Mind Your Surroundings: Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow and Other Superhero Universes

[tv echo]

I only quoted portions (you may wish to read the entire article)...

Review: Legends of Tomorrow Starts Season 2 Strong
Russ Burlingame- 09/26/2016
http://comicbook.com/dc/2016/09/23/review-legends-of-tomorrow-season-2-premiere/

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow will kick off its second season in October, and the first episode features multiple romps through spacetime, a guest appearance by Arrow's Stephen Amell, and a restructuring of the team's mission -- and some of their methods.

The biggest difference is their mission, which is to get rid of temporal anomalies. It isn't immediately clear what's causing the anomalies, although by the end of the premiere audiences will start to get a sense for it.
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The crew suffers a loss in the premiere. How they will handle that is going to be some interesting storytelling going forward in the season. It's a surprising moment, but it lacks some emotional punch because it's (probably intentionally) unclear exactly what happened.

Tonally, the show has shifted somewhat: it's more Supergirl or The Flash than Arrow. That was always true, but it feels like more of a conscious choice this time out. As with the craziness of the time-travel elements, the lightheartedness, the humor, and the camp is dialed way up this time around. We've got some real Bill & Ted-style comedy going on in this episode in terms of how they interact with historical figures.
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And a pretty fun episode: in addition to setting a new status quo, giving us some high-concept time-travel hijinks, and guest-starring Stephen Amell (always a plus), there's a framing device for the episode that makes it virtually impossible not to enjoy -- even if about halfway through the episode it loses some of its punch because you start to see where the story is going.

Edited September 26, 2016 by tv echo

[Trini]

New CW Sizzle reel:

[manbearpig]

I love that they put Bonnie in the sizzle reel for TVD!

Edited September 26, 2016 by manbearpig

[Primal Slayer]

God they are so cheap.

[Trini]

1 minute ago, Primal Slayer said:

God they are so cheap.

Heh! And it would have nice to at least have Thea/Speedy to represent Arrow.

[bijoux]

Pretty sure I can spot GA and Spartan there.

[Trini]

DC All Access gives a tease about the crossover story: (Starting at 2:00)

[BkWurm1]

4 hours ago, bijoux said:

Pretty sure I can spot GA and Spartan there.

Agreed.  Also someone in more armor like maybe Mr. Terrific?  It's a tall guy. Then over to the left I see a female in a tan jacket with blond hair, but it could be someone on crew. 

[Guest]

One of them looks like the Atom, too. Standing next to Digg.

[bijoux]

I thout it was the Atom as well, but doesn't he have full sleeves? This dude's forearms look bare to me. I think I can spot Heatwave as well, but I was actually more surprised by GA and Spartan since SA and DR were on the Arrow set. I don't know whether they ever film two shows in the same day. It seems more likely that it's stunt doubles.

ETA: Watched SA's Facebook live video and he actually was filming Arrow and 'another show' yesterday. The poor person who's in charge of filming schedules for this.

Edited September 28, 2016 by bijoux

[Velocity23]

Wonder how long ABC is gonna stick with AOS.

[kismet]

I just saw that AOS is on syndication on the ABC related network "MeTV" so perhaps that influenced their decision to keep it to increase syndication $$.

Also their most recent ad said "perfect time to jump on", so perhaps if the numbers don't go up this season it might be the end if nobody new jumps on.

[Starfish35]

Yeah I'm pretty much expecting this to be the final season.

[manbearpig]

I'm going to be delusional for a while longer and hope AoS can snag an abbreviated fifth season, but...yeah. Hopefully the writers are planning for the end. Also they better find some way to bring back Bobbi before the show is done.

[tv echo]

[tarotx]

Part 2? 

[tv echo]

Oh joy...

[Guest]

That's probably what they were filming when SA took a picture of all of their feet in their superhero outfits. He posted it to twitter a while ago.

[Sakura12]

Do we think Supergirl will get a T&A pose like Laurel did in her poster?

[foreverevolving]

There's a supergirl Sneak Peek

Cheesy as hell but.. I think I like him as Clark.

 

[Sakura12]

Because that's Superman how I know him, not that angsty downer Superman in Man of Steel and BvS. 

[bijoux]

I don't even know which of the shows this is on, so I'm putting it here.

[Morrigan2575]

Probably Arrow, since we know Arrow is filming their crossover episode this week.

[bijoux]

So is LoT. SA was filming both yesterday. I'm assuming it's Arrow, but I can't be all that sure.

[Morrigan2575]

True LoT just started filming their crossover episode. 

Hmm, maybe make a rule? All crossover stuff goes "here" no even if it's not Arrrow?

We can determine where "here" is.

Edited September 28, 2016 by Morrigan2575

[Trini]

7 hours ago, tv echo said:

Oh joy...

I'm hoping Thea/Speedy is included, and Wally/Kid Flash. I'm also wondering if they are doing heroes vs. villains like last time, or heroes vs. heroes?

[tv echo]

From print issue of new TV Guide Magazine (Oct. 3-9, 2016)...

[Velocity23]

[Starfish35]

Where is that from?

[Velocity23]

[Starfish35]

Thanks.

[Sakura12]

Here's Superhero Fight Club 2.0 

http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/09/superhero-fight-club-20-extended-promo.html

Edited September 29, 2016 by Sakura12

[calliope1975]

Well, look at that. I hated Fight Club 1.0, but you add the non-masks and a green Martian, and I'm all in. Funny how that works. 

[Guest]

A bit cheesy but that was actually a lot of fun. I was in shock seeing Cisco, Felicity and Diggle. Haha.

Edited September 29, 2016 by Guest

[Sakura12]

I liked that they had Cisco and Felicity design the danger room. 

[Morrigan2575]

Damnit they blocked it!

[tarotx]

6 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:

Damnit they blocked it!

It's posted here

http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/09/superhero-fight-club-20-extended-promo.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Sakura12]

I guess someone released it earlier. We'll have to wait until they release it officially. 

[Chaser]

That was fun. So cheesy but so fun.

Love that Felicity and Diggle made it. OTA representing Arrow. That being said....Thea? Iris? 

[Morrigan2575]

Thanks!

OK cheesy as hell but i loved the inclusion of Felicity/Diggle/Cisco.  They made the stupid cheesy parts fun. 

[SmallScreenDiva]

Wow, they actually did the Fight Club promo right! Loved the inclusion of Digg and Felicity. Loved Digg's reaction to the Martian Hunter(?), the alien! That was a lot of fun. See, CW and WB, you CAN do promos right.

[Chaser]

Oh my, that dig at the first one. Lol

[tarotx]

I 

[Delphi]

9 minutes ago, Chaser said:

Oh my, that dig at the first one. Lol

At least they are aware that they royally fucked up that first one.

I really enjoyed this one though.   They got Sara and TeamTech.   And of course Oliver wants to think they legit kidnapped Kara. 

[FurryFury]

Were they fighting GlaDOS? :)

I loved it. Cheesy fun, and not too much focus on any character except maybe Kara (which makes sense). Although I didn't care for Grodd at the end.

[Morrigan2575]

I think Grodd is cheesy as hell, normally  I hate him. However, I actually liked his addition to this promo. It worked for me.

Edited September 29, 2016 by Morrigan2575

[SmallScreenDiva]

Yup, never thought I'd say this but Grodd was a welcome addition at the end of that. Made such a great contrast to Team Tech. Also because he was entirely different from everybody.

[bettername2come]

Ok, so it got leaked early and then deleted? So why isn't the CW posting it itself? (whine) I wanna see it now.

[tarotx]

2 minutes ago, bettername2come said:

Ok, so it got leaked early and then deleted? So why isn't the CW posting it itself? (whine) I wanna see it now.

The complete thing is on the CW app

[Velocity23]

http://arrowsource.ca/post/151109739551/superhero-fight-club-20

The full version is here also.