Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So what are you WATCHING?

See, that was part of my concern about the first couple of episodes, but I thought the last ep. in particular changed up the formula enough to make it interesting, with allowing the villain to effectively win and get away (plus actually making the villain an interesting character).

I feel the same. I really don’t mind the villain of the week though because I like to see all these characters get on TV before it’s gone.

I think they it’s so cool they got Shipp to be Barry’s dad. Now Amanda Pays, Iris West from the first show, is going to be on it as Dr. Tina McGee! I’m hoping that Mark Hamill shows up somehow!

Actually, she was also Tina McGee on the first show, not Iris!



That would be GREAT! They even had two generations of Tricksters in the Wally West Flash comic at one point, so they could use that if they wanted to!

Thanks for the correction. I forgot because they didn't have Iris at all and made her the love interest instead. Wow! she's playing the same character!

Did anyone else watch the season finale for Doctor Who the other night? I still haven't decided if I liked it or not and I'm curious to get some other perspectives.

So a few weeks ago, my Dad told me he can't get over how much he loves his new favorite TV series: the Flash. I was surprised because I had thought the Flash looked a little, well, cheesy. But he loved it. So much so that he's kept telling me every time I've seen him and talked to him.

So much so, even, that he might start reading comics again--after like a 15 year hiatus where he just hasn't had the inspiration.

So I decided I would check it out.

And you know what? I loved it! I love everything about it! The actors, the colorfulness, and most importantly the sense of fun! I just watched Ep 4, the Captain Cold episode, last night and thought it was the best yet. Captain Cold was the best villain and it featured the Arrow character Felicity Smoke, who was fantastic.

It's definitely not the Barry Allen I know, but its close enough. And its a different medium so I'm not too beholden to what I see the Flash as, so long as the spirit of the series is there. Which it definitely is.

So I'm in.

And, to follow-up on something Lardy said to me a few weeks ago (which I purposely waited to respond to ;)): my Dad has now told me "if you think the Flash is good, wait until you see Arrow!"

Say what? So I've got my Dad, my buddies on Legion World, and Lardy, whose opinion on comic books is one I consider to be one of the best in all of fandom, telling me I need to watch Arrow? Perhaps its time. I definitely loved the Arrow cameo in Flash and then the Felicity guest-star. The latter is amazing because I've never even heard of the character before!

Just when I thought DC was a disaster film wise, it turns out their television people may actually be the best part of the company that I never knew about.

I think the Flash is my favorite TV show currently running. It feels a lot like a modern Silver Age style of storytelling. I am blown away by the special effects every episode and I think Gustin is a perfect Barry. What a great time to be a nerd!

Whatever could you be referring to...?!?!?



Oh, thaaaaaaaaat!

Well, at LEAST you listened to your dad, you bastard!



All I can say is that I liked Arrow from the get-go, and it gets exponentially better as it goes! It may not exactly be the Oliver Queen we all know and love and grew up reading about--but if you can reconcile TV Barry with comics Barry, you can definitely do same with TV Ollie!

And I fucking LOOOOOOOOVE Felicity Smoak!!!!



It's like night and day!

Better Off Ted. This was a show on ABC I think it was about five or six years ago. It only had two seasons, but the show was surreal and funny.

Great cast of characters, and the show was very interesting in it's skewering of large corporations and people's own hypocricies.

I absolutely love Better Off Ted. You're right on the money with that one. I can't think of any other workplace comedies with that sense of humor. It didn't try to give the craziness a veneer of "realism" like The Office, it just put it all out there.

I've been watching "Agents of SHIELD" at a rapid clip. I gave it another shot when the 2nd season started and I've really been enjoying it, partly because the show had to recalibrate after the second Captain America movie. TAoS always seemed hampered by what they could do on a TV budget but the lack of crazy Steranko style high adventure fits better with SHIELD's new circumstances. I won't spoil anything but it feels like the show is adding to the MCU now instead of just drawing from it.

The 1st season is up on Netflix now so I've gone back to it and have enjoyed it a lot more too. Maybe because I know where the character arcs are going, it makes it easier to watch the early episodes when it was just a slog through a lot of "crazy misfits learning to be a team" business.

Also, I've been winding down my major rewatching of "The Office;" I finished the Michael Scott era last week. The show had already kind of tailed off by that point but the last sequence of episodes leading to his departure were pretty satisfying.

Anybody not watching The 100 is missing out on major grooviness!

Really one of the best shows on TV at the moment.

^A MILLION TIMES, YES.

Saw the film version of Filth, an Irvine Welsh book I read last year (see reading thread). The story's about a corrupt, racist, drug addict Scottish cop who's playing the "games" of putting everybody against one another for his own gratification, when things start to unravel for him.

It was an interesting take, and they navigated some of the more unfilmable parts of the book in inventive ways (the book's partly narrated by a tape worm, and one character isn't who they say they are, which would be much more obvious on film). But it still left me a little flat. They do a good job with some of the evil and vile stuff that Robertson does, but he's too sympathetic (or pathetic would be a better descriptor) too early in the film. They also made a few significant changes to the end that dull some of the impact.

It wasn't a horrible adaptation, but it wouldn't be how I'd envision a film of the book.

Favorite video of the moment.

Just watched Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia" and thought it was pretty amazing. It's a great mediation on depression with a semi Sci-Fi wrapper. It's the story of two sisters and their struggle with depression and mortality that's heightened by the appearance of a rogue planet that is heading towards Earth.

Kirsten Dunst really impressed me. She continues to take challenging roles and is certainly up to the task in this one.

It's not for everyone, but it sure was beautiful and spoke to me.

Ditched cable and only have internet. Been watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Sexy lady that doesnt' reveal a lot of skin and yet still has allure. Something else else the rest of hollywood might think about.

Fun show, set in the age of the "modern woman" flapper era.

Psych- I just like the show.

Honeybadger- Documentary on honey badgers. My son loves it. He likes that a twenty five pound creature grabbed a rhino by the nads and made it scream like a girl, to put it in his words.

Been trying to keep up with Agent Carter and big bang on internet as well as Castle, but ABC is fucking annoying wanting you to sign in to use their website.

Cable doesn't have much for me. Occasionally, I'll miss ESPN because they have such a monopoly on college sports programming but my ISP does give me access to ESPN3, which lets me see the occasional away game for the local college team and I can watch many of the bigger games in replay.

I was happy that ESPN relented on the college championship and let that be seen using ESPN3. Bonus actually since you had a choice of announcers and views.

Netflix is limited as far as interesting movies but I find old series like Psych that I never saw on their first go-round. Sites like Couch-tuner let me keep up on things that I miss on over-the-air or that are on cable, even if the video quality isn't so great. It's good enough until the DVD set comes out.


Right now I'm on season three of Blue Bloods, which has insanely stupid plot holes but I like the actors and characters so, what the heck.

I tried couchtuner but it keeps wanting me to install stuff and I don't do that. Bummer, lots of shows there I'd like to watch.

I normally use my IE browser for Legion World and Netflix but for couch tuner or sites using google ads or lots of pop-ups and auto videos (like ESPN.go) , I'm using firefox with ad block and adobe flash installed and am not getting any pop-ups or requests for installation.

Cool, I'll give it a try. I normally use chrome. I have firefox, will have to check out the adblock thing.

still got the popups. Guess it just wont work for me.

Loving the series Banshee.

Some truly badass characters on this show, with very memorable personalities, and some out-of-left-field characters that you would never expect to work, but just flat out do (such as an Amish crimelord!).

I've started watching the series Nikita that aired on the CW a few years ago. It's pretty good so far and Maggie Q is pretty good looking in the show.

Totally addicted to the Big Cat Rescue videos on YouTube these days. Hardly an evening goes by where I don't watch one (or two, or ten) before retiring.