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Nate, Sarah and John would smoke him.
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:32 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:07 |
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I can't really stay in this thread long because I don't want any of the ridiculous plotlines to get spoiled, but I'm near the end of season one and this show is hilarious. Not even attempting to be an overwrought prestige drama like all the Marvel shows, every actor having tons of fun with the material, just everything about Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell (not something I'd ever thought I'd say). I would so far put this above any Marvel show for at least pure entertainment value.
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# ? May 29, 2018 22:45 |
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dont even fink about it posted:I can't really stay in this thread long because I don't want any of the ridiculous plotlines to get spoiled, but I'm near the end of season one and this show is hilarious. Not even attempting to be an overwrought prestige drama like all the Marvel shows, every actor having tons of fun with the material, just everything about Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell (not something I'd ever thought I'd say). It only gets better from here. Season 1 is where they ARE tryharding with the plot and drama.
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# ? May 29, 2018 22:58 |
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It's nice to hear that about Season 1, the thing was a slog watched live when you have to dwell on the bad parts. Good news: they figure out what works and run with it.
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# ? May 30, 2018 03:12 |
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Bruceski posted:Good news: they figure out what works and run with it. Bingo. They have an over-arching plot to deal with for each timeline but don't really bog down the show with long, stupid drama or love triangles or other nonsense after season 1. They just use it to guide the Time Idiots from one episode's plot to the next. It uses this freedom to get weird with it and keeps pushing the boundaries on what weird even is.
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# ? May 30, 2018 06:52 |
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dont even fink about it posted:I can't really stay in this thread long because I don't want any of the ridiculous plotlines to get spoiled, but I'm near the end of season one and this show is hilarious. Not even attempting to be an overwrought prestige drama like all the Marvel shows, every actor having tons of fun with the material, just everything about Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell (not something I'd ever thought I'd say). God, if this is how you're feeling about season 1, then season 2 will blow your mind. Then season 3 will piledrive whatever is left of you from low earth orbit directly into the dirt. Feel totally free to livepost reactions.
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# ? May 30, 2018 08:54 |
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:Then season 3 will piledrive whatever is left of you from low earth orbit directly into the dirt. Praise Beebo!
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# ? May 30, 2018 12:25 |
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Bruceski posted:It's nice to hear that about Season 1, the thing was a slog watched live when you have to dwell on the bad parts. Good news: they figure out what works and run with it. Season 1 would have been fine without the Hawk people or Vandal Savage.
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# ? May 30, 2018 17:17 |
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Aleph Null posted:Season 1 would have been fine without the Hawk people or Vandal Savage. It would have been fine without the Hawks and if Vandal Savage was in 1950s domestic goddess and 2200s scenery chewing evil emperor mode pretty much all the time, because those were the only couple of times his character was actually interesting and showed something of a personality and was in keeping with the future goofiness of Legends.
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# ? May 30, 2018 18:57 |
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It probably would have also been fine without Hawkman, specifically.
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# ? May 30, 2018 19:40 |
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dont even fink about it posted:I'm near the end of season one and this show is hilarious. HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:Feel totally free to livepost reactions.
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# ? May 30, 2018 22:51 |
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At least keep us up to date on Nate’s shift from “I like books!” to “ for everyone!”
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# ? May 31, 2018 04:58 |
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Inkspot posted:At least keep us up to date on Nate’s shift from “I like books!” to “ for everyone!” And his concurrent shift from "I like books!" to "Dude, can I bang your mom? "
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# ? May 31, 2018 04:59 |
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That usually happens after taking drugs, so it’s pretty legit.
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:05 |
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I can say from experience that watching the concluding episode of Crisis on Earth-X at the gym is a bad idea. It's hard to keep a good pace on an elliptical when you're at risk of bawling your eyes out
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:08 |
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Heh I still smile when I think of Nate saying "We heard there was a cougar in the neighbourhood" when talking to Ray's hot mom.
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:09 |
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howe_sam posted:I can say from experience that watching the concluding episode of Crisis on Earth-X at the gym is a bad idea. It's hard to keep a good pace on an elliptical when you're at risk of bawling your eyes out I had to play therapist for a friend of mine over Discord as he semi-live trip reported watching Supergirl from the beginning to now and just got rocked by Earth-X Part 4 /
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:12 |
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twistedmentat posted:Heh I still smile when I think of Nate saying "We heard there was a cougar in the neighbourhood" when talking to Ray's hot mom. That entire sub plot was just brilliant
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:23 |
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Rhyno posted:That entire sub plot was just brilliant His body language in that is also fantastic.
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:31 |
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Nick Zano is a goddamned delight.
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:39 |
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Rhyno posted:Nick Zano is a goddamned delight. Him and Masie Richardson-Sellers play off each other so well, so I'm perfectly content if they just end every season with Amaya going "I'm going back to Zambesi" and then contriving increasingly ridiculous reasons to bring her back at the start of the next for as long as they both want to be a part of the show.
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# ? May 31, 2018 05:50 |
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I need to call up DC and have them do up some Suns Out Guns Out tank tops like Nate had
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# ? May 31, 2018 07:18 |
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I finished season 1 tonight and, well, the show writes itself into a corner after the Chronos reveal and slows down a lot after episode 9. The western episode is... Not great, and while Savage is not exactly horrible, he also gets killed constantly (several times just getting blasted off the set and the story), so the actual recurring villain is the group's idiocy. There's also a couple of threads here and there that just go nowhere, like Future Hitler Babby and Savage's army of semi-immortal cultists. In this show, staging an intervention for people is a powerful tool to get them to stop being insane. -Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell have a perfect yin yang of over-acting and under-acting. As a homicidal psychopath who is the only person in touch with his feelings, Purcell is the beating heart of the show. I wish the show always hit this level of hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4omAHJMbk I have no idea how Purcell could say some of those lines without busting up. -Arthur Darvill is not really a believable dashing rogue in any sense, which makes it kind of better, especially when comrades in arms from his previous adventures also don't believe that. -Hawkpeople: Really lame and no one is sure why they are in this show, including them. I mean geez, Rip Hunter stole their villain from them. After getting killed by Savage... 206 times, was it? Yeah maybe they need to find a new line of work. Also maybe their gimmick shouldn't be getting owned. -Brandon Routh can turn big or small and probably solve any problem that way, but won't, since that would mean he is in any way useful without someone directly encouraging him. Also making Brandon Routh play a useless dork is an in-joke in itself. -Caity Lotz just straight-up being Xena, except now it is unnecessary to infer anything about her sexuality. -Like alcohol, Firestorm is the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. -I love that pretty much every other hero the Legends meet hates their guts, because to anyone outside of the group, they're all clearly idiots. I'm a little bit into season two and boy howdy are they leaning heavily on tie-ins from the other shows this season. I will make reactionposts. Name Change fucked around with this message at 11:16 on May 31, 2018 |
# ? May 31, 2018 11:13 |
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dont even fink about it posted:the actual recurring villain is the group's idiocy. Rarely has a truer statement been uttered
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# ? May 31, 2018 11:54 |
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Rhyno posted:Nate, Sarah and John would smoke him.
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# ? May 31, 2018 12:10 |
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Robot Hobo posted:Of course they would. Swamp Thing has been known to grow giant marijuana plants as a housewarming gift in the comics. That poo poo is canon. (Hellblazer #63) I read that as Herbaliser.
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# ? May 31, 2018 12:24 |
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The blue god hungers for battle
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# ? May 31, 2018 23:01 |
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dont even fink about it posted:actual recurring villain is the group's idiocy. You can't drop this line and also expect me to believe you haven't been through season 2
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# ? Jun 1, 2018 09:28 |
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Dumbledore once said the smartest people make the biggest mistakes. Wally being an engineering genius explains why he fits in so well with them, he's smart enough to be as stupid as them. Rory is the voice of reason.
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# ? Jun 2, 2018 01:14 |
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Blaise330 posted:Rory is the voice of reason. This is factual. Einstein called it out.
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# ? Jun 2, 2018 02:38 |
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Blaise330 posted:Dumbledore once said the smartest people make the biggest mistakes. I can confirm that. So focused on the high concepts they trip over their untied shoelaces.
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# ? Jun 2, 2018 03:02 |
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Blaise330 posted:Dumbledore once said the smartest people make the biggest mistakes. Wally being an engineering genius explains why he fits in so well with them, he's smart enough to be as stupid as them. I loved his fairly insightful conversation with Snart in season 2: "You become a better man..." "You mean a weaker man." "No... better."
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# ? Jun 2, 2018 07:38 |
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Are we culturally at a place where we just gloss over "Dumbledore once said..."? I'm not making a thing of it. I just want to know if that's something I'm supposed to have already gotten used to and somehow missed.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 02:52 |
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No, we as a global society need to fight the scourge of Harry Potter.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 04:24 |
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STAC Goat posted:Are we culturally at a place where we just gloss over "Dumbledore once said..."? This is actually very valid and if is in fact true, I have also entirely missed it.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 04:45 |
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It's a line that wouldn't be out of place at all spoken on this amazing dumb show.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 07:05 |
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Argue posted:It's a line that wouldn't be out of place at all spoken on this amazing dumb show. I tried to picture in my head who would possibly say a line like that and already I can hear Nate, Ray, Wally (), and even Mick saying it at the very least.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 08:32 |
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nine-gear crow posted:I tried to picture in my head who would possibly say a line like that and already I can hear Nate, Ray, Wally (), and even Mick saying it at the very least. We all know it's a Gary line.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 08:33 |
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I'd love if in the next season one of the villains is a lich with multiple Phylacteries and only Mick and Constantine realise what's happening because Mick watched the Harry Potter movies some time off screen and Gary showed Constantine the book series. This exchange results: Mick, after breaking the phylactery fails: "Oh my God, he's Voldemorting..." Constantine: "The cheeky bastard..." Then they have to explain it to everyone else. Except Ray who has taken "Which House are You" online quizzes countless times.
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# ? Jun 3, 2018 09:10 |
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They have to protect a young JK Rowling, because as Constantine explains, somehow, inexplicably, she got the intricacies of magic exactly right and now something wants her dead.
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