Jesus H Tap Dancing Christ this is bad. Can you get any more formulatic than the general hotness of everybody, the 'best friend' with the crush, the hot interesting guy and the fact that at least one of them is/will be a villain? The SHIELD protection team with the angry guy (heart of gold?) The evil, arrogant boss? This is pretty much any teenager movie ever made, with flying. Congrats, DC has made another loser. We'll need a barrage of origin stories for yet another reboot of everything.
If they're supplied by the cable company, they can get info about what you watched, when you watched it, what you paused, rewound, etc.
From left to right, Rip Hunter, Hawkgirl, Dr. Martin Stein (half of Firestorm), White Canary, The Atom, Captain Cold, Heatwave.
I didn't realize--and I didn't recognize--that Supergirl was that cute girl from Whiplash. That makes it a bit more appealing, but I'm afraid @Aurora is correct: this looks very, very formulaic. It sets aside much of the conventional Supergirl narrative, only to give us something else that we've seen many times before.
Formulaic shows can be saved by good writing and performances. The teaser/trailer thingie looks like the show will have some good heart to it, so I'm willing to give it a chance.
"Legends Of Tomorrow", trailer. Yep, I was right about Hawkgirl. Also, Lanz should be pleased by the final scene.
Well, DC TV got their answer to Avengers up and running before DCCU could lift it's lethargic finger.
I really enjoy Flash most of the time, but it's constantly skirting along the edge of Smallville-sized stupidity.
fewer and fewer, but those still hold too much weight in the ratings evaluation. Take a show like my beloved Person of Interest. It's only an average performer on first run viewing but the +7 numbers are still top 20-25 consistently - and yet CBS took to the last second to give them a half-assed renewal notice.
Agreed on the latter, but on the former, I write it off as a swipe at the idea that Barry is supposed to be the boy scout hero, not the morally ambiguous hero (i.e. Arrow) and it was surely not the most well executed way to make that point. That said, I'm more interested in knowing how they justify Snart in the LoT show and wonder if there's not some connecton between this attempt to semi-turn him and the premise of that team. If this production team hadn't so thoroughly proven themselves able to nail these characters, I'd be damned worried about LoT being a steaming pile but I'm going to need to see them fail at something before I doubt them.
thank Jebus. I could look this up but - Titans isn't being done by the same folks doing Arrow/Flash/Supergirl/LoT - is it?
Its like the old saying, "Nobody got fired for buying IBM." Because people are comfortable with the Neilson system (with all its flaws), they'll stick with it, even after its been shown to be inaccurate. It is starting to change, however. Hulu has picked up 'The Mindy Project,' even though Fox had killed the series, because the online numbers were good. Give it 5 or 10 years, and nobody will care what the broadcast numbers are, they'll be interested in the overall numbers.
As usual when shows I love get shafted, I harborhopes. I'd LOOOOOVE to see where they would go with Person of Interest if it were picked up by netflix (or Amazon, but i have netflix sooo...) Alternately, AMC or FX could be a very nice home. Other than the actors it's not really an expensive production.
two questions in my mind: 1. are there any rumors that explain Sara being alive other than the shot of the Pit? I mean we all figured the Pit was involved but how do we account for the lapsed time? And do we explore more of the "it changes you" aspect? (I'd love it if they gave her some sort of mystical power like, say, mind-reading or something as a result) 2. There's no mention of the Arnell that plays Ronnie - do we take that to mean that since the flaming appearance is CG anyway that they are just gonna CG the Ronnie half all the time? Where does he go when the flames go out? By the way, while I have my doubts about the characters of Cold and heatwave, I LOVE the way that guy plays Snart so I'm willing to oiverlook the reservations when it comes to him. But god knows why we need Heatwave when you have Firestorm. Ought to have included the sister instead, IMO.
I don't think so on that last sentence. There's hardly anything here that needs a re-boot from the classic tale. They will have to account for the time/age differential between her and Cousin. Butthe comics had to do that and most of these productions have to fuzz around a bit with such things (and some completely ret-con when unnecessary, like Spidy having organic web abilities in the first round of movies) For example - in canon, Bruce Wayne was never trained by Ras Al'Guhl, right? the ret-conning doesn't have to be intrusive. Deal with the relative age gap thing, explain why Jimmy Olsen is here (and ignore that he's black) and maybe mention in passing why there's apparently no "Linda Danvers" alias. None of that is hard. I don't think this has "loser" written on it at all. It's not groundbreaking, like Daredevil, but Flash breaks no new ground (other than effects) and it's a fun, likeable show. Yes, it is certainly chock full of formula - but a formula show can still be fun.
It's on TNT, so yet another pocket universe. Dunno if I mentioned it here, I did on the blog, the producer, and the lead actor of "Arrow", want to save "Constantine", by having a crossover.
makes sense - but if so that goes directly into the conflict between "preserving the time line" and "altering the time line"....unless they are going with the idea that she wasn't supposed to have died in the first place.
By the way, the finale of Arrow had some interesting points, one general spoiler tag for all rather than pick and choose
Being on a dif network doesn't mean it's a separate universe though - Supergirl is part of the same universe as the CW shows according to what I've read. But that wasn't the point of my question - I was asking whether I could reasonably expect the same magic touch with Titans.
