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Dan Seitz
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Rumor is next season is the last; if it weren’t for Peter Chernin being owed a shitload of favors at Fox, this season probably would have been the last. They just want to get it past the magic 100.

Well, I’m sure that now that Marvel is down to the zero hour in this crisis on infinite earths, it will reach a flashpoint where heroes and villains united will face the final night when worlds collide and reach a day of judgement to serve as a genesis.

Yeah, I’m going by Ubi’s official (i.e. vague as hell) numbers, and it looks like there might be a little fuckery since somebody is claiming any PS3 purchase counts as two due to Cross-Buy. But yeah, it’d have to be above WD.

Don’t forget Laurel. Took them three seasons to give her a plotline worth a damn.

That sounds about right: Watch Dogs sold something like 8 million, so it’d need to beat that.

Really. Can’t we all just glory in that press conference where Tom Brady obviously got bet twenty bucks he couldn’t work as many testicle jokes as possible into the announcement like real Americans?

Nope. Iris continued the fine CW tradition of nobody knowing how to write a love interest compellingly. “We’re in the middle of a serious problem. LET’S TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS!” There are better ways to do this! Interesting ways! Ways that give Candace Patton things to do beyond whine!

Honestly, it’s the Pats haters really getting worked up about this.

Well, I guess it beats falling in love 36 Chambers style.

Part of the problem is the new team got off to a rather rocky start, and that was enough to burn the book for some fans. It appears DC is still trying to figure out how to right the ship.

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And thank God for that. Seriously, the show ditching canon is the best possible thing for it.

So what you’re saying is, we need a season of Fish Mooney randomly turning up in Essex?

When the show remembers that it’s both batshit insane and an epic over-the-top drama about corruption and the Mob, it sings. Gordo’s insane hospital fight was a season highlight.

Gordon’s moral collapse has actually been my favorite plotline. Gotham is an over-the-top shithole, and the idea that Jim Gordon could stay perfect and squeaky clean would have been even less credible. It’s building to a dope-slap moment when he realizes he’s becoming the monster he’s trying to fight, and I can’t wait.

Me too, actually. Not sure what happened, sadly. I could have used Henryk’s set.

Sadly true.

“Disgusting Idiots Give Horrible Assholes Exactly What They Wanted.”

“Well, I could kill Darkbeast Paarl, sneak up on him, befriend him, and get the badge... or just kill his ass.” Yeah. Hard decision.