Lounge of Justice - Part 90

[Black Narcissus]

About to finally watch this for the first time. A young Brad Pitt just saying ok to any lead roles in the early 90s. lol

I guess this is best described as the perv version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Kim Basinger in the 90s was Fiiine.

 

[Iceman]

The OG team should get some serious respect.

I love this. There are some great X-Men versions that I was really considering getting but they take up a tonne of space.

 

[Tra-El]

MOS borrowed heavily from the Earth One stories. Even BvS did with the worlds reaction to Superman.

Most definitely. The few scenes that immediately stick out are the Jonathan Kent scenes and the villain of the story channeling Zod's "YOU ARE NOT ALONE" sequence. Those scenes were ripped out of the Earth One book almost verbatim.

 

[SupermanFan]

Great news I love the Earth One line. Still waiting for them to announce Superman vol. 4 .

I know JMS said there was only going to be 3 Earth Ones and there wouldn't be a 4th volume so they'd had to find a new writer. I did like Shane Davis's art. I only got to read up to Vol 2. Got Vol 3 on the shelf. Maybe I'll do more reading soon. Looking forward to getting the Superman Smashes the Klan GN on the 20th.

you beat me too it Tra,I had a twitter exchange with JMS a while back and he confirmed it was only ever going to be a trilogy. I was really hoping for more, if it were me I’d have made it 10 Vols.

 

[Aurakles]

I thought GL Earth One had some good ideas, but the execution was poor. The pacing wasn't great and the dialogue was very heavy handed.

 

[Aurakles]

Wonder Woman Earth One really picked up in volume 2

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[Calvin Ellis]

you beat me too it Tra,I had a twitter exchange with JMS a while back and he confirmed it was only ever going to be a trilogy. I was really hoping for more, if it were me I’d have made it 10 Vols.

Well that sucks.

 

[MbJ]

Most of the Earth 1 stuff was eh. American Alien did a better job of a modern Superman origin. A shame it later came out that Landis was a huge creep, though.

 

[Gee]

Most of the Earth 1 stuff was eh. American Alien did a better job of a modern Superman origin. A shame it later came out that Landis was a huge creep, though.

Yeah, damn shame.

 

[flickchick85]

I wasn't a fan of American Alien, tbh. I've never read Earth One because the whole hoodie emo look of the cover was just a massive turn-off, lol.

Spending the weekend binging Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time (I wanna get through it quickly so I have time to get to Legend of Korra on CBS All Access before my free trial runs out, lol). Feeling good about this choice so far!

 

[KalvinEllis]

What was that thing with Clark and Barbara Minerva in American Alien anyway. lol That totally came out of nowhere. Wonder if it was a joke about the Superman/WW relationship from the New-52, with Landis having Clark hook up with Diana's arch-enemy instead.

 

[Superherofan123]

I wasn't a fan of American Alien, tbh. I've never read Earth One because the whole hoodie emo look of the cover was just a massive turn-off, lol.

Spending the weekend binging Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time (I wanna get through it quickly so I have time to get to Legend of Korra on CBS All Access before my free trial runs out, lol). Feeling good about this choice so far!

Don’t judge a book by its cover lol

 

[heatvision38]

I liked that American Alien made Clark feel both human and alien/special. It's a tricky balance for Clark or Superman that isn't always pulled off. How do you make him feel human and have relatable emotions while still making him this amazing being that can inspire so many others? Too often he's written as an idea or an ideal rather than a tangible personality. Smallville and Birthright did a good job of this imo.

I thought American Alien, from what I remember of it, did that. I remember liking the Deathstroke chapter. It also seemed to just... end. Like was there supposed to be a part 2?

 

[Black Narcissus]

Rewatching 'The Boys'..

I can't wait for season 2. I'm glad Karl Urban got this role, man.


Billy Butcher : What's Sporty Spice up to?

Mother's Milk : Who?

Billy Butcher : Sporty Spice. What is she up to?

Mother's Milk : I don't know.

Billy Butcher : Exactly. How about Posh? You know what she's doing?

Frenchie : I don't understand.

Billy Butcher : Making clothes for anorexics. Right? Not exactly a growth market. And Baby? You know what she's doing? F all. Not even page six of the Daily Mail. And Scary Spice? Up to her eyeballs in lawsuits and sex tapes. Ginger, on the other hand, has released three albums. 'Passion', 'Schizophonic', and 'Scream If You Want To Go Faster'. They'll all make your ears bleed. You see, when they're apart, they're absolute effin' rubbish. But, you put them together... they're the goddamn Spice Girls.

Mother's Milk : How do you know so much about the Spice Girls?

 

[Black Narcissus]

MIlla Jovovich in The Fifth Element.

 

[kguillou]

Junkie XL confirmed he's scoring Army of the Dead. My hype for the movie just spiked a bit.

 

[Calvin Ellis]

I liked that American Alien made Clark feel both human and alien/special. It's a tricky balance for Clark or Superman that isn't always pulled off. How do you make him feel human and have relatable emotions while still making him this amazing being that can inspire so many others? Too often he's written as an idea or an ideal rather than a tangible personality. Smallville and Birthright did a good job of this imo.

I thought American Alien, from what I remember of it, did that. I remember liking the Deathstroke chapter. It also seemed to just... end. Like was there supposed to be a part 2?

No disrespect but Smallville spent most of its time having Clark do everything he could to run away from his alien heritage. The only time he truly embraced it is when he was rebelling or at the end of the series when CGIman showed up.

 

[heatvision38]

No disrespect but Smallville spent most of its time having Clark do everything he could to run away from his alien heritage. The only time he truly embraced it is when he was rebelling or at the end of the series when CGIman showed up.

Just like a teenager does. That's the point, he was struggling with the weight of 2 worlds. But he never held back from helping other people. I couldn't imagine having those powers, being an alien, AND being a teenager trying to fit in all at the same time. By the end, he fully embraced who he was, both sides of him.

Also, keeping in mind that the show runners tried to make Jor-El seem sinister at worst and a taskmaster at best to push the conflict on the show and every Kryptonian Clark meets other than Kara was a bad guy, so from his perspective, it makes sense that he was conflicted with that side of him.

 

[flickchick85]

Also, keeping in mind that the show runners tried to make Jor-El seem sinister at worst and a taskmaster at best to push the conflict on the show

That's just a whole other can o' crappy worms, imo. The guy who tried everything he could to plead with the powers-that-be to listen to reason and save his people, and who ended up sending his only child into space in a desperate bid to give him a life he knew he'd never get a chance to see...being treated like that. Smh.

 

[heatvision38]

Yeah, I didn't like it either. They tried to sort of retcon it at the end by showing the real Jor-El (his clone anyway) and we are shown that AI Jor-El was only a shadow of the real person and therefore did not have the humanity that Jor-El had.

 

[Herolee10]

Yeah, I didn't like it either. They tried to sort of retcon it at the end by showing the real Jor-El (his clone anyway) and we are shown that AI Jor-El was only a shadow of the real person and therefore did not have the humanity that Jor-El had.

I remember a popular theory at the time being that the voice of "Jor-el" that Terrence Stamp had been playing was secretly the Eradicator, hence why he was trying mold Clark into a conqueror instead of a hero.

Too bad that they didn't go down that route. Would have made sense of the portrayal. I also wasn't a fan of how kryptonian technology could seemingly do everything (turn back time, revive the dead, etc.). All of that power and yet they couldn't save themselves from krypton's destruction.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, I didn't like it either. They tried to sort of retcon it at the end by showing the real Jor-El (his clone anyway) and we are shown that AI Jor-El was only a shadow of the real person and therefore did not have the humanity that Jor-El had.

That's incredibly weak sauce, imo. They might as well have just put a disclaimer at the end saying "sorry about our portrayal for the last decade" for equal effectiveness. Just one step below having a character wake-up and realize it was all a dream on the Cop Out Scale.

The Eradicator thing could've been interesting as long as they didn't wait 'til the very end to reveal it, and then followed through with the consequences of it. But I think that would've been expecting too much of those showrunners.

 

[heatvision38]

I remember a popular theory at the time being that the voice of "Jor-el" that Terrence Stamp had been playing was secretly the Eradicator, hence why he was trying mold Clark into a conqueror instead of a hero.

Too bad that they didn't go down that route. Would have made sense of the portrayal. I also wasn't a fan of how kryptonian technology could seemingly do everything (turn back time, revive the dead, etc.). All of that power and yet they couldn't save themselves from krypton's destruction.

Yeah, they definitely used the tech as as a plot device. Even things like Jor-El coming to Earth as a teenager looking exactly like Clark but adult Jor-El looks like Julian Sands (the Warlock!). Or all those portals in the caves and J'onn knowing Jor-El.

I chalk that up to the writers trying to come up with material over the years to keep the Kryptonian stuff relevant. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn't.

I also don't recall whatever came of that conqueror storyline, the one where Clark reads the rocket ship that says he is meant to rule the Earth. Seems they dropped that.

 

[heatvision38]

That's incredibly weak sauce, imo. They might as well have just put a disclaimer at the end saying "sorry about our portrayal for the last decade" for equal effectiveness. Just one step below having a character wake-up and realize it was all a dream on the Cop Out Scale.

The Eradicator thing could've been interesting as long as they didn't wait 'til the very end to reveal it, and then followed through with the consequences of it. But I think that would've been expecting too much of those showrunners.

The show runners the last 3 yrs weren't the same ones from the beginning. I think the the new showrunners were trying to make lingering holes make sense. Also why Clark couldn't fly even though he clearly knows by then Kryptonians can fly, something that was left up to them to explain.