https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MubNoWQiSc
Oh heck yeah! They can call it Legends of Tomorrow but it is the Justice Society!
We Get To See Supergirl In Action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm46-envrHo
I wasn’t going to talk about trailers all this week, but that terrible Jem and the Holograms trailer yesterday forced my hand, and now CBS released their trailer for their new show Supergirl.
The first thing I thought when watching this trailer was that you can tell it is being made by the same people making The Flash. Same light tone and crazy action, so I was surprised by all the hate it was getting on social media. Yeah it is not perfect, pilots rarely are, and it is clear that she is the female version of Clark Kent, and not the spunky teen cheerleader Linda Lee Danvers from the comic books, but that is fine. It is what people are familiar with when a person named ‘Super’ is around.
The only thing I wasn’t a big fan of was the Devil Wears Prada rip-off with Calista Flockhart as her annoying boss. If they can retool that part of the show before it launches next year that would help out a lot. I am looking forward to it, and besides The Flash she will definitely be the biggest superhero on TV. With all the superhero TV shows on the air now, there will not be a lot of time for shows not based off a comic books. It is a hard time to be a geek. There is just too much stuff to watch.
Can’t Wait For A New Bruce Timm DC Cartoon! Though It Might Not Be What You Expected…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXTUKACXGU
I love the Bruce Timm DCU cartoons, so it is good to have him back, but if you were expecting something light an cheery, think again! This online show features a Superman that is Zod’s son and a vampire Batman just to name a few changes, so things are a little screwed up. It would be best to think of this as an Elseworlds tale. That being the case it still looks pretty great, and I can’t wait to watch it!
While DC has some story telling issues with their comics every now and then, I do enjoy the fact they let creators run wild with even their top tier characters from time to time. It helps if you are the best comic book cartoonist around, but they let people that aren’t Bruce Timm play too. Sure that is why they have to reboot things much more often than Marvel, but I think it gives DC a much more broad collection of stories.
The One Thing The Bugs Me About The New Flash Show…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQ-h_2WGkw
I really the like the new Flash TV series on The CW, but one thing really bugs me: Their makeshift supervillain prison. One of the Flash’s main features is how nice he is. I mean it is crazy. It is almost one of his super powers. The video above captures this perfectly, he even cares for his villains in most cases. However, in the TV show he just locks them up in little glass balls in complete isolation. The Flash would never do that. He would find a way to incarcerate is enemies humanely.
Now so far in the show every one of these guys and gals has killed someone, so they do deserve long time lock up, but just not like this. Not if done by the Flash. He would find a way to lock them up legally and safely. Maybe the this whole crazy underground iso-lockdown prison will blow up in their faces, and I hope it does, but I just wish Barry Allen would say something about it.
What Can We Learn From the Batman V Superman Trailer?
Well about eight million trailers came out over the weekend, and they were all pretty good, but I am going to discuss the Batman V Superman trailer for a little bit. You can watch it again here to refresh your memory. It was a pretty nuts trailer, and it was a teaser in the truest sense. It showed a bunch of stuff without giving away any plot, or did it?
First off people have gone a little crazy for Superman. I mean look at the picture above. He is hanging out with The Warriors for some reason, and people keep kneeling down in front of him. He clearly has some fans. While they were showing people loving Superman, what people were saying about him was quite different. People are unsure of him, and they don’t trust him. The best line came from Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, “Devils don’t come from Hell beneath us, they come from the sky.”
I am guessing Luthor’s little speech is for Batman. Batman doesn’t trust people with a lot of power (though he and Superman do become best friends), so Luthor is playing on Batman’s paranoia and letting Batman do all his heavy lifting. It is a good plan. They didn’t show it (they did show Superman working with the military though), but I am guessing Superman is getting similar speeches from the military about Batman. Except more along the lines of, “can we trust someone who works on their own without any oversight?” The military is big on oversight.
Finally we get the line that had twitter all a buzz. Batman’s quote, “Tell me, do you bleed?” I am glad Bruce spent some of his money on a voice modulator. That should save him quite a bit on throat lozenges. I am guessing after that they do what superheroes do best, they fight until they become friends. Which is the real question I have with this movie. How long is the fighting until they are friends going to take? Will it be like the first hour, and then they will figure out that they were duped. Then they will team up to take down Lex and tell the military to get their own hitman? That would leave an hour for the rest of the Justice League, or will that take two hours and the Justice League stuff will be like fifteen minutes. It is hard to say, but it will be a long ten months to find out.