You Know Who

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  1. Perhaps, but Weisman and company have stated that they have no plans to use Slade/Deathstroke in order to distinguish their cartoon from Teen Titans. They could have been lying though. I wasn't too crazy about the episode as a whole, but that scene with the aforementioned hint gave me the chills.
  2. I knew the former but didn't notice the latter. Nice catch.
  3. Have them watch BTAS, then STAS and Gotham Knights, THEN Batman Beyond then Return of the Joker, followed by JL and JLU, Epilogue shown after Destroyer. I know Batman Beyond is set about forty years after the end of JLU, but the viewing experience in that order will be better: I watched JL and JLU and then went into Batman Beyond with high hopes, but given the programs I had seen before found it kind of disappointing as a whole. If they like Batman Beyond and want to see more of the DCAU of the future, give them Zeta. If they want a break from Superman and Batman, give them Static, but don't force Static or Zeta on them.
  4. Very legitimate gripe. Plus we're given no reason as to why he'd like her to begin with.
  5. "Downtime" Another awesome episode. Atlantis has never looked better and it was nice learning why Calder and not Garth was Aqualad. It was a treat to see the Aquaman and Flash families. My only real complaint is the scene with Miss Martian and Superboy, since the former is still annoying and the latter is still a dick. I suspect that Orm will come back as an antagonist to both Aquaman and Aqualad. Also didn't realize that Artemis was half-Asian.
  6. Okay. Which storylines would y'all like to see adapted into these kind of movies? Red Son is at the top of my list.
  7. What did he write after those two developments that reflect that?
  8. I don't think Loeb is all that exposition heavy. The guy uses a ton of narration, but that's hardly expository. And it's kind of unfair to compare Shooter Era Claremont with any modern writer. You have a point. I actually don't dislike Claremont because the first comic books I ever read were his classic X-Men stories like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. I don't know how well they'd hold up on second reading, but I have good memories them.
  9. I don't hate Loeb's stuff, but it doesn't really do it for me either. He uses more exposition than any writer whose works I've ever read, even more so than Chris Claremont.
  10. No idea. Hopefully not another adaptation of Jeph Loeb-written Superman/Batman story.
  11. Just gave All-Star Superman a second viewer. My previous criticisms stand. Will only add that I think it would have worked better as an anthology piece with most of the twelve issues adapted into different segments, a la Gotham Knight, forming a slightly longer film.
  12. Methinks they'll do the same as they did with Carla Gugino in Watchmen and have her play both a 30-year old and a 60-year old, but we'll see.
  13. Two suggestions (this applies to First Issue Special too): 1) A thing or two from the Milestone wing of the DC universe, in light of the passing of Dwayne McDuffie. 2) Something related to either of the characters mentioned here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-1-2011/batman-s-muslim-sidekick?xrs=synd_facebook
  14. Frankly, she didn't do much for me as Lois. Her voice commanded about as much as authority and conveyed about as much toughness as Katie Holmes' Rachel Dawes. Still miles better than Anne Heche though.
  15. I have to disagree. The juxtaposition of is the book's most important moment. That moment of comfort and hope is what Superman is truly about. In the context of the movie, the adaptation of issue 9 added nothing to the story; adapting all of issue 10 would have added everything. I have to disagree with that. I actually thought Superman showing the Kryptonian couple the error of their ways rather than fighting with them and turning the other cheek by letting them die/live together in the Phantom Zone was much more powerful than him saving a random Goth girl whose name he somehow knows.
  16. No I'm capitulating because I need to fucking go to sleep.
  17. Okay. Finally this is making sense to me. I was having difficulty thinking of an shitty phase of my life that prevented me from drawing as well as would have liked, then I remembered the shit storm that was my previous semester in college. You win.
  18. Actually, lazy writing is spelling things out for your audience. There's a well known saying in writing, "Show, don't tell." It basically means that if you give your audience the hints, they'll be smart enough to pick up on it. If Spidey just says, "I can't use my powers because I'm sad" that's lazy writing. Your average audience is usually smart enough to pick up the subtle clues and figure out what's wrong with the hero. Then apparently I didn't pick up the hints of a condition I had never heard of. Or you might just be reading into it. It isn't a very subtle film by any stretch of the imagination.
  19. 3. Sorry, but I maintain that that scene was WAY TOO FUCKING LONG, though not as much so as the broom closet. 4. Yes and Octavius says it allows him to control the arms and not vice versa. Are we supposed to assume that his subconscious controls them after the inhabiter is destroyed? 7. Alright, you guys win. 8. That is true, but the fact that it's never explained still smacks of lazy writing to me.
  20. 3: The elevator scene is hilarious. 4: After the inhibitor was destroyed, the arms were hooked up directly to his brain. 7: If you had metal tentacles and went stomping around on them with enough force to crack through concrete, you'd make a decent tremor. He doesn't have to be the weight of a T-Rex to do that. 8: Yeah, Preston's right. 3. It outstayed it's welcome. 4. What? Was it not the other way around? Were they not hooked his brain before having a will of their own? 7. Mmmmmmmm...maybe. I'm still not entirely sure. 8. Perhaps, but it could have been presented better. His mask prevented us from seeing him being bummed out or frustrated right before losing his powers, thus it's kind of a stretch.
  21. No, I haven't. If that's what Pete had, evidently he needs a new doctor.
  22. It sort of was. It was a confidence issue. If he didn't have the confidence in his abilities, he was going to fail. Weak and cliched.
  23. O, he was. He's one of the best supervillains to make it to the silver screen, talking arms and earthshaking aside.