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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Season 2 of The Flash

Spoiler Warning!!!!

Well I was wrong on the real Jay Garrick being a new actor. It's fine, JWS fits the costume well.

I'm not fond of them ending with the Flashpoint set up. I was really hoping the end of Season 1 meant we weren't going to go there.

It's not normal for me to say this, but the second really was inferior to the first.

I highly doubt they actually wrote the first 10-12 episode planning for that Jay to be Zoom. And when they went there, it felt way to much to me like repeating the same basic "twist" of season 1, the mentor is the villain.

The show was still a lot of fun, unlike Arrow which has become indistinguishable from the film verse.

Monday, June 1, 2015

The Flash First Season was Awesome

It was great, it's a DC show that afraid of the Comic Booky elements.

I still can't put into words my thoughts, but I wanna get it on record here.

Can't wait for Season 2, but till then I got PLL.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Dammit DC, stop doing this.

I've been catching up on lost time on my none DC related Blogging subjects while trying to find out how to put into word how wowed I am by closing episodes of The Flash's First Season.

And then I read this.

When the reports that the movie was why Deadshot was killed off came out I chose not to believe them, now I'm pissed.

I expressed how excited I was about what DC is doing on Television. I said I was glad they are separate universes both from each other and the Cinematic Universe.

But the entire point of WHY I was glad for that was that we could see different takes on different characters.

I thought we were done with the days of the Bat embargo and Smallville having all kinds of limitations on it.

I'm fine with the notion that the big three, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, can't appear on TV shows (in their fully formed forms) as long as everything else is fair game.

I'm sick of DC always giving the movies first dibs, and then being afraid TV will cause confusion. The know the animated projects we don't get confused by, or the Comics themselves which aren't even all the same canon due to DC bringing the Multiverse back.

Arrow had a 5 year plan mapped out in advance. I'm sure not every detail, but a lot of basic things. And I haven't exactly been thrilled with much of what they've done each season. But to then because a movie is green lite take away assets they were banking on is just plain mean.

And they are being illogically selective. The Flash is the lead and title character of both a TV show and am upcoming Movie, and both Flashes are Barry Allen. They aren't afraid that will be confusing. But recurring characters are confusing? One Floyd Lawton is white and one is black but they are afraid people won't be able to tell the difference?

This happens endlessly with Iconic characters who are no longer copyrighted. We have lots of Sherlock Holmeses and Draculas and Frankensteins all over pop culture. But we can only handle one Harley Quinn or Deadshot?

I don't even think Harley Quinn on Arrow would make sense, she can't exist without The Joker, The Joker can't exist without Batman, and I prefer no Batman or Superman in the DCWverse.

But it's the principle of the thing.

So I'm obviously not saying I want each television DC Universe to have one of every character. But there are certain DC characters who it's in their DNA to be not limited to any one subsection of the DCU, Amanda Waller, assassins like Deadshot, organizations like HIVE. The League of Assassins, while it's head is mainly a Batman villain it does have tentacles all over. These are lesser known characters they have a created a great chance to show in a short time how versatile they are by letting different writers do different things.

Instead it looks like the reason the Teen Titans won't have Roy Harper or Wally West is because a different channel has dibs on them. Having Dick and Barbara won't be seen as stepping on Gotham's toes however. (And no Donna or Cassie because of weird contract stuff concerning Marston and Wonder Woman, but I suspect that'll be the same for the movies.)

Maybe their logic is that it's because they're lesser known then the big 2 and their supporting cast? We already have multiple Alfreds and Robins and Batgirls and Jimmy Olsens as cultural icons, from the movies alone before this new string of shows started. But Roy Harper might seem to non comic readers that he was written for..... I forget the actors name.

But Gotham and Arrow both had their own Dollmaker without it being an issue? They were in different seasons though, and now they're both dead.

It's all so stupid.

Look DC, I'm excited for your Movies, and for your TV shows. I have a lot of faith in where you're going now in-spite of past problems, and have expressed that excitement to your harshest critics. But if you continue to be afraid that some of your properties can't handle both, while consistently giving first dips to the medium that we actually spend less time in. Your going to neuter a lot of your potential.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Flash Theories

First about Grodd.

I don't think this is the real Grodd exactly, or perhaps more accurately not the final Grodd. Let me Explain.

This Grodd was still too dumb to me, maybe that's because it's still his Origin, but I don't know.

Many people may be upset about removing Ape City in exchange for making Grodd another product of the Accelerator. But here is my idea.

I think this Grodd will somehow get time traveled back to the distant past and become the founder of Ape City. And then in a future season from that will come the proper Grodd. Someone named after the City's founder.

Now unto Eddie Thawn. I do not believe he will become Cobalt Blue, I think all HGobard's talk about him being "almost completely forgotten" says he's not a big player.

Question is, if he is such a failure, what's the one thing that left him still a little remembered? Many are remembered only for being the Lover of someone far more important.

I think Cobalt Blue will as usual be Barry's twin, but this time it's a female twin. And she becomes Eddie's future Wife and also ancestor of Eobard.

One more thing, I ship SnowWest now.

More on how wrong the perceived difference between Marvel and DC movies is

On both sides it's the Marvel Vs DC people doing this the most, or at least they do it to the one they don't like. As someone who likes all the movies but a very few (none in either current Cinematic Universe) I feel I have a more unbiased perception.

First off since Guardians of the Galaxy came out it's like people have been judging the entire MCU based on that film, and really a flanderized version of it, as if nothing was taken seriously and it had no depth, which is clearly wrong. No other MCU film is as comedic, the amount of humor in them isn't really much more then you get in the DC films, DC just doesn't put the jokes in the trailers as much.

And the people praising what Marvel does over DC, go on about DC being ashamed of their properties because they seemingly tone things down to make them more realistic. But the MCU films have also watered things down to make them less comicbooky, Zola wasn't actually a living Brain like Krang, the Guardians of the Galaxy had all the most Superpowered members of it's team removed. and the Collector was completely weakened. Plenty in the MCU has felt Nolanized, not to mention Mandarin.

And of course the current DCCU only has one movie we've seen. And the way I see it every glimpse we've seen of Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad has undermined the notion that DC is afraid to embrace the flamboyant aspects of their Universe. It's funny actually, all the talk about how DC was running their movies by being to realistic, and now the SS pics come out and everyone is whining how unrealistic it looks. They're clearly fully embracing the Magick of their universe way faster then it's taken Marvel. And it's clear that Snyder was being held back from his more stylish style for MOS and isn't anymore for BvS.

I've even seen some claim that Ironically DC is less dark and serious then Marvel in the Comics and so find DC taking the darker rout for Movies a rejection of everything DC stood for.

That depends on what period you're talking about, if you're talking about the Silver and to a lesser extent Bronze age then yes, that's true. The times when DC was loosing to Marvel in sales.

But the DC Comics I fell in love with as a child of the 90s and early 2000s were very dark. Even the ones that had Superman. Identity Crisis, OMAC Project, Infinite Crisis, the Teen Titans under both Wolfman/Perez and Geof Johns. Batman getting his back broken, Superman dying and coming back, Hal going crazy, these are the stories that made me a DC fanatic. And for Batman stuff like Bruce Wayne Murderer/Fugitive and War Games, and Under the Red Hood. In the 90s was when Marvel was massively loosing to DC in sales.

The MCU does have plenty of darkness and seriousness. And MOS had plenty of humor.

I've also seen haters of the current DC Cinematic Universe saying DC is doing it right on TV, and then putting Arrow and The Flash together just because they're technically in the same universe. The Flash has been great, fantastic, marvelous. Arrow however to me has been doing exactly what the DC Cinematic Universe is being falsely accused of.

If you're gonna refute that assessment with "Arrow included the Lazuarus pit for Ra's and the movies didn't". Those movies aren't in this Cinematic Universe, that's the problem, Nolan's style that was perfect for Batman but not so ideal for others is being assumed to still rule the upcoming DC films. The things about MOS that were accused of coming from Nolan are clearly gone from Batman V Superman based on what we've seen so far. And I don't think those things were actually Nolan's fault anyway, Nolan's movies certainly didn't desaturate their colors. Of course the "Man of Steel in Color" video on Youtube is a fraud, MOS wasn't that desaturated as they claimed there. But I do wish it had been brighter and it looks like BvS will be.

Having the Lazurus pit doesn't help Arrow's take on Ra's and the League of Assasins since they removed most of his exotic charisma, and has all the League members wearing the same boring looking costume. And they removed his Eco Terrorist motivation and have him pretty much being Evil simply to be Evil.

Arrow had a strict rule against Super Powers until sharing a continuity with The Flash was thrust upon them. Their Suicide Squad contained none of the truly Flamboyant members. They've pretty much treated Oliver as if he were Batman, Oliver is not such a grim anti-social character in the Comics. And they refuse to give Black Canary her authentic costume with the Iconic Fishnets, instead just making her look like a slighter more prudish Catwoman. And of course they are taking their sweet time letting Ray Palmer shrink.

The recent SS pics show the Cinematic Universe is much more willing to embrace truly Comic Book like Costumes. Harley Quinn will have more then one costume in the film, I too am not fond of the New52 based one in the first pics we saw, Arkham City had the ideal Harley costume to me. But regardless it is from the comics. And their look for Enchantress is less realistic then any form I've seen her have in the comics.

And sometimes the "toned down" version of the character, is more like how they originally were before later writers started exaggerating them. That's why I love this Killer Cros look, I'm sick of the overdone Killer Croc we see in the Arkham games. On the other hand, Echantress's look reminds me of what I don't like about Poison Ivy in the Arkham games.

What really bums me out about the BrosWatchPLLToo duo being so firmly on this DCCU hating bandwagon, is that I know they like me care a great deal about women being treated better in genre fiction. The DC has had a horrible track record with this in the Comic all through the New52 and even a little before. But in other media right now, especially with movies they are doing far better then Marvel.

Marvel continues to refuse to include Black Widow and Gamorra in the merchandising, while DC is making a new line for young Girls, I just hope it corresponds with better female representation in their main marketing lines.

The MCU is taking till Phase 3.5 to give us a female lead Solo film, and we know from leaked emails their CEO has no confidence in female lead Superhero films. With DC we'll have Wonder Woman before then even though they got started later. WW will be the 4th film total, 3rd after it was confirmed we're getting a universe, and before the first JL film. Gail Simon said someone she trusts told her WW will be the best part of BvS, and I always knew Gadot would do awesomely.

Marvel kept the full Smurfette principle for it's first two team films and then just now upgraded to 2 women in a team of 9. Suicide Squad will unfortunately have twice as many men as women, but at least DC has more then 2 women on the team right from the start.

And they aren't all White. Age of Ultron featured all of the core 3's Black Friends in small roles, how diverse of them.

I have my concerns with both DC and Marvel's upcoming plans, but I remain excited for both.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Originally Nora Allen didn't die

That's the theory I've come to after the latest episode. It did not look in that fight like Nora was the object of the battle for either party.

Originally both Barry's parents lived and he didn't become The Flash till like 2020. Somehow in his time traveling adventures he and Eobard Thawne became enemies. Eobard didn't realize originally that he needed The Flash to exist to use his powers.

Eobard traveled back in time to kill Barry as a kid. Future Barry followed him to stop him but Nora would up being killed by accident. Eobard got stranded in the past, and from there on history plays out differently.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Caitlin Snow follow up

This is a follow up to Caitlin Snow on The Flash.

There has been more then one Killer Frost in the comics. Snow is the most recent one, in fact she's a New 52 creation. The appearances in Animated TV shows and Movies and most Video Games have all been either Lincoln or Crystal. But one Lego DC Video Game uses Snow.

One theory floating around is that Cisco and Caitlin will only get their power after a Flashpoint like Timeline change. I kinda hope not, they can't change Flash's timeline without changing Arrow's too. And I don't want to have to wait till after Arrow is over. I'd prefer not to have a full Flashpoint adaptation, it's a good story but I hate the "Time Boom" idea.

On speculation of how new people can get Meta-human powers in the future. One idea I saw was that some people might be already effected by the Particle Accelerator explosion but their abilities need to be triggered. For Cailtin someone suggested it may happen as a result of getting blasted by Snart's Cold Gun.

The creators of the show have said however not all Superpower will come from that explosion.

What if one of the other three Killer Frosts is already out there, and somehow she infects Caitlin with her condition? Snow isn't even the only one who's been a love interest for Ronnie. (in the Context of this show so far Ronnie is a love interest for Caitlin, since she's the regular cast member).

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Caitlin Snow on The Flash

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Spoiler Warning!!!! If you are a Flash viewer not familiar with the comics what I talk about in this post could be considered spoilers.

In the long history of works of Popular Fiction being adapted from or supplementary to previous works introducing a character as a good guy, a friend and ally, who fans know eventually becomes a villain, The use of Caitlin Snow, the future Killer Frost, on CW's The Flash is perhaps the most unusual.

Nothing about the writing of the character seems to foreshadow that. One of two lines of dialogue have jokingly foreshadowed her getting Ice Based superpowers, but not turning Evil. She hasn't been shown to have a Darkside, and is maybe arguably the most morally stable person working at Star Labs.

There is also the fact that Killer Frost is more of a Firestorm villain then a Flash one. Which means so far the villain of that future rivalry has gotten more screen-time then the hero, since she's a Series regular who's been in every Episode.

Maybe it's not to implausible to think her morality would change greatly simply from getting those powers, and their drawback. Killer Frost is essentially a type of parasite, she's been called a Heat-Vampire. She needs to absorb Heat from others in order to stay alive, and Firestorm is the only person she can do that to without killing them. Needing to harm others in order to live would be a difficult thing to deal with.

The show probably doesn't intend to portray her as being incredibly Evil. She'll probably be a sympathetic and tragic antagonist.

Since Firestorm is going to be one of the main focuses on that new DC Comics Arrow/Flash spin off CW is making, I'm kinda surprised they didn't mention Caitlin being involved too. She certainly still could be.

I am currently theorizing that show will wind up being called The Brave and The Bold.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Here is why I'm upset about the upcoming Supergirl show

I'd been thinking for awhile, and had expressed on IMDB, how I kind of don't trust a channel other then the CW or ABC Family to do a Teen or High School/Collage hour long Drama. Other Networks are all about being "Adult", especially the non Cable ones, and Glee has no appeal to me. CBS in particular is a channel that seems to care only about Cop and Lawyer shows.

Then I read that this Supergirl show will start with her being already 24. And I was like THAT'S NOT SUPERGIRL, THAT'S SUPERWOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the Supergirl stories I like from the Comics, from all the various incarnations of Supergirl, are all set with her either in High School or Collage.

It's like her being a female Superman is all they really cared about. 24 is literally the same age Clark Kent was when Smallville ended.

Supergirl was an opportunity to do something like the Early Seasons of Smallville but without the extended Prequel burden or the No Flights no Tights limitation.

I think that's the source of the problem though. Smallville even though it is by any objective standard the most successful Comic Book based TV show of all time. Is for some reason known for it's Hatedom rather then it's Fandom. So they don't want to be confused with Smallville, instead they're just gonna create a show more likely to resemble later Smallvile then early Smallville, which is when the show's quality took a nose dive.

They should have done Powergirl with the premise described for this show. But that name isn't as marketable.

Supergirl being a Female Superman is a small part of her appeal. It's also being a younger superhero. Supergirl could've been the new Buffy or Secret World of Alex Mack, or Pretty Little Liars with Superpowers. Any of those would have been interesting. I wanted the drama of her possibly going to school with Nastalia Luthor or Lena Thorul.

But making it so the character's only difference from Superman is being a female Hero just draws attention to how they could have instead given a chance to a Superheroine that isn't linked by name to a male hero. Like Stargirl, or Zatana, or Black Canary, or heck just give another try to a Wonder Woman pilot.

First Teen Titans ticks me off that it won't have Donna Troy, and now this. And Gotham as much as I love it keeps screwing over Montoya. At least Flash is good and Arrow is improving.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Gotham and PLL 2015 premier TV reactions

Family issues have me busy right now, so I'll be doing this weeks reactions for the Gotham and PLL mid-season premiers together.

Gotham had the Electrocutionor, one of three lower tier Batman civilians I always remember first and foremost for being one of the three used as bosses in the NES video game for the 89 Batman movie. Which was an unusually good licensed game.

In that Game he's very much a muscle villain, someone you fight who had very electrical weapons. On Gotham he seems to be like how Hugo Strange is done in modern depictions.

Montoya'a behavior confuses me. I'm much more confused by Barbara, dumping Gordon and then jumping into bed with Renee then getting mad that Gordon might have a new Girlfriend.

I'm excited to see Ivy and Cat hanging out.

As for PLL, it was a far more excellently intense and emotional episode then I can articulate.

Sasha is so great, you really feel sorry for Ali in this episode in-spite of all she's done. I've always been the kind of fan who wants to think the best of Alison, I'm certain everything she's done since coming back has to be to protect her friend, seeing them turn on her is really heart breaking.

Hanna only pretend to be Dumb, which has been a fan theory for so long I find it really lame. No matter how SAT smart she may be I'll never buy that she is smarter then Spencer.

I guess Calab is going to train Aria to be a hacker.

What I find most curious is how Ali only has a 1 on 1 scene with Aria this episode. It's also only Aria who is bothered at all by -A, or we assume that's -A anyway.

That Ali would tell Jason her friends are framing her is hard to explain. Unless of corse this episode lends itself to the Aria as -A theory?