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I've always really liked Will Sasso.  I was a big MadTV fan back in the day, and he was always a great character actor.  That's really cool that you got to meet him!

I don't blame Israel Jurabe for not really having much to say.  I can't imagine it was a big part of his life, and it was 20 years ago.  But it was still cool that he took some time to talk to you and say something.

What sort of ruins the whole arrival for me is the whole "Is she with you?" "I thought she was with you" back and forth....which literally only works for the trailer.  It's a cool line but makes absolutely no sense in the context of the movie.  Superman should be asking that, but Batman knows *exactly* who she is.  She isn't trying to hide her identity, and maybe he's trying to distinguish between Batman knowing Diana and Bruce knowing Diana.  But I don't think Bruce was supposed to be covering for her....I think it's a line designed for the trailer that they put in the movie and didn't edit out.

The Weekly Planet was talking about this recently, and they were wondering if the "Dark Universe" name was just DC's insurance in case Justice League isn't successful.  Because the proper name is "Justice League: Dark" - and the success of Justice League will probably affect the marketing for the "dark" movie.  If Justice League is successful, DC will want to connect to it.  If it's not successful (or at least not critically successful), then they might want to make it feel separate with a different-sounding name.

I'm still assuming Justice League will be great, and it'll be called "Justice League: Dark"

I don't understand where this thought first came from.  I think people are generally drawn to people that look like them (which is why women-led shows like Nashville and Scandal draw more women and African American-led shows like Empire draw more African Americans).  After that, it's more about theme (which is why women watch The Bachelor (1 man, many women) and the Bachelorette (1 woman, many men) equally more than men).

That's why there's a need to race-swap and gender-swap...to make these movies more universal.  But, at the end of the day, if you like superheroes, it doesn't/shouldn't matter whether it's a black woman kicking ass or a white woman.  And I think, for most people, that's the case.

People like to blame the studios for not taking more risks, but my problem with that is that the studio isn't there to take risks.  The studio isn't there to advance the cause of women or minorities.  They're there to make money.  A white male hero draws white males (who are used to seeing heroes that look like them) and minorities/women (who are used to seeing white male heroes).  A black female hero might draw more women and minorities (who actively seek out someone who looks like them), but it might alienate white men (who are used to seeing white male heroes).

My belief is that it's a small percentage of people.  But to make up for a small percentage of white male users (let's say 1%), they'd need a whole lot of people who don't usually see those types of movies to show up.  In simple black and white numbers, that doesn't make sense.

It's the same with toy companies.  Toy companies would *only* make Black Widow figures if that's what would make the most money, but they replaced Black Widow with Captain America because studies showed that it'd make them more money. 

That's really it.  Now they're still shortsighted because Wonder Woman is going to get girls more interested in superheroes and comics, leading to future dividends (more women will go see Justice League, for example).  Black Widow action figures might not sell as well as Captain America figures in the short term, but if they get a number of little girls interested in action figures then it should also increase the number of Captain America figures that are sold.

The problem is that shortsighted is the name of the game most of the time.  Most careers live and die by what's next, and if you spend too much time planning, you die.  It's why James Cameron's 4 Avatar sequels seems so bizarre nowadays when the idea of a movie getting 4 sequels is really, really common.  It's just the idea that someone has faith in 4 movies at the same time.

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There's nothing in the movie that makes things clear at all.  It's obvious that Amazons cannot fly.  In fact, they're not all that superhuman - not bulletproof and fought evenly (?) with a bunch of World War I soldiers.

It's hard to tell if Diana is bulletproof.  She's never shown to be shot, and it's hard to tell if she's deflecting every bullet or not.  She seems like a stronger/faster version of regular Amazons.  She's shown to be able to jump higher/further than other Amazons, but if she can fly early in the movie, she doesn't know it.

In her fight with Ares, *he* can definitely fly.  Later in the fight, she either absorbs his flying ability or learns to fly.  And the final shot of the movie is her jumping miles (?) away.  It does seem more like a long jump than flight, but it's really hard to tell.  There's no mention of air currents, but it's possible that she and Ares were doing something with air currents.  Even when he flies, it's more floating.  She's definitely floating, but it's hard to tell if it's something she's doing, something she's absorbing from him, or something the "electricity" from Ares is doing.

It's not important (and I don't think she can fly), but it's just something that's been bothering me since I saw it.

Haha well if you couldn't tell by now, I guess I'm not

I never loved Breaking Bad for the same reason.  I never liked Walt...not even at the beginning.  He was always an a-hole, and  I was just waiting for him to get his.

It's even worse with House of Cards.  No one on that show is likeable or relateable.

The Leftovers might be the best show I've ever seen.

It sucks that it couldn't find an audience.  It's a fun show, I always enjoy it more than I think I will

Anyone else watch 12 Monkeys on Sci-Fi (I won't call it by its new name)?  I've really liked it so far, and I was a little worried when they announced they were going to release the entire season over one weekend (4 episodes Friday, 3 each on Saturday and Sunday).  Especially after they'd announced that it was renewed for season 4 and cancelled after that.  They released a trailer for season 3 months earlier, and I was worried that the season was terrible (and that the network was simply renewing to make up for extra costs and dumping the subpar season 3 so not to waste valuable airtime).

I'm almost done with the season 3 binge, and I've been impressed.  It's not groundbreaking television by any means, but the show is fun and the characters are interesting.  The network said they thought the show worked as a "binge-worthy" show, and since I've watched the whole season in a couple of weeks, they might be right.

I have no idea if the binge strategy benefits the network or not.  I'm assuming the vast majority of people DVRed the season, and those results expire, right?  But if it worked for them, do you think this is something that other networks would try?

Does anyone else watch?

Well, it's hard for me to say because I liked those movies.  Plot incoherence doesn't typically bother me as much as character incoherence.  And I tend to give Marvel movies a pass because I feel like they know what they are.  DC movies, for the most part, want to take things more seriously (and, in turn, I take them more seriously).  Iron Man's character arc can be more fluid than Bruce Wayne because Iron Man doesn't take things seriously so why should I?

I do think they kept this one simpler than BvS and Suicide Squad.  There are a couple of detours along the way, but it's a fairly one-track plot.  Diana has a goal and works to achieve it.  I think, at parts, it becomes the "Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor" movie, but by the end, you know who the hero is.  The rest of the characters are pretty weak, but it doesn't really matter to me.

I did read a review that talked about how similar the movie is to Captain America: the First Avenger.  And I do think that the second half of both movies are somewhat similar....star-spangly dressed person with opposite sex military liaison goes across a warzone with a band of forgettable mercenaries to stop a German army with a supernatural leader.  I liked Wonder Woman better than First Avenger, if only because I think First Avenger might be one of the 2 or 3 worst MCU films, but I can see it.  Part of the film does feel like it wants to be set in WWII instead of WWI, but it doesn't really hurt anything.  To be fair, I also don't think the movie really takes advantage of the WWI time period...which could've made the movie even more special.

As we've had these discussions more and more, I look back to the MCU's start.  Iron Man is the best of them (and might still be), and the rest of the phase one movies are pretty meh.  Incredible Hulk is all but forgotten, Iron Man 2 is very pedestrian, the first Thor is fun but fleeting, and I already talked about First Avenger.  The universe didn't really "work" until the Avengers, and then (in my opinion), the movies started to feel connected and fun.

I think Wonder Woman is the best film of the DCEU.  If Wonder Woman is the DCEU's "Iron Man" and the rest of the pre-Justice League movies end up being equatable to the MCU phase one.  If that's the case, the DCEU will still be in phenomenal shape.

I don't have a lot to say about it, but Wonder Woman is great.  It's everything that DC movies need to be....fun and fantastical but still grounded.  Diana comes off as a character who is both insanely powerful but also very real.  In my opinion, it's easily the best of the four DC films, and if they can capture this tone with Justice League then it's going to be a huge success (critically and financially).

I'm also very interested in another Wonder Woman solo film set between this movie and BvS.  I wasn't sure what to make of Gal Gadot before this, and while Chris Pine does a decent amount of heavy lifting in this movie, she's great in the role.

Check it out for sure.

Finally giving Iron Fist a shot.  Let's see how it works.

I've been to Studio Movie Grill way more than Alamo, but it really doesn't bother me.  I have a friend who refuses to go to those places because of the distractions, but I don't really even notice the other people.  Sometimes the smell of food is a little distracting, but I usually like killing two birds with one stone and getting dinner while I'm watching a movie (instead of one, then the other).

I usually don't go for a movie that I'm excited about seeing or want to pay attention to everything (say, an Interstellar), but for something like Guardians or Wonder Woman....it's fine.  I probably won't be missing anything crucial if I look over to see the server for a second ha.

Well, they need to address where Clark is on Earth-1.  They've made implications that Superman exists in the universe (the biggest example is Rip Hunter's comment about "Men of Steel" in the Legends pilot).  So where is he?  Is he younger than everyone so he hasn't shown up?  Did his pod get knocked off course?  Or is he doing some sort of Red-Blue Blur thing in Metropolis and trying to stay off the radar.

But that's a pretty cool way to bring Kara in.

Anyone else find it weird that Sony is insisting on doing all these Spinoff (but not Spinoff) movies of a defunct Spider-Man universe?  They're moving forward with a Venom movie (with Tom Hardy) and a Silver Sable/Black Cat movie (a director was announced today).

I'm still not 100% how these movies are gonna work.  Is Tom Holland able to do cameos in this universe?  Will the Venom movie be in the same universe as the Black Cat movie?  Does anyone think a "Spider-Man's guest characters universe" is sustainable?

Don't get me started on the lack of communication between Team Flash and Team Arrow.  Couldn't Barry have fixed 99% of the problems this season?  Barry could've found William before Chase even knew what was happening without putting anyone in danger.

What's funny is that a couple lines of dialogue would fix stuff like this.  "Can't we just get Barry to super-canvass the island?"  "He's not picking up.  Not even Cisco.  Must be something with Savitar."  They do little things like that at times (when it was mentioned that Felicity was looking for something to power the cannon on Flash), but there's not enough of it to avoid question marks.  I know that there needs to be some separation (otherwise Oliver has no reason to do anything but investigate and point Barry in a direction), but for big events like this, they need to acknowledge that they're on their own.

Black Siren has a really bizarre sense of loyalty.  Evelyn was just evil for no reason.  I got nothing on either of their random decisions to be evil.  I also thought Boomerang immediately switching teams was strange.

I actually didn't like Chase as a villain.  I don't know why....it never worked for me.

Well, he had to go out with a win.  I know you didn't love his character, but I thought he had pretty good chemistry with the rest of the cast.  His character didn't hold up to much scrutiny (he never seemed like the King of Hell), but if you just took him at face value, he was fun.

Sheppard's sticking makes the most sense.  He had the most closure.

I already deleted it, and I forgot....was Tracy with the group at the end?  Was Julian?

I actually left sorta hoping that Barry was gone for good....that's sorta where his character has dropped for me.  And Wally wasn't as annoying in the second half of the season...I think being trapped in the Speed Force brought him back down to Earth a bit in a much better way.  I almost think it'd be better for the show if they didn't have Barry's baggage dragging it down.

Of course, they won't do that.  But maybe some time trapped in the Speed Force will do Barry some good.  We need him to FINALLY let go of his demons and just have fun.  Let Oliver be dark and brooding...let Barry be the light of the Arrowverse.

As far as the team goes, they should keep Tracy on board if Caitlin is truly gone (I thought her staying as Killer Frost was a really bold move).  I think Julian could be a good member too.  I'm also hoping Harry stays on too.

It was a very meh season.  We need a soft reboot.  Come back fixed, Barry.

I doubt Informant has kept up, but I'm guessing he wouldn't have enjoyed the Supergirl finale much.  A lot of sappiness, but also a *ton* of Superman telling Kara that she's better/stronger than him.

I actually thought it was pretty good.  The Superman/Supergirl fight was a bit understated, but I thought it was pretty well done for a CW budget.  All in all, I've been pretty impressed that I haven't really noticed much of a difference in the budget from CBS to CW (Metallo's awful suit notwithstanding).  Man of Steel is a more realistic depiction of the carnage that would be created by Kryptonian-on-Kryptonian brawls, but for TV, I thought it was pretty cool.

I also sorta love the little hints that Superman has been in an 11-season show, and we're seeing glimpses of it.  He drops hints of Warworld, and the Zod stuff is simply played off as if we already know who he is.  I thought that was a pretty cool way to do the Supergirl/Superman fight.  I don't love Tyler Hoechlin as Superman, but I think he works for the show.

It did feel like there were two factions in the writers room - the Men of Letters team and the Nephilim team - each that wrote out full conclusions...and then the show decided to cut both in half and air them both.  It did feel like different seasons.

They look weird, but let's at least give them the Pilot before we judge too harshly.  And remember, the Pilot will be on regular TV for free

Well, here's my thinking.

Getting her back risks getting Lucifer back.  I know she's family, but that's a huge risk bringing her back.  And, like I said, I feel like it's almost a happy ending for her.  She never really belonged, and she only felt comfortable hunting.  Now that's all she'll get to do.  Bobby seemed like he was at peace in that world (he never asks to come back with them), and I think she'd be the same way.  I agree that she'll probably come back (with Lucifer), and they probably needed a better goodbye if they were going to do things that way (where she chooses to go).  But if this is how it ends, it's probably the happiest of all the endings we got in that episode.

Wow, that's quite the finale. 

Do we think (SPOILERS) and (SPOILERS) are going to stay (SPOILERS)?  And were you upset that (SPOILERS) so so unceremoniously (SPOILERS)?  I also liked  the surprise (SPOILERS) of (SPOILERS) in the (SPOILERS)?

In all seriousness, I thought it was really thrilling.  And in the penultimate one, I was shocked at how emotional Dean's talk with Mary was.

Someone should've told the CW about how hard Bennett was trying to cover up the idea of him not returning because his return was in the sizzle reel released a few weeks ago.

I also don't know why they keep insisting on going to the Kirk era (it's still during his lifetime).  It's been covered....let's do something new.

I still sorta liked the idea that someone had back in the day about an Alpha Quadrant that's been devastated by an Omega Particle.  So simple space travel isn't simple anymore.  Set it in 2600 so that technology could be improved and no one from the TNG/DS9/VOY era would be alive.

It's also weird that they changed the uniforms again.  Although I guess the TNG/DS9/VOY era showed that they change uniforms like they change underwear at Starfleet.

Well, this is my next big concern.  People were talking about impeaching Trump before anything happened.  Before he took office.

And I'm worried about two things:

1. Is this going to be the new political world?  If we don't like a president or didn't vote for him/her, we're just going to demand impeachment at every turn for any reason?  Not just "I don't approve of the president" - "HE/SHE HAS TO GO!"

2. What if they get Trump on some sort of technicality?  Not necessarily a crime...something light and flimsy.  Doesn't that set a terrible precedent for future presidents?  Wouldn't hardcore republicans try the *exact same thing* with *whoever* the next Democratic president is?  Put pressure on them from day one....wait for any mistake...and strike?  Trump's awful....but wouldn't any president make a mistake under 24/7 scrutiny?

2017-2018 Lineup

Monday - Supergirl
Tuesday - Flash and Legends
Wednesday - Nothing
Thursday - Supernatural and Arrow

Black Lightning starts midseason, but I just read that it won't be an official part of the Arrowverse?