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Barry Convex posted:Man, whatever budget constraints SHIELD is under were painfully apparent tonight. Barely saw any of the Secret Warriors in action and the one big fight scene was completely off-screen. Creatively the midseason finale of Shield was great unless your definition of creative is FX effects. Shield blew away the Flash wet fart of a midseason finale.
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ToastyPotato posted:AoS was quite alright tonight. Is the sentient death juice alien an original character? Someone in the TVIV thread suggested he's Hive from Secret Warriors and that makes a ton of sense.
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greatn posted:Which fight scene? Lash killing a bunch of dudes? Mockingbird taking out 12 soldiers.
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Lurdiak posted:Hey everyone, let's discuss what the worst episode of Smallville is. The one where a bunch of horny witches possess Chloe, Lana and Lois and turn the Kent barn into a sorority party.
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Aphrodite posted:Mockingbird taking out 12 soldiers. Oh yeah. To be honest I didn't even think about it because of it being played for comedy that she can just take out a dozen guys no problem. But that's definitely at least partially due to budget. Although this episode has some pretty sweet effects, the melting bullets, the guy being immolated in slow mo, the plane docking and exploding castle. We've just reached a point where fight scenes with complicated choreography are probably actually more expensive than sweet fx shots.
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I was expecting the joke to be Mack looking at the tablet to see her dropping them, I'm surprised they didn't do that after they had the little setup with Hunter's wave.
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mikeraskol posted:Creatively the midseason finale of Shield was great unless your definition of creative is FX effects. Shield blew away the Flash wet fart of a midseason finale. I don't think I've seen an episode of SHIELD where so many of the most potentially visually interesting moments - Mockingbird's fight scene, Lash's rampage, the Secret Warriors in action, the final escape through the portal - took place entirely or mostly off-screen. It just felt cheap, even by the stylistic standards of a show that's rarely been flattered by a comparison to the Arrowverse or Netflix series.
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We've seen Mockingbird beat up tons of mooks before, and Lash killed people in stasis. It was more effective for both to be shown in different ways, one played for comedy and the other as a reveal to May that Lash/Andrew is too far gone.
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Last night Flash brushed Wally West. What's that name again? Wally West. Who's that kid? Wally West
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Codependent Poster posted:We've seen Mockingbird beat up tons of mooks before, and Lash killed people in stasis. It was more effective for both to be shown in different ways, one played for comedy and the other as a reveal to May that Lash/Andrew is too far gone. I would be fine with both those decisions if the episode had delivered something in the way of a proper action scene. But it really didn't.
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Madkal posted:Last night Flash brushed Wally West. What's that name again? Wally West. Who's that kid? Wally West His name is Wally, Wally West.
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I find the the idea of Bobbi Morse taking out a dozen goons something perfectly reasonable and realistic.
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Kind of annoyed this episode of Flash didn't have him run to every kids house looking for the bombs like a super hero Santa. As soon as the bombs were introduced, my roommate and I simultaneously came to that conclusion.
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Is there an episode of Agents of SHIELD where they mention having super Kree batteries in their iPhones or something? Currently watching S03E05.
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Chill Penguin posted:Is there an episode of Agents of SHIELD where they mention having super Kree batteries in their iPhones or something? Currently watching S03E05. She mentions later that Fitz modified it.
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I can buy aliens, super powered super soldiers, a gamma ray infused monster, but it just crosses the line and I can only suspend my disbelief so much when a scene begins with someone rolling out of bed to answer a phone and seeing it not charging. That's why I love Jessica Jones. A gritty, dark superhero who's phone dies repeatedly.
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Mark Dacascos! Okay Agents of SHIELD, you're alright in my book.
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Rhyno posted:Mark Dacascos! Okay Agents of SHIELD, you're alright in my book. The secret ingredient is fish oil.
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Gavok posted:The secret ingredient is fish oil. Previous statement retracted.
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Medullah posted:I can buy aliens, super powered super soldiers, a gamma ray infused monster, but it just crosses the line and I can only suspend my disbelief so much when a scene begins with someone rolling out of bed to answer a phone and seeing it not charging. I find such things just as jarring (I have a bad habit of counting bullets, it never ends well.) but at the same time it's fascinating to look at where the line is. Suspension of disbelief has its own uncanny valley. Someone over on TVIV pointed out that nobody ever says "goodbye" in phone conversations and I just KNOW that's gonna bug me now too.
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Bruceski posted:I find such things just as jarring (I have a bad habit of counting bullets, it never ends well.) but at the same time it's fascinating to look at where the line is. Suspension of disbelief has its own uncanny valley. Someone over on TVIV pointed out that nobody ever says "goodbye" in phone conversations and I just KNOW that's gonna bug me now too. The best thing about cellphones is now everyone says "call me at this number" in movies and tv instead of reciting a bullshit 555 number when they're holding someones family hostage or whatever.
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Arrow Spoilers If Felicity is seriously dead I'm going to lose my loving poo poo
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Skwirl posted:The best thing about cellphones is now everyone says "call me at this number" in movies and tv instead of reciting a bullshit 555 number when they're holding someones family hostage or whatever. In the recent years writers also finally managed to incooperate or account for cell phones/smartphones without always resorting into the "no signal" crop-out. Skwirl posted:Arrow Spoilers Death is even more of a revolving door in this show than it is in regular Comic books Decius fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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I was not that into this season of SHIELD mostly because the whole May/Blair Underwood plot was boring as hell, but these last few episodes were really good. It was weird that there were basically no action scenes in the final episode, but that seemed like a pacing thing more than a budget thing since everything moved so quickly. They introduced Bobbi's weird magnetic batons in the previous episode so they gotta have plans there.
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They're a bit less murderey.
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BrianWilly posted:Y'know, I don't really get what the batons can do that guns can't. Then you sir, have never met JEAN DE BATON who fights evil with his batons along with the power of Frenchness.
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BrianWilly posted:Y'know, I don't really get what the batons can do that guns can't. They can make cool BWANG and THUNK noises when you hit people with them. Got around to the AoS ep last night, and I did like Coulson's "Of course. Tatooine." I assume the budget was spent on having to create a fully destructible 3D castle set blown apart by missiles. The opening docking shot was very pretty, too. redbackground fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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Okay, all caught up on AoS. Still a very subpar show but I guess it has it's pluses. Mack and Fitz are pretty great.
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So sub par you binged 50 episodes in a week.
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greatn posted:So sub par you binged 50 episodes in a week. 54. But thanks to chromecasts and a tablet I cleaned my entire apartment, organized my garage, did tons of laundry, prepped tons of comics for ebay and exercised while watching.
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Rhyno posted:54. Thanks to the miracle of an apartment and at tv, when I binge tv, I drink.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Thanks to the miracle of an apartment and at tv, when I binge tv, I drink. I did some of that as well, season 1 was rough. I also reorganized my messy bookshelves and detolfs.
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Rhyno posted:54. Respect
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Screw AoS, Arrow, The Flash, Gotham, Supergirl, etc... Amazon has ordered a pilot to reboot one of the best live action superhero shows of all time! http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/amazon-orders-pilot-superhero-cult-comedy-tick-20140902
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BEN loving EDLUND
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drat, I remember hearing about The Tick getting an Amazon treatment last year, but figured it had foundered. Best news ever. And the worst episode of Smallville is the "Tremors versus the Illegal Aliens" one.
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