As long as they're mixing it all up, I've always wanted to see an adaptation of Xenophon's Anabasis. A group of mercenaries stuck behind enemy lines ! What could be more appropriate for a movie ?

That would be nice. I don't really know about the casting. Maybe Michael Fassbender as Aeneas. For Turnus I don't know.

What a ridiculously bad movie. But it wasn't only the Iliad. It was also Troy being taken.

The best worst line I've ever seen was from a movie called "Alien from the deep" in english, by Antonio Margheriti 1989). It's one of those intentionally awful movies where a plastic looking monsters wreaks havoc in the most ridiculous way. The last two lines are the hero saying "At last that's the end of it" followed…

Well, nobody throws him his own guns and says run. Nobody. Cause, you know, that'd be outrageous.

Hey, I like Kot Hawkeye from Secret Avengers too…

They should have taken more tim to think before acting.

I think DC are acting like Dicks.

Well, the impression I got is that apart from Joe, who is his usual emotional, teary-eyed self, we're dealing with a bunch of scientists. Saving Barry's mum is probably just the pretext they needed to do something awesome like time-travel.

I finally brought myself to watch it. I would advise reading the book first. The show looks alright, but many characters differ from the book, and are sketched rather broadly (I didn't care at all for the way Drawlight is pictured). It also cuts a lot from the more Jane Austen aspects of the book, which I think are…

I think he'll have to not save his mother to preserve the timeline. Otherwise, we might end up with Flashpoint, which would not be good…

That's a fantastic clip. It's a credit to the writing of Batman's character that while Orion doesn't get Flash at all, Batman does, in a wistful, almost a bit envious way.

It's unrelated, but did anyone see the first episode of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on the BBC, and if so, what did you think of it ? I still don't know if I want to watch this, I don't want to spoil my enjoyment of the book, which might be my favourite book ever.

The most cringeworthy thing to me was Joe, getting all emotional all the time while being a controlling jerk with pretty much everyone around him. I really hate this character.

If they don't have ice, they can always slide on huge piles of cash.

As far as pseudo-Roman empire go, I've just finished reading Conquest and Empire (There's a third book in the making) by John Connolly and it was truly amazing. The author is mainly using the way Romans assimilated conquered territories, but the world-building is much more complex than just "pseudo-Roman Empire". It's…

Has anybody read the book ? Is it any good ? I've got a shitty job and an overly long commute and I need to totally forget about my day during it. This book could maybe do the trick but I'm open to suggestions.

Well, it's way too hot for dogs out there anyway

Yeah, but the fact that they sort of mentioned Hal Jordan means that GLs exist in the show's universe, so why not. Might be fun. I'm still annoyed at how shitty the movie was. It'd be cool to have it done right.

So if Diggle gets a mask, are they going to make him into an already existing character or will they invent a new hero entirely ? I think the actor would have made a great John Stewart, and the character has a similar military background, but that would be very weird.