Whatcha Bleedin' Watchin'?

[Nel_Annette]

Speaking of complete series sets, the Breaking Bad one is coming out soon and I was thinking of picking it up, as I've yet to see the show.

[Dr. Insomniac]

This is how they advertise Hannibal in South Korea.

[Avaitor]

Imagine how high the ratings would be here if NBC pulled some of that off.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I got all 5 definitive edition seasons of the Twilight Zone for a good deal.

I have a lot of watching ahead of me. 

[Avaitor]

Nice!

Oh, and when I finish the last season of Angel, I think that I'll start Arrow up. Netflix only has the first season, but I can revert to watching online until the second is up.

[Avaitor]

I'm watching this week's Louie episodes, and in them, Jeremy renner is playing a drug dealer that Louie used to buy pot from in middle school, with an overblown Jersey accent.

Talk about a 180 from Hawkeye.

[Avaitor]

I started Arrow earlier this week, and so far, it's been pretty okay. It makes sense that the show combines modern super hero movie structure with soap, and does it without delving into procedural territory, which makes it better than AOS already. I'm still not too attached to all of the characters, however. Oliver's sister in particular annoys a little.

I also like seeing various DC characters show up, even some without major ties to Green Arrow. So far we've had Deathstroke and the Royal Flush Gang show up, and I know that there's more to come.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I've kept up with the show. It's OK (definitely miles better than AOS, especially since it's not afraid to change the status quo in major ways), though I feel that there's something holding it back from being a lot better. It could also do with less filler, but for what looked like it would be complete shit, it's surprisingly entertaining at face value. I know next to nothing about Green Arrow, but even I can see that this show takes more influence from Nolan's batman films than it seems to from its own source material, and while I'm tired of DC feeling like every modern superhero movie or show has to be dark and gritty like those films, it's not necessarily a bad thing in this case.

I will give the show some credit for having no qualms about killing off major characters (and not just the bad guys), though it's closer to a Whedon show in that regard, so don't expect GOT levels of ruthlessness.

Also, Thea is basically this show's Dawn. That, and Laurel can get pretty annoying as well. I would have rather they wrote her as her Black Canary persona than make her JUST the whiney love interest for Oliver.

[Avaitor]

So Thea gets better as the show goes along? Good.

Yeah, it's worth watching, but I can't say that I'm in love.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

So Thea gets better as the show goes along? Good.

I should probably clarify that I never liked Dawn, even in the later seasons.

[Avaitor]

So Thea gets better as the show goes along? Good.

I should probably clarify that I never liked Dawn, even in the later seasons.

Aww man, but she gets smarter and more useful in the later seasons. She still screwed up, but so did Xander and Willow at that point.

But as for Arrow, I'll try to watch some more of it in the next couple of days. I'll probably end up watching season 2 online, since I doubt that Netflix will have it by the time I'm done with 1, though.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Season 2 is better than first. Deathstroke is probably the first legitimately sinister villain on this show. My only gripe is that they pull that shit from the animated Teen Titans series and refer to him as Slade most of the time.

[Avaitor]

So I take it that you didn't warm up to TT when you gave it another chance.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Yeah, I don't detest it like how I once did, but it's really just not for me.

[Avaitor]

One thing AOS and Arrow have in common is J. August Richards. I think both of his characters were decent on the shows, but he had some really awesome stuff in the most recent Arrow episode I watched.