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BrianWilly posted:I'm excited for Renee but she should be, like, way younger than Bruce Wayne. With the mention of Cris and Renee as regulars, I wonder if they wanted Gotham Central, but either Fox were antsy about not having Batman in it and needed a 'reason' he couldn't appear, or they demanded Bruce Wayne in some form.
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I don't mind if Gotham retcons Montoya into being older than Bruce by a decade or so if it means giving the show a strong character that already has lots of goodwill towards it. She was one of the strongest elements in Gotham Central, and if they get her and Cris' relationship down then that'll be enough of an inroad for me into Gotham since they're two more familiar faces.
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An Arrow promo has the first peek at the Flash trailer, and the first clip of the Flash in action. e: Ah poo poo, missed the earlier post. But anyway, does anyone think the super-speed effect looks a bit, I don't know, over the top? Not just in fx terms, but I don't think he'd really excel at stealth. Although I doubt that they'll keep it so overt all the time. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 11:12 on May 13, 2014 |
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They've said in the show his powers are more destructive than in the comics.
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Depending on how far they push it they can use it as an excuse to not have him just super speed and solve everything if it causes damage.
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Waterhaul posted:Depending on how far they push it they can use it as an excuse to not have him just super speed and solve everything if it causes damage. That's probably the primary reason. There aren't a whole lot of things you can't solve at super speed. And unless they want to make him a moron like Smallville Clark Kent not giving him the magic friction shield he has in the comics works.
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Is there potential for other DC cameos in Constantine, like Zauriel or Etrigan?
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greatn posted:Is there potential for other DC cameos in Constantine, like Zauriel or Etrigan? Also Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Timothy Hunter, Doctor Occult, Mr E, Spectre, Phantom Stranger, Dr Fate ... I'll be disappointed if Swamp Thing doesn't at least get namechecked, for old times sake. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Timothy Hunter, Doctor Occult, Mr E, Spectre, Phantom Stranger, Dr Fate ... SHIELD already name checked Man-Thing.
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Soonmot posted:SHIELD already name checked Man-Thing. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 14:42
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Swamp Thing should show up on Constantine while they play his old cartoon theme every time he walks into a scene.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Man Thing gave Constantine his first break so John owes him. 
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Ok what's the Original Writer injoke I'm missing here? Does it involve Alan Moore being a prick?
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zoux posted:Ok what's the Original Writer injoke I'm missing here? Does it involve Alan Moore being a prick? redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 16:41
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redbackground posted:Marvel is crediting Moore as The Original Writer for the Miracleman reprints because he is done with them (he wants everyone else involved to get their respective credit though), and this way everyone's happy. Gotcha. Courtesy of the TVIV Arrow thread. (VDay pulled some trailer stills as well in that post.) 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Timothy Hunter, Doctor Occult, Mr E, Spectre, Phantom Stranger, Dr Fate ...
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achillesforever6 posted:gently caress have Morpheus show up It would be pretty sweet if Swamp Thing and Sandman showed up to do the story arc that they were involved in for the comics, but the whole thing is told from John's point of view.
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zoux posted:Ok what's the Original Writer injoke I'm missing here? Does it involve Alan Moore being a prick? Well, Alan Moore claims to have met him twice in real life afterall
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One interesting anecdote that I should point out is that one day, I was in Westminster in London -- this was after we had introduced the character -- and I was sitting in a sandwich bar. All of a sudden, up the stairs came John Constantine. He was wearing the trenchcoat, a short cut -- he looked -- no, he didn't even look exactly like Sting. He looked exactly like John Constantine. He looked at me, stared me straight in the eyes, smiled, nodded almost conspiratorially, and then just walked off around the corner to the other part of the snack bar. I sat there and thought, should I go around that corner and see if he is really there, or should I just eat my sandwich and leave? I opted for the latter; I thought it was the safest. I'm not making any claims to anything. I'm just saying that it happened. Strange little story.
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I thought Constantine was supposed to look like Bowie.
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zoux posted:I thought Constantine was supposed to look like Bowie. Sting.
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The Agents of Shield finale really did redeem a lot of the stupid bullshit in the first half and make sitting through all of it worth it.
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And season 2 will feature crazy Coulson and an army of robot Patton Oswalts taking over America. (Probably not.)
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That ep really stuck the landing in every way it needed to. achillesforever6 posted:The Agents of Shield finale really did redeem a lot of the stupid bullshit in the first half and make sitting through all of it worth it. I don't know if I'd go that far, you could definitely set up a viewing guide for the first season that excised whole episodes with zero narrative loss. Hopefully with the later time slot next year and it's new found love of nailguns and curb stomping things get a little darker and a lot more serialized.
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Dang, I can't recall the last time a show has taken such a turn for the positive as SHIELD has. That finale was excellent.
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So... how long until Marvel announces a miniseries to install Coulson as director of SHIELD in 616?
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404GoonNotFound posted:So... how long until Marvel announces a miniseries to install Coulson as director of SHIELD in 616? Considering they recently introduced him into the comics, I would give it a year or two, unless they end up not really following through with that plan on the show. I can totally see them having him be a founder of New SHIELD but stepping down from the top seat because of a case of the crazies that make him doubt himself. Then they could give it to Maria Hill.
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Beanpants posted:Dang, I can't recall the last time a show has taken such a turn for the positive as SHIELD has. That finale was excellent. We talking like, Sarah Connor Chronicles size quality improvements? DynamicSloth posted:I don't know if I'd go that far, you could definitely set up a viewing guide for the first season that excised whole episodes with zero narrative loss. Would you guys mind doing that?
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boom boom boom posted:We talking like, Sarah Connor Chronicles size quality improvements? Similar, although AoS still does fall back to old bad habits here and there unlike SCC, which was all amazing all around at the end. Decius fucked around with this message at 08:52 on May 14, 2014 |
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Good thing they finally decided to explain that blue alien and how Coulson came back to life. Oh.
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boom boom boom posted:Would you guys mind doing that? Here's a list I made with the idea in mind of excising as many episodes as possible. Like cancer.  If you have more time/patience on your hands I included some optional episodes at the bottom.1x01 Pilot 1x05 Girl in the Flower Dress 1x07 The Hub 1x10 The Bridge & 1x11 The Magical Place 1x13 T.R.A.C.K.S. & 1x14 T.A.H.I.T.I. 1x16 The End of the Beginning & 1x17 Turn, Turn, Turn Optionally, also watch: 1x04 Eye Spy - Mediocre episode. Introduces several concepts, but they're simple enough to be skippable, like the team building a tranq gun. 1x08 The Well - Worst episode of the series. But it has some Ward backstory that's vaguely important. 1x12 Seeds - Decent episode with some Skye backstory, but they do go over it again in other episodes. Also SHIELD academy which is neat. Waterhaul posted:Good thing they finally decided to explain that blue alien and how Coulson came back to life. What element of Coulson's resurrection is still left a mystery to you? I feel like they've laid it pretty bare. XboxPants fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 14, 2014 |
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XboxPants posted:What element of Coulson's resurrection is still left a mystery to you? I feel like they've laid it pretty bare. It's dragging more nonsense out. Pilot opens with "oh how is Coulson alive, eventually it's oh a Doctor did it in Tahiti, then but wait tahiti is T.A.H.I.T.I because we do that with everything and then there was an alien involved in it?" Which will no doubt be dragged out to until after Avengers 2 comes out followed by "Well we couldn't mention it was a Kree until after Avengers 2 came out so here's some more information now. Even though we've also introduced LMDs so could have just done that.
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Basically after episode 10 they're all relevant enough (or good enough) that you don't need a guide from then on. The episodes are still a bit lacking at that point though.
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Waterhaul posted:It's dragging more nonsense out. I don't know man, the show I've been watching has been treating it like it's been pretty much resolved. To me there's a difference between a mystery of what happened in the past and a mystery of what's gonna happen in the future. One is dragging out poo poo that they well could tell us, and the other is just setting up plotlines for the future. Doctor Spaceman posted:Basically after episode 10 they're all relevant enough (or good enough) that you don't need a guide from then on. You're a cruel man indeed to subject someone to the Lorelei episode. Have you forgotten your Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Spaceman? Thou shall do no harm! 
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I kinda liked it  I mean, it wasn't fantastic but I don't think it stood out as being particularly bad.
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Waterhaul posted:It's dragging more nonsense out. Pilot opens with "oh how is Coulson alive, eventually it's oh a Doctor did it in Tahiti, then but wait tahiti is T.A.H.I.T.I because we do that with everything and then there was an alien involved in it?" They found alien blood with healing properties. It's resolved.
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Yeah the only thing they didn't resolve as a mystery was Skye's history and that's obviously going to be a season 2 thing
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And it put some cosmic knowledge on the brains of people who got the treatment, which makes them a little crazy if you don't erase their memory. But that is a good plot hook and not a dragged out mystery. We know what is happening to Coulson and why, now we get to find out what comes of it.
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Aphrodite posted:They found alien blood with healing properties. It's resolved. So what's the alien?
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Waterhaul posted:So what's the alien? Why is that important to know right now?
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