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The DC Comics TV & Movie Thread - A Thread for Talking about Detective Comics Comics Television Shows and Movies
- Thread starter Rascally Badger
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I really want to spoil the cameo in the latest episode of Titans, but I won't. I'll say that the show found a way to surprise me with a multiverse hopping story. It introduced a character that as far as I know has only appeared in Animal Man and Suicide Squad.
Your dad is Bob Rozakis?! Damn. I've got almost a full set of those Amazing World of DC Comics prozines he worked on
I'm not saying this to chastise you, but I feel like anyone that would recognize those character appearances would guess the character immediately. I haven't seen the show, but it's "Grant Morrison", right?
Yes, of course it is.
Yep. (It's come up a few times before; that's why I changed my tagline to "son of the Answer Man".) And I've got to say, I'm impressed--I'm not sure how many copies of those we have, and my dad made an effort to stock at least 5 copies of everything he worked on.
I watched The Flash. It was fine. Not incredible, not bad, just a simple movie that entertained me for two hours.
S3 of Superman & Lois is almost over, and it's been a real doozy. They're shooting for the stars trying out an ambitious storyline of Lois gets cancer - watch how Superman and his family handle a problem they can't just punch their way out of. Which I think they've mostly done an ok job at.
The show got renewed for another season surprisingly, but it's also getting huge budget cuts. So it's only 10 episodes instead of like 13; and everyone but the Kent family basically got fired from the show. The producers said they hope those actors/characters will be back, but as reoccurring characters and not regulars. Pretty shady business, IMO.
S3 of Superman & Lois is almost over, and it's been a real doozy. They're shooting for the stars trying out an ambitious storyline of Lois gets cancer - watch how Superman and his family handle a problem they can't just punch their way out of. Which I think they've mostly done an ok job at.
The show got renewed for another season surprisingly, but it's also getting huge budget cuts. So it's only 10 episodes instead of like 13; and everyone but the Kent family basically got fired from the show. The producers said they hope those actors/characters will be back, but as reoccurring characters and not regulars. Pretty shady business, IMO.
Superman & Lois S3 is now over. It ended on a cliffhanger. This season was odd. The last few episodes feel like they're from a different season that's tacked on. If it wasn't for the fact that it feels like they blew all of the fx budget on the last episode, I would have just guessed that the last two episodes were a hard pivot for a production crew that assumed their show was on the chopping block and that they needed to do something wild to recapture interest.
The first 11 or so episodes has a relatively low stakes scenario of Lois & Clark fighting Bruno Manheim, Intergang, and cancer. But that plotline wraps up in like, episode 11. And then suddenly it shifts super hard into All of a sudden Lex Luthor is out of jail after being stuck in there for two decades, and he now wants revenge, and he turns Bizarro into Doomsday and siccs them on Supes and oh man was that a doozy
The first 11 or so episodes has a relatively low stakes scenario of Lois & Clark fighting Bruno Manheim, Intergang, and cancer. But that plotline wraps up in like, episode 11. And then suddenly it shifts super hard into All of a sudden Lex Luthor is out of jail after being stuck in there for two decades, and he now wants revenge, and he turns Bizarro into Doomsday and siccs them on Supes and oh man was that a doozy
So apparently they're making a Suicide Squad isekai anime series.
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I'm not sure how to feel about this...
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I'm not sure how to feel about this...
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Is he one it or just... there, a la the terrible Suicide Squad movie.
Anyway, it's a crime that they did this instead of "One Operation Joker"
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
So is Amanda Waller going to threaten to run them over with a truck instead of using implanted explosives to keep them in line?
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
The 1st episode of My Adventures with Superman is free on YouTube. Seems pretty charming so far. My only complaint being kind of nitpicky (noticed a few spot of tweening that looked like they were done by a computer that felt jarring compared to the otherwise good quality animation).
Two episodes in, this show is insanely cute.
Superman should fight Metal Gear more often.
I've only seen the free first episode of My Adventures With Superman. As a Jack Kirby fan, I'm happy that the Newsboy Newskid Legion is featured, with even a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to the Golden Guardian. I would also like to think that the action sequence at the end made some references to the old Fleischer Superman cartoons, especially this one. But then again, Superman's fought plenty of other robots through the years.
The mechs in the first episode of this show I thought bore an unmistakable relation to the mass-produced Evangelions, and given the show's very clear aspirations to be Anime
I think that's the safest bet. But bringing up that specific Fletcher cartoon is an interesting microcosm of the nature of how "Eastern" and "Western" media has this kind of cyclical, feedback loop of influencing each other. Because these Flescher-bots are very obviously the inspiration for Miyazaki's robots in Lupin III and Laputa. Which in turn, influenced later generations of animators both domestically in Japan, and elsewhere like here in NA and Europe. It's fascinating to consider how connected all of these creative endeavors are and can be.
I believe that was the original idea behind the Lois & Clark TV series, but it's been a while since I watched it, so I don't remember if that's what it actually became.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
That came to mind too but I think it just went full soap opera.
Wild how this show has managed to survive through three different streaming platforms.
Man, this new Superman cartoon is the greatest thing I've ever seen, so surely David Zaslav will order it terminated
My ideal Superman is basically that scene where Lois tells Clark to pretend to be Superman so she can show him how her interview will go.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
When the hell did Harley Quinn come back on and how did I miss it?
Last Thursday, and you missed it because Warner-Brothers-Discovery is quite possibly one of the worst companies at advertising there is.
Anyways, HQ is back; the first three episodes are already up and it's as good as it's ever been. It's wild how good this show is. The one-two combo of this and Superman is like, embarrassment of riches status and knocks the socks off of anything Disney/Marvel has done lately. We eatin' good
Anyways, HQ is back; the first three episodes are already up and it's as good as it's ever been. It's wild how good this show is. The one-two combo of this and Superman is like, embarrassment of riches status and knocks the socks off of anything Disney/Marvel has done lately. We eatin' good
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Right? And here I am trying to rush through a rewatch of the venture brothers before it gets banished off the service because it is too good or whatever.
The last thing Max wants is their brand to associated with quality.
The saddest thing of all is that you'd think this just an insult based on reputation alone, but it is literally the actual reason behind the rebrand. They didn't want people to get 'confused' by thinking Max was just HBO (e.g. GOOD) stuff, and to dilute/tarnish the HBO branding with all of the garbage brought over on the Discovery-side of things.