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thrakkorzog posted:I haven't seen any mention of having him show up. Considering the shows treatment of C listers like Anarky, I'm OK with not having Tommy Monaghan show up, since the show would most likely reduce him to being a bad guy because he is a hired killer, and not give any nuance to his character. 7 or 8 years ago Ennis said DC had approached him about doing a Hitman animated web series but he wasn't really interested at the time because of how poorly progress on the Preacher film was going.
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McSpanky posted:Tommy can show up in a quick cameo offering his merc services to Team Arrow, knowing full well they won't want an amoral hired assassin on the squad, he's just there to peep Black Canary with his x-ray vision. Actually I think Ennis has a similar deal with DC to what Gaiman does with Sandman. I think they'd have to sort out his permission to use Tommy. Is Ennis on good terms with DC these days? I know after the Boys debacle he used the term "rat fuckers" to describe a few members of editorial.
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I'm really not sure about the permission/rights situation, I was just riffing on his cameo in Morrison's JLA run where the same thing happened during their open membership call but with Wonder Woman.
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I always felt like Constantine as a hero/superhero was always less interesting compared to Constantine as a brilliant con-man with deep occult knowledge and a Machiavellian streak. He doesn't give a poo poo about who he has to ruin or whatever nightmarish price must be paid in order to accomplish his goal. Manipulation, deception, and general misanthropy are all fair game to him. His appearance on Arrow was fun (like when he just hits on all the pretty ladies at once cause he just doesn't give a gently caress) but still doesn't quite capture what I believe is the most unique essence of the character.
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hi liter posted:I always felt like Constantine as a hero/superhero was always less interesting compared to Constantine as a brilliant con-man with deep occult knowledge and a Machiavellian streak. He doesn't give a poo poo about who he has to ruin or whatever nightmarish price must be paid in order to accomplish his goal. Manipulation, deception, and general misanthropy are all fair game to him. Did his show? Because that sounds like an awesome concept and I may have to read Hellblazer now. I don't even remember if the movie pulled that off at all, but I doubt it did if it's that unmemorable for me.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Did his show? Because that sounds like an awesome concept and I may have to read Hellblazer now. Not in the first two episodes (I sort of stopped after that). And I haven't read a ton of Hellblazer, just the aforementioned arc where he cons the three princes of Hell and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing where he was introduced.
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Ville Valo posted:Of course he is; Swamp Thing is/can be everywhere plants are! He'll be there being trained by Constantine
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McDragon posted:Darhk has really grown on me, even if I can never remember how to spell his silly name. More H's. Dhamhien H Dharhkh.
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McSpanky posted:This episode was primarily about dealing with the resurrected Sara but I don't consider it a case of the show "spinning its wheels". Whether she's headed to a spinoff or not is irrelevant, this was a natural and reasonable direction for the characters to go and the consequences of these events is continuing to evolve them and their relationships, certainly a hell of a lot more than large stretches of season 3 did. If they hadn't cast her in the spin-off I highly doubt they would have ressurected her. Like I said, this was pulled off better the the Flash one as it has greater tie ins to the characters, but it was still a filler episode that will have no long term bearing on the season as a wholr The fact that Sara doesn't interact with any of the characters post resouling is telling. In fact apart from the gibberish, she had no lines of dialogue at all.
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McDragon posted:Also this episode informed me that I need to go dig up that Constantine series because he was great.
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Duke Chin posted:Sooooo yeah that was pretty piss-poorly edited, felt super rushed, had awful fight "choreography" and Laurel is a complete garbage actor... nah
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Nov 6, 2015 14:00
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Mr Beens posted:If they hadn't cast her in the spin-off I highly doubt they would have ressurected her. That's the correct way to use Caity Lotz.
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Nov 6, 2015 14:06
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It does feel like Arrow does better when its self contained. Constatine just showing up and poofing back to his home planet within the span of one episode really felt inorganic. Likewise with Ray's/Mr.Terrific's plotline.
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I do feel like the Constantine thing could have used an extra episode or two - it made rescuing somebody's soul seem rather casual, but I liked the episode overall. It mainly makes me wish that Constantine wasn't canceled though. 
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imperialparadox posted:I do feel like the Constantine thing could have used an extra episode or two - it made rescuing somebody's soul seem rather casual, but I liked the episode overall. Yeah, first episode could have ended with them placing Sara in the magic circle and then the second episode could have been a series of dream sequences where every character faces their greatest fear or whatever, and at the end Sara is resurrected. Still, I'm not complaining. The season has been off to a really good start. I'm just hoping it doesn't follow Season 3's example because that one went to poo poo during the second half.
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I was kind of hoping they'd have to fight a named demon to get her soul back and was pretty disappointed it was generic ninjas.
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I really, really liked this episode - Matt Ryan was a treat as Constantine! Is the Constantine series available to stream anywhere online? I never watched while it was on air, but because of this week's episode I'd love to see more of Matt Ryan as Constantine. I saw online that the series was up on Hulu earlier this year, but when I search for it now it seems to have been taken down.
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Jonny_Rocket posted:I really, really liked this episode - Matt Ryan was a treat as Constantine! Since it's NBC, I think Hulu is it right now. Maybe Comcast OnDemand, as Comcast owns NBC? EDIT: Looks like Hulu is it. No longer on iTunes and Amazon Video, and I can only find the movie on Comcast OnDemand. EDIT2: Nope. Not on Hulu either. Apparently, you can't find it legally anywhere right now (at least in US). Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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Rhyno posted:Actually I think Ennis has a similar deal with DC to what Gaiman does with Sandman. I think they'd have to sort out his permission to use Tommy. Is Ennis on good terms with DC these days? I know after the Boys debacle he used the term "rat fuckers" to describe a few members of editorial. He`s currently writing the Section 8 book for DC so I`d say he`s on decent terms with them.
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I'd be okay with Constantine dropping by once or twice a season on Arrow and Flash, helping them out with magical poo poo, dropping hints about how the plots that began in his show turned out. "Yeah, mate, happy to help, but can we make it quick? Only I'm at war with Heaven right now, you know how it is." Also, I wanna see a cameo with Mark Valley as Christopher Chance.
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flosofl posted:Since it's NBC, I think Hulu is it right now. Maybe Comcast OnDemand, as Comcast owns NBC? Plus there's apparently no plans to even release a box set. At this point we're lucky they hadn't thrown in the wardrobe and props when they burnt the show down and salted the ashes.
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losonti tokash posted:Plus there's apparently no plans to even release a box set. At this point we're lucky they hadn't thrown in the wardrobe and props when they burnt the show down and salted the ashes. Just how hard do you think it is to find the style of coat John wears?
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Rhyno posted:Just how hard do you think it is to find the style of coat John wears? Go next door to the Supernatural office and ransack Misha Collins wardrobe.
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spookygonk posted:I have to track down Paul Blackthorne's The Dresen Files series now. The show had some good points (Bob, hockey stick staff, drumstick wand) but some of the episodes were pretty iffy. The books though are pretty good. The first two are kind of rocky (literally Butcher's first attempts at writing) but the quality just keeps climbing after that.
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bobkatt013 posted:Go next door to the Supernatural office and ransack Misha Collins wardrobe. Yeah, that's where I was going with that. Hell in my goofy post teenaged years I owned one.
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Obviously it wouldn't be a huge ordeal to find a cheap brown coat (I still have one in my closet from Halloween years ago) but I guess it's nice to use the same one from the original show. The cast certainly seemed to appreciate having the same items rather than replacements.
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WarLocke posted:The show had some good points (Bob, hockey stick staff, drumstick wand) but some of the episodes were pretty iffy. Its really hard not to recommend the Dresden Files. Its starts off playing with cliche noir detective tropes. By book three it starts getting intense and just keeps improving.
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M_Gargantua posted:Its really hard not to recommend the Dresden Files. Its starts off playing with cliche noir detective tropes. By book three it starts getting intense and just keeps improving. I've seen people complain about 'power creep' (since the series starts as 'detective noir, but with magic' but by Skin Games we're starting to approach 'epic fantasy' stuff) and I can see where people are coming from with that, but every single step of the way has been earned by Harry. I wish I had zombiedinosaur.jpg handy. Because polka never dies! 
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greatn posted:I was kind of hoping they'd have to fight a named demon to get her soul back and was pretty disappointed it was generic ninjas. I might be reading too much into this but the boss ninja Constantine fought was a man of large stature who always had one hand behind his back and wore a familiar embroidered coat...
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McSpanky posted:I might be reading too much into this but the boss ninja Constantine fought was a man of large stature who always had one hand behind his back and wore a familiar embroidered coat... For the layman?
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Looks like the Flash/Arrow cross over episodes are going to be the eighth episodes, just like last season. Gustin posted on his instagram they just wrapped on them.
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Burning_Monk posted:For the layman? I thought it was pretty obviously Ra's.
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Jonny_Rocket posted:I really, really liked this episode - Matt Ryan was a treat as Constantine! You can't even buy it on Google Play or Amazon. It's  or nothing.
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Soothing Vapors posted:You can't even buy it on Google Play or Amazon. It's It's on Amazon Prime in the UK
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Mr Beens posted:It's on Amazon Prime in the UK Are you sure? It's still listed in Amazon Prime US, but when you select each episode it's just says "unavailable"
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In Australia you can see Constantine on Stan (one of our local Netflix competitors). You could always sign up to that with a VPN or something. We've been doing it to US Netflix for long enough you might as well return the favour.
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