Koete
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I only really liked the shipping with the three members of the West family.
How can you say they're playing it safe when there's incest?
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Congratulations on another pair of milestones, Mike.
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God bless you, Will.
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And Tom Cavanagh's Reverse-Flash.
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I'm probably biased but I'll mention TASM's Lizard. I thought Ifans did a good job with the sympathetic side of Connors' character. Maybe something was lost in Billy and Martha's absence, but it wasn't glaring in the film. (Though come to think of it, Billy would've worked with the "absent fathers" theme of the movie. Hmm.)
Dude....seriously? I mean, I like aspects of Ifans' portrayal, but the villainous scheme......the villainous scheme......
I think Connors' character was muddled, but the fight at the school is one of the best fights in a superhero movie.
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Yeah, I took it as in the 2010s. Cause if we go back to Heath Ledger's Joker, I don't know when we'll get a villain that isn't in his shadow.
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Daniel Bruhl was great for what we saw of Zemo. I think Winter Soldier has been a minor player in his own movie and a plot device in the follow-up, so I can't co-sign him. Ultron: the last thing the Marvel movies need is more jokes. Red Skull was rote and a wasted opportunity.
I agree that Zod is the best in recent years. I love how Michael Shannon differentiated between pre and post Phantom Zone, and his being genetically programmed to ensure Krypton's survival gave another layer to both the character and the greater mythology.
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Not much to add, though I'd say it was a step-up from the previous two. There are still problems, like the aforementioned "you need to talk to" parade and the waaaaay outdated TV version of "multiple personality disorder." But between something actually happening in the Barry and Iris relationship, Wells-2 coming back (although his less dickish personality and "not" jokes were shaky), and the set-piece at the end feeling more superhero than most of the recent one-off villains, it had more energy to it. Jesse was more of a plot device last year, so fingers crossed that they make her more dynamic. They seem to be continuing the relationship between her and Wally that popped up last year, which could be interesting or just fall flat. I can't tell if Julian yelling at the metahuman villain in the middle of police HQ was dumb or a natural extension of his character.
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As ho-hum as usual for me. Winn has moved from being a creepy stalker to being that one friend who talks through everything you watch no matter the context. He would be The Worst if Rip Hunter didn't exist. Cadmus is a mash-up of a lab bankrolled by Smallville's Lex and the "Superman is a god that could kill us all" angle of the Snyder movies. For all the faults of those movies, I buy that angle, but I'll never look at Supergirl and Superman on this show and think they have the weight to make that comparison. Just like last week, the villains are run of the mill, making ominous threats and giving something for the heroes to punch, but not leaving any impression. Kara is running into the same character growth problems as Barry is. After all the Cat Grant speeches from last season, she's better than whining to Cat about how her new boss isn't going to make her a reporter just because she decided she wants to do it. Losing Calista Flockhart is a major blow to the show; so many episodes were made watchable because of her presence. They have to step-up on fleshing out the other characters to fill the void, or else the flaws in the show are going to overtake it. I still like Hoechlin, although I wish his Superman were a little less carefree on the job, just to differentiate from Kara.
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Now that he has his Oscar, he can turn his full attention to the environment.
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Cur? Knave?
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Yeah it did, Felicity told Barry to fix it and he ran off. The entire episode wasn't a flashback.
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This was a weird one. I liked the ideas of a lot of it, but the execution didn't match them. Having the conflict between Joe and Iris stem from him not telling her her mother was still alive is odd because...that should've been her reaction in the first place? It was a smart choice to have Dante die from being hit by a drunk driver instead of in some super-villain fight, grounds it more. Another example of Carlos Valdes' range too. And the dinner scene, as sitcom as the set-up was, was pretty uncomfortable. But man, how big of a dumbass can Barry be? Once he figured out there were changes, he should've been careful in navigating his conversations until he figured things out. Having him say things like "oh, Captain Singh's back" is just eye-rolling. And then he thinks that changing the timeline again would be a smart idea, knowing what's happened. He's done this before, he's been warned about the dangers of time travel, and yet he's acting like it's the first time. I liked the conversation with John Wesley Shipp, but it shouldn't have been necessary. And then everybody, who have legitimate reasons to be pissed at him, are on his side again. Iris calling what Barry did a mistake and comparing it to Cisco telling Cold Barry's identity (which itself was the result of a timeline alternation) was underplaying the situation and a false equivalence. I wonder if Diggle's going to punch him in the face the next time he sees him for replacing his daughter with a son? I like that Dr. Alchemy's tied to Barry changing the timeline, but his costume looks like it cost $5 and Tobin Bell isn't Tony Todd. Other positives: the Flash save at the beginning was great, and I'm glad Tom Felton got to keep his accent.
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In the shift over to The CW, Supergirl is pretty much at the same level as it was on CBS, with a little bit of a boost because of Superman. I was pretty skeptical of Hoechlin at first look because he didn't seem to have the presence of Superman. I think that does hold true; he doesn't come off with the aura of the ultimate inspirational and aspirational figure for the world. But what he does have when shaking hands at the DEO and during conversations with Kara is Superman's good-naturedness, which goes a long way. He also has the lesser seen trait of a sense of humor; his mouthing "sway" and winking at Kara after Cat's uncharacteristically charmed reaction to him made me laugh. It was also a great call to have a bit of the "aw shucks" Clark when talking to Perry, but showing him as a sharp reporter when interviewing Lena Luthor. So while his lack of a certain kind of gravitas moves this Superman closer to "another superhero" than "THE superhero," he comes off as Clark Kent and Superman in other ways that matter.
The rest of it is pretty typical Supergirl: Calista Flockhart is still the show's second biggest strength, Winn is still a dipshit (who they could've written out but stuck in the DEO for no reason), there's a cheesy speech (this time about change), and the villain and his scheme are on the generic side. The CGI budget has taken a hit, but it's par for the course for the CW superhero shows. The hand to hand action was a step-up; from the bit with the knife, I'm guessing they watched Winter Soldier. I can see Kara's point (aka the mission statement for this season) about how after figuring out Supergirl she needs to figure out Kara, but having her and Jimmy stay friends feels like an abrupt story shift after spending an entire season putting them together. The CW shows do the get together/break up game a lot, and it would be interesting to see one with an actual relationship, especially since they hadn't really had a first date yet. Lena seems destined for a reveal that she's been evil all along, and I'm hoping Katie McGrath has more personality when that happens. I'm sticking to my plan of giving it until mid-season, but so far there's a not enough of a significant difference to change my opinion of the show.
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You're right, I was more thinking of the middle as the high point of Daredevil Season 2, with the trial of The Punisher and the return of Kingpin. While I liked the siege of the hospital, I'm not a big fan of The Hand even in the comics.
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The first half of the season as per usual with Marvel is by far the best.
Interesting. I thought it took 5 or 6 episodes before both of the Daredevil seasons really got going, while Jessica Jones hit a point where they could have ended, but artificially extended things.
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Probably because it's made by fan film people.
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Also, the Christmas episode involves a superhero.
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Ha ha, well...
I was disappointed with the second season, so I really wanted to come out of tonight's premiere re-energized for the show. But yeah, I was let down. When they announced that there were going to be two major villains, I figured Flashpoint would probably last until mid-season, which would be a good amount a time to explore the idea. Covering it in one episode, it's reduced to just a way to shake up the "real" timeline. This isn't the first time Barry's changed the timeline, so the hype going into this was all flash (dammit) and no substance for something that could have been a mid-season episode. As a testament to how much this episode was a plot device rather than a story, there's so much of the writing that feels half-assed because the writers knew it was one and done. I brought up sloppiness in the writing several times last season, and I went with sloppy because I gave them the benefit of the doubt. But now it's Season 3; at this point, bad writing is bad writing.
Why do Wally and Iris buy Barry's story about knowing who Wally is? The answer is that Iris can "feel" that the timeline isn't right and Barry has a connection to her, but come on, that's just a shortcut because they aren't giving any time to exploring this. Oh, and so that even though Barry was a creepy weirdo asking her out, they can still have romantic scenes between the two. Why doesn't Barry know about Cisco and what happened to S.T.A.R. Labs when he's been there three months? Why the hell is Caitlin brought in other than to make sure we get the point about how important the team is? Barry can save the multiverse but he can't find a jackass like The Rival? Speaking of...why does The Rival reveal who he is other than so we recognize him in the stinger at the end? Why does Barry still know who everybody is when he's losing his memories of them? It's completely rushed through, with the ending taking precedence over how events fit together to reach that ending.
The one bright spot in the episode was Matt Letscher. Him going on and on about Flashpoint (so pleased with himself for the name) while Barry deadpans about his dinner, smugly lording his knowledge of time travel over Barry, and of course yelling at Barry that he's the villain, were great Reverse-Flash moments. And then there's the pleasure that Thawne takes in getting Barry to say that, in admitting that they need to go back in time, he is asking Thawne to kill his mother. How can the writers nail moments like this, but let things that would stick out with a few seconds thought get through?
There's still a whole season ahead, so I'm sure things will pick up once we get into the actual story they want to tell, but it wasn't the start I was hoping for.
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