Tim returns in the latest episode of “The World’s Best Podcast with Paul & Tim”! Adventures are about the journey not the destination! We intended to talk about a whole bunch of different topics, but we got webbed up talking about everyone’s favorite wall crawler. So we dove head first and just made the whole damn thing a Spider-Man Episode! We talk about the film history, other adaptations, and of course classic Spidey comics. We wrap thing up with my SPOILER FILLED take on the Spider-Man: Homecoming! So please enjoy our podcast unintentionally about the Superior, the Spectacular, the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!!!!!
A lot people I know are sick of Spider-Man. Hell, I am a little too. The character just doesn’t resonate with me as he once did. I feel that the time in your life you enjoy Spider-Man as a character the most is in you formative high school/college years. Because we’ve all got a little bit of Peter Parker in us. He’s the super hero every man.
As a long time comic book fan I couldn’t help but be excited when he became part of the MCU. This is Marvel’s flagship character finally mixing it up with The Avengers. That’s the kind of shit dreams are made of. Then I saw Civil War and now they had my fucking attention. That was a hell of a reintroduction to the character. But still I couldn’t quite muster the excitement for this new film that I had for a movie like Spider-Man 2 (which is a masterpiece).
I’m happy to say that my lack of enthusiasm was completely unfounded, Spider-Man: Homecoming is fucking excellent. It’s probably the second best Spider-Man film after Spider-Man 2 and it’s definitely in the top tier of the MCU’s best movies.
There are a few key factors that make this films so successful: the cast and the brilliant decision to make it a little bit more of a high school movie than a superhero movie. I recognized a lot of the supporting cast in this movie from other films from a few years ago where they played children. So this is the rare high school movie with high school age actors in it. While the action is great, I found myself more invested in coming of age, high school comedy parts of the film. There are a few very good scenes where those worlds collide in unexpected ways. Also, the brooding of the earlier films is completely absent, replaced by a much lighter tone.
I’ve said for years that Marvel Studios’ biggest strength is it’s casting. Time and again they get actors that nail their parts. Even when I doubt them they always prove me wrong. It’s like the actors walked out of the pages of a comic book. Tom Holland is hands down the best Spider-Man we’ve had on screen. As so many others have said, he’s a kid! He’s the right fucking age for once. Not a 35 year old man trying to play a high school sophomore.
I thought a really interesting choice is how ineffective and sometimes even dangerous Spider-Man’s lack of experience makes him in this movie. This is a Spider-Man who does not have the superhero job figured out at all. But he wants to be an Avenger more than anything and that leads to some bad decision making on his part. However, the movie never makes him seem stupid. He’s just a very inexperienced kid with extraordinary abilities and a hard on to use them.
I’m very happy Marvel will have Tom Holland as Spidey around for good while. Hopefully they work something out with Sony to expand their current 5 picture deal. Meaning Sony still owns the film rights to the character and, including Civil War and Homecoming, the MCU can only use Spider-Man for 5 films total. We already know Spidey is in Avengers: Infinity War and the sequel to Homecoming which is kicking off Marvel’s “very different” Phase 4.
The other big stand out for me was Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes AKA The Vulture. Keaton is the fucking man. His Vulture is one scary mother fucker. He’s got goals and god help you if you get in his way. It certainly helps that his suit design is spectacular. He is without a doubt one of the best Marvel villains we’ve had on screen. His motivations are unique for this kind of film and though I didn’t want to actually see him kill Peter, I could sympathize with the guy to a degree.
As for Tony Stark I’d say we get just about the perfect amount of screen time. Not too much, not too little. He certainly doesn’t take over the movie. The film feels like a part of the MCU in the best way. The film uses the mythology of this film series to great advantage and nothing feels shoed in. There are some great Easter eggs that hardcore comic book fans like me will love. I’ve written in past articles that I’ve been frustrated by how much of this movie was spoiled by trailers and internet articles. So I wasn’t expecting how many genuine surprises there were for me in this film. There is an iconic, character defining scene from the early Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spider-Man days that gave me chills to see brought to life.
The last thing I’ll say is this movie has my favorite final 10 seconds of any of the Marvel films so far. Narrowly beating out Captain America’s tragic, “I had a date…” from Captain America: The First Avenger.
I’ll talk in more detail with spoilers on my podcast, which I’ll probably have up Monday. I’ll give our listeners some time to see the movie, but I will make it very clear when we talk spoilers on the podcast so you can know when to skip over or stop listening until you’ve seen the film.
Anyway, this gets a huge recommendation from me. An absolute summer superhero blast! Get off your ass and see it this weekend!
Film Grade: A-
Thanks for reading everyone!
-Paul
I get it. I’m a big movie fan. I read all the articles, I listen to all the podcasts, I love film making. Especially genre film making. So I’m always interested in the next big thing coming down the road. If you’ve read this blog or listened to my podcast with any frequency, you know I love the age of geek friendly entertainment that we’re living in. What used to be confined to comic book stores and conventions has become main stream pop culture.
Since the birth of the internet there websites like Ain’t It Cool News led by people like Harry Knowles that, among others, created the modern template for movie websites, YouTube channels, and podcasts. Sadly, Harry Knowles has lost his way, but that’s another story.
In the late 90’s internet journalists were guys like you and me. Fans who wanted scoops, tidbits, and tastes about what was happening behind the scenes in Hollywood. Specifically genre filmmaking. Since these early days, we’ve lost respect for something important: Spoilers.
In the late 90’s and early 00’s, if an internet journalist somehow got access to the script for one of the new Star Wars films or a Superman movie in development, this was treated with reverence. The details weren’t immediately plastered all over the website. Spoiler warnings were EVERYWHERE. So if you didn’t want to know all the details of Tarantino’s new movie or a complete story breakdown for X-Men 2, you could opt out. You could still get the movie news of the day without getting entire films spoiled for you. You could choose how much you wanted to know about the big new movies coming out that you were looking forward to. (For the record, these are all real examples of info and scoops Ain’t It Cool News and it’s readers had access to back in the day)
In my opinion, Ain’t It Cool News isn’t what it once was. There are still great people who write for that site and there are often some great editorials and movie reviews. But they were pioneers once, they were the model on which the modern geek entertainment websites were built. But back in the day, right up to now, they always respected their readers’ choice to opt out of spoilers. Because, after all, why do they call them spoilers, because they fucking spoil things! Which is why I am so sick of getting unwittingly spoiled by lazy YouTubers and internet journalists.
I bring up the long history of internet journalism and their attempts to get behind the scene scoops because there used to be an etiquette in the industry. In the past year and a half, I’ve had at least a dozen major movie twists, surprises, or plot points ruined in the TITLES of YouTube or other Internet articles. In the FUCKING TITLES! How do you avoid that?
Just a few days ago I’m scrolling through Twitter and a major comic book movie website has tweeted a link to one of their new articles and right there, unmissable in the title, is a MAJOR spoiler for Spider-Man: Homecoming. What. The. FUCK?!!! I was pissed. This is unacceptable and like I said it isn’t the first time it’s happened.
Now, some of you may say by following these sites I’m opening myself up to the possibility of having something spoiled for me. But if I’m reading an article or browsing a spoiler-heavy website and there’s a spoiler, that’s on me. But I should not have to worry about YouTube videos, Tweets, and article titles dropping major spoilers on me without ANY chance to avoid them. Trailers give away so much of the goddamn movie already, I don’t need any other sources to spoil the surprises in my entertainment.
So, to all you YouTubers, Tweeters, and online journalists out there… LOCK YOUR FUCKING SHIT UP! Show some professionalism and have some respect for your audience.
As always thanks for reading… and be careful of those fucking spoilers out there!
Hey everybody, here’s the latest episode of our podcast where we discuss the best and worst movies of the year so far. With special guest co-host Ryan McDonald!
Here’s the latest episode of our podcast where we review the two-part premiere of Preacher season 2 on AMC! I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks again to everyone who has been so supportive of this site and the podcast. To show our appreciate, we have few contest plans for the near future with small prizes we’re giving away. Details to come!
Han Solo: A Star Wars story, the stand alone Han Solo origin movie that no one asked for has lost it’s directors, Christopher Lord & Phil Miller, the directing team that gave us The Lego Movie, 21 and 22 Jump Street, have left the film because of the classic bullshit Hollywood excuse “creative differences”. (Which in this case seems to mean they were fired).
When the term “creative differences” is used in Hollywood, it basically means some bad shit was going down. It’s blanket term used when things are going badly on a project, but they don’t want to make specific people look bad. So “creative differences” could mean anything from the directors constantly throwing their feces at crew members to the movie being a piece of hot garbage and the studio has to make a desperate attempt to salvage their massively expensive tent pole film. Kathleen Kennedy, the head of Lucasfilm was the one to make this call and this woman knows what she’s doing. She started her career working with Spielberg on Raiders of the Lost Ark and has since been part of many of the most successful films ever made.
But Lord and Miller did The Lego Movie with that stupid fucking song everyone loves!
(to the tune of “Everything Is Awesome”)
“EVERYTHING IS SHITTYYYYYYYY!
EVERYTHING BLOWS WHEN YOUR MOVIE SUCKS!”
However, on rare occasions, “creative differences” means “creative differences”. That means that there’s a creative aspect of the film, be it story, character, or something else that the film makers and studio disagree on, but won’t come to a middle ground about. Movie studios finance these projects and can get nervous when film makers do things creatively that they consider risky. At which point the film maker either quits or is fired by the studio. Then, with the world watching, studio tries to make gold out of diarrhea.
This case is especially bad because “Han Solo: A Star Wars Story” (or whatever the fuck they’re calling it) has been filming since February which mean a good chunk of this film has been shot. This type of thing usually happens before filming starts or at the very beginning. Even after a film is completed a movie studio may bring someone else in to the editing room to put the finishing touches on a movie they think needs work.
Now the studio needs to find a director that they think can right this metaphorical ship. Unfortunately, it’s pretty much a done deal that it’s gonna be Ron Howard.
I wrote a previous article for this site was basically praising Star Wars as my personal religion. I never thought I’d actively be rooting against a Star Wars film. But I fucking HATE Ron Howard as a film maker. I think he’s an overrated hack who has made some of my most loathed films. (I’d rather get one of my nuts torn off than have to sit through his fucking Grinch movie with Jim Carrey again)
Having said that, I’m torn by this news. On the one hand I love the Star Wars Universe with all my heart and I don’t want to see it take a step backward. On the other hand, I hated the whole idea of this movie. As soon as it was rumored to be one of the stand alone Star Wars movies.
I have strong feelings why I feel doing a Han Solo prequel movie in particular is a bad idea. But first I want to talk about some of the other parts of the Star Wars Universe that could have been better places to draw stories from than a …(sigh) Han Solo prequel movie.
When the stand alone Star Wars movies were announced I thought it was great storytelling opportunity. Star Wars has a massive mythology outside of the Skywalker family saga, even if they completely ignore the Expanded Universe content (Star Wars books, comics, video games , ect.).
But The Expanded Universe still has some excellent material to mine. The comics in particular are really special. They began to publish fantastic in continuity Star Wars comics, telling stories that took place between “A New Hope” and “The Empire Strikes Back”. Issue #6 of the flagship book “Star Wars”, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by John Cassaday, ends on a key scene that is incredibly important to the overall Saga (especially The Original Trilogy) that we never actually see in the films. It’s relatively simple scene that is a perfect mix of art and dialogue. Shortly after the destruction of the original Death Star, Vader hired Boba Fett to capture the pilot who destroyed the deadly space station. He couldn’t capture him, but he doesn’t come to Vader empty handed. Keep in mind, at this point Vader thinks his children died with his wife.Check it out:
That was an exceptionally well done sequence.
There’s so much more that this universe has to offer that most people haven’t seen. There’s the excellent Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels Animated series’. The Clone Wars chronicles the period between Episodes II & III. Currently Star Wars Rebels which is about to enter its final season in the fall, chronicles the rise of The Rebellion shortly before Episode IV. Both of these are phenomenal shows, don’t let the fact that they are animated turn you off. There are new characters that are just as compelling as some of the characters from the films and they also have the opportunity to further flesh out some of the relationships we see in the movies. Here’s an incredible scene from Rebels, we see the sad, beautiful, decades in the making final confrontation between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul:
Another great example of the larger Star Wars Universe is Grand Admiral Thrawn, a fan-favorite Imperial villain from Timothy Zahn’s series of novels. Now he’s been introduced as a major villain in Star Wars Rebels. There are plenty of in continuity books, TV shows, and comics that are cannon that could be used in films.
Which is my whole point! why the fuck would you limit yourself to a shitty Han Solo prequel (why the fuck do these Hollywood assholes think we love prequels?). As usual they make the most predictable, “safe” (on paper), bullshit decision possible and do a Han Solo prequel movie. It’s especially disappointing coming from somebody as intelligent as Kathleen Kennedy at head of Lucasfilm, who’s someone I’d normally have a lot of faith in. Now besides the shit show they currently dealing with behind the scenes, here’s why a Han Solo prequel film was a dog piss idea in the first place…
I’ve always felt one of the biggest reasons this project wouldn’t work in the same way other prequels do is the fact that we associate Han Solo with Harrison Ford so much. Batman, James Bond, these are characters that were adapted from other mediums. I think recasting Han Solo is more of a slap in the face to fans is because Harrison Ford created that character as we see him on screen. This wasn’t an interpretation of a property that already existed in another medium or had been played by a different actor in a different film. George Lucas is famous for not being an actor’s director; he doesn’t give actors a lot of nuanced notes on performance. It’s safe to say that in many ways Harrison Ford helped create the character of Han Solo. All of the little moments, ticks, and nuances that we love about Han Solo all come out of Harrison Ford. There’s no source material for whatever asshole they got to play young Han Solo to refer to. It’s all Harrison Ford. Which is why at best this would just be some kid doing a Harrison Ford impression. If that’s the case, what’s the fucking point of making the movie at all? This is why it shouldn’t be touched.
This is the kid playing Han Solo:
There’s another issues with doing a Han Solo prequel film that I haven’t heard anyone mention yet. Han Solo is an outlaw and a pirate (Like Jack Sparrow when he was still cool and not just creepy). Giving Han Solo a film that fills in all the blanks takes a bit of mystique away from the character. Some mystery for a roguish character like Han is part of his appeal.
There’s an old saying that audiences don’t really know what they want, even if they think they do. We may think we want to see Han meet Chewie and Lando and win the Millennium Falcon in a game of Sabbac, but sometimes things are better left to the imagination. (That’s right, I know the name of the fictional card game played in the Star Wars universe. Winner!)
Personally, I felt if they had to do a prequel movie starring a character that we already know it should be an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie. Ewan McGregor has said multiple times that he would love to play the character again. Tell a story that takes place between Episodes III and Episode IV. What was he up to on Tatooine for 20 years? Maybe he decided to break those pointless fucking celibacy vows the Jedi had for some reason? Maybe 50 years later he’s got a hot granddaughter running around the galaxy? Who knows? I swear I had this idea before the comics did, but in the main Star Wars comic written by Jason Aaron, every now and then Luke will read Obi-Wan’s Journal and we get a flashback to one on his adventures during his time on Tantooine. These issues are always fun and they show that Kenobi wasn’t just sweating his ass off in that fucking hut for 20 years.
They could tell a western style adventure with Obi-Wan trying to stay in hiding, but maybe he keeps seeing The Hutts or some other alien gangsters harassing simple moisture farmers around him. Finally, he’s reluctantly forced to do something about it. That’s just off the top of my head! I’d see the fuck out of that movie! Maybe he runs into another surviving Jedi, those guys are all running around the galaxy left and right. The Empire certainly didn’t get all of them. Also, we don’t have actor recasting issues like we have with Harrison Ford because Obi-Wan has already been played by multiple actors.
The positive side is that Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy know what they’re doing and I have more faith in them then the guys who did the fucking Lego Movie. I know I’m gonna get shit for this, but I absolutely fucking HATE the Lego movie trend. Fuck The Lego Movie. Fuck The Lego Batman Movie. Just…Fuck Off.
The Force Awakens was far from perfect but it was a great movie. I have a lot less love for Rogue One, but there is greatness in that film. The “Vader Scene” (you know what I’m talking about) was one of the best scenes in the saga. The new Expanded Universe is excellent. Star Wars Rebels is one of my favorite shows and occasionally manages to outdo the films in shear thrilling, emotional, spectacle.
At the end of the day, Star Wars, Lucasfilm, and Disney will be just fine. It does suck however to see a chink in their creative armor. Since Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney they just kept cranking out solid fucking content. They went about building their universe in a smart, fun, and well thought out way. They decided what would be cannon and what wouldn’t and went to work. Movies, TV shows, books, comic books. They haven’t made a misstep yet so this is their first major hiccup. But let’s be honest even if this is a total disaster in every way, shape, or form, this is not going to hurt the Star Wars brand in the long run.
Who knows? Maybe I’m wrong and the studio brought Ron Howard (UPDATE: They did. Ron Howard is officially directing Young Han Solo). I hope he crushes it. I hate most of his movies and think he’s a MASSIVELY overrated director, but I did love Cinderella Man. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see the color and consistency of the shit they spray all over the movie screen.
Also keep an eye out for the new episode of “The World’s Best Podcast with Paul & Tim” where Tim and I will be discussing the season 2 premiere of Preacher on AMC. It’s gonna be really fucking good…probably.
With my beloved co-host Tim out of town, I brought in my father for a special mini-episode of “The World’s Best Podcast with Paul & Tim”. We discuss which TV characters would win in an all out fight to the death! Who is the toughest character on TV? Listen and find out! Thanks!
I was really excited about Agents of SHIELD when it premiered. The Avengers had just opened that summer and a series about SHIELD felt like a no-brainer. It seemed like the show would be about the Agents of SHIELD running around the more obscure corners of the Marvel universe (because they’re not gonna give them access to any of the major movie characters) dealing with threats and characters from the comic books. Having Phil Coulson (the SHIELD agent Loki seemingly killed at the end of the first Avengers film)as the central character was great because I liked him quite a bit at the time. He was intended to be a small supporting role in the first Iron Man movie and ended up being a vital figure in building the MCU.
Unfortunately that’s not really what we got. First of all, SHIELD is supposed to be the most elite covert government agency on the planet, and yet the agents on Coulson’s team were pretty damn incompetent. SHIELD agents should make Seal Team Six look like mall cops, not this sorry assortment of bumbling secret agents who sucked at their job.
There were three cardinal sins that Agents of SHIELD committed: one, if a Marvel Cinematic Universe television series doesn’t feature major characters like Captain America or any of the other Avengers, you better make the characters you have really, really fucking interesting. They weren’t. Two, the show was just plain boring. I found myself checking out after a few episodes. Sure I checked in here and there and the show definitely picked up at certain points. For example, after Captain America: The Winter Soldier came out, the show incorporated the HYDRA storyline that was central to that film to great effect. There were some really good twists and turns along way in the final part of the first season. Having Bill Paxton (R.I.P.) come in as the central villain certainly helped peak my interest. SHIELD vs. HYDRA, this show was finally starting to feel a little like a Marvel SHIELD comic book should.
Third and lastly, the show didn’t take advantage of Marvel characters and stories nearly enough.
The show continued to struggle with these three major problems, uninteresting characters, the show being relatively boring, and not taking advantage of the Marvel Universe. I never expected them to have A-list of characters like Iron Man or the Hulk on the show, but there was no reason they couldn’t use more of the C-list heroes and villains of the Marvel universe. As Guardians of the Galaxy proved, you don’t need the most popular and well known Marvel characters to tell great stories. Marvel could make 100 movies and there would still be a lot of interesting characters and storylines that are minor enough for Agents of SHIELD to be allowed to use.
To my surprise, they finally started to do just that when the Inhumans became a central part of the show in the second season. Let me give you Inhumans 101: The Inhumans are race of beings who live secretly and separately from humanity in technologically advanced cities hidden in places like the Himalayas and the Moon. They’re humans who had their genetic make up tampered with thousands of years ago by an alien race called Kree. The central part of their culture was when every Inhuman came of age they would pass through a transformative gas called the Terrigen Mist. Once they pass through the mist they would enter a cocoon-like state and after a period of metamorphosis, emerge as something more than human and completely unique. Each Inhuman has their own unique power or ability. No two Inhumans are alike. Some look completely human, but have a superpower. Others couldn’t pass for human at all after the transformation, but still had some power or ability. The comics typically focus on their king Black Bolt and the rest of the royal family of Inhumans. As I finished writing all of that, I just realized how completely fucking ridiculous this all sounds, but believe me it’s kind of cool.
To the credit of the show, they really took this concept and ran with it. They retconned Skye, one of their main characters who knew very little about her past and family, into Daisy Johnson a.k.a. Quake, an Inhuman with powerful seismic abilities. They introduced some notable new villains like Daredevil nemesis, Mr. Hyde and major Hulk villain, the Absorbing Man. The show still wasn’t perfect, but things were looking up.
As it stands the X-Men characters, which are all mutants, are owned by Fox and even though they’re Marvel comic book characters they can’t appear in the MCU. The way Agents of SHIELD has handled the Inhumans is very similar to how mutants are handled in the X-Men films and comics. They are feared by the public and viewed as dangerous liabilities by the United States government. Of course, heroic people like Agent Coulson protected the good Inhumans and defended against the dangerous ones and the show improved because of it. However, it was with the most recent season that the show really came into its own in my opinion.
At the time of the season premiere, Doctor Strange was opening in just a few months. So to capitalize on the recognition that would come from the premiere of Doctor Strange, the show introduced what had been largely absent from the MCU at that point: the supernatural and magic. Using these new concepts as a jumping off poin, Agents of SHIELD introduced the most major Marvel character it’s ever used: Ghost Rider.
Ghost Rider is a very cool character, especially visually. There’s been a number of Ghost Riders over the years, but the version they chose to use is a man named Robbie Reyes. The basic concept of the Ghost Rider is, an individual sells their soul to the devil in exchange for something noble, like saving a life of a loved one. In this case saving the life of Robbie’s younger brother after a violent car wreck that Robbie feels responsible for. In return, their body becomes host to a demon that transforms it’s human host into a monster with a flaming skull for a head and demonic vehicle (usually a motorcycle or a muscle car) that catches on fire and displays other supernatural abilities. All with the purpose of hunting down supernatural bad guys. Robbie hunting down bad guys with a flaming skull and driving a demonic muscle car naturally gets SHIELD’s attention. I wouldn’t say I’m completely sold on the show, but a lot of what I saw of it I really liked. Especially the Ghost Rider stuff. It was really well executedand the special effects were phenomenal. I don’t think I’d goes far to actually recommend the show, but you could do a lot worse on a Tuesday night.
Now we come to Gotham, which of the two shows probably improved the most. Agents of SHIELD at its worst was never terrible, but Gotham reached some truly abysmal lows. The cast is excellent, but the writing was god awful. The series opens with the murder of the Waynes which introduced us to several of the main characters. The story kicks off with Det. Jim Gordon promising a traumatized Bruce Wayne that he’ll find the man who killed his parents and bring him to justice. Other central characters include Alfred, Harvey Bullock (who had never been shown in live action before for this show), The Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman or at least versions of these characters before they become their more iconic incarnations. As I’m sure you can imagine there are a lot of lame jokes allusions to who these characters could would be eventually become. For example The Riddler’s real name is Edward Nygma and as the show opens he is the medical examiner for the Gotham city Police Department. Every time we see him he only speaks in riddles. You can imagine how quickly that gets old. I would say I gave up on Gotham about halfway through the first season. I checked in again during the final stretch of season two when I heard of that introduced Hugo Strange and one of my favorite new additions to the Batman mythology, The Court of Owls. I ended up regretting it. It was a poorly written set of episodes and when The Court of Owls was finally introduced, it was pretty underwhelming. The writing on this show was so bad, I’m not exaggerating when I say in one episode a character will be arrested for murder, but somehow they become mayor in the next episode. Sure, why not?
For some reason I found myself watching the midseason finale of the current season, which is season three. The episode centered on Bruce Wayne, who is now a teenager and just beginning the path to becoming Batman. He doesn’t have a clear idea of what he wants to be, but he knows there’s a demon inside him that needs to be fed. It was also worth noting that at this point Bruce has had enough hand to hand combat training to be formidable in a fight. A character who calls himself “Jerome”, who may or may not be the man who becomes Joker, attempts to kidnap Bruce and involve him in a sick circus funhouse game without multiple lives on the line.
This is the first time we really see a Bruce Wayne that looks like the character we know from the comics. Something really clicked on the show seeing a pre-Batman Bruce Wayne fighting a Proto-Joker. It really worked and it was a surprisingly well written episode. So I found myself watching the first new episode when the show came back from its midseason break and I stuck with it through the rest of the season. While it’s certainly still silly and not always well written, the latter half of season three was the best show’s ever been.
The season finale introduced Ra’s Al Ghul and the final scene saw a masked Bruce stopping a mugging, much like the one that ended in tragedy for him… and somehow it really worked. The final shot of the episode was Bruce standing on a desolate Gotham rooftop overlooking the city after he had saved that family and it was hard not to think how cool that was. Here’s the final scene:
I’m a long way away from saying that Gotham is a good show, but I’ll definitely be tuning into the season four premiere in the fall.
Agents of SHIELD and Gotham: These were two shows I’d completely written off and both hugely improved over the past year. Neither one of them have achieved the heights of Daredevil or The Flash, but they definitely caught my attention and I thought it was worth pointing out. Once again, I am NOT saying these are good shows, but considering the level of improvement and progress they’ve made I think it’s worth keeping an eye on them. Anyway, as always, thanks for reading.
Hey guys, we were blown away by the support and response to the first episode of our podcast. So to everyone who listened to it, thank you and we hope you’ll enjoy episode 2! Tim and I talk about the trends and troupes we’re currently seeing in comic book films, what’s helping and what we’d like to see less of. We also talk about some cool pop culture news of the week. Give it a listen! You’ll love it!
Here’s the first episode of our new podcast! This episode is all about the new Wonder Woman movie! Big spoilers in this one, so fair warning. Follow the link below to hear the episode. I hope you guys enjoy it.
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