Post by stargazer1682 on Jan 16, 2020 4:35:07 GMT
Alright, let's get this over with. As if I'm not in a bad enough mood watching this shit after the last episode, now Dish has to be fucking stupid; so that when I cue up Part Five, now all of a sudden my DVR controls won't respond properly. If I try to hit pause, it skips forward; and if I try to skip back, it fucking skips forward and it's doing that with all of my programs - not on any other tvs in the fucking house, mind you, just mine. So now I gotta bring this up using the fucking CW seed or whatever their streaming option using Roku is.
And is if to answer why it urks me to have to go so round about to watch the last installment, apart from just regularly being disappointed in Dish; it's being stuck watching stupid ass commercials and the first one up is some asshole dancing in a sprinkler so he can take selfies of himself.....
Fucking Dish...
Well, Kara got lucky that she didn't accidentally blow her sister's head off...
Yeah, of fucking course Lex is getting the Nobel peace prize in whatever fucking Back-To-The-Future-II-esque nightmare this new earth is going to turn out to be that the heroes now have to fix.
Someone going back and get the fucking sports almanac from Lex and fix this shit.
Huh, I honestly had my doubts that they'd actually have the balls the merge all of the earths into one; and of course with a nearly full episodes ahead, that may not stay way, but it still raises an interesting prospect that I had pretty much discounted.
A Commercial Aside - I think the Liberty Mutual commercial with the who keeps flubbing his lines has finally broken me... it's just so stupid, and yet, having done community theatre and some voice work, I've had more than my share of moments where I can't get the right fucking words out of my mouth; and between him wanting to enter from the water and saying "Libtery Biberty".... I give up...
Oh, yeah, "Nash" Wells is supposed to be part of this; and its at this point that I think the writers just remembered this as well....
Why the hell is J'Onn communicating with Sara and Ray telepathically in the bar? It seems more conspicuous that they seem to be answering questions no one else heard him ask; and when he uses his power his eyes turn red. But more importantly, he didn't say anything that didn't need to kept quiet.
What memories did J'Onn give everybody exactly? I mean, surely he didn't have some sort of cloud back-up for everyone's individual memory; so a lot of what he's passed along to them would be from his perspective, right?
You know, J'Onn helping bring the major players back up to speed is one thing; there's arguably nothing wrong with that, but the way he's going about it is kind of questionable. I mean, he's going into other people minds and monkeying around; and the blunt way he gave Caitlin's memories back struck me is kind of creepy. Like, under any other circumstance, that wouldn't be cool to just walk and, boom, here's some thoughts and memories you didn't have before, including ones that make you hate this guy you were treating a second ago. Hope that's cool, but you can definitely trust that everything I just implanted in your brain is fine and on the up and up.
Don't get me wrong, it's a shortcut to give back the necessary characters the knowledge they need to have; because they couldn't be bothered to actually have them present at the logical point in the story where they would have gotten to keep their memories organically. So instead we're just going to do a deus ex machina to reset everyone's memories to where they need to be; and we're going to do that as quickly and with as little thought as possible, because we had five fucking episodes to tell this story and we're terrible at our job....
Wait a second....God dammit, wait just one fucking minute...God dammit.... now there's only one earth and one version of all or most of these characters.....so now the one and only fucking Wells is Nash God damn fucking Wells?
God damn it!
This is even more of a reason why, if they were going to make a Wells Pariah, which I will admit is a generally cool concept if they had bothered to actually fucking use either Wells or Pariah; then they should have made it Harry Wells from Earth 2, so that we'd have already had some history and established background for the characters and also so that when the dust settles, assuming this whole one earth dynamic sticks, that the one Harrison Wells that remains is the Harrison Wells that should get to remain. The one anyone actually fucking cares about and has actual history on the show.
And what about that history? How do they explain the clusterfuck that is Harris Wells/Harry Wells/HG Wells/Sherloq Wells and now "Nash" Wells? Is it just going to be one going with a split fucking personality? How about the Wells who was actually indigenous to Earth 1 and killed by Thawne? He just gets supplanted by Nash, because Nash just happened to be around during the Crisis?
Sigh......I know this is technically the "Legends" installment of the crossover, but.....augh...did they have to drag fucking Beebo into this.....?
You know what, fuck it, bring on the Beebo! For that matter, I want them to find a real, living fucking alien or demon creature that the Beebo doll turns out to have been modeled on; he's not malevolent or anything, more like a baby Yoda or Gizmo who starts traveling with the Legends. He can be Mick's pal or something.
"Is this seriously happening right now?"
Hey, that's my line, stay in your lane Diggle.
Okay, just how powerful is Mick's fire gun? Because anything shooting out a beam of fire that's like two city blocks long and does significant damage to something as big as a giant ass Beebo, is pretty much going to just disintegrate anything else of average size or closer proximity. Does he have a "Stay Puff Marshmallow Man" setting?
"Hey, Kate's here too!"
Way to blurt out the secret identity of one of the other masked heroes, Kara....
How do they have time for this? Not only this C-line story bullshit, how the fuck did Sara have time to change and get out into the field with Barry? I mean, I get him going to get her, but what, did he dress her too? Because that's just weird.
I'd have laughed my ass off if the Mick of New Earth was a teetotaler.
So 30 minutes in and they've finally teed up the climax of the Anti-Monitor res-surging and whatever they're going to try and do to stop him. Yeah, they definitely knew what they were doing when they were pacing this shit out.....
I guess they got tired of shelling out money for bad Martian Manhunter CGI and decided to go with practical effects for his suit at least. Still don't know why they don't bother trying to do make-up for his martian appearance.
Okay, couple of things - first, the Anti-Monitor's an idiot for not just mowing down the capes while they were speechifying. Second, bullets? We're going to stop this universal threat who has his own personal force field.... with bullets...Sure.....
And third, "For Oliver"?
....I....... No. Just no. I get the sentiment you're going for and it just doesn't work for me; especially since I have little faith that this is actually the last we've seen of him. Not to mention that I'm not sure half the people there even know Oliver well enough to really give a shit, even if he did sacrifice himself to reboot time. It'd be like someone shouting, "For Mike!" "Yeah, for Mi...wait, who the fuck is Mike?"
Thank God it wasn't Nightwing who sacrificed himself for the universe; it'd be a little more awkward if all the heroes charged yelling, "For Dick!"
Well guys, I guess you know what you need to do....
It's really too bad they don't know any other speedsters that could help out; or you know, other heroes of any kind. Like a guy who knows actual magic or a guy who can turn into steel....
Man, by the way Ray, Ryan and Wells reacted, you'd think Barry was some sort of screw who was likely to..... yeah, I'm kind of surprised he didn't accidentally press the button and shrink himself into oblivion.....
What the fuck was up with the overly dramatic music underscoring Supergirl's super-slow flying towards the Anti-Monitor? Were we supposed to think she was about to sacrifice herself to save Superman? Was she not aware of the plan they were about to attempt? Was Ray's arrival meant to be this event's "On your left" moment?
What would have been better is if there had been a situation where it was clear that what Kara was about to attempt in order to save her cousin could be fatal and right before she makes contact, Routh-Superman swoops in joins her, either helping her double the blow, thus, somehow reducing the potential injury by spreading it out; or taking her place to save her and the other Superman, even at the possible expense of himself.
And of course it fucking works on the first try, no hitches; they come up with this last ditch plan to stop this veritable god and it just fucking works.....
Oh yeah, I forgot about Lyla... what the fuck, so they're not even going to bother picking up the story thread of the Anti-Monitor somehow possessing her and using her to kill the Monitor?
Well shit, they brought back "baby" Sara. And somehow JJ's still there too. Are they twins? Because unless they're twins, this isn't really baby Sara at whatever age she'd be now; it's some other kid they conceived and happened to name Sara.
Can I just say, as an older brother I can almost guarentee JJ didn't actually want his sister to come play with him. I mean, it's not impossible that this coincides with the five minutes a week that twp siblings that age will to share and not get into a fight over both wanting to use burnt sienna at the same time, but the odds of those five minutes being consecutive are astronomical.
Wait, how does Superman not know he has two sons? He wasn't at the dawn of time (for some asinine reason). Or, I'm guessing, this was just contrived dialog to reveal yet another change that instead of Superman having just one kid he now has two; and we're supposed to think that he had to ask to clarify what Lois meant by "the boys" because that's also his nickname for her boobs?
Honestly, they dicked us around too much with Oliver's fate for me to care or believe he's actually dead; no matter what they show us, regardless of any world wide moment of silence or whatever they're doing. There's still two whole episodes of Arrow left of that series and we're to believe that Stephen Amell doesn't appear in either of them?
And if they're going to try and make it seem like he's gone and not have him appear at all in the next Arrow episode and then hold out for one last goodbye with him appearing at the very end, probably with fucking Felicity, it's too late; they've tried to milk this twice already and both times have fallen flat and a third times is definitely not going to land. I don't care if he lives or dies anymore; I think it's stupid to kill him off and they've lost all credibility that I just can't believe any claims of him truly being dead at this point.
O......kay....... So the multiverse was reborn, yet for some reason, some of the Earths got merged, but not all of them. So what's on Earth 38? Or whatever Earths Black Lightning or Nash Wells were originally from?
Hmm, I get the whole Justice League tableau they're going for, but there's just something that looks silly about these guys just....really enjoying their office chairs; and in the middle of a run down hanger, no less - it lacks an iconic look and looks more slapped together.
And I get the Superfriends Easter egg at the end, but seriously, this abandoned Star Labs research facility that "no one knows about", what, had an alien monkey or whatever sitting in a crate with a single banana for however long the last time anybody stopped by?
And is if to answer why it urks me to have to go so round about to watch the last installment, apart from just regularly being disappointed in Dish; it's being stuck watching stupid ass commercials and the first one up is some asshole dancing in a sprinkler so he can take selfies of himself.....
Fucking Dish...
Well, Kara got lucky that she didn't accidentally blow her sister's head off...
Yeah, of fucking course Lex is getting the Nobel peace prize in whatever fucking Back-To-The-Future-II-esque nightmare this new earth is going to turn out to be that the heroes now have to fix.
Someone going back and get the fucking sports almanac from Lex and fix this shit.
Huh, I honestly had my doubts that they'd actually have the balls the merge all of the earths into one; and of course with a nearly full episodes ahead, that may not stay way, but it still raises an interesting prospect that I had pretty much discounted.
A Commercial Aside - I think the Liberty Mutual commercial with the who keeps flubbing his lines has finally broken me... it's just so stupid, and yet, having done community theatre and some voice work, I've had more than my share of moments where I can't get the right fucking words out of my mouth; and between him wanting to enter from the water and saying "Libtery Biberty".... I give up...
Oh, yeah, "Nash" Wells is supposed to be part of this; and its at this point that I think the writers just remembered this as well....
Why the hell is J'Onn communicating with Sara and Ray telepathically in the bar? It seems more conspicuous that they seem to be answering questions no one else heard him ask; and when he uses his power his eyes turn red. But more importantly, he didn't say anything that didn't need to kept quiet.
What memories did J'Onn give everybody exactly? I mean, surely he didn't have some sort of cloud back-up for everyone's individual memory; so a lot of what he's passed along to them would be from his perspective, right?
You know, J'Onn helping bring the major players back up to speed is one thing; there's arguably nothing wrong with that, but the way he's going about it is kind of questionable. I mean, he's going into other people minds and monkeying around; and the blunt way he gave Caitlin's memories back struck me is kind of creepy. Like, under any other circumstance, that wouldn't be cool to just walk and, boom, here's some thoughts and memories you didn't have before, including ones that make you hate this guy you were treating a second ago. Hope that's cool, but you can definitely trust that everything I just implanted in your brain is fine and on the up and up.
Don't get me wrong, it's a shortcut to give back the necessary characters the knowledge they need to have; because they couldn't be bothered to actually have them present at the logical point in the story where they would have gotten to keep their memories organically. So instead we're just going to do a deus ex machina to reset everyone's memories to where they need to be; and we're going to do that as quickly and with as little thought as possible, because we had five fucking episodes to tell this story and we're terrible at our job....
Wait a second....God dammit, wait just one fucking minute...God dammit.... now there's only one earth and one version of all or most of these characters.....so now the one and only fucking Wells is Nash God damn fucking Wells?
God damn it!This is even more of a reason why, if they were going to make a Wells Pariah, which I will admit is a generally cool concept if they had bothered to actually fucking use either Wells or Pariah; then they should have made it Harry Wells from Earth 2, so that we'd have already had some history and established background for the characters and also so that when the dust settles, assuming this whole one earth dynamic sticks, that the one Harrison Wells that remains is the Harrison Wells that should get to remain. The one anyone actually fucking cares about and has actual history on the show.
And what about that history? How do they explain the clusterfuck that is Harris Wells/Harry Wells/HG Wells/Sherloq Wells and now "Nash" Wells? Is it just going to be one going with a split fucking personality? How about the Wells who was actually indigenous to Earth 1 and killed by Thawne? He just gets supplanted by Nash, because Nash just happened to be around during the Crisis?
Sigh......I know this is technically the "Legends" installment of the crossover, but.....augh...did they have to drag fucking Beebo into this.....?
You know what, fuck it, bring on the Beebo! For that matter, I want them to find a real, living fucking alien or demon creature that the Beebo doll turns out to have been modeled on; he's not malevolent or anything, more like a baby Yoda or Gizmo who starts traveling with the Legends. He can be Mick's pal or something.
"Is this seriously happening right now?"
Hey, that's my line, stay in your lane Diggle.
Okay, just how powerful is Mick's fire gun? Because anything shooting out a beam of fire that's like two city blocks long and does significant damage to something as big as a giant ass Beebo, is pretty much going to just disintegrate anything else of average size or closer proximity. Does he have a "Stay Puff Marshmallow Man" setting?
"Hey, Kate's here too!"
Way to blurt out the secret identity of one of the other masked heroes, Kara....
How do they have time for this? Not only this C-line story bullshit, how the fuck did Sara have time to change and get out into the field with Barry? I mean, I get him going to get her, but what, did he dress her too? Because that's just weird.
I'd have laughed my ass off if the Mick of New Earth was a teetotaler.
So 30 minutes in and they've finally teed up the climax of the Anti-Monitor res-surging and whatever they're going to try and do to stop him. Yeah, they definitely knew what they were doing when they were pacing this shit out.....
I guess they got tired of shelling out money for bad Martian Manhunter CGI and decided to go with practical effects for his suit at least. Still don't know why they don't bother trying to do make-up for his martian appearance.
Okay, couple of things - first, the Anti-Monitor's an idiot for not just mowing down the capes while they were speechifying. Second, bullets? We're going to stop this universal threat who has his own personal force field.... with bullets...Sure.....
And third, "For Oliver"?
....I....... No. Just no. I get the sentiment you're going for and it just doesn't work for me; especially since I have little faith that this is actually the last we've seen of him. Not to mention that I'm not sure half the people there even know Oliver well enough to really give a shit, even if he did sacrifice himself to reboot time. It'd be like someone shouting, "For Mike!" "Yeah, for Mi...wait, who the fuck is Mike?"
Thank God it wasn't Nightwing who sacrificed himself for the universe; it'd be a little more awkward if all the heroes charged yelling, "For Dick!"
Well guys, I guess you know what you need to do....
It's really too bad they don't know any other speedsters that could help out; or you know, other heroes of any kind. Like a guy who knows actual magic or a guy who can turn into steel....
Man, by the way Ray, Ryan and Wells reacted, you'd think Barry was some sort of screw who was likely to..... yeah, I'm kind of surprised he didn't accidentally press the button and shrink himself into oblivion.....
What the fuck was up with the overly dramatic music underscoring Supergirl's super-slow flying towards the Anti-Monitor? Were we supposed to think she was about to sacrifice herself to save Superman? Was she not aware of the plan they were about to attempt? Was Ray's arrival meant to be this event's "On your left" moment?
What would have been better is if there had been a situation where it was clear that what Kara was about to attempt in order to save her cousin could be fatal and right before she makes contact, Routh-Superman swoops in joins her, either helping her double the blow, thus, somehow reducing the potential injury by spreading it out; or taking her place to save her and the other Superman, even at the possible expense of himself.
And of course it fucking works on the first try, no hitches; they come up with this last ditch plan to stop this veritable god and it just fucking works.....
Oh yeah, I forgot about Lyla... what the fuck, so they're not even going to bother picking up the story thread of the Anti-Monitor somehow possessing her and using her to kill the Monitor?
Well shit, they brought back "baby" Sara. And somehow JJ's still there too. Are they twins? Because unless they're twins, this isn't really baby Sara at whatever age she'd be now; it's some other kid they conceived and happened to name Sara.
Can I just say, as an older brother I can almost guarentee JJ didn't actually want his sister to come play with him. I mean, it's not impossible that this coincides with the five minutes a week that twp siblings that age will to share and not get into a fight over both wanting to use burnt sienna at the same time, but the odds of those five minutes being consecutive are astronomical.
Wait, how does Superman not know he has two sons? He wasn't at the dawn of time (for some asinine reason). Or, I'm guessing, this was just contrived dialog to reveal yet another change that instead of Superman having just one kid he now has two; and we're supposed to think that he had to ask to clarify what Lois meant by "the boys" because that's also his nickname for her boobs?
Honestly, they dicked us around too much with Oliver's fate for me to care or believe he's actually dead; no matter what they show us, regardless of any world wide moment of silence or whatever they're doing. There's still two whole episodes of Arrow left of that series and we're to believe that Stephen Amell doesn't appear in either of them?
And if they're going to try and make it seem like he's gone and not have him appear at all in the next Arrow episode and then hold out for one last goodbye with him appearing at the very end, probably with fucking Felicity, it's too late; they've tried to milk this twice already and both times have fallen flat and a third times is definitely not going to land. I don't care if he lives or dies anymore; I think it's stupid to kill him off and they've lost all credibility that I just can't believe any claims of him truly being dead at this point.
O......kay....... So the multiverse was reborn, yet for some reason, some of the Earths got merged, but not all of them. So what's on Earth 38? Or whatever Earths Black Lightning or Nash Wells were originally from?
Hmm, I get the whole Justice League tableau they're going for, but there's just something that looks silly about these guys just....really enjoying their office chairs; and in the middle of a run down hanger, no less - it lacks an iconic look and looks more slapped together.
And I get the Superfriends Easter egg at the end, but seriously, this abandoned Star Labs research facility that "no one knows about", what, had an alien monkey or whatever sitting in a crate with a single banana for however long the last time anybody stopped by?
