DC Superheroes on TV & Streaming (1966 - 2024) (Page 11 of 28)

I bet we could have the best podcast ever. We could have a sixteen-part series on Man of Steel, and then move on to the more controversial stuff.

...but I hate the sound of my own voice. Dueling Bloggers?

If you do start a Kickstarter campaign, just give me the money. The new Samsung Galaxy is coming out soon and I need to save money for one, because my S4 is slowing down. So that, and maybe some marketing for my books to reduce the stress level... Then I can promise to pretend to have fun for a while.

Seriously though, I have fun. I get my kicks by seeing good work in movies and television. Man of Steel was beautiful. I enjoy it. Batman v Superman was exciting. I enjoy it. Suicide Squad was genuinely fun. I don't enjoy seeing people praising work that the makers obviously didn't care about. To me, that's not fun. So while we might disagree on what we enjoy and have fun with, I promise that I do have fun. I don't think that you have to sacrifice critical thinking or lower expectations in order to have fun. I don't think that writers or actors should be able to half-ass their work because "Fun!"

Amazon's series, Patriot... most people would see it as simply brooding and depressing and they'd hate it. I see a lot of interesting work going into it. I like it!

I may or may not know the words to the Girl Meets World theme song.

Starlette is fun. And while people have said that Freedom/Hate is too oppressively depressing (it's book one of a dystopian series!), I think that allowing the characters to have those feelings makes their joy more honest and genuine.

Yeah, I think that Oliver probably has that warrior thing going on. He probably enjoys killing bad people and stopping them from doing bad things. I don't think he enjoys taking human life as much as he enjoys stopping the bad guy. Prometheus is the opposite. He is everything that he accuses Oliver of being (killing in the name of his father), but I think all of his motives are just an excuse to kill people and cause chaos. And Evelyn... I have no idea.

Hey, Oliver and I have a lot in common. We enjoy darkness because it serves a greater good!

Why are you still giving opinions about things you haven't watched? Didn't you learn the sheer stupidity of this after you reviewed the monster busting sequences of SLIDERS REBORN based on reading someone else's email on it instead of actually reading ithe pages yourself?

Katie Cassidy is a good actress, but I think the #NoLaurelNoArrow crowd would prefer the real Laurel back and Black Siren would just remind them of what they've lost. I still miss Harry even though the actor never left.

Just to weird people out, I say they should hire Katherine Ryan to play Black Siren as well and they should alternate between shots.

And I think Arrow wants to keep the Laurel death real.  Call it stubbornness or whatever, but I think people will assume that they're trying to appease the #NoLaurelNoArrow crowd if they bring her back.

So they bring the Earth 2 version, try and rehabilitate her, and everyone's happy.  Except for the Felicity folks.

Ha that's awesome.

I can't really quibble with ANY of Slider_Quinn21's thoughts on LEGENDS. Of all the CW superhero shows, LEGENDS has the least amount of logic to it and the greatest amount of odd narrative errors and unjustified leaps. In Season 1, Hawkgirl got stranded in the past with Ray Palmer and an episode later, it might as well have never happened; in the finale, Hawkgirl got stranded again and randomly found a helmet that she inexplicably knew to be in Rip's possession in the future and used it to plant a message despite the helmet having never been previously introduced onscreen. LEGENDS does not setup its payoffs well and often fails to pay off its setups.

I've written an explanation for Eobard's place in continuity (it's post-Season 1 of THE FLASH) -- http://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php?pid=5394#p5394 -- but even that explanation notes that the dialogue where Eobard refers to the Season 1 finale and the Season 3 premiere was incorrectly written, an error that the writers missed.

With Season 2, we have Mick betraying the Legends with almost no consequence; after punching him a few times, the Legends once again fight alongside him and there is no consideration to Mick's role on the team and they continue to treat him as their personal attack dog while Mick's loyalties remain questionable. It might as well have never happened. There's mismatched scenes in sequence throughout Season 2 such as the Legends inexplicably letting Rip Hunter get captured and proceeding to kick back with a STAR WARS marathon rather than scouring all reality for their captured friend.

There's a lot of joy and enthusiasm to LEGENDS, but also a bizarre sense that scripts are not being properly reviewed before filming. No show is devoid of error, but the errors on LEGENDS are so obvious. Even if LEGENDS couldn't fit the casts of ARROW and FLASH into Doomworld and needed the LEGENDS cast kept intact, some brief explanation was needed as to why Eobard Thawne kills Barry Allen but spares the Legends or why the WWII time period was left intact for a second effort to regain the Spear.

DOCTOR WHO would have thrown out a quick explanation that the Legion of Doom has never really taken the Legends seriously as a threat and consider them the misfits and rejects compared to the ARROW and FLASH teams and said something about the WWII episode being a fixed point in time needed to anchor the Doomworld reality. LEGENDS doesn't even try.

One gets the sense the DC TV staff need to hire more producers; there are too few people being stretched too thin across ARROW, FLASH, SUPERGIRL and LEGENDS.

What's funny is that I don't really hate it.  I even read an article that stated that Legends is the best CW show because it doesn't get too bogged down in itself (the other shows torture their heroes a bit too much).  In a lot of ways, Legends is a sort of playground for the Arrowverse...mixing and matching heroes and villains and doing storylines that the other shows can't really do (because they're too crazy or too weird).

But ireactions is 100% right - it needs more oversight.  (This is the part where I say they need a Kevin Feige ).  I think they're spread too thin, and the replacing talent is either not good enough or not empowered enough to make it work.

He's also right that these are easy fixes.  Keep the legends in the timestream and outside the changes that Thawne did.  Or because they touched the spear, they aren't affected.  Or make it the 4-way crossover.  Or do Doomworld during the hiatus (which they might not have control over, but Berlanti has control of about 1/5 of the CW's lineup....I'm sure he can pull some favors to get the lineup right).

The Thawne explanation makes sense, and outside the one line about Flashpoint, actually lines up.  But I'm about to the point where I consider Legends its own place in the multiverse.  It's Earth 4.  So any changes don't impact Arrow or Flash....just like changes on Arrow and Flash don't impact Supergirl.  I'm also ready to concede that Arrow and Flash aren't concurrent and the timelines only matter on crossovers.  And/or that the crossovers aren't canon

I'm interested to see if things mesh better next season when they don't have to worry about weird issues with Supergirl.  Although with *another* show being added to the mix, I'm guessing they're still going to have all kinds of issues.

I thought the guy who ran The Tomorrow People was running Legends. Did that change?

I don't think that Black Lightning will impact the Arrowverse too much. They're filming in Atlanta (for the pilot anyway), so it will probably be its own thing.

Now here's something interesting:

http://deadline.com/2017/04/dc-digital- … 202076831/

A new DC Comics focused digital service that's going to offer access to digital comics along with exclusive DC television and movie content - including Young Justice season 3 and a Teen Titans live action series produced by Berlanti.   The interesting bit there is - will the Arrowverse Wally run over to become part of the Titans cast?  Also mentioning we could be one step closer to an Arrowverse Justice League with Nightwing filling the Batman role (or Batman himself showing up like Superman did on his cousin's series).

Ugh. Another company that expects me to pay a monthly fee for relatively little content. I am interested in their shows, but I think that a partnership with Amazon could have worked better. Amazon does books as well as video already.

This might be another situation where I either go in for the free trial, or just pay for one month and binge on everything I can in that time frame.

I guess it makes sense, and it's actually a better system than paying for hundreds of channels that you don't want. Like I said, I can pay for a month of DC's service and watch what I want from them, and then cancel/suspend my account until the next time I want to watch something there.

With Netflix and Amazon, I keep those services all the time. But with other services which only offer a limited selection of shows that I actually care about, I guess this works. It's just a lot of work to juggle all of them.

If I were an app designer, I'd design an app that can manage payments/subscriptions to all of the various services (just the payment sides, not the actual viewing).

I need to try Fargo sometime.

I think I'm physically incapable of starting to watch a show from the middle, even if it doesn't matter. I even needed to watch Black Mirror from the beginning.

I might need mental help for this condition.

Re: The Once and Future Flash

I appreciate that we went from scene to scene checking on everyone on Team Flash, but where was Oliver? Felicity? Anyone from the Legends?  Did they all give up on Barry?

Just once...I want the Arrowverse to have Team Arrow cover for Team Flash or vice versa when things go down.  They don't really seem to ever consider it.  Team Arrow is responsible for Star City and Team Flash is responsible for Central City.  They'll team up, but they don't really leave their jurisdiction, do they?

Have they ever tried giving an explanation for how Harry and/or HR even lives on Earth 1?  Does he have a fake ID?  A credit card?  Did/do they both live at STAR labs?  Does HR have any money?  It's basically a Sliders situation....he shouldn't exist.

Now that I think about it, money is never mentioned.  Are Caitlin and Cisco still employed at STAR Labs?  Who owns it?  Did Harrison Wells leave it to one of them?  And, if so, did he also leave other money?  Who's financing any of this?

At least with Arrow, they've used Queen money to pay for everything.  Although I have no idea whether or not Oliver has any money or if Felicity is still running PalmerTech or if any of those businesses still exist.

Now that you mention those, I remember all that   Except the part about Thawne leaving STAR Labs to Barry.  Would that have been public?  Is Barry rich now?

Hahah, I'm probably revealing how I'm usually messing around on my phone or my laptop when I watch these shows

I hasn't noticed that there was no flashback. Interesting.

And I forgot about Felicity's boyfriend too. Interesting.

And why was this super hacker kept so mysterious?

The daughter thing was weird. I think they should have played that differently. It was an awkward story.

Curtis was super annoying this week.

Agreed. They should have used his anger issues and vigilante angle. Lance lost both daughters, Oliver lost his mother and best friend, Felicity lost her generic brand boyfriend, Dinah lost her partner/boyfriend, Rory lost his entire town... Maybe Rene could just see the pattern here and want to keep his daughter safe.

The cut isn't as offensive as the bad wig-ness of it.

And at some point, Grant needs to hit the gym and take some protein supplements. He's a superhero, for crying out loud.

That's funny.

I think that's the primary theory out there.

My theory is that he's Ronnie Raymond from the future.  That's why he went to Caitlin and why she trusted him immediately.  I'm probably wrong.

For the final scene of the last episode, Ronnie makes the most sense.  He's the person who has a connection to both Caitlin (obvious) and Killer Frost (Deathstorm from Earth-2).  Caitlin wanted to kill Barry so I don't know why she'd immediately trust a future version of Barry.

Re: Savitar revelation.  Spoilers.

Does it make sense?  I mean, I can see that Barry could be twisted.  And I could see that Barry's own mistakes are what's led to this point so it makes sense that his "demons" would "manifest" in himself becoming a villain.

But I still think back to the Caitlin moment where she immediately trusts him.  Even if she saw the scars, she didn't trust Barry.  It's why my Ronnie theory makes more sense - he's someone she'd immediately begin working with.  Barry...not so much.

Also, is he a time remnant?  Because this presumably isn't the Barry that we saw last episode....it's another one?  Or is it that Barry from even further out?  Or is that impossible since Savitar is trapped in the Speed Force?  And how can Tracy's plan be linked to trapping Savitar in the Speed Force through his metal when Wally (and then Jay) were both trapped in the Speed Force without the metal?  Is the metal the key to the jail but not necessarily the jail itself?

I've seen some talk on Flash that it needs a light reboot.  I'm hoping that defeating "himself" is the end of Barry feeling sorry for himself and feeling bad about his past.  If this is a 3-year arc, and they can move passed it to something more fun next season...I think it'll be fine. 

They've already said that next season won't have a speedster as a big bad.  Y'all would know better than me...have they basically already used every speedster villain?

I wouldn't mind if they stretched out of the Flash mythos.  They can't use Batman villains (Gotham) or Superman villains (Supergirl).  But what about other big-time DC villains?  Would they be allowed to use someone like Siniestro?  Or Amazo?  Or Ares?  Or even someone like Black Adam?

Especially if they aren't going to use any of those heroes.  Wouldn't there villains still be around either way?

Checking to make sure Informant is still alive after that episode of Olicity....er, I mean, Arrow.

"I am the future Flash." What a great reveal! It makes no sense whatsoever in terms of what we know so far -- are we really to believe that any version of Barry Allen in any time or place would kill Iris? But it's still a great line.

I find it best not to ask these questions too much, and one of the worst things about the middle seasons of ARROW was how Queen Consolidated's earnings was played as this huge deal, except when Oliver lost his company and money, he didn't seem to have any trouble finding a place to live or constantly buying gadgets and supplies.

With regards to THE FLASH, there's the unspoken sense that Eobard Thawne's future knowledge and genius and assuming the Harrison Wells identity would have meant that STAR Labs continues to generate revenue through patents. That said, THE FLASH is a show that often does not withstand the scrutiny of real world considerations. You might ask;

• How did the Pipeline villains use the bathroom?

• Why was STAR Labs continuing to rent a massive facility for a staff of three people and one coma patient?

• Why does nobody besides Barry Allen work in the crime lab and why did no one make use of the lab in Barry's year-long coma?

• Why is Barry even allowed to work as a forensic scientist when, having recovered from a coma, he would have to pass a battery of psych and physical tests or risk his evidence being dismissed as unreliable in court?

• Why does Barry lack a department head or supervisor at the police station?

• Why did Barry never seem to go home in Season 1? Where was he sleeping?

The answer to all of the above, of course, is that THE FLASH is a fantasy adventure series.

Enh.  I'm behind on watching, so I can only respond based on comments.  It seems to me that if they were going to go this route, the season should have been a mystery of "Who is Barry Allen?"  He could have returned from Flashpoint a little "off" but it would progressively get more and more alarming during the season.  I think it would have been a good counterpoint to season one by having a reverse of the Reverse Flash story where Barry isn't what he seems and ends up being the speedster villain of the season.  They could have even completed the circle by having Thawne show up to try to warn them and nobody believing him.

But like many of the ideas we've had since season one, what we get feels half baked.  I think it's still the production team being stretched too thin; and if that's it, it's only going to get worse with Black Lightning and Titans now in the mix.