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Fragmented posted:So I have never read any Flash comic, but I love the show. I just have to wonder why The Streak and The Flash are his names. Both have...negative connotations. Why not just The Lightning? Or the Blur.
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I just have a medical problem! Everything works fine!
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Dec 14, 2014 19:11
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Fragmented posted:So I have never read any Flash comic, but I love the show. I just have to wonder why The Streak and The Flash are his names. Both have...negative connotations. Why not just The Lightning? Lightning is way more dangerous and potentially damaging than streakers or flashers. Maybe they should have stuck with The Blur. It's so...inoffensively indefinite. e: god dammit!
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Dec 14, 2014 19:32
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Rocksicles posted:There were no perverts in 1940. yeah, you could have produced a comic called the Gay Old Superfriends in that era and nobody would think twice.
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Dec 14, 2014 19:33
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Yeah, words in old comics just had different meanings sometimes.
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Dec 14, 2014 20:29
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Habibi posted:Lightning is way more dangerous and potentially damaging than streakers or flashers. wasn't the blur what they called clark in smallville?
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Dec 14, 2014 20:50
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:wasn't the blur what they called clark in smallville? I happily have no idea!
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Dec 14, 2014 21:50
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Nothing compared to the Whizzer.
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Dec 14, 2014 22:17
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Boner crimes. Ok I take back everything. Boner crimes.
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Dec 14, 2014 22:25
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Nothing compared to the Whizzer. I thought for sure that was the speedsters name in TMNT (turns out thats Zippy lad) but the Whizzer seems to have created his golden stream of justice for Marvel in the 1940s (seriously his name is whizzer and he wears a yellow costume).
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Dec 14, 2014 22:28
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Dave Angel posted:Yeah, words in old comics just had different meanings sometimes. you cant post that without this 
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Dec 14, 2014 22:34
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The Joker isn't a bad guy he's a hero. Making all those boners must be hard work. But now that I think it through the boners will probably explode.
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Dec 14, 2014 22:45
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Fragmented posted:The Joker isn't a bad guy he's a hero. Making all those boners must be hard work. But now that I think it through the boners will probably explode. YAHTZEE! Also, that plotline needs to be adopted for Arrow. Somehow.
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Dec 14, 2014 22:48
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zoux posted:Also significant this episode was the use of the word "speedster". This is a couple pages back, but this is why Flash needs a character like Cisco, because who the gently caress else would use a term like "speedster" first? A goony goon, and now that we've got a goony goon on Flash's team the showrunners can use Cisco to introduce all the nerdy comicbook terms that come part and parcel with Flash's mythos.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:10
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nutranurse posted:This is a couple pages back, but this is why Flash needs a character like Cisco, because who the gently caress else would use a term like "speedster" first? A goony goon, and now that we've got a goony goon on Flash's team the showrunners can use Cisco to introduce all the nerdy comicbook terms that come part and parcel with Flash's mythos. His use of the word "speedster" has caused me to go back and I am now currently rewatching Heroes 
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Dec 14, 2014 23:39
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MrFlibble posted:I thought for sure that was the speedsters name in TMNT (turns out thats Zippy lad) but the Whizzer seems to have created his golden stream of justice for Marvel in the 1940s (seriously his name is whizzer and he wears a yellow costume). And he got his superspeed powers from a transfusion of mongoose blood! 
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Dec 14, 2014 23:58
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Valeyard posted:His use of the word "speedster" has caused me to go back and I am now currently rewatching Heroes Heroes was a great show, it's too bad they never made a second season.
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Dec 15, 2014 00:18
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nutranurse posted:This is a couple pages back, but this is why Flash needs a character like Cisco, because who the gently caress else would use a term like "speedster" first? A goony goon, and now that we've got a goony goon on Flash's team the showrunners can use Cisco to introduce all the nerdy comicbook terms that come part and parcel with Flash's mythos. I don't think Carlos Valdes gets enough credit here and in general for how fine a line he has to cross between goony but sincere and obnoxious nerd stereotype.
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Dec 15, 2014 00:38
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Solaris Knight posted:I don't think Carlos Valdes gets enough credit here and in general for how fine a line he has to cross between goony but sincere and obnoxious nerd stereotype. It's why I like Cisco and think Carlos Valdes is doing a great job with the role: he's unquestionably a nerd, but he's not insufferably nerdy. The fine line most nerds fall well to one side of.
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Dec 15, 2014 00:44
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Solaris Knight posted:I don't think Carlos Valdes gets enough credit here and in general for how fine a line he has to cross between goony but sincere and obnoxious nerd stereotype. His,"We could really use a Cold Gun right now... just saying...." line was so great.
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Dec 15, 2014 01:10
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Bruceski posted:Heroes was a great show, it's too bad they never made a second season. But if you discount the later seasons you don't get that scene with Hiro and the other painter who paints the future, where he keeps on getting hit with a shovel. I remember it being hilarious. I wonder how the remake/reboot of Heroes is doing.
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Dec 15, 2014 01:56
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MrFlibble posted:I wonder how the remake/reboot of Heroes is doing. Fuckin' NBC.
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Dec 15, 2014 02:25
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MrFlibble posted:I wonder how the remake/reboot of Heroes is doing. Hahahaha, OMG they're actually doing this. NBC must be green with envy that so many superhero shows are doing well on other networks after they poo poo the bed with Heroes some years prior.
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Dec 15, 2014 05:58
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I'd bet that the NBC execs think it was timing instead of Heroes being a bad show.
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Dec 15, 2014 06:02
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Flash and Heroes both have secret techniques to massively cut down on SFX cuts, but the problem with Heroes is that their technique was having Mohinder hold the door closed so they didn't have to show anything.
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Dec 15, 2014 06:21
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I'd like to see a Heroes show along the lines of American Horror Story in which each season is its own thing. Unless I'm mistaken that would be more in line with the original vision of Heroes. I'm glad I gave up on that show after one season. People say it got bad after the first season but I thought the finale to s1 was so bad I just couldn't give any fucks about the next season.
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Dec 15, 2014 06:28
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Timett posted:I'd like to see a Heroes show along the lines of American Horror Story in which each season is its own thing. I gave up in the middle of the first season. Claire's whining was just dumb and annoying. JUST ACT LIKE A NORMAL SANE PERSON AND TRY TO AVOID DOING THINGS THAT WOULD CRITICALLY INJURE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING YOU DUMB BIMBO CHEERLEADER.
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Dec 15, 2014 06:40
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I lasted until the start of the third season. The second was just a terribly crafted and soul crushing slog and S3 just started worse so I bailed. It was bad enough that not only have I never finished but I feel confident I won't given the new version a look out of pure principle. There's like a million comic properties to choose from. Bury your failure.
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Dec 15, 2014 07:00
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David D. Davidson posted:I gave up in the middle of the first season. Claire's whining was just dumb and annoying. I was actually waiting for them to go some dumb emo cutting route with Claire. THE ONLY WAY I CAN FEEL IS TO CUT OFF PART OF ME, REPEATEDLY. DAD!
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Timett posted:I'd like to see a Heroes show along the lines of American Horror Story in which each season is its own thing. Yes, the original vision IIRC was that every season would feature [mostly] new characters and new storylines. But execs got convinced people become attached to characters (and they do, but so what) and long story short 
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Habibi posted:Yes, the original vision IIRC was that every season would feature [mostly] new characters and new storylines. But execs got convinced people become attached to characters (and they do, but so what) and long story short Really, they discovered that 18-49 year old males wanted to nail Hayden Panettiere and decided that nothing should change so people would keep wanting to nail her. People give Fox a lot of poo poo for canceling good shows, but NBC deserves at least as much poo poo for both making lovely shows, and NOT canceling lovely shows about 10 years ago. Now if only CW could lose its stigma so I don't have to feel bad that, at one point, I was watching 5 CW shows at once.
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WarLocke posted:I was actually waiting for them to go some dumb emo cutting route with Claire. I'm 90% sure that actually happened in the last season. It was after Sylar finally cut her head open and stole her healing. Turns out "Save the cheerleader, save the world was bullshit" since Claire was still alive and Sylar was still killable.
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I stopped watching when Sylar turned into a good guy. I think that was season 2.
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About 80% of Heroes was garbage. It had some really great things but overall it was a meandering, poorly plotted mess. In retrospect it seems pretty clear that Tim Kring had no real idea what to do with the plot past the first couple of episodes, and took way too much feedback from random homeless people on the internet. I expect very little from the reboot.
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Even the end of the first season was pretty utterly terrible. Well, the last half of the last episode was.
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The weirdest thing about Heroes is they kept on creating different characters with different powers just to keep Ali Larter on the show.
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Well they probably thought she was a ratings draw. I think this was just on the cusp of when having good IP started to be more important than having popular talent though, and their popular talent sticking around forever was resulting in terrible writing hurting the IP.
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Kruller posted:Really, they discovered that 18-49 year old males wanted to nail Hayden Panettiere and decided that nothing should change so people would keep wanting to nail her. You forget that 18-49 year old females also wanted to nail Zachary Quinto. I forget which comic book writer started working on the show partway through the second or third season. I remember him essentially plugging his Red Hulk book in the middle of the show. I want to say his presence helped send Heroes into the shitter.
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Dec 15, 2014 16:08
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hiddenriverninja posted:The weirdest thing about Heroes is they kept on creating different characters with different powers just to keep Ali Larter on the show. It's worse on Legends, she still cannot act worth a drat and plays a big role on that show.
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Xelkelvos posted:You forget that 18-49 year old females also wanted to nail Zachary Quinto. Well yeah to be fair Zachary Quinto was at least half of the 20% of Heroes that was not garbage. The writers did some dumb as gently caress things with his character but he was a real trouper.
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