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I liked Daredevil's season one costume quite a bit, and I'm glad that they're using it again, albeit with a few tweaks. My biggest issue with the suit, however, was how late in the season it arrived. Introducing the final costume in the last ten minutes of the last episode made it feel drastically disconnected from

I'm kinda surprised they didn't make his first armored suit the red-and-yellow version, and then have Foggy or someone point out that he looks like a clown— leaving poor Matt flummoxed and annoyed.

I have not…. but it definitely looks like something that I would be interested in!

I'm gonna be honest: I'm not much of a fan of horror from the past decade-and-a-half. I'll pick-and-choose a film here or there— The Ring, Drag Me To Hell, The Babadook— but in my opinion, the genre has been in serious decline since the one-two punch of J-horror (in which ghastly color correction became a staple of

Yeah, sure, the war stuff was ghastly, but it wasn't played for horror— it was played for drama (and, yes, for shock value, but shock violence doesn't automatically qualify as "horror"). By that measure, Schindler's List should be widely considered the greatest horror film of all time.

Pan's Labyrinth?

I didn't mind the internal mechanics of the thing being kind of wonky— it WAS a pretty clear-cut allegory for STDs, a largely invisible force that can have serious physical repercussions— but I didn't like the film because of how heavy-handed and unpleasant it was.

Well, they pretty much HAD to make the cop some kind of a Shadow Demon monster thing, right? I mean, the guy was sketched as such a broad, irrationally malevolent bastard that if they DIDN'T reveal that he was some evil, possessed thing, the story's base narrative would basically be a huge Straw Man fallacy.

I will definitely agree with you on… well, pretty much all of that. People want an objective metric by which to evaluate the quality of a movie, and they think of review aggregators as that metric— if everybody liked it, it's good, and if everybody hated it, it stinks. But that of course leaves out variation in

Well, the focus on sensationalism and emphasizing scandal rather than actually talking about the film itself WOULD explain how Fantastic Four ended up with a 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Joe Pike, of the vicious "Pike Brothers", huh? Did his brother Nicolas used to be a motorcycle cop in Central City?

Yeah, well, as long as we don't get into the bureaucratic workings of H.I.V.E. and just get to see them as a villainous organization from the outside, I'm cool with it. I just hope Ollie doesn't end up tripping over some prophecy that says he's going to have to become the new head of H.I.V.E. because he ate the third

Agreed! Of course, that's about as likely as it was for Grant Gustin to reprise his role as Barry Allen in Justice League and the Flash movie… Unfortunately, DC's film division just doesn't have that kind of good sense.

… Anyone else here hoping that, since the episode he's appearing in is called "Haunted" and therefore more than likely features ghosts, the case Constantine comes in to help with happens to involve the ghost of… oh, maybe a circus aerialist named Boston Brand?

As long as the supernatural angle is the ONLY part of Ra's and the League's plotline that carries over this season, I'm happy with that.

He could just weave in-and-out of all the DC T.V. shows… popping up on Arrow first, then The Flash a little later… maybe showing up on Supergirl in season two, tacitly confirming that it's a part of the Arrowverse…

Actually, it might be a lot more fun to see John teaming up with the naive, idealistic straight-arrow Barry, rather than the jaded and cynical Oliver. But hell, the fact that he can team up with EITHER of them is the coolest goddamn thing in the world, so I'm not gonna question it.

Honestly, the Constantine T.V. show largely left me flat… but Matt Ryan was just the BEST as Constantine himself. He was acerbic and wry and charming despite being something of a prick, and he gave the impression that his more colorful dialogue was rated R despite actually being PG-13 on the page.

I really liked the pilot! (Which I also saw through certain completely-legitimate ways.) Benoist is charmingly energetic and upbeat throughout— she seems really solid in the part. The action and special effects were pretty damn good for a television show… And tonally, the show actually feels more like a Superman

The dude with the axe! That was Vartox! The terrorist guy from Iron Man even calls him that when he gives the sit-rep about the plane with Kara's sister not crashing.