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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    It definitely felt like they were starting to go there but then switching Cold and Heatwave to Legends of Tomorrow tossed all that out the window.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Flash always felt like they were blowing up the seaquest every season, just progressively worse until I was done in like season 3.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    That thread features barely any Supergirl trivia, and at the very least should have mentioned the truly terrible wigs, or how they cast a Lex Luthor who was like three years younger then the actress who played his mom

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited March 2023
    Off the top of my head, my top 5 Arrowverse moments:
    #5. -- Kara talks down an armed criminal when she is depowered (Supergirl, season 1)
    #4. -- Damian Dark's resurrection as set to Return of the Mack (Legends of Tomorrow, season 3)
    #3. -- Oliver's mountain-top duel against Ra's al Ghul (Arrow, season 3)
    #2. -- Oliver Queen returning home to a surprise Slade Wilson being given a tour of the residence by Oliver's mother (Arrow, season 2)
    #1. -- Harrison Wells kills Cisco (Flash, season 1)

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  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    That threads got an excellent deployment of the Twitter bit where you tell someone to Google person + innocuous sounding thing that actually leads to news stories about person doing something fucked up.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The flash had a good first season.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    flash had a few really good seasons until they had barry make the dumbest decision imaginable as a series finale

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Not mentioned: when they introduced a love interest for Supergirl in season two (after quickly deciding to undo her relationship with Jimmy Olsen) who is from a nearby planet to Krypton that had slavery. They go, "it's okay, he didn't own slaves! he was against it!" until there's a late season reveal that he's a prince of the planet and just didn't care about the issue at all. They break up over this, only to reconcile in a musical episode of the Flash. He's then written off the show, until he returns as the founder of the Legion of Superheroes.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    flash had a few really good seasons until they had barry make the dumbest decision imaginable as a series finale

    Flash isn't over yet. He still has time to make more dumb decisions.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    The best season of Supergirl is season one by a pretty considerable margin. They moved to the CW and...made some positive changes (Kara's sister came out of the closet, they added probably the show's most popular character in Lena Luthor, eventually they introduced a trans superhero that's started appearing in core DC comics continuity) but also: the writing quality went off a cliff, the effects were embarrassing, and, well, then the showrunner got fired for being a sex creep.

    I think the biggest problem they had moving to the CW was that they introduced a Mr. Mxyzptlk who was a young sexy CW guy, in order to advance their bad Romeo and Juliet storyline, though they did walk this back later by having him show up for their 100th episode as Thomas Lennon to explain that he was just trying to fit in and he actually got into a lot of trouble for that stunt and was ordered back to help her out as a form or restitution

  • Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Not a doctor Tree townRegistered User regular
    The problem with season 1 of Supergirl is that there’s all those evil Kryptonians that just wait for the mytharc episodes to do anything.

    Also that they didn’t have access to Superman yet, and he’s one of the best things to come out of the show.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Not mentioned: when they introduced a love interest for Supergirl in season two (after quickly deciding to undo her relationship with Jimmy Olsen) who is from a nearby planet to Krypton that had slavery. They go, "it's okay, he didn't own slaves! he was against it!" until there's a late season reveal that he's a prince of the planet and just didn't care about the issue at all. They break up over this, only to reconcile in a musical episode of the Flash. He's then written off the show, until he returns as the founder of the Legion of Superheroes.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    yeah, there's plenty of relationship stuff in early seasons of Supergirl where you look at the showrunner who got fired for sexual harassment and go, "ah, okay"

    that guy also was the showrunner on the Flash, btw

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Mon-El was the worst

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Yah, I fell off somewhere around Season 4 of Flash/Season 5 of Arrow and while I missed the Crisis on Infinite Earths stuff, I feel like I made the right choice, though I should probably complete Legends of Tomorrow cause that had a lot of fun stuff going for it.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    It's very funny because after he left they sort of gave up on giving her any love interests at all over the rest of the series. There was a brief attempt at a new guy in the second to last season that nobody really bought into (because they introduced him as a gigantic asshole who was extremely condescending to her and married before they revealed that he was actually undercover and was single and nice, and then they did the Crisis thing and his new personality was just "nice," and it's like, "why did you introduce him as a giant asshole, you didn't need to do that?")

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I fell off well before Crisis but had to come back to watch that for just having the hutzpah to make an eight-show crossover where you wipe out and rewrite reality based off a fifty-year-old comic book event

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    In season six of The Good Wife now.
    Spoilers for 6x4 Oppo Research
    Back in the Zack pot episode I'd said they should have all of the bad rumors about Zack end up being true, including the Becca abortion flyer from the early seasons.
    Whelp.
    Close enough.

    Also they keep hurting my boy Cary. Alicia has 0 time to hear his issues about diluting their new venture, or protecting the jobs of their own crew. I think he picked the wrong person to partner up with.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Excuse me, the crisis on infinite Earth's happened 20 years ago

    Oh no

    I am turning into dusting and blowing away in the wind

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I came back to watch the final season of Arrow and the Crisis crossover and could not make it through the final two episodes. I so thoroughly did not care

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    the action scenes in the Crisis crossover are some of the worst scenes ever filmed

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I fell off well before Crisis but had to come back to watch that for just having the hutzpah to make an eight-show crossover where you wipe out and rewrite reality based off a fifty-year-old comic book event

    Forty. '83, not '73.
    *pushes glasses up*

  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    the action scenes in the Crisis crossover are some of the worst scenes ever filmed

    worse than parkour?

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I fell off well before Crisis but had to come back to watch that for just having the hutzpah to make an eight-show crossover where you wipe out and rewrite reality based off a fifty-year-old comic book event

    DC has a crisis every few years it feels like

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  • asofyeunasofyeun Registered User regular
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I fell off well before Crisis but had to come back to watch that for just having the hutzpah to make an eight-show crossover where you wipe out and rewrite reality based off a fifty-year-old comic book event

    DC has a crisis every few years it feels like

    That's their secret...they're always in crisis

  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    What if Archer was Elvis?

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    Matev wrote: »
    Yah, I fell off somewhere around Season 4 of Flash/Season 5 of Arrow and while I missed the Crisis on Infinite Earths stuff, I feel like I made the right choice, though I should probably complete Legends of Tomorrow cause that had a lot of fun stuff going for it.

    The last few seasons of Legends are really fun and I'm still legit sad it got cancelled/they didn't give it one more season to wrap up

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    From what I understand, they're...doing a wrap-up episode in this season of the Flash?

    Also, I guess spoilers for this season of the Flash that tie into other Arrowverse stuff
    Javicia Leslie from Batwoman is playing an evil Batwoman character this season?

  • Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Not a doctor Tree townRegistered User regular
    I dunno, I thought the quote about Legends was essentially, “We were going to, and then they cut our episode count” which heavily implies there’s no time for it anymore. And a lot of people missed that implication.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    oh, neat, I feel like they should have probably not said anything then

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    In this episode of Golden Girls

    Blanche punched a dude in the face because they were getting rough with Rose while she was picketing tuna fisherman for catching dolphins.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Also how has Dick Van Dyke just always looked like he’s 60?

    25 year old? Looks 60

    99 years old? 60

    60 years old? 22

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular

    Production sources tell Rolling Stone they're in the dark on when the show will air, and have little idea about what the final version will look like, claiming the production was plagued by reshoots and rewrites.

    "It was, let’s just say, a shitshow."
    How HBO's next Euphoria became twisted "torture porn"

    Graphic rape descriptions included in the article that I won't quote

    jesus christ man

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    That went from "lol :D " to " :o:#:s " real fast.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    We should establish that writing fucked up things doesn't make you a fucked up person at the start of this, because plenty of great art from overall unproblematic creators has delved into awful topics that are worse than what's presented in this article.

    That said: the Weeknd forcing out a female creative because he "worried that the show was shifting too far into the female perspective," and then blowing tens of millions of dollars of work for this is fucked, and Sam Levinson sure hasn't earned the benefit of the doubt.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    If you listen to most of The Weeknd’s lyrics it really not all that surprising that he’s a misogynist

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Was not prepared for the descriptions of thankfully scenes that did not get shot in the show, but jesus christ.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Was not prepared for the descriptions of thankfully scenes that did not get shot in the show, but jesus christ.

    I made the conscience decision to not read them. My week has been shitty enough

  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    wait is the Weeknd the person's actual name? The Weeknd? I assumed that was the name of the act/band?

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    wait is the Weeknd the person's actual name? The Weeknd? I assumed that was the name of the act/band?

    It’s the name he goes by. His real name is Abel. I don’t know his last name

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