Topic: The TV Show Thread

@WanderingBullet It is without doubt, the most overrated piece of fiction writing I've ever encountered. I do not say that lightly. Moore's name carries way too much weight. The writing is bloated and not particularly clever, or even funny. Bruce Timm could write circles around Moore all day, and did - several times - better the entirety of TKJ in a single episode of TAS and BB.

The adaptation is pretty faithful apart from the Batman/Batgirl relationship (eugh!).

As for Hush. a few changes, as you would expect given Jason already showing up in Under the Red Hood - a but one particular one that really doesn't make sense to change. It's adapted as well as most of them though.

@LN78 Absolutely. The Long Halloween is Shakespeare compared to The Killing Joke. It's tight and almost a procedural in effect, which is a great (the ideal) way to write Batman. It is at it's core at least deserving of the praise it gets.
The Killing Joke, from any other writer in the DC stable at the time wouldn't be nearly as revered. It's a mean spirited one-trick-pony with terrible dialogue that does very little to deserve praise. Other than being an infamously crappy use of Batgirl - it shouldn't have such notoriety.

@RogerRoger Get on Hush. For such an almost faithful adaptation, I'd like to know your reaction. I as fairly 'meh' by the end of it.

@RogerRoger Go for it.

Back on topic. It's a bit of a shame that The Tick got cancelled. Season 2 is a good step up from the first; still not quite as good as the Warburton series - but definitely heading in that direction.

@LN78 Psychological realism doesn't fit with either the rest of the book, or really Batman and the Joker. I think the film (Joker) will be OK. Nothing new or surprising or remotely necessary since it's a one-shot, but it'll be fine.

Can't stand Moore as a bloke. He's written some good stuff for sure, but most of the rest and some of what's good could also be ascribed as 'self indulgent rambling'. V is his pinnacle - great book. I like Watchmen, but it was very much a social contagion thing for me in my youth - you could cut 1/3 of it and have a better time.

As for Miller, he got really lucky! TDKR was absolutely seminal, and I'll take nothing away from it's impact. But the rest of his work is pretty awful, especially the Dark Knight follow up stuff. Ronin was OK, bit of a slog though.

@LN78 I'm sure that's what he wants you to think...

Anyway... TV! DareDevil! That was a TV show! TeeVee!!!!!

@RogerRoger Those two Adam West Batman animations were entertaining.haha

I used to loved listening the live-action tv series theme song when I was young.

@LN78 Easily done

This looks pretty cool.

A few other MCU tv series were announced:

• She-Hulk
• Ms. Marvel
• Moon Knight

Also, Kit Harington's reportedly joining the MCU. I have no idea which character he'll be playing but fans seem to want him to be Wolverine.

Edit: Kit Harington confirmed as the Black Knight in Eternals.

@LN78 Same here. Couldn't find any info regarding the release date for my country either. I'll probably wait till they have already released a few of the Marvel series first before subscribing, though.

Yeah, The Mandalorian looks like it’s going to be really good. I have been hesitant to commit to yet another monthly subscription service, but Disney is pressing me here. I’ll probably relent, even though I probably only use my Netflix and Amazon Prime subs very rarely. But the Star Wars and Marvel content is going to be too much to pass up.

Yeah, I'm more of a casual Marvel & Star Wars fan, but so far the Disney+ stuff is looking good enough for me to bite.

Yeah as nice as Disney+ looks these streaming services are getting out of hand already. I got rid of cable because it was costing too much now with everybody and their mother having a streaming service it's getting as expensive as cable. It was fine when it was just Netflix and Hulu but they had to go and let everyone have their own.

@RogerRoger Ewan was great as Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's character, Liam Neeson's and Darth Maul were the three main things I liked from Episodes 1-3.

I'm okay with a another subscription service, I only have Netflix constantly and rotate one of the other services. I always get deals that way, especially from NOW TV. We just need Disney to buy out all the other stuidios apart from Netflix and Amazon and the problem will be solved lol.

Decided to pick back up on the "Arrowverse" shows. It's a bit of a daunting task as I'm a couple seasons behind and they're up to 5 (and soon to be 6!) shows, but I found a resource which details in which order to watch every episode, so I'm going to try it out. Plus, I'm not going to force myself to binge through them, and rather casually watch them inbetween other things.

Also, I just finished up Captain Earth. A mecha anime I recently finished, I put my full thoughts in the anime thread, but I quite enjoyed it.

@RR529 Let me know how you get on. I pretty much abandoned the Arrowverse after the Elseworlds crossover. Didn't watch Arrow anyway if I could help it, as it really is terrible. But, I got pretty bored with the Flash's formula and Supergirl got a bit dull too.

Legends is still the most fun to watch. I'll catch up a bit before Crisis - I'll watch that without doubt!

@RogerRoger Have you watched Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures? I watched a few episodes and they were not bad. Liked the art direction as well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsbMnnbPpLUYMYgMQ703T...

@KALofKRYPTON Yeah I could get into Arrow either, came across as too soapy for my liking.

@JohnnyShoulder It started off as painfully 'not-Batman' - and never really grew out of it. I know 'leftie - gobshite' Ollie probably wouldn't have secured the same level of success, but the 'team *insert superhero here' thing gets very old, very quickly.

I think that's why Legends works so much better; they're actually a team of capes!