#but if bruce shows up for an episode i would not be opposed i'd actually be delighted

[navree]

vicki vale and deathstroke and task force x all set to be in at least one episode of my adventures with superman? one cannot help but wonder.......

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Finally watched Caped Crusader and I have ✨thoughts✨.

Oswalda is straight up iconic. Loved every scene with her. I actually laughed out loud when the dude goes "Thorne got you to kill the wrong son?" and she responds "Not that!" I'd let her lock me in a suitcase and throw me in the sea. She gets a gold star ⭐

I like that we get to see Selina's origin. I like the classic suit. That's kinda it though. A bit sad that Bruce didn't feel any connection with her. Just not a huge fan of her character here. She doesn't feel like Selina (a problem most of this show faces tbh).

I was loving the Harley stuff. The bit with Renee was so cute, and I love that she really was passionate about helping Bruce move past his trauma. I really like that she's Barbara's friend. Was really upset at the fakeout death but at least she was just joshin. The villain stuff felt like fetishes which like okay. I guess Bruce needed to put in something to replace BruceBabs. Anyway, that's the final dig towards him. As much as this Harley episode wasn't my favorite, a promise is a promise. Although I do gotta ask, WHY CAN'T RENEE CATCH A BREAK IN HER LOVE LIFE >:(((

No fucking way the moral of episode 7 was "the system is totally not screwed, it's just a few bad apples and also a criminal is a criminal and should be jailed". Barbara literally says the system sucks cause the cops can do what they want and get in anyone's pockets and then nearly gets killed by a cop and then they end it with "actually, I think you do"?! I mean yeah that specific guy deserved prison but ending it on that note of Barbara feeling betrayed and confused on her morals tells a very not-so-delightful message. Glad the show backtracks on all that immediately but it's still weird and definitely could've used some revising to fit in with the rest.

Onomatopeia was awesome though. I remember people claiming his shtick couldn't work when he appeared in Superman and Lois. They said that it only worked in comics and would be too silly out loud. Happy to report that they're wrong.

I feel like I'm the only one who was excited to see Waylon but that's okay cause I got enough excitement for everyone. Love to see my mans kicking the shit out of potential perverts. You go, Waylon!

Dick, Jason, Steph, and Carrie. Definitely an interesting combination. But it's also so nice to see a Jason who grew up in a different environment and is therefore adorable with no rage in his heart. As opposed to Carrie who was ready to kick some ass. The ending to episode 8 really understood Batman, what with him saying he can't leave her there, carrying her and shielding her under the cape, and then asking about her later.

The Harvey bit is kinda cool but 1, I've always been iffy on the shotty DID stuff and 2, I think they coulda gone further. Just watch The Long Halloween for a better Two Face plot.

I like Harvey helping that guy get his stuffed animal back. That was a nice small character moment. If we had more stuff like that and Bruce being unable to confess his emotions to Alfred, I think this whole thing would be better. This one made up for episode 7's little message by having Barbara tell Harvey that it's not so cut and dry and that he deserves help too. I'm glad they went back to that after the whole "sometimes things are black and white" bit. Batman is about helping people just as much as Superman is and I feel like sending a message that "nope, bad is bad and he should just punch people" doesn't fit the entire thesis of Batman.

This finale really encapsulates how this show doesn't quite understand the character of Batman. It may be comic-accurate for him to be an asshole and put on the voice randomly, treat Alfred like crap, and randomly break character with stuff like "don't start growing a conscience now, Dent" but as I said it goes against the whole thesis. This is more along the lines of the Nolan films with the "Bruce Wayne is the mask" bit. And we all know how I feel about those films.

And then it ends on a boring cliffhanger with the boss guy and then a shitty Joker teaser. Boo.

In short, this show is good but it's not anything special. I do really like the classic Batman aesthetic, but that's pretty much it. It doesn't really understand the characters like MAWS and WFA, the overarching plot is kind of uninteresting and it doesn't feel like we're building up to something great. I feel like this show really wanted to use the episodic style to take a look at all these different elements of Gotham's world with references to existing characters and aspects. But whereas MAWS smoothly slid those into its narrative and setting, this just kinda feels like a villain of the week show instead of working towards this grand narrative. And that can be a good thing, I mean I'm a Scooby Doo fan for crying out loud, but in this scenario, it just doesn't work that exceptionally. If it gets a season 2, I'll probably watch it. But this isn't something I'd be excitedly waiting to see new episodes of.

[thehollowprince]

Aah, Andromeda! I still remember fondly lil 14-year old me sitting down on sunday afternoons to watch "back2back action pack" starting with Hercules (bland), Xena (iconique!), Cleopatra 2525 (highly entertaining but absolutely bonkers), Jack of All Trades (Bruce Campbell!) and lastly Andromeda, from which the ONLY thing I remember is Tyr (norse wargod-name, because I was a MASSIVE mythology-nerd) and that the ship's computer had a crush on Sorbo's character...

"Dylan Hunt is the least interesting part of this show." Ironically enough Kevin Sorbo's Hercules was always the most boring part of The Legendary Journeys and the show really suffered and dragged after killed off Iolaus. I literally remembered the ship computer having a crush on Sorbo's character before I even remembered his name (I still wouldn't have remembered it if you hadn't written it down.) I'd rather watch Cleopatra 2525. which was bonkers, but everyone seemes to have a good time!

I was on Tubi the other day, just going through old titles from back in the day - the B-list stuff that most people don't remember, when I came across Beastmaster, featuring Daniel Goddard running around in a loincloth with a big stick, talking to and saving animals. In one of those episodes, Keith Hamilton Cobb showed up, looking fine as hell, and I suddenly remembered that he was on that show with low-rent Hercules.

So I went looking for Andromeda, which was also on Tubi, and I've been enjoying this trip down memory lane, despite Sorbo's overwhelming (and unwanted) presence. I enjoyed all the characters except for him. I loved the crew of the Eureka Maru (forever said about Rev Bem), I loved Rommie, the Android version of the ship itself, and I especially loved Tyr.

Twelve-year-old me didn't understand why, but twenty years later... I get it.

People actually expected me to find Dylan attractive when I had this man right here every episode.

This man who wpre leather pants and chain mail and fishnet tank tops, his arms forever on display.l, looking like a whole ass meal and dessert.

The more I go through it, the more I think Captain Dylan Hunt should have been played by someone else... Gina Torres maybe. She has the presence and it would have been entertaining, and made more sense why Rommie would have been attracted to the captain. Hell, we wouldn't have even had to have changed the character's name.

Part of me also would have loved to have seen this show in its original context - as a spinoff of Star Trek. This whole show was based off of unused ideas by Gene Roddenberry, and so I can't help but see it.

The Commonwealth is obviously supposed to be a knockoff of thr Federation, so Dylan Hunt is Captain of a Star Fleet vessel and on a diplomatic mission, they're ambushed by the Nietzscheans (I like the idea of them being a new species introduced as opposed to a knockoff version of Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons) and the Andromeda gets stuck in a black hole for 300 years. I would have loved to have seen how the galaxy would have been 300 years after the fall of the Federation, instead of this dream of restoring a Commonwealth that we have no attachment to.

I'm enjoying this trip down memory lane with all of these old scifi and sword & sorcery shows from the late 90s and early 2000s.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

2×11

okay last episode of the front half of the season, so this should wrap up the ambitiously titled "rise of villains" arc. after that is "wrath of the villains" which at this point could truly mean fucking anything.

I'd like to apologize for my earlier statement, there are actually three types of Black characters on Gotham: scary, dead, and Lucius Fox

POV you are Jimothy Gordon, you just got your ass saved by your least favorite boyfriend (Oswald) and wake up to discover that he now lives with (???) your least favorite coworker (Ed) and they are ??? playing piano and singing together in an apartment where there is quite visibly only one bed

911 has my least favorite boyfriend replaced me???

personally if I were Theo Galavan I would simply not take pathetic shit idiot baby glee in threatening a 12 year old little boy. like I know you have to kill him to finish your schemes but you don't have to enjoy it. stop gloating at a child get a hobby. ooh do you feel like a big boy for showing up the orphan toddler? woo good job you evil genius you. so scawy.

anyway this is a great episode for the anti-Alfred contingency he's been stabbed twice hunted for sport buried in trash and tased. get his ass.

Gotham!Riddler rapidly overtaking The Batman!Riddler for my least favorite Riddler. get your life together.

Bruce casually naming owls as his favorite animal as opposed to the extremely obvious choice is so funny good for him

sorry thinking about the single bed in the Pengriddler apartment again.

Oswald's look of absolute exasperation upon Lee's pregnancy announcement speaks for us all I think. anyway had no idea that was going to happen but I believe the timing lines up with Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin's actual first real life pregnancy. insane that Gotham is DIRECTLY responsible for ending one marriage (Baccarin's first lmao) and at least two human lives (her children with McKenzie). like that's crazy we can all agree that is cuckoo bananas, no?

anyway it would be infinitely funnier if Lee was lying just to get Gordon to shut the fuck up and leave the city

insane that all Ed does anymore is lurk around the GCPD eavesdropping on anyone who talks about Jim so he can chuckle knowingly. you used to be the only bitch in this whole building who actually did your job and now? now look at you. pathetic.

anyway if Lee actually is pregnant is this. which baby is this? is that little James Jr.? is that the baby future serial killer? or are we cutting straight to Barbara? or??

tbh the age difference between Bruce and Barbara would already be larger than I generally love for a coherent Batfam timeline but the writers of Gotham were evidently NOT thinking about the future of this world or my feelings

Lucius Fox is having just. the weirdest fucking day of his life right now. a 13 year old girl just clambered in the window and was given a bulletproof vest and a gun. by a cop. with no objections except from a rancid middle aged butler whose beef with her is personal. Lucius I have awful news but it's only going to get worse

Bruce is just. Bruce is a good kid. crying about him trying to save Silver even though it objectively benefits him not at all.

the visuals of local waif Selina Kyle confidently rocking up to a gunfight with a dozen adult men is so fucking funny good for her. girlboss. they literally sent her in as their advance scout I'm

all of you are getting charged with child endangerment!!!

if there's one thing Bruce Wayne is going to do at any age it's compel a morally dubious woman to risk it all for him with nothing but his autistic swagger

Silver St. Cloud would also have been a great candidate for Barbara Kean's Home for Wayward Young Supervillainesses I'm just SAYING

listen. we've got the thief (Selina), the firepower (Bridget), the swindler (Silver), and the spooky plant girl (Ivy). what a girl gang. gonna start recapping episodes as if Barbara's School for Wayward Young Supervillainesses is just a thing that's happening canonically. she just took them all out for ice cream :3

cannot emphasize enough how much I love when little Bruce is a sassy despite having absolutely no right to be. "I had a perfectly feasible escape plan" baby boy you were tied up and surrounded by evil Catholics who wanted to gut you

was gonna say I think Oswald and Jimblrs are officially over but Jim is currently watching Oswald beat a man to death with a baseball bat and that is regrettably at least second base for Oswald.

still hot and bothered from that Jim immediately decides to propose to Lee

MR FREEZE ???

guys I'm so SO sorry to do this but it was a bad brain day and I need to celebrate getting through it by pointing and laughing at bitches who are even less hinged than me.

it's Gotham time.