KnightWing

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  1. During the train crash, my brain kept telling me that there was no way this was a weekly TV series. The fact that they were able to pull off that level of awesomeness with the CG was incredible. Of course, Flash and Arrow are both very smart with how they use their stunt and VFX budgets. Sort of the polar opposite of Smallville, where you'd often have Matrix bullet time for no actual necessary reason.

  2. I think Black Widow sort of needs another character there to work with, sort of like how Thor (thus far) seems to need Loki and either Asgard or the Avengers to work with. She worked really well in The Winter Soldier because of her contrast with Cap, and I definitely want to see her character fleshed out in more movies, but a solo BW movie might not be all that entertaining.

  3. I liked it okay. Twelve dealing with a small adorable child and then later basically having the TARDIS turned into a schoolbus was pretty entertaining. Also cool: the message about children with mental problems being legitimately special rather than simply messed up.

    The ending with the girl showing up out of nowhere, though... I mean, what?

  4. Does this mean that Wanda, The Scarlet Fairy Witch, will turn Ultron into a real James Spader at the end?

    Funny thing, this is the actual press release for Age of Ultron:

    Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” stars Robert Downey Jr., who returns as Iron Man, along with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, the team must reassemble to defeat James Spader as Ultron, a terrifying technological villain hell-bent on human extinction. Along the way, they confront two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision.

    Grammatically, that synopsis says that in this story, the Avengers will fight James Spader and Paul Bettany will become the Vision.

  5. Ultimately Dick is a people person. Putting him on his own isn't all that interesting because that's not where he makes sense. Realistically, he's the kind of guy that would always want friends and allies around him anyway. Whether it's the bat-family or the Titans, he should be in a team book of some sort.

    I'm trying to remember; has there ever been a modern bat-family book, or has DC just always put the bat-family in all the other solo books? I guess Batman and Robin is the closest thing to one; a book like that but with the whole family would rule.

  6. They should really just put him back in a team book, it's where he thrives. Recreate the Titans or Outsiders, something like that. Were there Titans in the New 52?

    It was referenced early on that Dick, Starfire, and Garfield were all on a team together at some point (Cyborg might have been mentioned as well), and that Dick and Starfire were an item at one point, but that's about it.
  7. I just don't think a teenage Robin would fit in this conception of the DC Universe.

    Which is one of the reasons I wasn't super-fond of the Nolan Batman movies' take on the universe, and I'm not super-fond of this one. This at least has superheroes being superheroes in it, which is great, but still. Why can't we have fun things? Marvel is running around with Rocket Raccoon and DC isn't even willing to use the primary version of Robin, their third most popular character.