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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:The lead in District 9, the psycho villain in Elysium, and Murdock in The A-Team. Oh! That guy. Got it.
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Deadpool posted:Nick Tarabay (Ashur on Spartacus) is the next Spartacus alum to land on Arrow. He'll be playing Captain Boomerang and will be in 3x07 and 3x08 which is the crossover episode. Captain fuckin' Boomerang. I hope there's a giant Boomerang contraption involved.
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Sep 17, 2014 15:25
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Since a couple people here recently binge watched the first season of Arrow, did they explain much about that Proto-Deathstroke who wasn't Slade? All I remember is that Slade said they used to be partners or something.
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Sep 17, 2014 15:26
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I think the episode that gives out the (little) info on him is the same episode Slade kills hims.
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Sep 17, 2014 15:27
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Skwirl posted:Since a couple people here recently binge watched the first season of Arrow, did they explain much about that Proto-Deathstroke who wasn't Slade? All I remember is that Slade said they used to be partners or something. Wintergreen? Yeah he was Slade's mission partner and when they came to the island to kill Fyres, Wintergreen switched sides.
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Sep 17, 2014 15:35
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Not having seen Arrow, that actor looks exactly like David Hasselhoff with the Fury eyepatch and a full Evil Spock goatee. Also, I love how every screenshot of Arrow I see makes it look exactly like the top-of-the-line fan films from 2007.
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Sep 17, 2014 21:26
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Thinking some more about the Lucifer TV show and I think Simon Baker from the Mentalist would make a great Lucifer.
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Sep 17, 2014 21:33
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This is your monthly reminder that Manu Bennett went to college to study dance and drama. Clearly, it paid off 
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Sep 17, 2014 23:25
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Boogaleeboo posted:This is your monthly reminder that Manu Bennett went to college to study dance and drama. Clearly, it paid off It sure did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOkrqolXWjQ
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Sep 18, 2014 00:16
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When the real people of GOTHAM become comics, the men become fatter or stay the same and the women become thinner... and lose all their internal organs
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Sep 18, 2014 08:58
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Man I hope Gotham is good, but every piece of advertising that comes out for it just lowers my expectations more and more. The whole 'Watch Catwoman do Catwoman-y things before she becomes Catwoman!' approach to a lot of their more recent marketing just seems kinda desperate. Also I laugh every time they throw Jada Pinkett Smith's character into the same advertising as Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler, etc. and pretend that she's not going to be the only one who will probably get caught in the show.
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Sep 18, 2014 09:33
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Gotham is at 64 on Metacritic with no reviews so far below 50, so I'd bet it's passable at worst. I think I'm going to like it, even though I would've preferred an adaptation of Gotham Central. It seems like the series should have a "it's hopeless" angle, given that Gotham is still an utter poo poo hole when Bruce grows up. http://www.metacritic.com/tv/gotham/critic-reviews
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Sep 18, 2014 11:44
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Cardboard Box A posted:When the real people of GOTHAM become comics, the men become fatter or stay the same and the women become thinner... and lose all their internal organs Who's the woman on the right?
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Sep 18, 2014 12:00
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Fish Mooney, the current crimeboss with a terrible name. They're an original character for the show.
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Sep 18, 2014 12:04
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That they don't actually adapt Gotham Central is a shame, not only is it a great series, it also perfectly let them not have Batman be a prominent figure in the series, which is what they seem to be shooting for. It's pretty easy to envision the pitch meeting for this, so the people in charge probably never heard of the comic, which is a shame, because it would solve so many problems this series will run into (And apparently does).
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Sep 18, 2014 12:06
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At my comicshop yesterday I saw a reissue of the first Gotham Central with the Gotham TV show banner on the top, so at least they are acknowledging a tenuous connection.
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Sep 18, 2014 18:49
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After they shot the pilot they cast Renee and Crispus so they are at least putting Gotham Central characters in there.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:12
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Madkal posted:At my comicshop yesterday I saw a reissue of the first Gotham Central with the Gotham TV show banner on the top, so at least they are acknowledging a tenuous connection. Comixology are also doing a big ol' Gotham Central sale for the same reason.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:29
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CBS has picked up Greg Berlanti's Supergirl series. http://deadline.com/2014/09/supergirl-tv-series-cbs-dc-greg-berlati-ali-adler-836682/
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Sep 19, 2014 19:11
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Deadpool posted:CBS has picked up Greg Berlanti's Supergirl series. Has anyone besides Rob Bricken at io9 discussed the possibility of continuity for these new shows with existing ones? Obviously Gotham won't be, but is there any hope for Titans/Arrow/Flash/Supergirl to be in a shared universe? Obviously this would be a huge achievement for these many different companies and such to pull off and I'm not holding my breath. Is there precedent for cross-network crossover? I'm pretty sure late era Buffy on UPN still had stuff to do with Angel on WB.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:21
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hi liter posted:Obviously this would be a huge achievement for these many different companies and such to pull off and I'm not holding my breath. Is there precedent for cross-network crossover? I'm pretty sure late era Buffy on UPN still had stuff to do with Angel on WB. Angel had the same showrunner and an expectation of established continuity from years of being a spinoff on the same network, I bet it was still a huge hassle to negotiate any crossover. A CBS show is not going to deign to crossover with a CW show if for no other reason than elitism.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:28
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CW is partly owned by CBS and Arrow/Flash are also done by Greg Berlanti and come from the same studio. So it's possible. But at the same time the Arrow guys have said there is no Superman in their universe. And Supergirl's logline explicitly states he exists in her's.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:30
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I really hope these shows don't connect with each other. I'm so tired of everything having crossovers and being part of some greater shared universe; it's just a trendy gimmick that homogenizes and waters down content.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:31
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hi liter posted:Has anyone besides Rob Bricken at io9 discussed the possibility of continuity for these new shows with existing ones? Obviously Gotham won't be, but is there any hope for Titans/Arrow/Flash/Supergirl to be in a shared universe? No they did not. The only crossovers were characters and not part 1 on one show and part 2 in another. It also only happened in the final season of Buffy and after Buffy was cancelled.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:31
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hi liter posted:Obviously this would be a huge achievement for these many different companies and such to pull off and I'm not holding my breath. Is there precedent for cross-network crossover? Other than Munch being loving everywhere, nothing comes to mind.
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howe_sam posted:Other than Munch being loving everywhere, nothing comes to mind. Ally McBeal and The Practice had a crossover in the '90s despite being on different networks. As with these shows they both shared a creator. And they both aired on the same night.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:41
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And of course John Munch..
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Sep 19, 2014 21:17
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Can't wait for the Marvel and DC universes to become one with the Tommy Westphallverse
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Sep 19, 2014 21:46
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I honestly don't expect the major network shows to last more then two seasons. Arrow pulls good numbers for the CW but it wouldn't survive on a major network. Constantine might but it's basically in the horror genre not the hero genre.
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Deadpool posted:CBS has picked up Greg Berlanti's Supergirl series. ...straight to series? Wow. I know Berlanti has some cachet now, but that's impressive. It is also kind of cutely "crap, all the other networks have a comic book show, quick, what's being pitched?" Edit: Ah, comittment, not order. So they can still not do it, they'd just owe Berlanti and WB a lot of money. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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HorseRenoir posted:I really hope these shows don't connect with each other. I'm so tired of everything having crossovers and being part of some greater shared universe; it's just a trendy gimmick that homogenizes and waters down content. I would like a list of everything that has crossed over with each other to water down content enough for this to be a legitimate complaint, because other than Law and Order, NCIS and CSI spin offs, all I can come up with is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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ToastyPotato posted:I would like a list of everything that has crossed over with each other to water down content enough for this to be a legitimate complaint, because other than Law and Order, NCIS and CSI spin offs, all I can come up with is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was mentioned a while ago, but every show out there pretty much is in a shared universe
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Yeah that is a joke and doesn't count. The whole point of a shared universe is that they share space, not that some random character from another show popped up in one episode one time or that there was a background reference to a random thing in another show. Agents of SHIELD is pretty much the only show I can think of that has legitimately placed itself in an ongoing shared universe, and while there is plenty to criticize about its first season, blaming the MCU is pretty much scapegoating.
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So will Superman appear on the show occasionally, or is there a still an embargo on certain characters? If he exists in the show's universe but can never appear, how will his absence be explained?
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Barry Convex posted:So will Superman appear on the show occasionally, or is there a still an embargo on certain characters? If he exists in the show's universe but can never appear, how will his absence be explained? The same way it was in the movie Supergirl.
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SirDan3k posted:The same way it was in the movie Supergirl. Faye Dunaway needs to reprise her role from that. But seriously, a 22-episode TV series is not the same thing.
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Which is why I say just have her be the original. The alternative is you do something dumb like Clark flying off to Krypton's dead husk for 5 years like in Superman Returns.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:And of course John Munch.. Frankly I'm getting sick of seeing that guy pop up places.
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ToastyPotato posted:Agents of SHIELD is pretty much the only show I can think of that has legitimately placed itself in an ongoing shared universe, and while there is plenty to criticize about its first season, blaming the MCU is pretty much scapegoating. Blaming Marvel Studios (not necessarily the same thing, I know) is definitely not scapegoating, though there was too much wrong with at least the first half of S1 to pin the blame on any one party.
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Barry Convex posted:Blaming Marvel Studios (not necessarily the same thing, I know) is definitely not scapegoating, though there was too much wrong with at least the first half of S1 to pin the blame on any one party. Not being able to say the word HYRDA doesn't excuse the bad writing, dialog, and direction of the show, especially in the first half. They had limitations imposed by Disney and Marvel Studios, but what they delivered was subpar and had very little to do with that. It was just a substandard show. There are plenty of shows not tied to the Marvel universe that manage to tell decent, interesting stories. Also, Deathlok's design being god awful had nothing to do with anything outside of poor design choices being made.
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