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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I grew up in the 70s when comic book television ranged from the loving appallingly awful to the merely very very bad...Now this week I saw three episodes that made me feel like I was watching comic books come to life. Why has it taken so loving long to get to this point? Cost of halfway decent visual effects got lowered to television budget levels.
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Also comic book media have become massive finacial big tents, which means networks are willing to put real money behind them. I won't see Arrow til tomorrow, how was the ep?
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zoux posted:Also comic book media have become massive finacial big tents, which means networks are willing to put real money behind them. It was decent. Arrow seems much slower paced this season, at least to me. So it is on par for the season.
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They usually go balls out in the backhalf so I'm optimistic.
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zoux posted:They usually go balls out in the backhalf so I'm optimistic. They did potentially open the door for some craziness in the backhalf. I hope they deliver.
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zoux posted:I won't see Arrow til tomorrow, how was the ep? Jesus loving christ what the gently caress.
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In regards to Arrow I will say ohhhhh shiiiit. That is how you do a mid season finale.
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Arrow, Flash and AoS deliver not only a brilliant episode for mid season finale. They clean knocked it out of the park with their best episodes yet. Come on Constantine for the quadfecta.
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Constantine can't fulfill your quadfecta a mid season finale implies it'll actually come back on the air.
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SirDan3k posted:Constantine can't fulfill your quadfecta a mid season finale implies it'll actually come back on the air. I've actually really enjoyed Constantine too. This makes me sad.
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With Arrow initially I didn't like the performance of the guy playing Ras. It looked like he was hired because he looks kinds of like Liam Neeson if you squint, but he just didn't command the same kind of awe. I think it came down to his delivery, he just sounded kind of weak of the leader of the League. That being said, his whole confrontation with Ollie was amazing.
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So, Lazarus Pits on network TV eh?
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Can we use one on Constantine? 
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Madkal posted:With Arrow initially I didn't like the performance of the guy playing Ras. It looked like he was hired because he looks kinds of like Liam Neeson if you squint, but he just didn't command the same kind of awe. I think it came down to his delivery, he just sounded kind of weak of the leader of the League. That being said, his whole confrontation with Ollie was amazing. Yeah, the guy playing Ras was pretty lackluster, but everything else came together so well.
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ToastyPotato posted:Can we use one on Constantine? Lazarus pits. Nasty business that. The say that what go in... ain't the same as what come out.
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A failed NBC show in, a prosperous CW show out. 
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greatn posted:Lazarus pits. Nasty business that. The say that what go in... ain't the same as what come out. So that show might improve, is what you're saying?
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Trip
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Dan Didio posted:So that show might improve, is what you're saying? It a resurrection pit not a miracle worker.
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Has Gotham gotten any better? I kinda stopped watching a while back.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Has Gotham gotten any better? I kinda stopped watching a while back. As someone who didn't watch the series originally and bingewatch it recently, I would say yes.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Has Gotham gotten any better? I kinda stopped watching a while back. I still have to finish up Harvey Dent and Lovecraft, but... man, I'm liking it. In whatever the episode before Harvey Dent was, Barbara left and has, in the short time she's been gone, immeasurably improved it. If you can power through her being terrible, there's plenty to enjoy, I think. I think most of the actors are doing well (Bruce seems a touch stilted, but I think that might be on the writing), and a lot of the stand-alone episodes are pretty solid. Of course, if you dropped it because you think it sucked, I'm not sure how much better you'll think it is. It's still built on those earlier episodes, after all.
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irlZaphod posted:Trip I know, man, I know. That was pretty drat heartbreaking for a television show. Also, Ras sounded positively Australian. Shrug.
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<---Aussie, don't agree.
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I honestly heard it and realized without knowing he was actually Australian before hand.
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Where is Manu Bennett from, cause I keep reading on SA that he's Australian but he sounds super Kiwi to me. And kiwi is a silly accent. Flash/arrow Christmas finals were a lot of fun although the Barry/iris thing is a real turn off. I wish these sorts of shows would be even slightly mature in how they they portray romance and relationships. Secretly pining for someone for a billion years (and someone who is your bestest friend or in this case semi-sister) is such a frustrating/unpleasant thing to watch and it's been done a billion times. How come these sorts of show just can't having people going on dates with more casual friends or semi-acquaintances or people they meet wherever or something. Maybe be in a relationship for a while, maybe it doesn't work out. Tons of drama there. I'm not a huge fan of this "one true love" basically 
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Goatmask posted:Where is Manu Bennett from, cause I keep reading on SA that he's Australian but he sounds super Kiwi to me. And kiwi is a silly accent. Because putting people in stable, mature relationships is illegal in comics writing or something. Or it is the literal cause of declining comic sales. There's no way to know! Better stick with what has always worked!
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Goatmask posted:Where is Manu Bennett from, cause I keep reading on SA that he's Australian but he sounds super Kiwi to me. And kiwi is a silly accent. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=where%20is%20manu%20bennet%20from
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Goatmask posted:Where is Manu Bennett from, cause I keep reading on SA that he's Australian but he sounds super Kiwi to me. And kiwi is a silly accent. He's from New Zealand. Slade, on the other hand, is supposed to be Australian (so's Captain Boomerang). ToastyPotato posted:Because putting people in stable, mature relationships is illegal in comics writing or something. Or it is the literal cause of declining comic sales. There's no way to know! Better stick with what has always worked! The most stable marriage I can think of in comics was Peter Parker and Mary Jane, and look what they did to that. I guess you have Reed and Sue, though, when Reed isn't being evil. I mean, dressing up in pajamas and fighting crime isn't something stable people do, so it does kind of make sense that they'd have hosed up relationships, too.
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This is not really a comic thing though, more of a serialized media thing. An actual relationship is apparently harder to write or less interesting to watch than a courtship.
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e X posted:This is not really a comic thing though, more of a serialized media thing. An actual relationship is apparently harder to write or less interesting to watch than a courtship. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's a CW show, they're all about the soapy melodrama.
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The Simpsons got so much mileage out of a loving marriage for like 9 seasons, before it got lazy and became the "Marge is threatening to leave Homer again" show.
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Lurdiak posted:The Simpsons got so much mileage out of a loving marriage for like 9 seasons, before it got lazy and became the "Marge is threatening to leave Homer again" show. While that does happen a stupid amount, its probably only 1/10 episodes or so. Most of the time they're still in sync in a loving marriage.
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Barry should try speed dating that poo poo writes itself (it doesn't I have no idea how to write).
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So I just started watching Arrow, partway through the Huntress stuff. Please tell me Diggle never stops being so based.
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Angry Walrus posted:So I just started watching Arrow, partway through the Huntress stuff. Please tell me Diggle never stops being so based. He's not quite as awesome in the third season, but he's still pretty cool, but I think part of that is the show focusing more on other characters. In the second season he leads the Suicide Squad on a mission (I'm not even sure Oliver Queen shows up in that episode).
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He has the best facial expressions in the Flash/Arrow crossover.
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Goatmask posted:Where is Manu Bennett from, cause I keep reading on SA that he's Australian but he sounds super Kiwi to me. And kiwi is a silly accent. His accent is both, he went to school here and NZ, when he was drat near broke and working as a labourer before Spartacus, he was here in Sydney. Kiwi accent on a hot women is like Spanish Fly. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Rocksicles posted:Kiwi accent on a hot women is like Spanish Fly. For entertainment purposes only?
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