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Deep Winter posted:One thing nobody had brought up: Kahndaq was brought up in his episode, paving the way for Captain Marvel/Shazam and Black Adam? It as also in the Suicide Squad Arrow episode. These shows love dropping references for comic book fans and it doesn't really mean they're going to go there. On the other hand, sometimes the refs do end up going somewhere so who knows. Also EBR is just one of those actresses who has chemistry with whoever they put across from her. She has sizzling chemistry with Amell, Routh and Gustin, which is great but has the effect of making the love interest scenes with Laurel and Iris pale in comparison. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Panama Red posted:And as an actual PhD student working on his dissertation it never ceases to amuse me that Iris has all the time to do everything in the world but work on hers. This bugs me too. If she is far enough along in her dissertation for it to be the scary consequence for losing her laptop, what is she still doing taking classes? And is she a journalism PhD student?
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:This bugs me too. If she is far enough along in her dissertation for it to be the scary consequence for losing her laptop, what is she still doing taking classes? And is she a journalism PhD student? Wasn't the dissertation 9 months or so ago? I thought it happened the night of Barry getting hit by lightning?
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Episode 4 breaks the whole formula, basically. No metahuman villain of the week, no pep talk (besides romantic), and no Wells teaser. It actually doesn't. It's the exact same formula, but Snart takes Barry's place. He loses to a new and unforeseen threat, studies it and adapts, and triumphs in the end. That's Barry's path the last few episodes, just with a different protagonist. They don't break the formula, they just changed one thing: the main character.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:20
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My favorite part of Iris' PhD program is that it basically lets her switch majors. I forgot what she was in the pilot, but then in episode two she's just like "hey, I can take some journalism stuff!" and off we go. Its not completely unheard of for a PhD program to offer classes in related majors, but the whole handling of her supposed academic career is pretty bad. Not quite as bad as Arrow's butchering of the legal system, though.
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The second you start looking at any superhero show/movies particulars it can very easily fall apart. Should't try to apply real world logic to comic book stuff. Like I'm pretty sure if you calculated how fast the Flash would have to be going to save those people on that train, it would have to be significantly faster than his current top speed on the show.
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Panama Red posted:Plus I was groaning through Caitlin's boyfriend's flashback. I just plain didn't care, and that dialogue was excruciating. "What about Italy? Pizza... and wine... and pizza!" Who the gently caress plans a romantic vacation to Italy to eat pizza? What are you, a nuclear physicist or a ninja turtle? My wife and I absolutely chose to go to Italy on our honeymoon so we could drink wine and eat pizza. I'll make sure to break the news to her that she's not married to an Electrical Engineer, but a Hero in a Half Shell.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:04
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Felicity's whole "When it comes to hacking, I'm the Fastest Woman Alive" bit was pretty badass, despite her own feelings on the subject. And Gustin was pretty hilarious at selling Barry's "I don't NOT know who The Arrow is..." hemming and hawing.
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Also Black Adam just showed up in the Arrow 2.5 comics in Khandaq.
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Daric posted:Also Black Adam just showed up in the Arrow 2.5 comics in Khandaq. Shazam! 
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From what I understand, so far its a fellow going by a variant on the name and having some of the vague aesthetics (lightning bolt scar for example), but nothing definite on whether or not they're the real deal. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't - a thing that's been part of the Black Adam side of the Shazam mythos for the last... decade or so, I would guess, is how Black Adam is a cultural hero in Kahndaq. A reminder of a greater time when they were the reigning power of the region, a man from among the people made into a god. And post-Flashpoint, there are a bunch of terrorists in Kahndaq who invoke the imagery and, I am not making this up, actually manage to find a spell (invoking the egyptian gods, even though they're technically not to do with the powers anymore) that succeeds in brining Adam back to life. Again. So I could see this play out either way. It could be the comics having Ollie deal with a severely toned down Black Adam, or touching upon the mythos to establish it for potential later usage down the line. I mean, it'd involve another dude in red with a lightning bolt motif...
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No one is going to be a better Black Adam than Dwayne Johnson. Movie, TV, whatever.
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gently caress the DC Cinematic Universe. We don't need the loving Justice League. Ollie, Barry, Ray and Ronnie can start the loving Justice Society and it's a fair bet it'll be better than what hits theaters. Or if we get three more heroes we can have the Seven Soldiers.
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Just hit up my local comics shop and they had Flash's born to run, the first set of issues by Mark Waid! Just so my comics mind doesn't get completely warped, I was trying to recall how Wally West has been portrayed over the years. The Justice League cartoon largely had him as the wisecracking rookie. I can't recall how Grant Morrison wrote him in his Justice League stories though - as I recall the wide-eyed newbie was Kyle Rayner. Anyone care to jog my memory on that front? Is the "Barry Allen who returned from Crisis" character close at all to the TV versions? I know they share some backstory, but is the comics version so wide eyed and optimistic?
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Rhyno posted:gently caress the DC Cinematic Universe. We don't need the loving Justice League. Ollie, Barry, Ray and Ronnie can start the loving Justice Society and it's a fair bet it'll be better than what hits theaters. Or if we get three more heroes we can have the Seven Soldiers. Cisco makes 5, just watch.
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Scyantific posted:Cisco makes 5, just watch. You think he could Vibe with the other heroes?
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Scyantific posted:Cisco makes 5, just watch. Whoops forgot about him. bobkatt013 posted:You think he could Vibe with the other heroes? If you're going to make bad puns I will turn this thread around and take us right back home young man.
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You guys are forgetting Laurel 
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Rarity posted:You guys are forgetting Laurel And Roy! poo poo I suck at this game. Way we're going we'll have too many for 7S. Guess it'll have to the the All Star Squadron!
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As soon as we get any kind of League Roy is just going to walk. 
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Narcissus1916 posted:Is the "Barry Allen who returned from Crisis" character close at all to the TV versions? I know they share some backstory, but is the comics version so wide eyed and optimistic? 'Serious but optimistic' is how I'd describe it, especially after Flash Rebirth. He had a bit of angst due to the implications and ethics over his revival, but got over it from what I recall. The thing was that he was very much a 'veteran' Barry Allen, and so had had a bunch of experience to call upon and reaffirm his stance in life. Between that and Johns' unabashed affection for the character, he wound up as a temporary Blue Lantern (their schtick is hope) during Blackest Night. Show Barry is kinda like that, but without the certainty of experience to back him up. He takes his job, his motivation, and the value of the lives he saves - or fails to - seriously, but because he's still working through the whole process of how this is even meant to work, as possibly the first fullblown superhero of his world, new developments and uncertainties can blindside him, and sometimes he'll stumble. Notice how more comfortable he is in his day job, which he has quite some time to get used to, compared to the more involved superheroic work.
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Someone should definitely make a compilation video of every time someone says Snart in that episode. Please do this.
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Oh man a Justice Society for the Television series and then Justice League for the Movies would be awesome. Even being the 4th episode this is really drat good. I mean people love arrow but it was a pretty rocky but promising start as well. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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CobiWann posted:For all the science based villains so far, I wonder how the show would pull off someone like Doctor Alchemy. They'd probably make him closer to his original identity of Mr. Element, where he used an "Element Gun" to transmute things.
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Horrible Taste posted:They'd probably make him closer to his original identity of Mr. Element, where he used an "Element Gun" to transmute things. That Cisco invented.
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Horrible Taste posted:They'd probably make him closer to his original identity of Mr. Element, where he used an "Element Gun" to transmute things. I'd be down with that.
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This show does reward you for paying a little bit of attention. Two "blink and you'll miss them" name drops in one episode. Host of the trivia quiz? Oswald Loomis a.k.a. Prankster. Guy who called West and ratted out Snart? Dexter Myles a.k.a. the future curator of the Flash museum. Nice. Also, this thing I made a long time ago feels like it belongs here: 
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Deadpool posted:Someone should definitely make a compilation video of every time someone says Snart in that episode. Please do this. Also, put the Liz Lemon clip at the end of it, tia.
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VagueRant posted:Massively surprised at your reactions to Wentworth Miller. I thought he was THE WOOOOORST. Every scene he was in was so dumb and he was so cheesy and fake and bad. It wasn't scenery chewing, because it was more under-acting than over-acting. Yeah, on a show with a lot of dodgy performances, he stood out as particularly awful. There was a lot to like about the episode but he's a really poor choice to play a recurring villain.
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CAPTAIN COLD ON OUR TV SCREENS I couldn't stop smiling. THE PARKA!!!
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I am really digging the show, other than: -when supposedly smart people say dumb and wrong science stuff. --E=MC Hammer? Really? --In the pilot, someone said Barry was moving "xxx knots per hour." God drat it, it's just "knots", and who the gently caress uses knots other than pilots and boat people? Also, hey Flash, maybe instead of showing up and standing in front of the villain and letting him explain his plan and then begin to execute it, maybe you should just arrive at super speed and take away his gun and handcuff him to a police station. I know, superhero rules, but c'mon man.
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Nate Falls posted:
What is wrong with a goofy pub quiz name?
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You made some good points but you lay the hell off E=mCHammer
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Nate Falls posted:I am really digging the show, other than: I too get upset about this when watching the man who breaks the sound barrier.
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I think maybe if you start to make a post in this thread about real science or something similar you should probably stop and not make that post because it's dumb every time.
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Pub trivia names are *supposed* to be cheesy. It's a law.
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Clarification: My beef wasn't that the name is cheesy, which is totally kosher, just that the explanation from a Smart Person is "It's Einstein's equation for kinetic energy" (it's not). Just let it be a dumb joke, instead of making it a I'M SMART I SWEAR moment and failing at that.
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If your trivia team name isn't some sort of malignant pun, you should be kicked out of the game.
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Nate Falls posted:Clarification: My beef wasn't that the name is cheesy, which is totally kosher, just that the explanation from a Smart Person is "It's Einstein's equation for kinetic energy" (it's not). Just let it be a dumb joke, instead of making it a I'M SMART I SWEAR moment and failing at that. He's a forensic scientist, not a physicist.
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Nate Falls posted:Clarification: My beef wasn't that the name is cheesy, which is totally kosher Was this intentional, because that's a pub quiz team name right there
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