All posts by LadyMystery
This was especially jarring when you were used to seeing the superman from the superman's animated series. He didn't have the lines under there then. And then you're hyped to see him in the JLA series... only to go, "Bruh. What the hell happened to him? he looks like he's constantly tired all the time!"
I used to think so, but now he's second to Smallville's Lex Luthor. But yes, I love Clancy Brown's Lex too.
I grew up on Dean Cain's Superman as that was my first exposure to TV superman. Followed by Smallville. and then finally Superman and Lois.
So here's my thoughts-- Dean Cain made for a great adult Clark Kent, and occasionally Superman. But that's the problem—His Clark Kent was great, but he only made a great Superman half the time.
Smallville is mostly all about Clark Kent before he was Superman, so we only see Clark Kent as who he is as a person, slowly evolving into Superman over time but he never took on the Superman Mantle until the very last second of the finale.
So for me, even though I was exposed to Dean Cain and Smallville at a young age, I have to say Tyler wins it. Both Clark Kent and Superman were collectively great; they meshed and wove into each other in a way that felt soild. The others tended to treat Superman like a separate thing from Clark Kent, acting like Clark Kent was just a mask for Superman or vice versa. whereas Tyler acted like those idenities were both real to himself. All of those things are his. Clark Kent is him. Superman is also him. Kal-el of Krypton is also him, etc. He might separate those things in his mind occasionally, but not to the point that he ever thought that one of them was just a persona and a fake one at that.
Not sure what you mean... I don't think she's worse than any villain, but I do think she's been handled very badly and now is seen as a joke and incompetent due to writers using her as a plot device to drive the conflict in-story.
@Leader Vladimir right. I don't mind the representation and diversity but there also NEEDS to be good writing. preferably by writers who knows all the lore and stuff like that.
All I can say, is, They tried. They really really tried but if the writers are literally just ticking off boxes as much as they can like the other commenter here said, then it feels more like tokenism rather than true representation.
That isn't to say it was all a miss however, there was definitely some big hits in there... Joe West was amazing as an father figure! If I was in charge of changing what I wanted in the Flash show, he's one of the characters I'd keep, along with Cadence as Iris (despite how many toxic people hated her). The only things I'd change is that Joe wouldn't directly raise Barry in the same household as Iris.... that just leads to so many pseudo-incest jokes, especially now that Barry and Iris is together, ugh.
instead, Joe would be a father figure that checks up on Barry as he grew up, etc. maybe he lived across the street from the Wests and came over all the time. I think that'd be way better.
Shows like Batwoman on the other hand, were definitely a huge miss instead of a hit. which was a shame because I saw a lot of promise in it. it was like a diamond in the rough, but people kept on polishing and shaping it wrong to the point that it now looked like dull glass shaped to be a gem instead of shining brightly like a real diamond should be.
I'm one of those people who's able to turn off her brain and just enjoy the story without thinking about what the actors did behind the scenes. separate the art from the artist so to speak.
But this time I dunno if I can. Erza's such a MFer that it's weird now to picture him as the heroic flash. I hope that in this reset that this movie is designed to do it alters flash's appearance, thus releasing Erza's obligation to act the part of the flash and that somebody else can take his place.
Grant Gustin was the better actor, as much as it pains me to admit because I have a strong fondness for the early 90s flash.
Oliver out of them easy. dude has the most recognizable and distinctive goatee ever. otherwise I would've said Hal Jordan. Everything else about Hal is so easily recognizable, and he hides behind a domono mask that is so tiny it barely does anything.
Somebody else already explained how Clark's disguise isn't as stupid as most people think it is, so I won't bother.
@Eye Lad Yeah, the only way he would have a chance is if he leeched off Superman first and then went after Doomsday. maybe. there's the issue that he could still get overwhelmed just from draining so much of Doomsday's power though.
Depends on if this version of parasite has a limit in how much he can leech off others or not. I remember in some plotlines that he'd get overwhelmed by sucking up too much power.
I liked the new 52 superman too and I thought it was so disrespectful how they treated him. he dies, and doesn't even get a grand send off like the first death of superman did...they just go, "Here's an superman from an alternate universe who can replace him and we will never speak of the other one ever again."
F-off with that.
torn between Donnerverse and Lois and Clark. but in the end I had to go with Donnerverse.
Shes in her early twenties. and she's probably like me in that when I was in my early 20s, I still looked like I was 16 years old. It happens. I get how it looks werid AF though, since Bruce is like in his 30s. XD
Out of them all, I think Wonder woman's redesignd costume was definitely the best and one that I could also see the canon WW wearing. the rest... ehh, so-so, altogether I think batman was the goofiest one out of them all if the flash's didn't take the cake.
But overall, I think most of their stories were interesting... mostly. I think my least favorite story would have to be green lantern's. they basically rehashed Swamp Thing's origin story there, just without turning him into a hideous green monster... if anything he's a very handsome green monster instead. Heh. The flash is a close second, but somehow her story is charmingly CHESSY as hell. she also has the worst costume ever, snice it seems that those tassels whipping around at superspeed could easily slice or injure people badly, but lee didn't seem to think of that. I think he just wanted the white costume with rainbow streak trailing behind her look and tackled on the tasel thing because of that.
I think it had a lot of strong points, even though there was a few baffling choices I couldn't believe they went with... like Supergirl's design. Thigh boots with weird exposed knees? and the bottom part of her costume that looked like a red period diaper-pad thing. People liked to rag on Superman's weird armored costume with all the lines over it, But his wasn't so bad in comparsion to Supergirl's and others' costumes.
If I had to sum up the New 52 run, I would say: "Mostly great storylines, werid-ass costume designs." I friggn' loved Supergirl's storyline even if I had to stomach her awful looking costume.
Seriously, just look at her costume!
So awful.
@Xandermcc bro, you're telling me they pulled that spiderman retcon shit with Superman? uggghhh.
It does have some faults, such as being a very 90's, early 2000s style show... but overall I would say it captures Clark Kent's early life very perfectly.
literally, the only things I would've changed about the show had I the power-- 1) Have Lana Lang work with Chloe Sullivan on the school newspaper so that the writers wouldn't have to go out of their way to give her weird contrived excuses to be at some place just to be attacked and get saved by Clark. Seriously it was amazing how many times this happened. I think she should've been more like a proto-Lois in that she was overly curious and often got herself in trouble all the time, but without being a direct clone of Lois Lane. And this way we could joke that Clark has a "Type". ;)
2) this opinion might be out there, but I think Lionel Luthor should've stayed the "evil" Luthor while Lex remained a good yet tortured soul. John Glover was just TOO DAMN GOOD at being the super-evil daddy of Lex Luthor while Micheal Roseauaum (Lex Luthor) did a great job building up the friendship between him and Clark. But if we had to have an evil Lex via executive meddling-slash-Mandate, I don't see why we couldn't have Lionel flat-out murder the original Lex Luthor and then transfer his mind to a Lex clone, and poor Clark finds out but came too late to save the real Lex Luthor from Lionel's schemes and obsession to stay alive forever. this of course would be in the final season and would explain how we got to canon point with an evil Lex and a Superman.
3) Have them do something more with Pete Ross! the way they used him was just lame.