Marvel & John Ridley teaming up for super hero project
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Man Thing?
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Is Man-Thing back with Marvel now or does Lionsgate still have him?
Man, I loved that character when he was w/ the Thunderbolts.
Man, I loved that character when he was w/ the Thunderbolts.
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Blade seems the most likely to me.
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Ridley: "Picture it: Twilight meets Empire..."
ABC: *removes hand from pants, hands over satchels crammed full with big cash monies*
ABC: *removes hand from pants, hands over satchels crammed full with big cash monies*
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They'd probably make Blade a light Black man. Don't want him to be Wesley Snipes dark on a network TV.
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Since we are throwing out names I enter Goliath. All the X-Men are out and the major African American figures are already taken. They can bring in Bill Foster and tie him the Marvel universe with Ant-Man.
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Ridley's new show on ABC, American Crime, which apparently none of you are watching, is fantastic. Very dark cable-like drama. It's far from female centric, watered down fluff.
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To those of you who are shitting on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., have you watched any of season two?
Yes, it's not as dark as Daredevil, but
I don't see any other show doing that on network or basic cable.
In addition, the show has pretty much dropped the monster/superhero-of-the-week-procedural bullshit the first season was notorious for and follows the rest of the Whedon properties with developing and on-going storylines. It's not the strongest Whedon property (its no Buffy/Angel/Firefly), but its not the worst (Dollhouse). Season two is a much more darker and serious beast than the first season. Yeah, it still does some cringeworthy and goofy shit from time to time (Lady Sif's episode a few weeks ago), but its leaps and bounds better than the first.
Yes, it's not as dark as Daredevil, but
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In addition, the show has pretty much dropped the monster/superhero-of-the-week-procedural bullshit the first season was notorious for and follows the rest of the Whedon properties with developing and on-going storylines. It's not the strongest Whedon property (its no Buffy/Angel/Firefly), but its not the worst (Dollhouse). Season two is a much more darker and serious beast than the first season. Yeah, it still does some cringeworthy and goofy shit from time to time (Lady Sif's episode a few weeks ago), but its leaps and bounds better than the first.
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I've watched every episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's gone from being terrible to mediocre. It's far from great.
Daredevil is not a good show because it's dark, it's a good show because it's well written and the people working on it seem to care about it.
Daredevil is not a good show because it's dark, it's a good show because it's well written and the people working on it seem to care about it.
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That's probably the war big demographic for them to conquer, and they seem reticent to do a big female-led superhero movie, so TV would probably be an easier place to do it. Then again, they basically already did exactly that with Agent Carter.
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AoS is a shitty show and Walking Dead kills off major/supporting characters all the time.
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I've said it once and I'll say it again. AoS only became better when Cap 2 and, America's National Treasure, Bill Paxton were there. Season 2 is the same boring and cliche nature. It's a lot more steady than S1 but it still is a shitty show. Crap writing, cheap looking, a lot of shitty characters, crap action, and it's stupid. Very few characters are actually good. Bobbi Morse is a pleasure but I'm guessing that's more Adrianne Palicki than the writers.
Example, Fisk's centric episode in DD is better than all of AoS. Not that that means much but it's a big gap in quality for one episode vs. all of AoS.
Example, Fisk's centric episode in DD is better than all of AoS. Not that that means much but it's a big gap in quality for one episode vs. all of AoS.
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I'm enjoying AoS more so than any other show I'm still watching. It's actually the only show I really look forward to burning a couple of episodes off the DVR, all the others feel like an ever-growing list of chores. I hope the new show is exactly like it.
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I'm unclear what Solid Snake's opinion is on Agents of Shield. Perhaps he could restate it?
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I genuinely enjoy SHIELD and not in a guilty pleasure kind of way at all, so I'm not sure what you would call objectively good here.
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I still watch AoS, but there's no getting around it's a pretty bad show and it is such because it needs to be vanilla enough to be on ABC.
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I like AoS. It's about as good as it can be with two crappy show-runners at the head. I'm glad they made Joss get more involved, there was a noticeable quality shift in season one.
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