[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Ugh, I wanted to see the Dark team and half of that trailer was Batman with a quarter of it being the regular JL. What's the point of calling it Justice League Dark if it is going to feature the regular team?

....it's just the first trailer dude, a trailer that's barely two minutes long. I'm sure we'll see more of the Dark team in subsequent trailers to come. I'm sure that the trailer is just cut the way it is just to generate attention from main stream audiences whom may not know who any of these chars are.

[Dr Kain]

WB's trailers usually reflect the overall product of their films. Hence why both BvsS and SS turned out as poorly as their trailers were while The Nice Guys exceeded their top notch trailer.

Anyway, we just finished catching up on Legends and it's still kind of mediocre. It could be worse, but it should be a whole hell of a lot better.

The episode dealing with the confederate zombies was decent, but not great. The stuff with Jax learning how degrading slavery really was was very touching though. The one racist biggot got exactly what he deserved.

Thankfully episode five was pretty good. It was awesome seeing Lance Henrikson playing Obsidian, but then, that man is just awesome no matter what he does. I've never understood why brainless morons who can't act like Vin Diesel, Channing Tatum, and Sam Worthington get all of these starring roles in big time movies while masters like Henrikson are reduced to nothing more than third rate cameos. It's kind of disgusting really. Anyway, it was entertaining and watching Ray try to act like Cold was pathetically hilarious. I do like how Sarah pretty much told Darhk exactly what was going to happen to him.

Then we got the Jonah Hex episode. My god, did they even bother to read Hex's god damned origin story?! THAT IS NOT AT ALL HOW IT HAPPENED!!!!!! ****ING MORONS!!!!! It's bad enough they can't even figure out how to do his scars but the least they could have done was gotten his backstory with Quentin right. The actor they got to play Quentin did fine even though he still wasn't accurate to the source material. And then the ending of the episode was crap. Great, so it wasn't bad enough that Ray was Not-Iron Man, but now they have to go and turn Not-Colossus into Not-Captain America. What the fruck CW? Are you that desperate to be as successful as Marvel that you need to rip their characters off? As for the Stein stuff, I'm wondering if the effects are from Flashpoint.

As a whole this season has been hit or miss. Sometimes there are moments of potential while other times it just flat out sucks. It's like they are trying to be Doctor Who but failing miserably, which is a shame because the DC universe is so vast there is no reason for that to be the case. Maybe they should just sit down and actually read the comics relating to the characters they are going to be bringing in on the show beforehand.

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

*Snip*

1). It's a TV show. They're allowed to take creative licensing if they choose. Hex is still Hex, even if his backstory is different.

2). It's a TV show on the CW. His scars look fantastic for a CW TV show.

3). Hank's costume looks like this in the comics:



I don't really know what else you could want.

Anyway.

It's been a tough week. But the fact that the CW shows exist and are still around has helped me out a lot. I've been having a bit of trouble keeping up regularly, but Alex's storyline in Supergirl combined with the reworked cast of Legends of Tomorrow have catapulted those shows in my mind quite a bit.

Arrow's cool, too. I actually really like Oliver and Felicity's new love interests. I'm hoping they don't get back together, but I won't be surprised if they do.

[AgileSiamang7]

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Originally Posted by KRX

1). It's a TV show. They're allowed to take creative licensing if they choose. Hex is still Hex, even if his backstory is different.

2). It's a TV show on the CW. His scars look fantastic for a CW TV show.

3). Hank's costume looks like this in the comics:



I don't really know what else you could want.

Anyway.

It's been a tough week. But the fact that the CW shows exist and are still around has helped me out a lot. I've been having a bit of trouble keeping up regularly, but Alex's storyline in Supergirl combined with the reworked cast of Legends of Tomorrow have catapulted those shows in my mind quite a bit.

Arrow's cool, too. I actually really like Oliver and Felicity's new love interests. I'm hoping they don't get back together, but I won't be surprised if they do.

Was going to respond to the Citizen Steel comment, but your delivery was much better.

[Dr Kain]

No, I know what his costume looks like in the comics, but I mean his TV costume looks like they just repainted a movie Cap costume. Even the star design is exactly the same.

And I don't care if it is a TV series, they screwed Hex's origin up. It's not like it is even that complicated of an origin story. He could have just said to Sarah, "He blames me for the death of his son and betrayed me." Hell, they could have changed it to, "He sold me out to the Apache, who scared me face." Wow, that was so hard.

I'm sorry, but Jonah Hex is my third favorite DC character, so when he is adapted on screen, I expect accuracy. It's not like he has a complicated back story or is even that hard to write. He is the easiest character to adapt and WB seems so inept in doing so. I don't get it.

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

No, I know what his costume looks like in the comics, but I mean his TV costume looks like they just repainted a movie Cap costume. Even the star design is exactly the same.

And I don't care if it is a TV series, they screwed Hex's origin up. It's not like it is even that complicated of an origin story. He could have just said to Sarah, "He blames me for the death of his son and betrayed me." Hell, they could have changed it to, "He sold me out to the Apache, who scared me face." Wow, that was so hard.

I'm sorry, but Jonah Hex is my third favorite DC character, so when he is adapted on screen, I expect accuracy. It's not like he has a complicated back story or is even that hard to write. He is the easiest character to adapt and WB seems so inept in doing so. I don't get it.

It's also a really outdated backstory that utilizes the overdone (and dehumanizing) trope of "savage native Americans."

Hex's origin isn't thematically important to the character. He's not a figure rooted in symbolism like Superman or Batman. He's just a guy. An extraordinary guy, sure, but still just a guy.

[Dr Kain]

Doesn't matter if it is "outdated" or not, that is his origin story. It's time they actually get the damn origin right. People would be outraged if they didn't kill Bruce's parents. People would be outraged if Krypton didn't blow up. So keep Hex's origin accurate!

Anyway, I hate to say it, but I am seriously pissed off at Supergirl right now. Like so pissed off I told my g/f to take Season 1 off my Xmas list.

We caught up on the episodes last night:

Episode 5 - It was a decent episode. Not sure how Jimmy managed to save everyone in that apartment complex when only like 8 people ran out of it and that thing was pretty damn high. I loved the scene with Lena and Winn beneath the stage, especially when they came out of it and everyone was looking at them. The Alex/Maggie stuff is really getting annoying.

Episode 6 - This was without a doubt the worst episode in the entire DC CW franchise!!! Not only did it completely ruin Alex's character from the first season, but they spent 5 minutes having her tell Kara that she is a lesbian now, dragging that scene out with over the top fake drama only to have Kara not respond for like 25 minutes, making you wonder what her thoughts are, then to have Kara just say she is okay with it, but drag that out for ANOTHER five god damn minutes. Then we get to the end of the episode and Maggie tells Alex that she is not into her, MAKING THE WHOLE THING GOD DAMN POINTLESS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so poorly written and acted so god damn terribly. That whole scene of them on the bench with Alex "revealing herself" to Kara was painful to sit through. I know wood that is less stiff than Alex's script reading.

Oh yeah, there was other stuff that happened in that episode, right? Parasite was okay. The CGI kind of sucked but we did get to see a drunk Kara, which was funny.

Episode 7 - Honestly, we almost didn't bother watching this episode after finishing episode 6, but decided to do so due to the crossover next week. The episode started out really well until they had to go and continue the Alex/Maggie crap. The Cadmus stuff was great especially getting to see Cyborg Superman. I'm curious if this is going to lead to the invasion next week or if this plot will continue after the break (although I'm not sure I want to stick around beyond the break at this point). I liked the stuff dealing with Jimmy even though the whole Guardian thing is stupid and his costume lacks color (when did the DCCU spill into the TV universe?). Oh, and Batman exists in this universe, that's great! How about we merge all of these Earths into one?

[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Doesn't matter if it is "outdated" or not, that is his origin story. It's time they actually get the damn origin right. People would be outraged if they didn't kill Bruce's parents.

*snicker* Tell that to people who saw BVS

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Annuga

*snicker* Tell that to people who saw BVS

What about BvsS? They killed Bruce's parents.

[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

What about BvsS? They killed Bruce's parents.

Yeah. And people weren't pleased as we didn't need an origin story for Batman because everyone on the planet knows it at this point. Hex's origin and Batman's origin aren't comparable, though I did get your point. Hell, Marvel knows not to make an origin story on one of the most popular comic characters of all time, and people are happy with that