.  I hope that, at some point down the line, they let Batman on the show.

Although if they don't, I like thinking about an Arrowverse Bruce Wayne who is either too focused on Gotham to worry about reaching out to the other, more-well-known heroes, or someone who just doesn't have any interest at all in reaching out.

RIP Stan Lee

I will never stop being fascinated by ireactions' ability to see so much beauty in something like Ray Palmer.  But that's a really interesting story, and it makes a whole lot of sense.  What podcast did you get all this from?

Also, what is grass-fed butter?

Well, I'm just saying that Legends could be used as a vehicle to showcase her more.  Then return her to Arrow as a hero.

Although I love that the writers of Arrow think that Laurel, with zero experience, could simply work really hard and be a competent district attorney.  I know most of these writers don't understand how 95% of jobs out there work, but she doesn't have any knowledge of the law.  She'd have to work day and night for years to get where she is.  It might've been a stretch for *original* Laurel to get that job.

Oh and I have a theory about the flash forwards - they're taking place in Earth 2.

Is Nora from that far out?  I guess, like ireactions, I'm confused on what Nora's age is.

Did Team Flash say that Oliver couldn't help, or that future Oliver did face him and didn't win?  I remember the latter but not the former.

(I watch a lot of these shows while I'm on my phone )

I agree that I'd like to see more nuance in the alien side.  Like I said earlier, maybe they could explain that there's some sort of disaster happening in the galaxy that is driving people to Earth.  Maybe they could say that Darkseid is terrorizing the galaxy, and people are fleeing to Earth because it's the home of Superman, the only person who's ever defeated Darkseid.  With the way they're treating Superman, they could easily have Darkseid be someone that Superman exclusively deals with, and it doesn't have to even affect the show.

They could show that some aliens are either weaker on Earth than they were on their home planets (reverse Kryptonian effects), but they still feel like their lives are better here (mirroring immigrants living in poverty to avoid troubles in their home countries).  Or maybe show that a lot of aliens are voluntarily weakening themselves to human-like levels so that they don't seem like a threat.  If they showed something that displayed that aliens realize that humans would be afraid of them, and are actively trying to make that better, that'd make more narrative sense.  And if they showed that a lot of aliens are facing greater troubles than just harassment, then it might make parallels work better.

Yeah, I even thought the way they had him break down was interesting.  An alien doesn't take his job, which would've been the easy way.  An alien doesn't kill his dad, which would've been even easier.  It isn't even collateral damage.  Aliens come to the country and bring Nth metal.  His dad both refuses and is unable to change and adapt.  Yes, their house is destroyed in a collateral damage fire, but they talk about stuff like insurance companies refusing to cover his losses.  Whole towns being supported by a single industry.  When people are hurt by an alien, it's an accident.

I thought it was very well done.  Info, if you have time, I'd check it out.  There's very little Supergirl in it

There are not main characters that have those beliefs.  But, at the same time, most of the main characters know Kara and J'onn, and it'd be a bit weird to have them be anti-alien (even in a reasoned way).

There are not minor characters that are represented that way because I don't think that'd be all that compelling.  It's the same reason there aren't a ton of moderates on talking head shows.

To be fair, I didn't know about the DeNiro one and had only read that one was sent to CNN.  So at the time I posted, it was Soros, the Clintons, Wasserman-Schultz, Obama, and CNN.  All of who have some ties to Hillary versus Bernie.

But, yes, others have shown up that have nothing to do with it.

I don't love the new Flash suit, but it doesn't bother me that much.  I do think Stephen Amell looks REALLY weird in that costume, though.  I figured he'd look big and bulky in it, but he just looks awkward.  And Barry looks really tiny in the Green Arrow costume.  That Elseworlds crossover is going to be something, though.  There's a lot of really weird stuff going on, and I have no idea how it's all going to tie together.

Side note : ANOTHER episode where Joe isn't standing up.  He doesn't look or sound as sickly as some people think, but I'm hardly an expert on that.  I feel like he must've had surgery on his leg or back, maybe?  I feel like if it were a stroke, we'd have heard something.  I also feel like if it was something life threatening, they would let him rest instead of having him shoot.  It's a bizarre thing, though.

Turns out, in the flash forward, that William is gay.  Doesn't bother me one bit, but I think it's funny that it seems like about 40% of the Arrowverse seems to be LGBT.  Not a criticism, just a fun fact

I've enjoyed Flash and Arrow this season.  I think Cicada is a really interesting villain, and I think putting Oliver in jail has been good on the flow of the story.  I do wonder what Felicity's plan is - Oliver wasn't framed.  Even if they get Diaz, Oliver will be in jail.  I'd actually really love for him to get out of prison because of the Suicide Squad.  I don't know if they're able to use that anymore, but outside of using the Supermax idea, putting Oliver on the Suicide Squad makes way too much sense for them not to do it.

I thought Legends was fun.  Constantine on the team should be good, but I still feel like that team needs to be shaken up more.  If not the cast (put James Olsen on the team! Or Caitlin!  Or Cisco!  Or Wells!  Someone from Team Flash) then the concept.  I know they're mixing it up this year with magic, but nothing about the show demands that they do time travel.  If they're staying in 2018 but fighting magical beings, it could still be the same, fun show.

Back to Flash - when it seemed like Cisco was maybe dead, I was sorta relieved.  I like Cisco the character and he's one of the ones I'd like to die least, but I was looking forward to a shakeup on the team.  I think a natural person to leave would be Caitlin, who doesn't seem to have much of a role on the team itself.  Using Cavanaugh to play Sherloque makes more sense than some of his doubles, but I'd actually like to see Caitlin go (if you don't want to kill her, put her on the Legends) and have Wells play a medical doctor Wells.  That's supposed to be Caitlin's role and it really isn't very often.

Yeah, I was convinced a week ago that they were going to move all the shows to the streaming service.  Now I believe they're dead.

I think your idea for a Marvel Netflix finale would be great, but I agree that none of it's going to happen.  I just wish they'd given the shows more advanced knowledge, to either wrap it up with the individual shows or with a second/final season of the Defenders.  I know several of the seasons have underperformed, but I really enjoy the universe and wish it can have a resolution.

That being said, I think I agree that Luke Cage's finale works.  I think Iron Fist's finale is open ended but not necessarily a cliffhanger.  I think it could work.  So if we never get resolution, I wouldn't be devastated.

I'm watching Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime.  I loved the book, and I think the show is just okay.  Spoilers for Season 3 if you're watching it too.

But the book dealt with parallel universes.  Not just in the fact that it took place in one but characters in the book were capable of traveling from their world to one where the Nazis lost the war.  The show expands on this quite a bit with more "travelers".  But season 3 moves to the idea that the Nazis want to conquer other worlds.

My problem with this is my problem with the Kromaggs.  Even if the Nazis could build a machine to travel between worlds, and even if they had the complete element of surprise...how do you even go about conquering an entire planet?  The Nazis won World War II with the help of the Japanese.  In the show, they're potentially going to be in a fight with the Japanese.

I don't know how they have the manpower to think they can take over an entire world *and* fight a war at home.  I think it's an idea that sounds scary on paper, but it's something that would be almost impossible to pull off...even once.  Let alone "the Nazis conquer the multiverse"

It doesn't make sense on any of the shows.  Legends, I suppose, doesn't matter because they're on such a technologically advanced ship that it might as well be magic.  Like Star Trek, the ship provides them all their basic needs.

Supergirl avoids most of the problems because the characters are always employed.  Kara has always had a job at CatCo.  Same with Alex, Winn, James, etc.  I do wonder how J'onn will be able to fend for himself when he quit the DEO, but I could also see him saving pretty much every non-essential dollar he had so he might be okay for a brief hiatus.

Arrow is the weirdest one for me.  Oliver had a ton of money so the first part of the series doesn't worry about money.  Then the Queens all die and Thea has to depend on Malcolm to survive.  But Oliver didn't have a job or any way of pulling in money for a while.  For some of it, he was depending on Felicity....who, as CEO (as unlikely as that is) would have virtually unlimited pay.  But then she was fired and neither of them had a job.  Again, maybe Felicity had a golden parachute, but they don't really make any attempt to understand where Oliver gets any money until he becomes mayor.

What's crazy is that, while Flash plays it hard and fast with money with all its characters, Arrow doesn't.  Rene struggles with money and lives in an apartment in a bad part of town.  Roy was always struggling with money.  Poor people exist in the series and some of them are prominent, but the protagonist just seems to have money whenever he needs it.

I do think a lot of these shows get by with the help of random millionaires/billionaires.  Smallville had Lex and Oliver and Tess.  Arrow had the Queens and Ray and Felicity.  Flash had Wells.  Supergirl has Lena and Cat.  People who, when times get tough, can pay for random things and write it off as a symbol of friendship.

I mean they've done stuff like this in the comics before.  What if Superman was raised by the Waynes?  What if Bruce Wayne was a Green Lantern?  That's the kind of Elseworlds stuff that is fun to play around with.

It can be a fun little story where it's not bogged down by continuity, and the actors/fans can have a little fun with something different.

I was actually pretty psyched to see that poster.  I think it'll be cool.

Yeah but if you're going to pick a series, wouldn't it be the one about the bad guys?  They aren't giving him Superman or even something like Shazam.  We're talking about a franchise where one of the leads has killed tons of children...

I still think his vision fits.  If he's a criminal, he shouldn't direct it.  If he's just making jokes, I think he can make a great Suicide Squad movie.

Oh wow.  That's terrible.  Like I said, I think Iron Fist Season 2 might've been the 3rd or 4th best season on Netflix.  It was shorter and cleaner with a strong villain and well-defined characters.  I definitely would've rather cancelled Jessica Jones or Luke Cage, which is sorta shocking after how Iron Fist started.

But you're right - this might've been the first show they could slot on the Disney Streaming Service because maybe they'd renewed the other shows before this started.  One story I saw said that Disney wanted to renew it so there's a good chance that's what happens.  Would love to get confirmation of that soon, though.

I also wouldn't mind if they did Heroes for Hire.  Danny/Luke/Misty/Colleen would be solid.

There's a really good chance at least some of this happens, based on what I've read so far.

Well, it could be argued that Suicide Squad could be more up Gunn's alley than Guardians ever was.  Gunn, obviously, has an affinity for more violent, adult content than he ever got to play around with at Marvel.  Letting him play around in a sandbox with a bunch of charismatic criminals might actually be something perfectly suited for him.

As for why they're pursuing him, I think he's obviously got some talent.  Is he a pedophile...I really can't say.  All I can say is that he seems like a decent guy from his social media, and if he didn't do anything legally wrong and if he's sorry for being immature...then I'm willing to give him another chance.  And if he got Suicide Squad, it'd be another in the line of strong directors bringing a unique voice to DC movies.  I'd be pretty psyched to see what he can do with it.

James Gunn might be the guy to write and direct the new Suicide Squad movie.

His personal life aside, I think that might be a fantastic match for him, content-wise.

Man, I don't know why the GOP is willing to die on the Brett Kavanaugh hill.

Even if he's 100% innocent of all charges, I thought his hearing was awful.  He's unlikable, and his temperament doesn't belong anywhere near the Supreme Court.  I don't know how this guy was chosen.

Damn, I looked it up, and that's still six years away.  They probably should've picked a closer date.  I'm not sure any of the shows will be on the air in 2024.

Well, I wonder if WB could've used a successful tactic from the days of old and done serials of sorts.  What if, instead of two $300 million movies, they did 12 $50 million movies?  Hire young actors/actresses and lock them into 10+ movie contracts, and do stories that don't require a bunch of special effects.  Every month, release a movie.  A Batman noir detective story.  The origin of Barry Allen.  A grounded Wonder Woman story.  Green Arrow.  Every movie is about 90 minutes, and if you want, do a 10-15 minute mini-movie about someone like the Question or Blue Beetle or someone like that.

Maybe after the first year, they start bumping into each other.  Batman meets Flash.  Cyborg meets Wonder Woman.  And then you start seeing some blue woosh every once in a while.  Characters start talking about an invulnerable man with incredible strength.  Maybe Barry sees a man running pretty fast - maybe as fast as he is.  Maybe you get a Supergirl movie where Kara is trying to understand what's happened to her and looking for her cousin.

Then you do one big budget film as Superman shows up, steps out of the shadows, and the Justice League rises to face some big villain.

So it's the ireactions idea - small-screen stories bumped up for the big screen, told like they were on television on a budget that's fairly easy to get back.  Probably too much to coordinate but I think you'd just need to run it like the Arrowverse is run and churn everything out as best as you can.

Well, this doesn't sound very good.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/42206 … e#/slide/1

Daredevil Season 3 is going to come out October 19.  That means, in a 12-month period, all five Netflix shows will have released a season.  Pretty cool.

I've liked the first half of Iron Fist season 2.  It's a lot more fun.  I'd actually like to see a Heroes For Hire series with Luke Cage and Danny, but I don't know if that's possible with the ending of Luke Cage (not even knowing how Iron Fist ends).  I'd rather have that show than a third season of either show separately.

See, I really don't think anything nefarious is going on.  It could be nothing more than an adjustment to the way an industry like Hollywood releases news.  If WB is, in fact, leaking stuff to negotiate in the media, then there used to be a very simple way that this was done - they'd tell a reporter at variety or whatever and it'd get released as a rumor through an outlet or two.

Now any of us could have a web site or a twitter, and it wouldn't take much to start a rumor.  And with all these people trying to one-up each other for a scoop, some people could tweak the rumor to be "right" when it happens.  And it works the other way too.  People could make up a rumor, claim to be an anonymous source, and then get a story on a smaller site.  Then the bigger sites, trying for a scoop, report it.

I hope that they get it worked out.  I liked Cavill in Justice League, and I think he wants the role.  And it's a cameo...this is something they need to figure out.

I'd be more inclined to believe that there's a singular vision for this if there wasn't a standalone Joker movie.  It's not a DCEU prequel because they're looking to hire someone to play Thomas Wayne, and they haven't approached Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Then there's all the talk that the Batman movie is outside of continuity.  That Aquaman doesn't really connect to the DCEU (it, at least, has consistent actors). It seems, at least, that they wanted/still want Superman to appear in Shazam, and there's a lot of DCEU references in that movie.

It just seems inconsistent on whether or not they're committed to sticking with what was essentially Zach Snyder's universe.  I don't think they need to replicate Marvel - the way they're doing things is okay.  I just would like for there to be some sort of indication that they have a plan.  If they want to do a shared universe, cool.  If they want to do Elseworlds, cool.  But if they do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, I think they're going to lose the non-comic audience.

The new rumor is that they're considering Michael B. Jordan as Superman.

Because that worked really well last time....

http://aftercredits.com/

I use this when the credits start no matter what movie I'm watching.  They have a spoiler warning so you can easily see if a film has mid or end credits sequences without spoiling what they are.