The Graysons are NOT coming to CW!

[TheCorpulent1]

We all did.

 

[Sawyer]

We all did.

Ugh, tell me about it... when I was 7, I went absolutely ape-s*** over Batman & Robin.... what a terrible movie.

But, even as a hyper-active 7-year-old, I still would've hated the idea of The Graysons.

 

[roach]

Smallville works because the years between teenage Clark Kent and Mile Mannered Reporter for a major metropolan news paper arent as etched in stone in the public mind as they are for Robin.
One of the other draws of the show is while he isnt Superman he is acting the part...what is DJ gonna do that we havent seen before?

 

[04nbod]

I just saw Ma Grayson and Ma Red X on the phone setting up a play date for Dick and Red X...

ha, you mean ma todd. I was convinced it was Jason in the cartoon

 

[Immortalfire]

I wish they would do a green lantern show. I want to see Kyle Rayner but before he got the ring.

As do I.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Smallville works because the years between teenage Clark Kent and Mile Mannered Reporter for a major metropolan news paper arent as etched in stone in the public mind as they are for Robin.
One of the other draws of the show is while he isnt Superman he is acting the part...what is DJ gonna do that we havent seen before?

Smallville's concept also worked because Clark actually had powers and the inclination to help people by then. Dick was just some filthy carny before he met Bruce. He didn't even know how to fight, he was just an acrobat. Also, he was like 10.

 

[Evelisse]

Whats all this "Smallville worked" talk?

 

[Immortalfire]

How about a show about toddler Diana, long before she left the island and became Wonder Woman?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That might be a big hit among the LGBT community, like Xena. All Xena had was lesbian overtones; imagine a whole show devoted to an island with nothing but women on it.

Whats all this "Smallville worked" talk?

Hey, I specified that the concept worked. The execution's a whole different story.

 

[Gilpesh]

All Xena had was lesbian overtones;

Overtones? Those were sledgehammer-in-your-f**king-face-tones....

Not that I'm complaining about them.

 

[Franklin Richards]

As do I.

So you wanna watch some slacker draw all day?

Hal Jordan before the ring reads like The Right Stuff.


:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've never heard of a bedtime story called The Right Stuff before.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Well it's kinda exciting and cool so you might not want to read it before bed. Now Kyle Rayner's life before the ring? That will read like a Bobby Ross show.

Watch him paint the happy little trees and fall asleep fast.

Guaranteed.


:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[roach]

Whats all this "Smallville worked" talk?

well its a popular tv show and the only people who have issues with it are the people who know that Smallville didnt happen in the comics.

Can the show even be called Smallville right now. Its based around the Daily Planet now and they should just put him in the suit and call him Superman

 

[Evelisse]

To each his own I guess, though I think its more a "popular tv show" for the CW/WB channel. Im surely not one that needs things to be exactly like the comics, for me it was the show itself. Just seems they are doing everything possible to keep him from becoming superman. I watched off and on up through the season after Clarks father died, when they just dropped the ball and again prevented Clark from becoming his own man I had enough.

 

[The Question]

well its a popular tv show and the only people who have issues with it are the people who know that Smallville didnt happen in the comics.

Only? Really? So absolutely no one who doesn't read comics dislikes the show?

 

[Doctor Jones]

That might be a big hit among the LGBT community, like Xena. All Xena had was lesbian overtones; imagine a whole show devoted to an island with nothing but women on it.

Hey, I specified that the concept worked. The execution's a whole different story.

I can. And I like it. t:

 

[Doctor Jones]

But seriously.

No Goddamn Batman = Bad show

 

[William15]

Graysons TV Show​

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In my honest opinion, Grayson could be a very good show. But the direction Warner Brothers might be going is all wrong.

The Dick Grayson in my version would be a 15 year old teen attending High School just like any other teen would. The only difference is, that most of the week, he also patrols the streets as Robin The Boy Wonder. Bruce Wayne would be in the show, but to a minimum as the Batman. I want him to teach and train Dick in a fierce way and to teach him all the things he was taught when he went into exile after his parents were murdered.

The show doesn’t have to focus on his life as the Boy Wonder. Instead they could show the things a hero like him has to struggle with, after the mask comes off. Dick would struggle in school, because he’s sleep deprived. He has to hide wounds which were endured while patrolling.

They could even go the cheesy way and introduce a beautiful feminine villainess which also turns out to be a class mate of Dick Grayson. Or things like Dick having difficulty holding a relationship since he has to go out at night all of a sudden, since a guy obsessed with riddles placed clues all over the Gotham docks.

The show could explore his relationship with Alfred, Bruce and maybe some other heroes. It could start off slow and then as the seasons would progress his relationship with Bruce would harden and eventually they could introduce Nightwing.

Actually this was something I thought of years ago. I’m surprised they’re doing a Graysons show and then going in such a strange direction.

What do you guys think of the concept?

 

[Sawyer]

But seriously.

No Goddamn Batman = Bad show

It isnt really even a matter of there being no Batman, its that its pre-Batman. No one gives two s***s about Dick Grayson before his parents die, for God sake! Trying to make an interesting series about him before becoming Robin seems damn near impossible, as well as lame.

 

[04nbod]

But seriously.

No Goddamn Batman = Bad show

not in the least. A show that has no source material to back it up=bad show.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Even that doesn't bother me. They could do all sorts of shows based on concepts that have no comic sources, like a show about the House of El on Krypton or a show about Barry Allen solving crimes as a CSI before he officially made his debut as the Flash and those would probably be cool shows. It's the fact that there's really nothing interesting about the period in Dick's life that they're covering that's annoying. Sure, they could make a decent generic teen soap out of it, but when you stop to consider all the other great comic-related concepts that would actually turn into shows that might remain even remotely comic-related, you can't help wondering why they went for something that has literally no ties to anything comic bookish. This could easily be made into a show about a kid in a carnival with no tie to any comic property and you'd never know the difference.

 

[Sawyer]

Even that doesn't bother me. They could do all sorts of shows based on concepts that have no comic sources, like a show about the House of El on Krypton or a show about Barry Allen solving crimes as a CSI before he officially made his debut as the Flash and those would probably be cool shows. It's the fact that there's really nothing interesting about the period in Dick's life that they're covering that's annoying. Sure, they could make a decent generic teen soap out of it, but when you stop to consider all the other great comic-related concepts that would actually turn into shows that might remain even remotely comic-related, you can't help wondering why they went for something that has literally no ties to anything comic bookish. This could easily be made into a show about a kid in a carnival with no tie to any comic property and you'd never know the difference.

You can really tell that they put no thought into it, other than noticing that TDK made almost a billion dollars and hoping- nay, praying that the fact that Dick Grayson is from Batman's world will bring in viewers. There were such endless possibilities to what they could have done, too... Gotham Central, Catwoman, Nightwing... and those are just the Batman-based characters. What a waste...

 

[Immortalfire]

Can the show even be called Smallville right now. Its based around the Daily Planet now and they should just put him in the suit and call him Superman

But but, costumes are teh evil!

 

[roach]

Only? Really? So absolutely no one who doesn't read comics dislikes the show?

yeah i guess i did make a general statement.