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Friday Question #4

by Revis Edgewater

And now, for the last of 3 questions that I stole from Joseph Mallozzi’s blog a long time ago…

Who is a t.v. character you initially loved but ended up hating?

This one was a little easier for me than the last of these questions that I did. Like the last question, I will preface this answer too by saying that there are many characters that I really like or really dislike, but there aren’t many that I invest in enough to love or hate. The answer to this question is one I really liked, but turned into one I disliked.

Grant Ward, from Agents of SHIELD.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

He started off the series as arguably the most capable member of the team. By the end of the first season, he’s revealed as an agent of Hydra. During the entire second season and the first part of the third season, he’s portrayed as a lovesick psychopath. Then, he’s killed off, only to have his body possessed by an evil alien.

As you can tell from the above paragraph, where he ends up is a far cry from where he started, and it wasn’t a good trip. They did him dirty. That character deserved better.

What about you? Are there any TV characters you liked at first, but started disliking after a while?

Friday Question #2

by Revis Edgewater

This is the second in a series of questions that I stole from a post on Joseph Mallozzi’s blog.

Who is a t.v. character you hated at first but ended up loving?

Let me start by saying this: there are plenty of characters that I like or dislike, but very few that I invest in enough to love or hate. Because of that, I can’t really think of one that I hated at first, but then ended up loving. Every character who I love is one I liked from the beginning. Same with the ones I hate. If I hate them now, I never liked them in the first place.

There are some, however, that I started off disliking that I started to like, so I’m just going to answer this with the first one of those that comes to mind: Captain Gates, from the show Castle.

When she first took over as captain (at the start of season 4), she was very short, distrusting, and just downright rude to Castle and the detectives he worked with. As the series went on, her behavior started making sense. She didn’t like how he had turned the precinct into, basically, a sideshow. He eventually won her over by proving he just as committed as she was to solving cases. Still, she was kind of a bitch at first.

What about you? Do you have any TV characters you like despite not liking them initially?

Twisted Metal

by Revis Edgewater

Way back in the Playstation 1 days, I used to play the game Twisted Metal 2 quite a bit. I never really played the first one, and the third game wasn’t as good, but I used to love playing the second one. Driving around in cars, shooting and blowing other cars up? That’s all kinds of fun. Once I bought the original Xbox, though, everything Playstation got pushed to the back burner and eventually faded from thought.

So, when I was randomly scrolling online a while ago, and saw that Peacock adapted Twisted Metal into a TV show, it filled me with both nostalgia and dread. The nostalgia, obviously, is from all the great times I had playing the game. The dread was because there was a very good chance that they were going to mess it up.

Because I have kids, and there’s a lot of stuff in the show I didn’t want to watch while they were around, it took me a while to make it through the 10 episode season. I’m glad I did, though. Don’t get me wrong, it had its flaws, but overall, I liked it.

I don’t want to get into specifics, because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who may want to watch it, but the finale definitely had the car carnage you’d expect from a show carrying the Twisted Metal name.

If you have Peacock, you should give it a try

Revivals

by Revis Edgewater

I just got done watching the third (and final) season of Dark Matter on Netflix (if you haven’t given this show a chance, you’re missing out) and I’m angry about its cancellation all over again. I would love to be able to give it at least one more season, if for no other reason than to tie up all of the storylines.

A few days ago, my team lead said something similar, except he would like to do a reboot of the show Heroes. He likes the first season, but the rest of the series kind of blows. His idea was to start completely over and to get rid of all the inconsistencies in the story that were added during the later seasons.

So, that got me to thinking: if someone from a TV network or streaming service, like Netflix, told me that they would let me develop shows based on any property that weren’t currently in use, what would they be?

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Marvel’s Runaways

by Revis Edgewater

Anyone who has Hulu has access to Marvel’s newest TV show, which is based on their series entitled, you guessed it, Runaways.
I was a little unsure about this show when I first heard about it because I knew next to nothing about them. In fact, the only time I had ever seen them was a brief appearance they made in one of Marvel’s big crossover events, and I didn’t even remember much about that. I think it was the original Civil War story and Captain America was trying to recruit them for his side. But, anyways….

Before I gave the show a chance, I decided to check out the comics first on Marvel Unlimited to see if it would be something I’d be interested in. Now, I don’t think anything further I have to say would be considered a spoiler, but, just in case, I’ll go ahead and issue a warning here. Possible spoilers ahead.

The basic premise of the book is that a group of teenagers find out their parents are bad guys and they try to get away from them (makes the name Runaways seem clever now, doesn’t it?). The original comic run was 18 issues long. It was supposed to be a limited series, but it was so popular that they brought it back in a second volume not long after the first run ended.

I read it. I liked it. There were some flaws, but not enough to make it a bad reading experience. So, I started watching the show. I don’t say this very often, but I actually like the TV show better than the comic book.

Because it’s a TV show, and they have an entire season to fill, they slowed the pace of the story down. That was great in my opinion because the first 5 or 6 issues of the comic felt really crammed to me. They probably should’ve stretched those 5 or 6 issues out into at least 8. Since it was a limited series, however, they probably didn’t have the space to do that in the comic.

While they kept the core characteristics of the teenagers the same in both the comic and show, the parents, and the story itself, are markedly different so far. Since, as of this writing, they have only released the first 9 episodes of the season (unlike Netflix, which releases their seasons all at once, Hulu releases their original show episodes once a week like normal TV stations do), that may change moving forward. 

Personally, I like the changes the show has made. They make the story more character driven and somehow more relatable. 

I recommend giving both of these a try if you get the chance. Though, I recommend the show more than the comic, which again sounds weird to say.

DC Shows

by Revis Edgewater

This is actually a post that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I’ve held off on it, however, as I wanted to wait until the two new shows had a chance to get at least half a season in. I didn’t think it would be very fair to judge them before then. I’ll go ahead and start with the first show to air, which is now in its third season, Arrow.

When this show first came out, I really didn’t want anything to do with it. I hadn’t really seen, or read, much with the Green Arrow in it, but what I did see didn’t really interest me. This will probably sound ridiculous, as Green Arrow came out at least ten years earlier, but he always seemed to me to be a lamer version of Hawkeye. Hawkeye’s arrows were more technological and badass. Plus, the Green Arrow was walking around in the movie costume from Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

After the second season of Arrow ended, one of the guys I worked with told me that I needed to watch it. I told him everything I said above. He admitted that he didn’t really like Green Arrow that much either, but that Arrow was a very good show. Still, I was leery about watching it. Finally, I agreed to give it a shot.

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