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June 27, 2016June 27, 2016

Games Of Thrones Season 6: The Season Stuff Started To Happen!

It is like producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss counted up the remaining episodes and went, “Oh crap! We need to start wrapping things up!”. Season six of Game of Thrones ran at a breakneck pace. People were seemingly teleporting all over Westeros and Essos to meet up and make things happen, and to answer all sorts of remaining questions. While all this action has been entertaining it has given the show a different flavor. There is no time left to let things set and stew for a bit.

Though I understand the reason for the change. Game of Thrones is going to be eight seasons long and we have completed six, and we still need to figure out who is going to rule Westeros to fight the White Walkers, and then of course they need to fight the White Walkers. We all know that the end of Game of Thrones will be dragons versus the White Walkers, so season six did its best to clear the table of any remaining appetizers to get us ready for the main course. The problem is that now we are ready and we have to wait just under a year for that main course to be served, and then a year after that for our frozen flambéed dessert. There aren’t many big questions left besides how is this all going to play out, and I for one can’t wait to watch. After all of the Starks’ promising, Winter is here!

June 23, 2016

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

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.

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.

June 21, 2016

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.

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

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

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.

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016

Netflix’s Voltron Is Awesome!

I should have known that when the people behind Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Kora were brought on to reboot Voltron that it would end up being pretty great, but it is even better than I imagined. Which is quite a feat considering the original Voltron was kind of a mess. I love it, but it doesn’t hold up well. Somehow they were able to take that mess and create a fun space opera out of it.

I love that they didn’t try to make Voltron more than it is. It is still kind of a silly and dumb, but it is also full of action with a good cast of characters. It is the show that my nostalgia lets me remember the original Voltron being. Which was terrific. If you want to spend your time watching robots form up to make another robot to fight evil cat people than Voltron is for you. If not, you probably didn’t read this mini-review anyway. I hope that Netflix reboots more of the shows from my childhood.