Author: Shmee

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The CW Brought Back Wonder Woman For Supergirl But Not Superman?

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The new DCW TV shows have been doing a great job of bringing back actors from DC’s previous shows and movies for roles in the CW’s current offerings, so it wasn’t surprising to hear that Linda Carter would be coming to Supergirl to play the President of the United States (I would probably vote for her this year, and I still might), but was surprising that they decided not bring back Tom Welling to play Superman.

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I mean they already had a Superman ready to go and they went and cast someone else.  Now I have no doubt that Tyler Hoechlin will do a fine job as the Man of Steel, but it would have been great to close the loop with the original DCW show.  Welling may have been busy, or maybe they decided that if they do bring Welling in that he will play some sort of side character like all the other former cast members they have brought back, but it would have been great to see him in the suit, being the Superman that Smallville promised he would become.

However, focusing on the positives, Linda Carter is going to be back on TV!  That is exciting, and who knows with The Flash screwing up the multiverse maybe we will still see Welling fly in to save the day.  I would be in for some Superman versus Superman action.

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Adam Shows What Unity Can Do!

When people think of the Unity Engine, they usually think of small graphically un-intensive indie games, but Unity is trying to change that perception.  The video above is in-engine and rendered in real time, so no image capturing here.  While it may not quite be feature film grade it is still very impressive for a ‘free’ game engine, and it shows how far gaming software has come.  All I know is that it makes me want to buy a new video card.  Or possibly an Xbox Scorpio.

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HBO’s Westworld Looks Terrifying!

The original Westworld directed by Michael Crichton was a classic, so I was not super enthused about a TV reboot, but I have to say the trailer sells it really well.  Though it is still confusing to me, much like Jurassic Park, how anyone thought a theme park full violent androids was a good idea.  Sure they aren’t supposed to hurt humans, but we all know that is just a matter of time before their code glitches and there are a few dozen dead humans laying around.  I hope the show delivers on this trailer’s scary promise.

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Arrow and The Flash’s Seasons Need To Be Shorter!

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I finally finished watching the rest of Arrow (there are a lot of games to play so sue me!), and it was a great ending!  Full of action and crazy stuff happening, but the rest of the season was uneven to put it mildly.  The show just had so much filler that by the time I got to the final few episodes I was pretty apathetic about the whole thing.  Thankfully watching them all in a row at the end helped me get back in to it.  To stop this from happening they need to gut Arrow and The Flash.

One villain for 23 episodes is just too much, so they need to either introduce more major villains a season, or they need to cut the episode count down to 10-12.  Add Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow in to the mix, and the CW has a lot of DC shenanigans going on.  Make all those shows 12 episodes and then run Legends after The Flash ends and Supergirl after Arrow is over and then the CW will still have enough programing for its channel, but the shows’ storylines will not have to suffer due to their bloated length.

I guess they could hire more and better writers to solve this problem too, but it just seems to me that it would make things easier to have less show for the villains to mustache twirl their way through, or heaven forbid fill time with lonely island Oliver flashbacks.  Maybe I am crazy, but I just want Arrow and The Flash to be better and more focused, and I think less episodes would help that out.  Maybe I am expecting too much of the CW, but we can always hope that things get better.