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Been watching the DC animated straight to DVD/Blu-ray stuff. They are so hit and miss. And many of the ones that are considered a hit are so overrated. The Batman Returns or Dark Knight Returns or whatever part 1 and 2. Geeze. Seriously people like that? The writing was a joke. The dialogue was so incredibly bad. The Joker... is just nothing compared to Mark Hamill's Joker :P. I really wish they'd get people who don't suck at writing (aka most comic writers) to write this stuff more often. Not to be overly flamey... some are good. I really enjoyed the Green Lantern one (which was much much better than the live movie) and a few others. But seriously... Also... Batman winning against Superman is and always will be bullcrap done just because so many people love Batman and want to see the underdog win. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying 99% of the time it's done it is done bad. Like suddenly Superman forgets he has superspeed or forgets he can heat vision things from 20 miles up and stuff. And Clark has this way of getting really stupid when he's around Batman. Clark is actually an intelligent guy (I choose to ignore the comics that give him super intelligence which comes and goes) but when Batman is involved for some reason he's as dumb as a brick.

Like it or hate it, it really is the way Americans say it and it's not grammatically incorrect (contrary to popular belief you can pluralize company names and their products). Anyways, the Simpsons... I'll watch it. I wonder how it's animated. Lego Movie style or Lego NinjaGo style.

So my assumption that's he's a d00d that just robbed all the credit from people with actual talent is further compounded. Well, he is talented at selling himself despite being nothing but a dirty old man and a hack. :P Seriously, he contributed like nothing looking at the history besides extreme narcissism and taking credit for other people's stuff. And you look at the work he actually did and it's pretty universally terrible. And now I have to live with seeing him pollute Marvel movies all the time... The d00d did help create many of the things. But only that really. He wrote a lot in the 60s and some in the 70s. If you look back the comics were just bad. They were wildly unsuccessful and almost always had questionable quality. X-Men died in his hands. It wasn't until later by DIFFERENT people was it revived. Then by the time it was really getting big by like the 90s Stan Lee hadn't touched a thing for 20 freakin' years. Other people took the mediocre stuff he made and really gave it life. Stan Lee might have created the original concepts but he wasn't the person to make those concepts really any good. Seriously, lets not fool ourselves. Comics weren't generally the best written things in the world around the 60s and 70s. Especially Marvel. The quality has risen 100 fold since then.

Okay so the purple d00d isn't a Chewie (besides being muscle) but is anyone else thinking this character is just so incredibly uncreative? He's a tough d00d with an Australian accent. Now I'm sure tough Australians exist but it's too often that in a show or movie the tough d00d is specifically Australian and often the only one. :P I believe it's either a book or movie notes or something... so not entirely canon. But there were supposedly around 30,000-40,000 Jedi. That's still an insanely small amount compared to the trillions upon trillons of non-Jedi though. And it kind of makes sense. The Jedi Temple has a fair amount of Jedi and it's a huge building. Then we know (at least in soft canon) that there are several other Jedi Temples around, and the one on Corrosant is just the main one or headquarters.

It could be good. But I think just attaching "Marvel" to it won't ensure anything. Marvel movies have failed before. What I worry about is that this one is just obscure enough to not be a hit. Casuals and heck, a lot of comic readers simply don't really know who they are. Iron Man, Thor, etc all already had a following and were pretty well known.

Good. Much of the EU sucked (like killing Chewie in that manner). And it is being overwritten anyways (Chewie is back!). Also good about the prequels being dumbed down. Focus on your strengths.

Too much filler. My patience is thinning. I really like some of the episodes. Am "meh" about all the filler in between. You can get rid of like 75% of the episodes and still have the main plot perfectly and also have a better (yet shorter) show. :P Many of the episodes seem to be nothing more than "monster of the week" stuff made to sell another toy.

Spongebob just wasn't a big enough seller. I'm impressed how much attention they're giving it with all those sets and figures. Though it's still not Lego so I can't buy it :P. Not like I was going to anyways. I've got a SpongeBob and Patrick and the Super Hero versions of them, and a plankton. That's all I needed anyways.

Well apparently K-REO owns the license for ALL Star Trek including the TV series. They released some TV series based blind bags in other regions apparently (they're hard to find). This brings down my dream of a Star Trek Cuusoo happening or something. I'd like to see a TNG bridge set or something.

My theory on LotR is it is dead. There will be no new sets. It just hasn't sold well enough I think. Not saying that it sold BAD but compared to other licenses I don't imagine it selling as good. I am sad.

I'm please with the next wave. Especially after this terrible prequel wave.

The only thing I don't like about that surprise set is the 4-armed Foot soldier. The soldiers in the show aren't any taller than normal foot soldiers. They just have extra arms.

So basically really really ugly and not a Bothan (which are also ugly).

I'm slightly disturbed how they seem to be so keen on mimicing the OT characters. We've got a Han-like character (though with the force). We've got a Chewie-like character. We've got an R2-D2-like character. We've got a Luke-like character. I wouldn't be surprised if that Twi'lek female is going to be comparable to Leia and fall for the Han-like character.

Netflix? Good. Now I can watch them in a more... reputable manner.

If anything needs a separate thing it's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit being in "Historic" right now... :/

I'm already quite annoyed when someone tells me I'm off topic when I feel like I am. Splitting Marvel and DC? Lets not lie. The discussions will often practically be the same and related. In fact I commonly talk about them interchangeably and talk about aspects of each. Considering people tell me to stay on topic if I talk about the TMNT series a bit in the TMNT lego thread (which I find absolutely ridiculous, it's ON topic it's the freakin' franchise) I'd also imagine if I brought up a Marvel aspect in a DC subsection of the forum, even if it's completely relevant and basically on topic, I'll be told to keep on topic. Marvel and DC Legos are so closely related don't bother separating them.

I'm sure Lego makes them a decent amount of money and it's in their interests to promote their own franchises that have Lego sets. I don't imagine permissions were a huge barrier there. Free advertising (and maybe they got a bit of the profits).

The Hulk is believable because that guy tends to keep to himself. They don't seem to attempt to summon him unless absolutely necessary because of all the collateral damage he's capable of. Iron Man? Harder to justify. He's got a flying suit that can get anywhere in the world in a matter of hours... Thor? We haven't seen his private life. Though I can't see a logical reason he wouldn't be available and he can fly fast too, maybe faster than Iron Man. Captain America? Okay he could be on missions and doesn't have the mobility to get somewhere as fast as Iron Man and Thor. So he's a bit believable. But still, it feels like Star Trek trying to bull crap a reason for Worf being in the movies, but opposite. :P Why is Worf there? He works on Deep Space Nine now!

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I meant more of an appearance like an episode somewhat centered around them or just something more significant than the 20 seconds Jackson was on.

I wish the lego sets had some more accurate options. But I guess they couldn't go non-lego for some of that stuff. Does anyone know if the Green Lantern in the movie was based on the old comiccon exclusive? Or if it was new?

I look at the franchise as a whole, at least in their respective branches of universes. The quality of some can affect the quality of some others. It's not that simple. Saying it is isn't going to make it so. The prequels provide motivation and story behind Anakin and the story is an overarching one. It does provide links to the other trilogy. It does affect it because you look at the characters and plots as a whole now. And you can't "unsee" it or anything so simply not watching one aspect again won't make the rest suddenly "heal". Again, RedLetterMedia does a great job at pointing out the issues. I'd suggest you watch his reviews on all the Star Wars movies. But the fact is these things in the universe touch everything else in the universe. When the prequels supplied the backstory of Vader it weakened him as a whole. His motivations were dumb. The view of Vader has been affected like when he killed the kids it affects his character more than the destruction of Alderaan. Blablabla details in RedLetterMedia (he can put it a lot better than I can). You cannot simply refuse to watch a segment, especially if you've already seen it. The view of the characters and plot are forever changed. Now the OT are still my favorite movies. However the prequels certainly changed the views for a lot of us on some of the plot and characters. Vader was a story about redemption. After the prequels... no... he's a crazy cry baby psycho. I really can't feel for Vader anymore. He wasn't manipulated by the emperor. He was just crazy and dumb and a dick. His backstory is laughable and simple minded. Vader for some people has been damaged and it's not as easy as ignoring movies when standing right by those movies are official other movies. Also I didn't say AoS was a bad show. You clearly didn't read my entire post. I said it was average. I watch it. It's got a few good episodes. But mostly average. I'm sick of average stuff :P. That includes Ep II and III which weren't TERRIBAD just not Legendary to the general populace (Ep I was the only bad one, thanks Jar Jar). Well that's a fair point about Agents of SHIELD but it's also a problem too. Due to the actors being too expensive we'll never see Nick Fury, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk or even the 2nd tiered Hawkeye and Black Widow (almost 1st tier at this point due to that movie). It feels kind of forced. Like some of these situations SOMEONE from that group would be involved in, eventually. It definitely feels like there's a hole there. Ideally we'd get at least an episode or a 2-parter with one of the big guns but again, they're simply too expensive so the likelyhood is slim. At best maybe Iron Man but never showing his face (maaaybe they could afford his VOICE) but then the special effects are probably out of their budget too. Maybe it's easier to ignore because of it but I'd rather they had cameo episodes because doing stuff like showing a still of Nick Fury for a second is NOT ENOUGH! I'll be watching SHIELD and hoping season 2 gets better. Some shows take a bit of time to find their running legs.

I'm positive all the time. It's just there's nothing to be positive about when it comes to the prequel trilogy. :(

Heck yeah they are. The Star Wars prequels sullied Star Wars's good name. You never used to hear anything that negative about Star Wars. It was almost universally accepted as awesome (some people had issues with the Ewoks and C3P0 and stuff but it was minor compared to the talk of the prequels). Now half the time you hear talk of Star Wars you hear about the prequels and the negativity that surrounds them. They've literally damaged the OT mainly in the aspect of Vader's origins being a psychopathic whiny little idiot but there are tons of lore reason (see RedLetterMedia). It's not as simple as "don't watch".

I really don't care about this effort to make everything in the Marvel and DC universes within the same universe (TV and movie wise, not counting toons). I mean IMO it just lowers the bar. The quality is just meh. Like Star Wars. The second you went to the expanded universe from the OT you went into mediocre (ignoring the bad prequels ;p). Marvel has what? A handful of movies, most of which are average with a few great ones. Then mix that with the incredibly "meh" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and future TV ventures which I doubt will be great... and you've just got yourself a diluted universe. This is why the d00d wanted the "Dark Knight" universe to NOT be connected to Superman and the rest of the future movies. It dilutes the universe. The more movies you have the more lack of excellence you have. It drags everything down. You could have a GREAT movie happen within the same universe as mediocre and bad movies and it does affect the great one and makes it less great. I figure this is also why successful writers who write one great movie then refuse a second. They care about the quality falling, dirtying something already very good. I'm just going off on this because I'm sick of "meh" after being given so many truly great shows like Breaking Bad, Lost (unless you didn't like the ending, still it was a great series), House of Cards, etc. We are certainly capable of a higher standard of TV show. Yet IMO Marvel and DC just don't seem interested in doing truly great TV shows. And it frustrates me because there's no reason they can't make a truly great thing out of some of the IPs they have. I'm sick of B movies and B series. I want a TV series and a universe I struggle with the wait for. But nobody is pissing their pants in anticipation for SHIELD like they did Lost. The stories of Arrow pale in quality compared to the stories of Breaking Bad. And the mediocrity is really bringing Marvel's whole TV/Movie universe down. And I really hope Arrow isn't in the same universe as Superman. You'd think they'd freakin' MENTION it before now, it seems so forced... One thing that really doesn't help is their lack of ability to mix the movies and tv enough. They can't afford the bigger stars. Coulson is good but you can't expect a universe to be fully patched together with a single guy (and that first episode lady who is also minor). With zero chance of Iron Man or Thor or Captain America or ANY of the big hitters coming it weakens it even more.