Posted in News and Editorials, tagged news, S.H.I.E.L.D., television on November 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
According to TVLine, Brett Dalton is the next relative newbie to be brought into the S.H.I.E.L.D. tv series from Whedon.
He’s deadly, precise, and cool under fire — but not so great with the people skills.
So he’s kinda cliché? And it looks like the cast will be a bunch of 20-something hotties with this trend. Sounds about right… that’s the target demo for most tv audiences but I would hope he’d do something for the older audiences too.
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, CW, Review, television on November 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
Or “Everyone Has Emotional Issues”.
On the island, Oliver is suffering PTSD and hallucinating his father. In the present, Oliver is getting an attack of conscious regarding the fact that his father was just as bad as the rest of the city.
Mom’s not taking the break up well. Sister apparently has the hots for the best friend. The Best Friend is clueless in ssssoooo many ways. The Love Interest is, well, normal for her.
Again, it’s Diggle that makes this episode with his sneaky manipulation of Oliver to get him to do some work that doesn’t involve ‘punishing rich people’ but actually helping everyone else. I am really digging Diggle. He totally went full on Alfred in this episode.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to be watching this show for Diggle and Dresden from here on out, everyone else is just background noise.
Posted in News and Editorials, tagged news, S.H.I.E.L.D., television on November 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Some casing news for Wheadon’s upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. tv series thanks to CinemaBlend.
The Hollywood Reporter shared the news today that Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker have joined the pilot, playing Leo and Gemma (they’re going with a “G” instead of a “J” here). Gemma is described as a science whiz, while Leo is the tech guru and it’s said that they bicker with each other, all of which fits with the previously mentioned character descriptions.
The character descriptions are pretty generic but that’s to be expected. I’m surprised at the youngness of the casting here though considering these are full fledge agents. Is this a trend and this will be a mostly young cast going for the 20-30 demo or just these two characters? I guess we’ll see.
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, Review, television on November 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
So, Arrow can add ‘prognostic’ to his list of super powers.
Granted, yes, it was only a matter of time before someone started putting two and two together, it’s often a trope in comics such as Superman. But here, instead of being a playful lampshade, it just comes off as stiff and pompous almost. And of course his plan to ‘fix things’ I saw a mile away but at least they didn’t try to pretend it wasn’t going to happen.
Dresden was on form, man, to bad that series got cancelled, the things this actor could have done with later parts of those book’s storylines. But seriously, is he not going to put two and two together that, duh, it could have been a different person in the suit? Same for Captain Jack.
And again with the flip flopping of Laurel’s characterization, she’s become worse than a Lois Lane analogue.
But the island sequences was pretty awesome this time, mostly cause Arrow stayed in the background while his new friend kicked some butt. And YAY for Digby voiceover… so much better than Arrow’s!
Oh, and Arrow is a jerk.
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, CW, Review, television on October 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
I’m just going to start calling this tv show Plot Hole… cause that’s pretty much how everything gets done. The most glaring was how the hit man, with little to no prompting, suddenly decides to confess off camera. Say what now?
Not to mention Laurel or Dinah, whatever, flip flops so badly it’s not even character development, it’s a mental defect. Seriously?
The only saving grace in this episode is Diggle who is awesome. His dry wit really shined in this episode. Also, finding that momma had the boat brought up from the sea bed and apparently step-daddy doesn’t know anything about it… I admit, did not see that coming.
Nice cameo from Captain Jack Harkness as well, but not enough to go by really.
So far this show hasn’t gotten any worse but it hasn’t gotten any better either. Its contrived plot points which create big gaping holes is worse than any comic book. If they can tighten things up then we really got something here, but until then, Arrow is still good filler before Supernatural.
On a completely random side note, every time I see an ad for Vampire Diaries, I keep thinking how great of a Gambit Ian Somerhaulder would be…
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, CW, Review, television on October 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
We get an all new episode of Arrow in which rich guys are getting killed by someone named Deadshot who apparently likes to ink himself with his victims… and that’s a real shame, Deadshot seems like he’d be a cool character to get to know but instead he’s just there, a plot device for fan service and nothing else.
Instead of Deadshot goodness, we have to sit through more bad voice over and a sorta/kinda love triangle. And not only is Deadshot wasted in this story but he’s been killed off? Seriously? Just pick off the Rogue’s gallery one by one why don’t you? It doesn’t even leave anything that could be picked up later. I suppose they don’t want to leave everything opened ended, but there are more ways to close this up without killing off the character.
Oh, and another thing that bugs me about this series (other than its editing issues) is his face paint. Oliver runs up to the roof, gets dressed, applies all that face paint perfectly, then zip-lines over well before the police even think about getting into the building the shooter is obviously coming from? What? Seriously? The body guard gets over there faster than the cops and somehow I think he didn’t zipline but had to go all the way back downstairs then across the road and up that building. This makes no sense!
But there was some good moments. I like Dresden being a smart cop. I like the exchange between him and Oliver at the auction. I like how Oliver kinda forgot who he was talking to with the body guard, wish they would have played that out more before turning the body guard into the side kick, cause that’s basically what’s gonna happen.
Again, still listing this as ‘not a bad show’ but waiting for it to move up into ‘it’s a good show’ territory.
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, CW, Review, television on October 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
Caught the second episode of Arrow tonight and I’ll be honest, I missed a bit. I decided we needed catfood so drove down to the store and missed about maybe ten minutes? Oh, and I needed to sort out the trash, that missed a couple there too.
Seriously, the show could not hold my interest and what I did see of it kinda annoyed me. For one major irk, a dead body that old would be bloated and squishy!!!! No way after a couple of days (I think it was a couple of days, hard to tell, the editing on this show is annoying, same problem in the first episode with how long did it take him to set up his lair), anyway, no way would it be so firm like that.
And “the man I need to be” stuff was layered on a bit thick. Seriously, writing 101, you got a statement like that, only use it once! And that’s where it’s most effective. Takes the wind out of the sales of the grave stone scene when we’ve heard it like twice already.
But there was a funny thing, my mom calls the cop Dresden, she refuses to learn his name, he’s simply Dresden. That makes it pretty interesting.
Again, a middling episode, not bad, not good either, just nice filler before Supernatural.
Posted in Random Stuff, tagged television, X-Men on October 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Seems I’m not the only person who thinks that the X-Men would make a great tv show.
#4 X-MEN
Without the first X-Men film, I don’t think we’d be where we are as far as superhero films go. It set the bar for comic movies as box office gold and it still continues to make trucks full of cash (last summer’s X-Men: First Class made over $350 million at the global box office). There are so many mutants and storylines with the X-Men that the films Fox has been making will never touch on all of them. What if the comic book took a turn to the small screen? Given the opportunity to put the X-Men on television in live action would be a comic fan’s dream come true, especially if the show starts out solely with Xavier and the original five X-Men (Cyclops, Ice Man, Jean Grey, Beast, and Angel).
The benefits of telling the X-Men story on television as opposed to how it’s been done in the film series is planning. Many television producers and writers plan out their seasons for their shows long in advance, even when they don’t know if they’ve been picked up for another season. With this in mind, the growth for an X-Men series can be planned in advance instead of having to dance around and make all the pieces fit together (see the X-Men movie franchise). If a capable showrunner that loves the material could get a hold of this (unfortunately we hear Joss Whedon is busy), we might eventually get to see real Sentinels, the Age of Apocalypse, (real) Dark Phoenix, etc.-www.SuperHeroHype.com
Posted in News and Editorials, tagged Coulson, Coulson Lives!, news, S.H.I.E.L.D., television on October 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
At NYCC, it’s been confirmed via CBR that Coulson, played by Clark Gregg, will be in Wheadon’s S.H.E.I.L.D. tv series!
Yes!!!!!!
Now, does this mean he didn’t die and that the man who did was a Life Model Decoy? Or maybe he was saved in time? Or that he was turned into Vision (and this means Wanda!!)?
Or will the show take place pre-Avengers?
Do we care? COULSON LIVES!!!!!
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arrow, Batman, CW, DC, Green Arrow, Review, television on October 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
CW’s Arrow
I’ll admit that I know a little more than diddley squat about Green Arrow. As seen with my fan fic being Marvel based, I’m not much into DC (except to say that Batman: TAS is the second best cartoon of all time). But seeing that I enjoyed at least the first few seasons of Smallville, there are some actors in here that I enjoy, and a tv series based on a comic book is right up my alley, I thought I’d give it a go.
I was told that Green Arrow was basically Batman… with arrows… and not as afraid to hurt and/or kill people… and that’s pretty much what we got here. This really is Batman Begins for the small screen, with arrows, right down to the “thought you were dead” billionaire disappearance only to come back wicked strong fighter and Lone Ranger-esque “I’m really just a playboy, honest”.
Anyway, I’m going to skip over that part because I just don’t have the background to know where they went away from the comics and where they held true. I take this as a good thing as it’s a perspective I’m attempting to write for in my Series.
So all that leaves is… everything else.
The Bad:
The voice over work. Not sure if it’s the actor or the direction or the dialogue itself but it just doesn’t have any punch to it at all. Might as well be reading the phone book and while yes, there are some people I’d happily listen to read the phone book, but this guy ain’t one of them.
Queen looks like a poor man’s Chris O’Donnell.
The Good:
The episode is accessible. As I said, I don’t know much about Green Arrow but I’m not lost, scratching my head, or annoyed that I might be missing the joke.
The Ugly:
It’s so much like Batman Begins and is so overly gritty that I’m ‘so over this’ like last decade. I was hoping for a slightly more light-hearted approach ala Smallville, not this uber-realistic stuff that is the trend. Granted, I could be asking for something that simply isn’t in the comics so what can I say?
The show does come on before Supernatural which I have an on-again off-again love/hate relationship with so I’ll stick out a few more episodes, see what I think once it finds all it’s legs… but until then, giving this series a middle of the road mark, it can go either way.
Oh, and the piece de la resistance? Seeing an advertisement for a local archery shop during the commercial… I’ve never ever seen an ad for this place ever… 😉
Feature Length Gambit & Rogue fan fic movie by JCRG. Cover art by VagabondX
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 