GEEK OUT!!! CRISIS ON EARTH X – WELCOME TO THE SILVER AGE [SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! CRISIS ON EARTH X – WELCOME TO THE SILVER AGE [SPOILERS]
Did DC / CW sneakily produce a 4-hour multi-character story before Avengers: Infinity War?
Did DC / CW sneakily produce a 4-hour multi-character story before Avengers: Infinity War?
The Flash — “The New Rouges” — Image FLA304b_0027b.jpg — Pictured: Grant Gustin as The Flash — Photo: Katie Yu/The CW — é 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Frequency — “The Near-Far Problem” — Image Number: FRG103b_0136.jpg — Pictured: Peyton List as Raimy — Photo: Liane Hentscher/The CW — é 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.
“THE NEAR-FAR PROBLEM”
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A certified sleeper hit already! Amazingly Frequency maintains the high quality of the first two episodes with Reimy and Frank Sullivan trying desperately to save Julie by finding the Nightingale killer across the chasm of two decades.
Supergirl — “The Last Children of Krypton” — Image SPG202b_0069 — Pictured (L-R): Tyler Hoechlin as Clark/Superman and Melissa Benoist Kara/Supergirl — Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW — é 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
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“Signal & Noise”
Improbably, of all the many shows featuring time travel of some kind, Frequency might be the most promising of them all, thus far.
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Based on the 2000 scifi movie of the same name (shades of Westworld, eh?), this TV series adaptation updates the original premise for 2016 viz. father and son communicate across time via a ham radio.
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Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Thoughts about how the various superhero TV shows did this week. Spoilers, duh!
Trust Arrow to give us something dark before X’Mas! With Damien Darhk hellbent on teaching Oliver Queen a lesson, the spectre of death was looming over all of Queen’s family, friends and beloved ones. Well, let’s just say it does not end well (remember that in the season opener, a death was foreshadowed) and so …
A wonderful Xmas episode for The Flash! Attention was drawn to many faces as secrets were revealed, Weather Wizard & Trickster joined forces (Captain Cold demurred) & Team Flash (this time consisting of Cisco, Harrison AND Jay) saved the day! However, Wells had to make a Faustian bargain. Oh and not much of Barry in his costume…
Debuting in January 2016, the DC/CW TV series Legends of Tomorrow is quite an ambitious superhero team project that spins off the successful Arrow and Flash series.
Supergirl is the latest superhero TV series and joined the likes of The Flash (2nd Season), Arrow (4th) & Agents of SHIELD (3rd) in an ever-increasing costumed tights buffet. I don’t count Gotham as a superhero TV series as it is just a (boring) police procedural set in the Batman universe & worse still, a prequel (I hate prequels).
Ironically, despite the fact that the pilot was leaked online months ago, Supergirl’s premiere episode did very well out of the blocks. Presumably, the female lead and Superman associations put the new series in good stead. Apparently this series is based on the Christopher Reeve Superman continuity and thus adopts a more light-hearted tone. And thus has nothing to do with current DC comics continuity (which is messed up) or the DC movie universe as established by Man of Steel (very very dark) – which makes sense.
However, because of this, there is less Geek Out value to Supergirl compared to the other series above-mentioned & will probably appeal more to the Gotham crowd than hardcore comic book geeks. The Flash and Arrow still have an edge over Agents of SHIELD, due to the CW writers and producers being more faithful to the source material than even Marvel itself, surprisingly.
Oliver Queen’s running for Mayor of Star City (Arrow) and the appearance of King Shark (!!!) in The Flash (not to mention the new Firestorm) in the latest episodes gives us geeks exactly what we want in a superhero TV series – nods to original material, over the top heroics & of course, ridiculous villains! Awesome fun!
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