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That X-men anime has been ok on the G4 channel so far. Although maybe I'm just happy see Wolverine slashing and killing enemies rather than getting his claws out, putting them back away and kicking his opponent. Or slashing a conveniently nearby steam pipe to knock out his foe. And actual blood.
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I just watched an old episode of Justice League Unlimited where Amazo returns. Luthor: Wherever you're taking me won't be safe enough. But I know just the place * (Bald) Luthor takes them to a hide out with a barber shop facade * Iron Guy: Gotta hand it to you, Luthor. NO ONE would think to look for you here  Why the hell isn't there anything as well written as Justice League nowadays 
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I need to stop expecting Justice League Unlimited quality writing in Young Justice.  Oooh the light....oooh a shell, how mysterious. Or at least it would be, if we hadn't forgotten about the stupid arc over the last 4 months of the haiatus. There's just no characterisation to make any of it interesting. JLU had some memorable and fantastic infinitely-quotable characters. This just has a lot of people sooshed together with no personality. i.e. Lex Luthor: Do you really think you could come here and beat me all by yourself? Amanda Waller: Well yeah, I did  . But on the off chance I couldn't...*Justice league appears* Martian Manhunter: [to Luthor] So much for your image as a benevolent businessman. This is the end of an era. Lex Luthor: The end of your era, maybe. Hawkgirl: I'm used to being thanked when I save someone. Batman: I'm not used to being saved. The Question: Reaching back to ancient Egypt, there's been a single cabal of powerful individuals directing the course of human history. But the common man prefers to believe they don't exist, which aids their success. Supergirl: [reading newspaper clippings] Global warming, military upheavals in the third world, actors elected to public office... Green Arrow: The spread of coffee bars, germs outpacing antibiotics, and boy bands? Come on! Who would gain from all this? The Question: Who, indeed?  Green Arrow Hold your horses! No one asked for more help. This whole trip might just prove the kid shouldn't eat nachos before bed. The Question: Peanut butter sandwiches. Supergirl: How did y-- what, do you go through my trash?! The Question: Please... I go through everyone's trash. Batman: Who are you people? Amanda Waller: That's a national security matter. And if I were you, I wouldn't probe the situation too closely... rich boy. Dr. Fate: Solomon Grundy's grave is empty. Aquaman: Tell me where to find those responsible, then dig more graves. Solomon Grundy: Grundy thinks he is going away now... Hawkgirl: No! Just hang on! Solomon Grundy: Do you think Grundy's soul is waiting for him? Hawkgirl: Grundy, I don't believe... yes. Yes, it's waiting for you. Solomon Grundy: Then... Grundy gets his reward. [dies] Superman: Self-help books? You don't seem the type. Vandal Savage: I read whatever I can find. Anyway, I've got issues, what with my destroying the Earth and all. Superman: Why are all of you defending Captain Marvel? Batman: We like him. He's... sunny. Shayera: Can you even see what you're shooting at? Vigilante: Nope - just keepin' 'em honest. Vigilante: Hey, Vix, ain't this supposed to be your territory? Use some of your animal tricks to give us a leg up. Vixen: What makes you think I know anything about the jungle? I live in a loft in Chelsea. Amanda Waller: You know better than to dwell on the past. General Eiling: I'm talking about right now. The Justice League is still the greatest threat to global security. Amanda Waller: I used to believe that too, but remember; we used to say the same thing about the Soviets. Remember, our enemy is never as evil as we imagine... And maybe we're never quite as good. General Eiling: Nuts. Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you. Amanda Waller: I'd eat them alive. Doctor Polaris: Ahem. Flash-in-Lex: What? Doctor Polaris: You gonna wash your hands? Flash-in-Lex: No! 'Cause I'm evil! here's what I can remember from the  characters of Young Justice after 19 episodes:M'Gann: helooooooooooooooo MEeeaghaaaahhhn (all that's missing is the canned laughter) Superboy: NRRRAAAAARGH! (flips pancakes, looks emo) NRRRAAAAARGH! (switches remote control) NRRRAAAAARGH! (goes wandering about, looks emo) Kid-Flash: [stock snippy comment #5874]......[stock snippy comment #85214] Aqua-Lad: [stock stoic comment #1254.b]....[stock stoic comment #12478] Robin: "whelmed" (...really?) In fact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6PGNHzfqgQ spikenigma fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Mar 4, 2012 |
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Mar 4, 2012 15:05
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Codependent Poster posted:One of my favorite images about the show: That's awesome
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Excellent latest episode of the Avengers. But seeing " Sue Richards " in the latest Avengers really bought home how utterly useless Wasp is. In any realistic scenario she'd be a danger to the team in any given battle. The one thing the series is lacking is a strong female character like Hawkgirl, Wonder Woman or Vixen.
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Apr 2, 2012 17:28
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Baron Bifford posted:I just saw this week's GL cartoon. Saint Walker manages to hold his own against a Red Lantern with only his ninja training. Then Mogo easily destroys an asteroid that Kilowog, Hal and Aia combined could only slow down. There doesn't seem to be a proper sense of scale here. Also, a guy with a bog-standard spear manages to hold off Kilowog and almost kill him if not for the intervention of Mogo. A weapon that can take out vast armadas of starships wielded by the primary trainer of the GL's (who never thinks to just incapacitate his opponent in [construct: bubble] ala Jon Stewart) is equal to some douche with a spear.
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Apr 9, 2012 18:15
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TheHan posted:For that at least they mentioned how they used most of their power slowing down the meteor, so making too many constructs probably would have been a poor move. I would think that a single bubble construct with a thin but stretchy surface would take A LOT less energy than swinging a large hammer around and then constructing a shield to take several blows. But maybe it's just this  VVV thebardyspoon posted:Welcome to superhero cartoons, that stuff will happen. Like the Flash having trouble keeping up with a van in an episode of Justice League.
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Apr 9, 2012 18:39
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I've been critical of most of the early episodes, but this last one was pretty drat good.muscles like this? posted:It was mentioned in the TVIV thread but it was also kind of annoying how quickly they added Icon and Rocket to their respective teams with no explanation as to who they were or what their powers were. I thought the introduction was pretty good since from Rocket's perspective she's just walked into the weirdest situation of a team who have pretty much been duplicitous for their entire tenure but have just undergone a pivotal moment. It didn't feel as shoehorned in as Cyborg in Justice League - Doom. "Tell Cyborg he was right about...", "the plans don't account for Cyborg so he's the key" - no we, as viewers, haven't been introduced to him or know anything about him or his history . Nor have we been given any backstory that invests us in him.
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Apr 15, 2012 08:50
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Loved the last episode of Young Justice, they've really pulled it back
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Apr 21, 2012 20:47
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Green Lantern just gets more and more ridiculous (and not in a good way). Attrocitus is the big bad they should all be scared of and yet Razor defeats him handily and several of his goons. He's killed your family (personally) and the entire planet to boot so you hesistate to slice his head off in a split second because? Attrocitus knows that the Red Power rings are powered by hate, so he decides to...make his opponent angry by taunting him during battle  Maybe it's aimed at 9-10 year olds and I should stop watching.
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Apr 23, 2012 10:34
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Is there anything cooler than this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbXx_kwc-gE&feature=related I think not
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Apr 28, 2012 11:12
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AlternateNu posted:You can d/l that off the PSN for free in awesome HD. Every once in a while, if I want to just imagine what could have been, I flip on that 6 minute beauty. The second bit is almost as good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJH4xxxZDwc Hopefully one day there will be a series like this.
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Apr 28, 2012 15:01
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Does this take place in the same universe before or after Justice League Unlimited? Because if it is before, I want to know why Harkgirl ended up married to Hawkman and not Jon Stewart. And what happened to all of the other leagers.
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May 14, 2012 12:51
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jscolon2.0 posted:Separate unlinked continuity. Awww 
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Have the writers just run out of steam straight after the Skrull invasion ? , I never thought Young Justice would take a turn for the awesome and EMH would take a turn for the absolutely shitastic. Even leaving aside the earlier footage of Rulk destroying the Shield base (let's say he used the excuse he was under mind-control at the time to the Avengers), the entire sequence of events leading up to it was convoluted and stupid. "Just go with the Hulk busters Bruce, prove your innocence.  "Yeah just go with the people that have taken and experimented on samples of the Hulk's blood from the very first episode that Banner was trying to stop. That treat people inhumanely and chain them to ceilings and that have consistently tried to weaponise the Hulk. "Welcome to the team...after a few days vetting based on a week of good deeds" Are they John McCain?, posing for a photo-op with the guy and welcoming him to the team when if he goes bad as an Avenger the entire team looks bad.The list goes on. The only things I have liked about the post invasion eps are: * T'Challa staying in Wakanda because his loyalty is to them and he is their king. (I always wonder how the day to day administration of Atlantis happens with Aquaman in the justice league). * Cap * The reduction in screen time for Wasp in favour of Ms Marvel. She's a crap character whom the AVERAGE 10 year old child can beat. It gets tiresome to watch her make a snappy comment, shrink and then fire mini-lasers while her opponent just looks at her blankly then squashes her while the nearest person has to stop what they are doing and either beg for her life or stop the person doing the squashing.
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Nilbop posted:You're not alone but I'm setting my expectations to disappointed at this stage. I would've loved for season 4 to end with Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet or some big foofaraw but alas. I disagree, better to it end now before these B-writers continue 'Smallville'-ing it up.  "Last weeks world-changing, character-building apocalyptic event that taught us all about each other, moved our characters along, allowed us to develop our powers in a useful way to combat the threat and literally changed the world?.....no I can't remember it either  "
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bobkatt013 posted:Loeb does not care about things that came before. Take a look at his comics, he just writes what he wants to write. Funny you should mention Smallville as he was a writer for that and I believe showrunner. He also wrote for Heroes season 2,3, and 4. Somebody needs to make a billiard-ball infogram of him going from project to project, ruining them and then moving onto the next project. I wouldn't be surprised if he put some ideas into Prometheus.
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Jun 27, 2012 15:52
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Ok, can somebody explain to me how both Ant-Man and Yellowjacket are fighting in different places in EMH
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Jun 29, 2012 07:41
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notthegoatseguy posted:Scott Lang became Ant-Man and presumably also adopted Giant Man powers as well. Ah, makes sense.
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Seeing the fantastic Dark Knight Returns animated movie (part 1) just reminded me how poo poo Rises was. An intelligent Batman using his mind, planning and the environment to negate his opponents advantages and his own disadvantages. Not some plot-driven lunacy where his only plan is to not use any tactics at all and hope he can win a fight.
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Half way through the The Dark Knight Returns part II. It's already the best comic book movie and cartoon bar none. Just finished the drat Joker rampage and Carnival scene woke my entire house up with my "whaaaaaaaaaat in the fuckity fuuuuucks! ". 
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Jan 15, 2013 21:20
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OOooookay  (RE: Returns part II).Why couldn't the cinematic Dark Knight Rises have been an exact frame for frame adaptation of that instead of the "lets send all the cops into the sewer system...mumble muffle *fotham*...mumble...I'll not use any of my gadgets to fight you" barrel of stupidity we got? I would buy the DVD, the special bonus DVD, the directors cut, the collectors edition, the Uzbekistani cinematic cut , the extended directors cut and commetary, the pre-post modern specialised final cut and whatever else they poo poo out after that point. Wow! spikenigma fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Rotten filler episode of YJ. "I'll just narrate my entire current double-agent status as well as that of my comotose team mate while a psychic is in the room...... aaaaand I'll do it again in the next scene." Or maybe I've just been spoiled by the awesomeness of TDKR part II.
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muscles like this? posted:Green Lantern: The Corp has an all out battle with Aya's Manhunters while Hal realizes Aya didn't actually go all that evil as he discovers that she only destroyed star systems that were completely devoid of life. Aya activates the time machine and goes back to the beginning of creation, taking Hal along to gloat. Standard DC beginning of universe, giant hand holding weird floating galaxy like thing. Kilowog and Guy fire Razer into the Anti-Monitor using a big construct gun with Razer as the bullet. Razer finds time machine, goes back but is unable to kill Aya because he still loves her. Aya sees Razer coming and blasts him right in the chest grievously wounding him. She then realizes that she still has emotions and aborts her plan, taking Hal and Razer back to the present. Aya then uses up all her Anti-Monitor energy healing Razer, turning her back to normal. Unfortunately she had uploaded copies of herself into all the Manhunters and none of them had the realization she did so in order to stop them Aya unleashes a computer virus that will delete all versions of her program from the galaxy. This also kills her. Later Razer tells Hal and Kilowog that there's no way Aya didn't survive somehow and that he's going off to look for her, by himself. As he flies off there's a shot of a blue lantern ring following him. One correction here. Razer's construct disapears just as he is about to stab her - which he could have done. He explains this at the end.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Minor typo there chief: "which he couldn't have done." As Razer himself says, his powers are fueled by hate and he could never truly hate her, so his assassination attempt was ultimately a death wish/last-ditch attempt for her to revert. Of course he could have done it. If he didn't expect it to work, he wouldn't have looked surprised when his weapon disapeared. If he had another technobabble weapon which would have worked, he would have done it.
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Superman unbound was pretty boring and generic. The only thing really cool was the ending scene with Clark and Lois in the office. Even the supposed emotional highs and lows were 'cardboardy'.
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Just watched the new Avengers Assemble cartoon and I feel like I've got ADHD. No setting of the scene, no build up, no characterisation. Just.. 1) On way to location *action* *action* *action* 2) At location *action* *action* *action* 3) On way to next *action* *action* location with some more *action* *action* *action* 4) At new location *action* *action* *action* What a plasticy, cynical mess. The story doesn't even have enough time to breathe. I'm out. spikenigma fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 29, 2013 |
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May 29, 2013 17:40
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Yeh, so I just watched Injustice: God's among us, the full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3kABf2s1c It's pretty fookin' good! 
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Jun 27, 2013 21:11
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KungFu Grip posted:Uh, what? You mean the cutscenes from the the games storymode? yep, + small pertinent bits of gameplay. ToastyPotato posted:Oh hey this one includes some actual gameplay so it isn't completely jarring. and yep!
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Aww, beware the Batman looks like a bad late 90's videogame cutscene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sbmHgbXpdc Guess I won't be watching.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think historically, attempts to make a more grimdark batman show have gone over badly. I mean, The Batman is better than you would've thought in retrospect, but it's still probably the worst out of all the Batman TV series. I can't imagine any drammatic tension, grim or otherwise from that badly-animated acme bomb. spikenigma fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jun 30, 2013 |
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That Green Arrow short was pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiADlDEig But why oh why does every single kiss have to have the woman let out a little moan in every modern DC animated series. It's always: 1) "One liner"  2) Kiss 3) "mmm"
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Re-watched the awesome FlashPoint paradox. Martha Wayne becoming the joker was such a nice touch I've come to the horrible conclusion that most animated TV series for the next 5 years are going to suck donkey balls because they can't allow any character development, story or anything that might conflict with the ever-expanding counterpart movie universe and confuse the audience . So it's all meaningless flashy action and/or forced comedy every 6 seconds to hide the fact that there's no substance. I've come to this after trying to watch Agents of Smash, Avengers and Spiderman. No Dan Turpin/Solomon Grundy/World of Cardboard/"You going to challenge me, boy? " moments anymore
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The Question IRL posted:Did you watch any of the last few DC animated series? Young Justice, Green Lantern? Any of the current Batman series, Beware the Batman? Young Justice is sadly finished. Green Lantern is also finished. Loved Razor. I like to think that this probably happened when the blue lantern ring caught up with him : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zcy1SAEy9M. Can't get past the animation from BTB. I've tried watching it. So, yeah. Nothing.
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MonsterEnvy posted:So you could get past the Animation on GL but not Batman? Yep.
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JL: War was pretty good. I liked the beginning bit with people "  but my property damage" -ing like message boards chatting about Man of Steel.
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