Hiro Protagonist Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. Geez, I've been watching a lot of crap lately. Another show that appears to have been renewed for a second season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 The Night Manager is pretty good, so it's probably worth it having a second plug. Though I find Hugh Laurie a little disconcerting in drama as I'll always associate him with Prince/ Lt George, Bertie Wooster, Bit of Fry and Laurie etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I really hate when time travel is used as a reset storylines button. /Flash This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 It is based on 3 (?) well known comic story lines, so there's definite precedent from the source material- and if they used it to reset Arrow I'd be fine with it. Sadly, I suspect the other shows that could actually use it won't be effected nearly as much except for the big crossover event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 It needed a reset because every single payoff in that finale was completely unsatisfactory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I forgot to watch The Flash last night but I already spoiled myself on the ending and man in the mask. Meh. Ill still watch it for the Zoom fight I guess. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 It needed a reset because every single payoff in that finale was completely unsatisfactory. I thought it was OK. Flash always relies too much on deus ex speedforce resolutions and regularly doesn't make much sense so I expected both to be ratcheted up in the finale. At least the characters are well written, entertaining and consistently so even if the science and plotting is hand wavey and it's referential to the extent that it approaches being masturbatory. I'll certainly watch next year. OTOH, the Arrow finale may well be the last ep of that I ever watch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Protagonist Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Went back to some quality programming. Better Call Saul. Watched all 10 episodes in one go. What a cracker of a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Caught up on the last episode of The Flash and I thought it was pretty good. Zoom now becomes Black Flash? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Funny: on reddit, they've said the last few The Flash episodes have been so incredibly awful, that the subreddit specifically dedicated to The Flash has been changed to a Daredevil-specific subreddit. :D Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) ^^^That's Arrow, not Flash. Flash has its problems but people are generally positive about it still, about the only people positive about Arrow are drama queens and shippers. It's crap, rubbish, a steaming gob of sputum on the footpath of fiction; a fitting companion to such recent and glorious televisual masterpieces as Dexter Season 8 or the later seasons of Sons of Anarchy; bereft of logic, sense, charm or purpose it merely exists to troll the people who liked the earlier seasons by gross parody of what it once was. Edited May 26, 2016 by Zoraptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two... Edited May 26, 2016 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two... Flash wears red, Arrow wears green. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two... Flash wears red, Arrow wears green. Flash goes fast, Arrow shoots arrows. 1 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two... Flash wears red, Arrow wears green. Why don't they call him Green Arrow? "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Not cool enough? Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 I pretty much think that was it. Green Arrow was seen as too "comic booky" and "not cool". Mind you they also didn't have the problem DC had in the comics. When "Green Arrow" debuted in More Fun Comics in November 1941, he had already been beat to the archer gimmick by "The Arrow" (Centaur Comics, Sept 1938) and "Golden Arrow" (Fawcett, Feb 1940). He was also beat by Quality Comics' archer strip, but they wisely opted out of the Color + Arrow naming convention, instead debuting 'Alias The Spider" in May 1940. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two... Flash wears red, Arrow wears green. Flash goes fast, Arrow shoots arrows. One of the big complaints about Arrow is that he doesn't shoot arrows much any more. He's far more about getting into (badly choreographed) CQC with mooks which he then loses, requiring him to be rescued by Felicity. Or as in the finale, getting into a WWE/ Rocky V-esque let's just stand still and punch each other repeatedly fight. For that matter, while he is officially the 'Green' Arrow rather than just the Arrow now, despite them not changing the program name, he doesn't actually wear green. For some unknown reason he wears dark grey/ black. They then, inconsistently, add CGI green colour to it in post production! And that pretty much sums up how ill planned and badly implemented the entire season was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManifestedISO Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Monaco at 4:30am, then Indy, followed by a few laps of the Coca-Cola 600. NASCAR isn't as boring as I remember, I practically had a good ol' time. Ninja Warrior preview in half-an-hour. All Stop. On Screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Protagonist Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Why don't they call him Green Arrow? They do now. As Zoraptor said they call him Green Arrow, but the show is still called Arrow. The first three seasons were the origin story before he officially becomes 'Green Arrow' in Season 4. Although, we still have one more season of flashbacks when he was gone for 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Hm, and Limitless has now officially been cancelled. As it stands, this cancellation makes Limitless the highest-rated series to be cancelled, earning 2.2 in the 18-49 demographic with a total viewership of 9.8 million. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaeliorin Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 That sucks. I swear I should just stop paying attention to new shows. Every single one I like gets cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Just watched the first two episodes of a show called "Powers" about superheroes with a twist, the protagonist is a superhuman with his powers stripped from him and now working as a policeman monitoring the other superhumans. Its quite good so far, has a very good cast, and features none of the usual squeeing and predictability that has become endemic in television. For once I was not able to tell what would happen from scene to scene, and the protagonist (who I think is the chap from district 9) is pleasingly grim and conflicted. The theme of loss and a new broader perspective arising from that reminds me somewhat of the Exile in TSL. Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Hm, and on Arrow and DC related... Willa Holland at the London ComicCon did give this: “We were about season two when they started telling us we had to start basically killing off the Suicide Squad that we were starting to build on our own,” Holland recalled. “We were actually trying to build that on our own on the show, and I guess once DC found out they were going to be doing their own movie of it, we had to ax all of the characters before we even got to show them, which was a little annoying at first.” “Then when Stephen found out there was going to be a Justice League it only seemed — rightly so — he would be playing Green Arrow on it as well as that Grant [Gustin] would be playing the Flash,” she continued. “It seemed like the right normal answer, and — once they said no — you can’t really fight against them for it, because they are the people that gave us a job in the first place. So you just have to sit there on your hands, like okay, I get it!” “Marvel does it in their own weird right, kind of mash between ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and the movies and stuff. So it’s a little upsetting because you know it is possible and it can be done and how good it would be if it was done,” she added. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oerwinde Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Yeah, WB needs to stop meddling in the TV side for some midguided idea that it will negatively affect the movies. Let them do what they want. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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