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Turns out it was a CW Seed online series, being released as a movie. Set in the Justice League Dark universe. Looks like it was 5 episodes about 7 minutes long each. The movie is those 5 episodes, plus some extra. Internet says it is a similar situation to the Vixen movie (which... I did not follow). But doesn't look to be longer than about an hour or so.

Edit:
Box says 90 minutes. Guess a lot more was added than just 5x7min episodes.

Edit2:
Solid movie. A couple good lines Spoiler"Who the hell do you think I am? Benedict Bloody Cumberbatch?, a significant amount of gore. Though the pacing in the middle was rushed. SpoilerAncient Aztec Death-God is used to kill all the demons without even introducing them. Largely unimportant to the overall arc, but still a bit disappointing. Ended well though. Worth a watch.



Flash? 10 minutes in and Nora is creeping me out. I've only seen her actress in one thing that I know of. And it was Black Sails. And I haven't heard her talk in anything but that. This high pitched girly voice may be her real voice(dunno)? But it feels so fake, done to make a 34 year old sound like a little girl.

Also: Not sure if this was posted yet or not.
Harvey Birdman: Attorney General
Spoiler
A special, airing this weekend. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like it's a whole new series/season. Just a one time thing.

More Edit:
Read this morning about the possibility of James Gunn moving on to DC after Disney didn't care for his little boy jokes. Suicide Squad 2. Seems the perfect place for DC to try his style of writing and directing. Though I'm not sure how much it would improve the DCU live action film venture as a whole.

Edited, Oct 10th 2018 8:42am by TirithRR

I caught up on Black Lightning. I'm not as interested in the father/daughter relationship and family drama side of things. Attack on the Albino at the end was more interesting. I thought that his female bodyguard / henchmen would turn out to be not dead after though. Some sort of healing meta. Kind of dull if they just drop her like that.

Haven't finished Gifted.

I did watch South Park, because it's only 20 minutes or so. Mr Hanky blamed Ambien for racist/homophobic tweets.

I'm not sure how I feel about Fresh Prince Genie. But I guess the issue is the voice I'm hearing in my head. Even the animated TV series, which I enjoyed as a kid, I recall the voice actor sounding close enough to Williams. Like the actor who does Po in the Kung Fu Panda series who does a good Jack Black.

I got around to seeing Venom. It wasn't bad, but it felt like a very rushed origin story in the last half. And Spoilerthe CGI for the last fight felt like I was watching a Tool stop-motion animation music video.

Edited, Oct 13th 2018 4:41pm by TirithRR

The only thing I watched last night was the Harvey Birdman special. And it was... dull. It was just too "word for word" satire. Funny enough but they didn't even try to make it clever. Nothing subtle at all about it.

I took my parents and grandmother out to dinner last night, my mom says "David Tennant has a comedy on HBO tonight!". In my mind I'm thinking "Tennant does stand-up?" Only to find out that David Tennant and Jennifer Garner have a comedy show that started last night on HBO called "Camping". I pressed Record just cause Tennant. I haven't watched it, but the trailer didn't look all that interesting. Who knows, maybe the two will work together. But they are definitely not what comes to mind when I think "Half hour comedy series on HBO".

Edit:
Camping is... Bad. Tennant can't save it. Tennant and Garner are a middle-aged, middle class, apparently liberal couple, she a post-surgery-induced-menopausal annoyance and he a spineless loser. There was not much if anything actually comedic about the whole thing in the "laughing" sense. I guess if you want to see a new-aged healer hippy Juliette Lewis nude for a few seconds you could watch the last minute of the pilot.

Edited, Oct 16th 2018 9:03am by TirithRR

Legend Continues was what they called the City of Demons movie that came out last week when they aired it on TV, right? Was it the whole 90 minutes, or just the CW Seed parts? Part of me can't see CW showing the City of Demons movie full uncensored on TV.

I didn't record though. I knew it was airing but had heard it was just the movie, so I didn't look into it.

Edit:
More googling. So it says the CD Seed version was a bunch of short episodes. Either some on CW Seed with some more planned that got put into the movie, or all on CW Seed (That part wasn't clear). The CW TV "Legend Continues" version is all of that. With the "City of Demons" movie being that plus some 20 minutes of extra scenes not included.



More on Camping:
"Jokes" included:

"Guns are evil, why would we have a BB Gun in our camp to protect us from bears?" *Wakes up to noise in middle of night* *Shoots wildly into the camp in the darkness afraid of bears with BB Gun* *Shoots friend who is having sex*

Butch lesbian camp owner hitting on Garner.

Juilette Lewis being super annoying hippy girl.

Garner being left out of the goings on in her supposed "friends" lives. Finding out things she thinks are new that everyone already knew weeks ahead of her.

And google says there was another series with the same name... and same plot... different actors... back in 2016. Seems this is a situation like The Office where somewhere in the UK it's done first. IMDB gives favorable ratings to the 2016 listing.

Edited, Oct 16th 2018 11:58am by TirithRR

Apparently the next season of Daredevil is out this Friday. And then next Tuesday is Spider-Man DLC.

Castlevania Season 2 comes out next Friday too. First season was well done, if a bit short. It makes for a quick binge.

I was surprised to see Ducktales was actually still active. But watching it is difficult cause there is no apparent order to the episodes being aired on Disney's channels (box lists episode numbers, but they don't appear to be airing in those orders). I set my box to "record everything" and sorted thru. Seems there is a whole season and a half of stuff out there that I haven't seen. Watching them out of order is a bit off putting, but overall, especially in terms of old series being remade, this one seems top notch (Angry glance at TNMT). Saw an episode today that was about Golf... and it was great. (S1/E12 "The Missing Links of Moorshire")

Falling behind on my DVR since things are actually accumulating and I haven't adjusted my post-work schedule to accommodate them.

Binged Daredevil. Unfortunately, looks like Luke Cage followed Iron Fist and has been canceled as well, which is a shame since it's had about a season and a half worth of good episodes. The going theory is it's either Disney consolidating and bringing them over to their own streaming service, or what I'm hedging towards: That Netflix only wants X number of these shows per year, so they're putting Luke and Danny together for a true Heroes for Hire series, and opening up the schedule for yet another hero series.

Then I caught Supergirl. Not so much worth the time. It's amazing how well Black Lightning does social commentary, and how badly Supergirl does with it.

I've been watching Daredevil. So far it's not bad, but not as good as last season. While I don't mind them expanding on the characters a bit I think they spend too much time on it.

Walking Dead tries to be realistic, which limits what they can ultimately do and ends up becoming repetitious. Z Nation can make **** up on the fly and go as outlandish as they feel like and it can go in any number of directions. We know Rick is leaving the show in like two episodes (My bet: SpoilerWalkified head on a pike), and I have no real emotional attachment to him. I don't feel like I'll stop watching just because he won't be around anymore. I can't say the same with Doc and 10k from Z Nation. I feel I'd quit watching without them.

In this years CW crossover John Wesley Shipp is going to be wearing his old 90s Flash costume, so that pretty much proves this years crossover is the best crossover ever. If they get him in both that and the Jay Garrett costume, well, I doubt any show will ever top that.

Bane in next season's Gotham. Looks like Dr Killemoff from the old Toxic Crusaders cartoon. Why does every live action Bane need to be so overdesigned? A cheap Luchador mask and you're set. Also apparently he stole his mom's coat from his mom's 90s closet.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2018 10:12am by lolgaxe

I'm all caught up now on CW stuff. Time to burn thru my Iron Fist and Daredevil backlog on Netflix. And part of me wants to watch the Haunting of Hill House, a few friends from HS liked it. Also Castlevania season 2 is out today. Probably going to be a Netflix weekend for me.

Arrow: What ever makes people Meta in this universe must also make them gay. SpoilerOliver's son is gay too. Still not liking Felicity, and they still need to get a new villain. And enough of the time jumps. SpoilerThey brought the Island back now, but seemingly forward this time with William's future, instead of Oliver's past.

Black Lightning: I'm not 100% convinced that this show handles social commentary better than Supergirl. There is just less of it in general, and it's not random "social commentary of the week", instead being the same situation ongoing. I didn't feel the whole "Oh Captain, My Captain." scene with Jefferson and the students. New Principal is, of course, a white dick. I'm honestly surprised the head of the Green Light kid's research isn't a white man forcing her to do all these bad things. But I guess an old Uncle Tom isn't much better. I keep expecting Cyanide Syonide to come back. (Turns out her name isn't spelled like the poison)

Supergirl at least has the random cameos and quirkiness to balance it. Black Lightning has more of an Arrow-esque seriousness to it. I'm a bit on the fence at which I like better right now.

Edited, Oct 26th 2018 8:56am by TirithRR

I didn't mean to say that the "Oh Captain, My Captain." scene was part of the social commentary. It was just a thought that popped into my head. I just meant that as a whole "We respect you" scene, I wasn't feeling it.

Speaking of Arrow Villains not being able to kill Felicity. How did she and William get away from Diaz's attack in her apartment after she was knocked out and he had a gun pulled on her ready to shoot? I feel like I missed or just plain don't remember something important or deus ex-ing there.