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I have seen enough while my daughter watches to realize this would be a waste of my time. I would rewatch SMALLVILLE before I rewatched GOTHAM. It's just not to my taste. I like Batman to be more film noir and less Chuck Jones.
I have seen enough while my daughter watches to realize this would be a waste of my time. I would rewatch SMALLVILLE before I rewatched GOTHAM. It's just not to my taste. I like Batman to be more film noir and less Chuck Jones.
I never got that vibe from the first two seasons.
Did you watch the last two episodes of Supergirl, featuring Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor? Well done. Imagine a proper Luthor owing to his 1980s semi-reboot. Like Gene Hackman sans the hair and any of the campiness (jokes) and that's Cryer's Luthor: devious, sinister, manipulative. A dark genius.
Really? The serial killer who tied people to hot air balloons? That's some Wyle E. Coyote shenanigans.
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Did you watch the last two episodes of Supergirl, featuring Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor? Well done. Imagine a proper Luthor owing to his 1980s semi-reboot. Like Gene Hackman sans the hair and any of the campiness (jokes) and that's Cryer's Luthor: devious, sinister, manipulative. A dark genius.
I watched about half of that show's first season. It was okay. Martian Manhunter was very cool. But the show as a whole failed to grab me. I got the impression the pitch meeting went something like, "It's The X-Files meets Sex and the City." What I saw wasn't bad. Just a bit too soap opera for me.
How is SyFy's KRYPTON? Somehow that one has completely evaded my radar, but I saw the DVDs at the store the other day.
Really? The serial killer who tied people to hot air balloons? That's some Wyle E. Coyote shenanigans.
That's some sinister sh-t, actually. They float...then they die. Smacks of Golden/Silver Age Batman, in a good way.
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I watched about half of that show's first season. It was okay. Martian Manhunter was very cool. But the show as a whole failed to grab me. I got the impression the pitch meeting went something like, "It's The X-Files meets Sex and the City." What I saw wasn't bad. Just a bit too soap opera for me.
Yeah, the soapy stuff in the show's off-putting, but those last two episodes weren't at all.
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How is SyFy's KRYPTON? Somehow that one has completely evaded my radar, but I saw the DVDs at the store the other day.
I need to watch it, too. I did catch the first episode when it aired. It's good. If you're a fan of the mythos, it's rated must-see-teevee.
That's some sinister sh-t, actually. They float...then they die. Smacks of Golden/Silver Age Batman, in a good way.
It was goofy. That's the same reason HANNIBAL finally lost me. The show stopped being about the characters. Every episode was some new killer who was killing people in the most ridiculous ways. Just shock theater.
It was goofy. That's the same reason HANNIBAL finally lost me. The show stopped being about the characters. Every episode was some new killer who was killing people in the most ridiculous ways. Just shock theater.
Think about it for a sec. Bodies slamming to the ground from seemingly nowhere, high above. What happens to a body when it falls from such a height?
Shock theater's nearly a misnomer. Heroes disintegrating in Infinity War was probably shocking to the uninformed.
Think about it for a sec. Bodies slamming to the ground from seemingly nowhere, high above. What happens to a body when it falls from such a height?
It is a silly form of violence intended solely to shock or revolt. You can get away with that once. After that it becomes gratuitous and worthy of much eye-rolling.
Part of my distaste for this, I think, is that I'm simply tired of the whole Brilliant Serial Killer schtick, where the villain finds ingenious and increasingly bizarre ways to murder people. It trivializes such violence, and it's silly. Most serial killers are schlub losers, not criminal masterminds. Even Hannibal Lecter grew tiresome after one movie.
GOTHAM's villains started out pretty good but grew increasingly goofball as the series progressed. Even by the end of season 1, I was getting frustrated. I think I made it three or four episodes into season 2 before I gave up. I might have stuck with it had the heroes been the least bit interesting, but they were just pawns in each week's Idiot Plot.
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