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drat shame about Ghost Rider ending up in AoS instead of Netflix. I really would like to see him in a TV series. I have no desire to ever watch AoS though.HIJK posted:The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk is not an interesting character to me, and I don't really want to see more of him. Luckily, you are in an extreme minority.
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Barry Convex posted:I seem to be the only person who thought the second half of S3 was better than either the first half of S3 or the second half of S2. You might be. I ditched AoS about 5 episodes in when it originally aired, but I gave it another shot in the middle of season 2 and I ended up turning around on it completely. I think the second half of season 2 is by far the strongest part of the whole series. Ward and Mr. Hyde were just great characters all around and the S2 finale was genuinely surprising. Season 3 was pretty good, but it got predictable. I missed being genuinely surprised. Although the death foreshadowing and fake-out was pretty well done.
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I tiny part of me is holding out hope that Ghost Rider will be the break out character that crosses the Netflix TV line that seems to exist. He's a big enough character to do it.
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Skwirl posted:No, no you aren't going to trick me into watching AoS again. It's not a trick. It's better than all the DC shows put together.
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Little Mac posted:It's not a trick. It's better than all the DC shows put together. It's not better than iZombie. But it's better than the others yes.
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SonicRulez posted:drat shame about Ghost Rider ending up in AoS instead of Netflix. I really would like to see him in a TV series. I have no desire to ever watch AoS though. RIP to Ghost Rider being cool.
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achillesforever6 posted:Since its Neil Gaiman, the trailer for The American Gods series is up I think it looks pretty good but the only weird thing is that I always imagined Shadow as having more hair.  (No doubt somebody will now post a description from the book that proves me completely wrong.)
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The only real concrete description of Shadow is that he's a big muscle-y guy. Also that he looks vaguely ethnic.
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muscles like this? posted:The only real concrete description of Shadow is that he's a big muscle-y guy. Also that he looks vaguely ethnic. I was curious how they'd cast the ethnicity, as pretty much everyone guesses something different. "You got some Indian blood in you?", etc. In my head I'd always envisioned Odin / Wednesday as being a more expansive man, though again I'm sure that someone can post a description that will contradict that. I'm sold on the casting now, though. This is what's going to make me break down and get Starz.
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ToastyPotato posted:I tiny part of me is holding out hope that Ghost Rider will be the break out character that crosses the Netflix TV line that seems to exist. He's a big enough character to do it. Not this Ghost Rider.
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I really hoped they wouldn't cast a black dude because holy poo poo is a black man named Shadow some of the most cringe-inducingly bad Neil Gaiman bad bad bad no Neil Gaiman god I can't believe you wrote this loving book in this loving century bad bad no bad no bad no naming. I, alternatively, would've been absolutely fine if they cast a black dude and renamed him literally anything else because 1) Shadow's not a loving name 2) the "symbolic meaning" of the name is so goddamn on the nose it actually buries deep into your brain as you realize the totally boring and featureless main character who has absolutely no personality is actually named loving Shadow are you serious Neil Gaiman 3) seriously, a black character named Shadow are you serious. But since this project has been in development forever and they kept referring to casting "Shadow" that ship done sailed a long time ago. In any case American Gods is actually a pretty messy at best book, not the least of which because the main character is about as interesting as unbuttered toast, so I'm not much looking forward to it. Even beyond the horrible optics of having a black dude convicted of the murder of his white wife named Shadow as that main character.
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I mean, he's the main character and everyone refers to him as that for the duration of the novel. It's not like, a nickname or something, that's the only name by which he is referred from start to finish. The optics were ignorable in the book itself because his race was actually undefined (he's some variation of dark-skinned but even that could've been a tan or particularly ruddy skin), but it's gonna throw into stark relief how tone deaf the source material comes across when once a week you're subjected to the most Black Character in Media story ever starring a character who, going off the book, just stands around and feels sad about his dead wife, and/or is directed to do things by other characters as a glorified servant. Unless they make significant book changes (and everything I've read about the TV project says that they're not beyond more of a focus on the Gods vignettes), it's gonna be real unpleasant. It's more of a microcosm of the failures of the book how the name is a really dumb bit of obvious symbolism that, when being translated to another medium, should've been changed if they were dead-set on casting a black actor to play him.
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Endless Mike posted:I think you're making way too big a deal of it. Yes.
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An accident directly caused by her infidelity, which was at least somewhat related to Shadow being out of the picture, having taken the fall for a robbery that he, his wife, and I believe the friend she was being unfaithful with had committed as a team. (It's been a bit since I read the book so that last bit might be hazy.)
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Huh, for some reason I thought Shadow looked more like Nathan Explosion.
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wyntyr posted:An accident directly caused by her infidelity, which was at least somewhat related to Shadow being out of the picture, having taken the fall for a robbery that he, his wife, and I believe the friend she was being unfaithful with had committed as a team. (It's been a bit since I read the book so that last bit might be hazy.) What happened was that Laura convinced Shadow to go in on a robbery where Shadow would be the getaway driver. The guys who did the robbery stiffed them of their share so Shadow beat the poo poo out of them. To keep Laura out of the picture they all agreed to spin it that Shadow just beat them up for some other reason.
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Rocksicles posted:John Barrowman continues his reign as King of ComicCon He's here to
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Rocksicles posted:John Barrowman continues his reign as King of ComicCon I thought Anna Kendrick was perfect casting and then I saw this.
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TwoPair posted:He's here to I'm not going to blame him for that. He seems like a nice guy who is smart enough to take the pay checks when they come. 
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I don't blame him either, I just thought of wordplay and had to share with the class. That SG costume is on point though. Where does a grown rear end man find a Squirrel Girl costume?
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TwoPair posted:Where does a grown rear end man find a Squirrel Girl costume? I don't think its too difficult for a professional TV actor to get in contact with a costume designer.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:You might be. I ditched AoS about 5 episodes in when it originally aired, but I gave it another shot in the middle of season 2 and I ended up turning around on it completely. I think the second half of season 2 is by far the strongest part of the whole series. Ward and Mr. Hyde were just great characters all around and the S2 finale was genuinely surprising. Setting aside S3, I'm surprised you prefer the second half of S2 to the first. It suffered greatly from the dull SHIELD 2 storyline and the lack of a clearly defined central antagonist until the last couple episodes.
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I don't blame Barrowman at all. I blame the same people who gave us Olicity, the writers.
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Dacap posted:I don't think its too difficult for a professional TV actor to get in contact with a costume designer. Touche
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Legion trailer out. Production value looks pretty good. Wonder if that is all pilot stuff (it probably is.) http://comicbook.com/2016/07/23/first-legion-trailer-shown-at-comic-con/
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ToastyPotato posted:Legion trailer out. Production value looks pretty good. Wonder if that is all pilot stuff (it probably is.) That looks dope. FX is real good at TV.
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ToastyPotato posted:Legion trailer out. Production value looks pretty good. Wonder if that is all pilot stuff (it probably is.) Wow, that actually looks good.
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King Burgundy posted:Wow, that actually looks good. It's from Noah Hawley, it will be very good.
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It looks incredible, the team behind it is known for good things. Legion has always been a boring character to me but this seems like it'll be downright fun to play watch and with the right cast, could be really engaging.
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Here's the trailer for the next season of Flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGfNDFILyYU Pros: -That "Now who's the villain" line worked like hell -The alt universe could be really interesting -They're doing things with Wally Cons: -The Flashpoint line....man, I feel like they could've done it better -That Kid Flash costume just doesn't work SonicRulez fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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TwoPair posted:I don't blame him either, I just thought of wordplay and had to share with the class. That SG costume is on point though. Where does a grown rear end man find a Squirrel Girl costume? He's probably got people sending him requests to make his costumes every week. He's pretty keen on dress ups.
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