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This was a lot like a Star Trek filler episode. We've seen it many times: a character hallucinates or gets transported to a parallel timeline or is trapped on the Holodeck or whatever. All the major cast members show up in different roles with somewhat different personalities. Those were usually decent episodes - and this one is too - but they never really advanced the story either.

So yeah, this one was fine, but most of it was skippable. If you were really pressed for time you could remove the entire hallucination plot up until Layton wakes up in the bunker in Korea and you basically wouldn't miss anything that had any bearing on the show's plot.

And speaking of the Korea sequence, I'm glad that they resolved an issue that has been bugging me all season. When Layton had his vision of the tree, I was afraid that the show was going to start veering into mysticism and add some sort of element of divine guidance. Fortunately, this episode squashed that like a bug by having Layton realize that the "vision" was just a photo in the bunker that he didn't remember seeing.

I'm not really sure what the message of this one was. Anti-GMO? Pro-GMO? Confused?

The tree vision has me worried. I really hope the show doesn't start dealing with mystical nonsense.

It's funny how the flashbacks and stuff from the JLA days seem like they took place in the 1950s, but it actually would've been the 1990s. It wasn't that long ago!

Pretty good, and I enjoyed it quite a bit, but this is more of a 7 or 8 while the comic is a 10. The whole time I felt like they took the original story and sanded off all the edges because they were afraid that people couldn't handle some of the darker or more thought-provoking moments.

One of the better DC animated movies lately, and one that actually takes a risk and tries something new. Although truth be told, you could take Batman out of this movie entirely and it would still work. When he finally appears in costume, it's actually quite laughable.

It's a movie that relies heavily on martial arts, so fortunately the animation is quite good during the fight scenes. The characters move realistically and fluidly, for the most part. It doesn't seem like they skimped on the animation budget this time around.

Truth be told, it's pretty slow. It feels like they could cut about half an hour out of it and it'd be pretty decent. Not great - the story is pretty barebones and quite generic - but decent.

I do like the art style quite a bit (I love thick linework) so I hope they make more that look like this.

It was cool that we finally got to see how the turbolifts work. However...how much empty space do they have inside the ship? Holy smokes. Seems like whoever designed that sequence forgot that these starships are supposed to be built like submarines.

It's interesting that, at the end, Batman deliberately kills two people. You don't see that very often.

So far, I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this show. There's certainly some CW-style drama, but it's not as trite and repetitive as it is in Arrow and Flash (yet).

Luke Wilson is always fun to watch, even though he sometimes lacks the gravitas needed for certain scenes. And Brec Bassinger is adorable and a perfect choice for Stargirl.

A lot of the high school stuff seems anachronistic, but maybe that's intentional. The whole show seems like it could take place in the 1960s if they removed phones from the scripts.

Last week's episode was pretty good, but the dialog was abysmal, even for Star Wars. This episode was even better, but it was clear from the start that whoever directed it is much better at directing dialog scenes. Sure enough: Taika Waititi. Of course. I don't want to criticize last week's director (Deborah Chow) too much though, because she otherwise did a good job. Sometimes things just don't come together for whatever the reason.

I enjoyed it, and I liked the characters much more than I have in the previous two movies, but overall this was a mess. It felt like a reactionary movie that's trying to "fix" things, rather than one with a clear goal in mind. As a result, they shoved way too much stuff into a it, and most of the story points didn't have a chance to breathe long enough for you to care what was happening. It would've been pretty good as 2-3 movies. Also, Palpatine and his massive hidden armada were ridiculous.

You'd think the largest media empire on earth could afford to plan out their goals for the largest franchise on earth a little better.

I was a big fan of the original Star Wars universe, which is full of great stories in books, comics, and video games. So why don't they just adapt those? Put Rey, Finn, & Poe in them instead of Luke, Leia, & Han.

The episode was pretty enjoyable, but...this may have been the worst dialog I've ever heard on television. There wasn't a second of it that flowed naturally. The actors did their best, but you can't spin garbage into gold.

Not a great start, but we'll see where it goes. I'm not too thrilled about who the big villain is going to be for (part of?) the season, but I really like the actor, so hopefully he can do something interesting with the part.

This is season 6. Where the hell are the Rogues? I know most of them have appeared separately (or at best, we've had 3 at once) but we really need to see a full team in action, whoever is on it.

Also, I'm really looking forward to the Crisis.

Jeez, Doctor Light has been hitting the gym! That's a bit of an odd direction, but it seems to work.

It starts out as a pretty enjoyable dark comedy, but it strays too far into serious horror and loses a lot of what was appealing about it at the start. It has a great ensemble of characters, but they don't get nearly enough time to shine, and they mostly take a back seat to a semi-unstoppable butler(?) who seems to enter the movie out of nowhere. Also, there's some VERY unnecessary gore in the middle that's really out of place.

Is it worth your time? Probably not. Watch the trailer for all the best parts, and then watch Cabin in the Woods if you haven't already.

Pretty good, though it meanders a bit.

I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Manson Family and the Tate murders, if you're not already, to give you a better idea of what's going on in the world around the characters.

I expect this to receive several Oscar nominations, if for no other reason than its portrayal of Hollywood, and there's nothing the Academy loves more than itself. :laughing:

I loved the comic this is based on, but this fell far short of it.

The script, art style, and overall "vibe" of the movie suggest that this is meant for kids. That would be fine, and I would judge it as such, except for the fact that there's some weirdly brutal violence (like heads getting cut off and blood being spilled) and even a few swear words, which make this unsuitable for younger kids. So if it's too adult for kids, and it's too juvenile for adults, who was it made for?

As it stands, it's a really basic story that misses everything that made the comic so good. Just skip it.

(It does, however, have very clever and artistic opening and closing credit sequences.)

The new Tick costume looks great. I'm glad they got rid of those weird shell bits. (Those were taking the idea of a tick a bit too literally.)

I was really hoping we'd get to see a few more familiar faces this season, but unfortunately we didn't. It seems that Edlund doesn't want to use any of the characters that weren't in his original comic run, which is fine (I guess), and they can't use characters from the other two TV series due to licensing issues.

HOWEVER...we finally got to see one in this episode! A little bit! In the scene where Rathbone is laying dead on the table in the morgue, and his black hole heart opens up, tentacles shoot out, and a single word is uttered: Thrakkorzog!

Not great. I enjoyed seeing all the stuff from the comics, but the story just felt like a lot of chunks without much connecting them, and the direction was pretty flat and somewhat amateurish. A huge part of the story was just told to you, rather than shown. I get the feeling that this would be nearly incomprehensible to people who haven't read the comics.

All that said, I really hope this does well, because I want more. David Harbour was a great choice for Hellboy.

That's an interesting way to bring an actor back to the show. However, if the shapeshifter is going to be a "permanent" addition, I'd rather see the punk woman back as her primary form.

So far, I like it quite a bit, even though the amount of violence seems silly, like they're trying to make the show more "adult".

Also, some of the characterizations are a bit off, like when Starfire flat-out murders a guy who has already been subdued by casually snapping his neck, or when Beast Boy breaks into an electronics store and steals some video games.

Those minor points aside, I'm really interested to see where they're taking this. I'm really looking forward to seeing the live-action Hawk & Dove, which is something I never thought I'd ever see.

I had no intention of seeing this, but my sister really wanted to see it, so I acquiesced. I've never seen any of the other Purge movies, though I have seen that Purge episode of Rick & Morty.

And I've gotta say, I thought this was pretty good. It conveyed a pretty important political message, but did so without being too heavy-handed and preachy. The characters were kinda dull but likeable enough, especially Y'lan Noel, who I hope we see a lot more of in the future.

I hate to say it, but this season has really dragged. This season's story should've been told in half as many episodes, because there's way too much filler. I used to like having as many episodes of shows I enjoy as possible, but now there are so many other things to watch that I just don't have the time for 16 episode seasons anymore. The Brits have been doing it right for decades: short seasons of 6-10 episodes that tell the story that needs telling.

That, and this season deviates from the comics in a major way by killing off a major character, and I think they've significantly screwed up the future of the show by doing that.

I'm sure the last two episodes of the season will be great, but hopefully Season 9 will be shorter and less meandering.

I consider nostalgia to be a mental defect, so I fully expected to be annoyed as hell by a movie that fawned over nerd crap that was popular (and I was definitely into) when I was growing up. But I went anyway.

And that's probably exactly what we would've gotten if not for Spielberg's mastery of his craft. Instead, he manages to weave a pop-culture mishmash into a fine tapestry that almost never goes overboard. It all makes sense in the context of the story. And really, who's better suited to tell an 80s-style story about a group of teens than Steven Spielberg?

The movie's not perfect, and there are some big plot holes and logical leaps. But it's a really fun movie, and it also has some interesting things to say about our current-day culture and where we're heading.

This is supposed to be coming out today, but I can't find any showtimes for it. What's going on?