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Rating: TBA
Rating: TBA
1. Creature Commandos
Minor Positives:
-Fan Service
Ep. 3 - Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man Cameo
Ep. 4 - Dead Justice League Easter Egg
Ep. 5 - Clayface Guest Appearance
Ep. 6 - Batman Cameo
-Solid Character Design
G.I. Robot
Nina Mazursky
Eric Frankenstein
Major Positives:
-Exceptional Character Design
Bride of Frankenstein
Doctor Phosphorous
-Highly Entertaining Action
-Entertaining Comedic Character Interactions
-Impactful Dramatic Character Interactions
-Exceptional Character Debut
Creature Commandos Team
-Excellent Character Writing
Creature Commando Individual Origin Stories
-Exceptional Superhero Origin Storytelling
-Strong Storytelling Elements
Minor Negatives:
N/A
Major Negatives:
-Underwhelming Character Debut
Eric Frankenstein
-Questionable Storytelling Elements
Eric Frankenstein's obsessive pursuit in romantically being involved with the Bride quickly became an unnecessary distraction that brought down the show a little whenever it became the main focus of a scene. I'm honestly not sure if that's the direction taken in the source material, but I wished the character would've been used in a much more satisfying way living up to the high quality character writing standards given to everyone else.
2. Superman
Minor Positives:
-Fan Service
Rick Flag Cameo
Soundtrack Mirrors John Williams Theme
-Solid Character Design
Metamorpho
-Overall Solid Production Values (CGI & Practical FX)
-Sci-Fi Fantasy Visual Direction
-Overall Solid Action
-Decent Romantic Component
-Solid Performance
David Corenswet as Superman
-Solid Dramatic Character Interactions
Clark & Jonathan Kent's Discussion About Purpose In Life
Clark & Lois's Mock Interview About Superman's Actions In Current World Affairs
-Solid Character Debut
Superman
Lois Lane
Mr. Terrific
Guy Gardner/Green Lantern
-Entertaining Character
Krypto
-Meeting Expectations
Major Positives:
-Fan Service
Peacemaker Cameo
-Soundtrack
Look Up
Minor Negatives:
-Questionable Character Design
Superman's Suit
-Occasionally Weak Visual Direction
Some of the face cam zoom in shots that they kept inserting didn't really quite work for me and felt out of place. But these were just in a small few instances.
-Slightly Underwhelming Villain
Lex Luthor
The best way I can describe my feelings about this iteration of Lex Luthor is that this is by far the most formidably resourceful Lex that we've seen aside from Jon Cryer's take. It's a Lex Luthor that has a whole lot of toys at disposal which makes him a serious threat undoubtably. However, what has always made Lex Luthor stand out for me over the years wasn't just his resources and manipulation but also the character's egotistical psyche. I feel like this Lex highly succeeds in the resource and strategy department but doesn't entirely have the engaging to watch hook factor of the attention seeking child obsessively pursuing our hero at dangerous levels. The elements are certainly there, but it didn't quite grab me as much as I would've hoped for.
Ultraman
-Slightly Lackluster Storytelling
This is one of those situations where I feel like there's a lot happening and it's all interesting in its own right, but not enough time is being given to each individual component. It's like a great collection of narrative samples that ultimately culminates into something that feels a tiny bit empty yet enjoyable. So much to introduce, so much to establish, not enough time to rightfully spend on each of those things.
Major Negatives:
N/A
3. Peacemaker Season 2
Minor Positives:
-Fan Service
Ep. 1 - Justice Gang Cameos
Ep. 6 - Lex Luthor Cameo
-Overall Solid Production Values (CGI & Practical FX)
-Occasionally Strong Cinematic Direction
-Overall Solid Action
-Decent Romantic Component
Chris & Amelia's Conflicting Relationship
-Solid Dramatic Character Interactions
-Entertaining Character
John Economos
Langston Fleury
-Character Writing Honors Previous Movies/Shows
-World Building
-Solid Enough Storytelling Elements
Using a parallel world to showcase Peacemaker's desires as a celebrated hero with the love of his life by his side only to throw it all on its side once that world is revealed to be Earth-X.
Major Positives:
-Exceptional Character Design
Ep. 8 - Giant Skull Spiders
-Sci-Fi Fantasy Visual Direction
Ep. 8 - Parallel Worlds
-Highly Comedic
-Standout Performance
John Cena As Peacemaker
-Entertaining Comedic Character Interactions
John Economos' Hilarious Interactions With Other Characters
-Impactful Dramatic Character Interactions
Ep. 6 - Chris and Amelia's heartfelt discussion about whether or not there's anything romantic between them.
Ep. 7 - Peacemaker having to witness his father's Earth X counterpart get killed off by Vigilante as well as his brother almost dying by his own team.
Ep. 8 - The 11th street kids consoling Chris about the positively meaningful impact that he's had on his friends.
Minor Negatives:
-Slightly Underwhelming Villain
Rick Flag Sr.
Frank Grillo does a serviceable enough job in the role and the character's motivations seem to be established enough to understand what he's trying to do however I just never really felt like this was exactly the same guy from Creature Commandos. I think merging the revenge for his son's death angle with him trying to controversially eliminate all meta humans made for a slightly messy direction with him. Sometimes I wasn't sure if he was just making excuses to catch and kill Peacemaker or was he using that to further a bigger goal against metahumans being a liability for the planet.
But again, I question how this matches up with his alliance with metahumans during Creature Commandos. Also, his hatred for Peacemaker is put into question since Peacemaker shooting his son was a direct order by Amanda Waller and not of Chris's own decision. The fact that Rick literally takes Amanda's position of power and having to force people to do what they don't want to do for a bigger cause makes him a huge hypocrite. I'm just not entirely sure how to feel about him as an antagonist and would've preferred they kept him how he was on Creature Commandos with maybe just a rocky relationship with Peacemaker for pulling the trigger on his child.
I do however like this idea of him working with Lex to create a prison for metahumans much like someone like Amanda Waller would work with Lex to find a way to keep super powered people in check. However, I'm not so sure I completely buy into him being that antagonistic figure for the position.
Major Negatives:
N/A
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