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!'m not gonna spoiler anything, but you will get what i'm saying if you 've seen any of it
If you do spoil anything, you're on your own
i'll shoot the breeze and then i'll spoiler up to episode 10 in the appropriately placed spoiler part of my post, just to go further..
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Ok first off, i was ready to hate any rendition of this "untranslatable" comic. Come on, the original comics were awesome at the time, but we are 30 + years later and "our" requirements are nigh high .. nothing can get pass us .. no?
i was, full transparency, headed to hate it.. and then i watched a couple episodes and i was amazed at how wrong i was.
Don't get me wrong, this is your run of the mill stuff, pew pew boom pow blob wizz entertainment, but if taken in the context of a post "everyone wants super heroes" since marvul got it "right", in the context of "no money" for special effects, in the context of "tv is where it is at" (dozens of half hours / more to tell an arc (several arcs))..
it was interesting because doomed to fail, no?
But after viewing (/10) i must smile and admit that the original material holds up.. i don't know what else to say?
robin's plight, coriander's gar's and raven's plights all mesh pretty good
.. more than 30 years later.
It works!
I mean the story writing / adaptation for this version is awful, camera work sucks, obviously avoiding powers to make it cost less is also an issue, .. i even wanted to say some miscasting but i got back from that, i think that part is fine, even an asset somewhat maybe..
.. nothing is there and still the end product makes me want more.
Is that just me being a human? i guess, .. hating and despising it, but wanting more?
The different story-lines are so "classic" that the "mélange" still gets me
Also on the "it sucks" column, the writers/producers milk it out.. but again, that seems to be a financial thing, if it ever gets popular it might take off for real and get proper pacing.. just because of sufficient financial means available.
Not that i disliked the "slow" but it seems that they can only switch gears according to the "not enough minerals" things.. a whole season of raven gar and cory not having their power in use is fine, but i feel that the end of the season will not remotely "solve" that issue, i suppose the first season would be the "origin of the team up", as opposed to the "beginning"?! i guess?.
So.. things that i want feedback on, because i feel it is interesting (here i will spoiler because .. you know.. spoilers)
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Robin says f ck batman (seems like a gross PR and an empty gesture) and generally seems to be too dumb (keeps leaving to secure production can milk episodes)
raven's powers are so magic 8 ball that it ruins the suspense
gar is so empty and kiddish, they required an old dude so they can make him eat people and discuss it
K is so lame as an elite warrior, i mean i don't mind that she's far off the "original" visually .. but i need her to look / act like a warrior princess not like .. like what we got.. but that might be the memory loss excuse and it could be fixed ?
They both get the "no money" special effects treatment and that should be the last nail in the coffin for this tv series..
but i still kind of like it.
Wonder girl is the coolest? How did that happen?
Jason todd as dumb as he is <3 was pretty nifty
the whole "for mature audiences" really gets to me (the useless gore as opposed to the useful gore, you know?)
when people die, the effects are either plot holes or a whole season's worth of rippling effects... so weird?
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Robin says f ck batman (seems like a gross PR and an empty gesture) and generally seems to be too dumb (keeps leaving to secure production can milk episodes)
raven's powers are so magic 8 ball that it ruins the suspense
gar is so empty and kiddish, they required an old dude so they can make him eat people and discuss it
K is so lame as an elite warrior, i mean i don't mind that she's far off the "original" visually .. but i need her to look / act like a warrior princess not like .. like what we got.. but that might be the memory loss excuse and it could be fixed ?
They both get the "no money" special effects treatment and that should be the last nail in the coffin for this tv series..
but i still kind of like it.
Wonder girl is the coolest? How did that happen?
Jason todd as dumb as he is <3 was pretty nifty
the whole "for mature audiences" really gets to me (the useless gore as opposed to the useful gore, you know?)
when people die, the effects are either plot holes or a whole season's worth of rippling effects... so weird?
Somehow, i just can't figure out why i manage to get past the issues...
i mean,
dick is called dick and we don't laugh because he's also a dick
raven and cory are plot tricks awaiting to disappoint
the storytelling has so many holes you could do the superball in them
but..
hawk and dove <3
and
the original material from melding such different storylines still work
So?
anyone else liked it?
I might be wrong but it doesn't seem like it is getting traction?
TLDR: is this good tèly? Am i so far gone only my love for the original makes me like this tv series?
