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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 26, 2015 19:02:42 GMT 2
Apologies for the appalling lack of new content over the last few days. I've had lots to do and no time to do it. You know how it is.
What I have been doing is catching up on some TV, and whilst Daredevil on Netflix (three episodes in so far, no spoilers please) is way better than I thought it would be, instantly wiping away the memory of the movie, the Flash is a bitter disappointment.
I should have gone in expecting the worst, I suppose, but a guy I know fucking raved about it, even calling it the greatest TV show of all time (of ALL TIME!)
So yeah, maybe I was expecting something special, and what I did get was a lame reheat of Smallville. Lame "oh, this other guy was caught in the storm = super villain" story of the week which was exactly the same as Smallville, stupid kids doing adult jobs just like Smallville and, gahh, just the sense we've all been here before. I lasted four episodes before canning it.
Am I missing out?
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Post by trashcanman on May 27, 2015 22:01:24 GMT 2
Wow, I thought everybody loved The Flash. I'm definitely enjoying it. The only thing I don't care for is the constant focus on the Iris/Barry nomance, but the way it embraces the ridiculousness of comic book tropes is really refreshing to me whereas Arrow always takes everything way too seriously. I mean, what other show would even attempt to do Gorilla Grodd? And bringing in Mark Hammil to revisit his role as the original Trickster AND getting him to say the line "No....I am your father"? So geeky. Yeah, you're missing out, but if you''re not into it, you're not into it.,
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 30, 2015 13:14:16 GMT 2
Yeah, the Mark Hamill stuff sounds like fun, but not enough to stick around for 22 episodes. Nice touch, though, although the continuity nerd in me asks if he's the "Original Trickster", isn't the guy in jail the original Flash?
What did you think of Daredevil? I'm loving it so far. Wilson Fisk is a far more interesting monster than I'd thought he'd turn out to be.
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Post by trashcanman on May 30, 2015 22:06:15 GMT 2
It's probably the best collection of character studies we've ever seen in a comic book property and the action scenes are brilliant, but I was a little concerned it took 14 hours to do what the movie did in 2. I mean, that sucker was loooooong winded. Not that the movie was in any way better, but it wouldn't have killed them to bring in the suit and baton a little sooner, you know? Anyways the casting was ridiculously perfect and yeah, introducing Kingpin through his courtship of his wife was a pretty unexpected and brilliant approach. I really hate that I'm going to have to wait so long for season 2.
As for the "original Flash", towards the climax of the first season they played some serious space-time and possible alternate reality games and at one point the Golden Age Flash's helmet popped out of a wormhole, implying all sorts of crazy shit we can expect moving forward.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 7, 2015 15:50:39 GMT 2
Nice. OK, that could seriously warrant me investing some more time in that show.
Yeah, I thought the series did maybe drag its heels a little bit towards the end. Like, get to some semblance of a fucking plot already. But everyone is perfect in their roles, and it's interesting they didn't throw out any villains or characters (with the exception of Stick, who was great) and are obviously saving them for Season 2. Imagine how bad-ass Bullseye is gonna be...
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 7, 2015 18:53:47 GMT 2
Yeah, if I don't get some Bullseye/Electra in season 2, I'm going to be seriously bummed.
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