Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.

'Potential'


Boxed Set, Vol. VI: I am not a number, I am a free thread!

A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.

Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.

Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


DXMachina - Jan 31, 2020 7:25:24 am PST #1513 of 2020
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Anybody lose a ring?

I'm thinking a prayer to Saint Elrond would not go amiss.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2020 7:51:11 am PST #1514 of 2020
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

on the other hand, Barrowman played Captain Jack with all the subtlety of the moral of Orphan 55.

So, in character then? Jack Harkness is the master of the single entendre.


billytea - Jan 31, 2020 3:45:40 pm PST #1515 of 2020
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

So, in character then? Jack Harkness is the master of the single entendre.

I am going to say no. In The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, he had an actual character to go along with the constant innuendo. (It was possible for him to have scenes such as when he's waiting for his ship to explode, or realising he was the cause of all this, where he doesn't look like he's fixing to hump the scenery.) This Captain Jack is more like late season Married with Children, when all the characters were stripped down to their (assumed) most crowd-pleasing trait, ramped up to eleven.

Weirdly, in Torchwood he wasn't even particularly entendre-riffic. Having to be leader really did a number on him.


Tom Scola - Feb 01, 2020 3:47:47 am PST #1516 of 2020
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

The CW has picked up Rob Thomas's Lost Boys pilot.


Dana - Feb 05, 2020 2:43:44 pm PST #1517 of 2020
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I didn't notice if Supergirl has one, but I'm not sure about the new credit sequences for Flash and Legends.


Dana - Feb 05, 2020 4:19:06 pm PST #1518 of 2020
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

And interesting, I see that Flash is taking the post-Crisis opportunity to return to Mirror Master.


sj - Feb 05, 2020 4:35:10 pm PST #1519 of 2020
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Dana, I guess the fact that there was another version of that character on Earth 2 whose powers worked this way had been mentioned previously.


Dana - Feb 05, 2020 5:17:52 pm PST #1520 of 2020
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I'm glad they're addressing the ramifications of the crisis, but it's one of those things where you can't look at it too closely, or the logic completely falls apart.


sj - Feb 05, 2020 6:05:25 pm PST #1521 of 2020
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yeah, I was just thinking that. I was completely expecting to hear that Cisco's brother was alive again. Ollie brought back most of the major deaths of his people, but couldn't help one of Barry's?


Dana - Feb 05, 2020 7:18:33 pm PST #1522 of 2020
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

And honestly, if Harry is really dead, I'm pissed.

But then I also don't understand how this jibes with what was at the end of crisis, which showed the heroes in different universes. Was that supposed to be where they were coming from? So now Doom Patrol and Titans and all the rest are part of Earth Prime?