Eivion Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I'm only excited for the Arrow/Flash spin-off. Never read Lucifer, and the current premise sounds average. I'm interested in Supergirl but am afraid of how much change CBS might have forced on the showrunners. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 As a big fan of the Vertigo series, I predict Lucifer is going to make me want to punch things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I can't imagine this Lucifer show will be on the air very long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Is Lucifer a deriviative character of the Devil, so neither Gaiman or Carey get royalties? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Sorry but that Lucifer show looks like trash. Looks like a dozen other shows out there on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I'll still watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Anybody feel like DB Woodside's angel character is eerily similar to Harold Perrineau's angel on the late CONSTANTINE? I mean, besides being black. It's like the exact same part. It will be lucky to last as long. Making your main character The Devil alienates a sizable portion of your audience right off the bat, even before you start taking things like "quality" into account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Anybody feel like DB Woodside's angel character is eerily similar to Harold Perrineau's angel on the late CONSTANTINE? I mean, besides being black. It's like the exact same part. TBH, It feels like the same show just a bit lighter and more wisecracking. Also, I believe they are switching out the Latina character on Constantine with a black chick played by Lesly Ann Brandt. She was on Gotham as a psuedo stripper ninja villainess only to never be seen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I wonder if they will give her the whole Mazikeen make-up job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I didn't know the Lucifer trailer was posted in here too. My bad, Powers That Be. It looks as if it is going to be a police procedural with wacky partners and a scifi/otherworld twist. Boring choice. Anyone who has read Mike Carey's Lucifer knows they couldn't do an exact adaptation of it on a network broadcast (P.S. if you're reading this thread, you should definitely give the Lucifer comic series a shot; it's very good), but I was hoping for something more creative than a "case of the week" style show with a lame "Daddy issues" mythology. However, I don't need everything to be exactly like the source material in order for me to find an adaptation entertaining. I'll give it a chance and try to look at it as its own thing. From the looks of the trailer, I doubt I'll stick with it long though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 If rather it be about him inventing the next cronut than a police procedural case of the week show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigertooth Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Making your main character The Devil alienates a sizable portion of your audience right off the bat, even before you start taking things like "quality" into account. I'm pretty interested in this point. I tend to agree with you, but certain things in society have changed fairly rapidly. It'll be interesting to see if this even rouses the Bible-thumpers to action. My guess is there will be a little hubbub, but not enough to make it seem cool. And as you say, there will be plenty of people who aren't going to yell and scream about it, but just aren't comfortable watching the Devil be anything but pure evil. That combined with (perhaps) mediocre show quality will kill it quickly. I'd love to be wrong, though, and have this show be a hit -- both because it would mean the show is (probably) good, and it means society has gotten comfortable watching a show about Lucifer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 This. Yes. I'm in. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Austin Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Agreed. Looks fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 I just hate a 6 minute preview. I mean do I really need to watch the pilot now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonteCarl Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 The first two minutes of that are like a parody or like they made that Black Widow sketch from SNL in real life, but then it did pick up and looked ok by the end. I just don't know what they were going for with that first couple of minutes, though. It had to turn off a lot of people.And I remember when there was an "extended first look" for The Flash and it was basically this same type of thing where they condensed the entire pilot into 6 minutes, so much so that I didn't even watch the pilot.But now Flash is one of my favorite shows.I might give this a shot after the first two or three episodes have aired and I see what the general consensus is on it. Right now, it doesn't look HORRIBLE if you look past that first two minutes of set up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimBob Skeeter Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Ok, that looks pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Yeah, I dug it. Has the exact feel and tone that I want from an El family story. She looked much less like a soccer mom dressing up for the kid's birthday party in the trailer than she did in the teaser photo. I'll give it a few episodes, and just hope like hell that they don't "CBS" it TOO much by making it a garden variety procedural. The bar is set too high on episodic comic properties right now for them to get away with that. The plus side of it being on CBS is that we were guaranteed a more vibrant tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 And you know that CBS at least cares about it since they are giving in the Monday 8 pm slot with Big Bang Theory going over to Thursdays So if nothing else - it gives you something to watch instead of RAW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Not big on the Supergirl trailer. Kara is way too much like Clark for my tastes, and yeah, those first few minutes are definitely too much like the Black Widow SNL sketch.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brysynner Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 So we have 5 (6? - Does Titans have a start date?) DC TV shows going to be on TV this Fall, it's kind of amazing we've come this far with comic book related TV shows 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 Let's see Arrow Flash Gotham iZombie Supergirl (Fall - full series) Lucifer (Midseason) Legends of Tomorrow (just announced as Midseason) Plus AMC at least ordered a pilot for Preacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brysynner Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 So if everything makes it to 2016 (since it sounds like Titans will be a early Jan 2016 show) we could have NINE DC comics shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 It is amazing to me that everyone online seems to have missed the point of the SNL Black Widow trailer spoof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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