[Lostie!]

Dichen Lachman's been cast in Season 2 So along with Chris Wood and Katie McGrath, that's 3 actors I love joining the new season

Probably just for one episode but still. Loved her in Agents of SHIELD and The 100 .

[Tom4784]

Oh, I like her

[Lostie!]

I'm 4 episodes into the new season atm and I'm finding it to be much improved over season 1

Loving Brenda Strong as the villain (and Project Cadmus in general tbh). That virtual face that appeared on Cadmus' broadcast in episode 2 really reminded me of Gideon from The Flash and Legends

I hope Roulette will show up again since she was free at the end of her episode.

[Tom4784]

I do like her but Katie McGrath's attempt at an american accent makes me howl.

[Lostie!]

Surprisingly I haven't found it that jarring actually, although I did the first time I heard her do american in Slasher

But yeah I really like Lena, hope she's around for a while.

[Lostie!]

I still hate the opening narration though, although that goes for all of the DC shows. We get it already

[Tom4784]

'My name's Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive!'

*spends the entire season being outmatched by yet another villainous speedster*

[Ramsay]

So i'm a few episodes behind Arrow/Flash/Legends. Never watched Supergirl, will i need to catch up on this show too now that they are doing a big crossover so should i just leave it alone?

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Ramsay

So i'm a few episodes behind Arrow/Flash/Legends. Never watched Supergirl, will i need to catch up on this show too now that they are doing a big crossover so should i just leave it alone?

I'd watch it just so you're covered for future crossovers.

[Ramsay]

Ah yes, fair point! Is it good?

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Ramsay

Ah yes, fair point! Is it good?

Season 1 is better than Season 1 of Arrow but not as good as Flash's first season.

It's inconsistent (like most of these shows) but it's fun.

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Ramsay

So i'm a few episodes behind Arrow/Flash/Legends. Never watched Supergirl, will i need to catch up on this show too now that they are doing a big crossover so should i just leave it alone?

I'd say it's less vital to watch Supergirl than it is the other 3 because it stands alone for the most part while the other shows have a lot more in terms of elements bleeding over from one to the other. Supergirl takes place in another universe so, apart from the times that it does crossover, it's pretty much its own thing.

But yeah, can't harm to give it a go. The first season was pretty hit and miss (and it takes the cheese to a whole new level) but as Dezzy says it's fun. I'm enjoying Season 2 a lot more as well.

[Toy Soldier]

Personally I'd say you could skip S1 entirely (assuming you know the basic back story... she's Superman's cousin, she always had powers but wasn't living as a superhero, has now taken up superheroing) and start at the beginning of Season 2, which isn't that many episodes in so should be a quick catch-up. Season 2 is a dramatic improvement over S1, IMO.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

'My name's Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive!'

*spends the entire season being outmatched by yet another villainous speedster*

Spoiler:

It's actually starting to get quite irritating, for a brief few episodes I had hope that it might finally not be yet another faster-than-Barry speedster in S3... ... ... but then, nope, another one, faster than ever. "This one is so fasterer that most peoples can't even seeing him omg!" ... Yawn.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Spoiler:

It's actually starting to get quite irritating, for a brief few episodes I had hope that it might finally not be yet another faster-than-Barry speedster in S3... ... ... but then, nope, another one, faster than ever. "This one is so fasterer that most peoples can't even seeing him omg!" ... Yawn.

Spoiler:

Killer Frost and Alchemy should be the main villains tbh

[Lostie!]

Just watched episode 8 (the midseason finale </3), capped off a very strong first half of the season, I hope the second half continues to be as enjoyable

Spoiler:

Okay so I know he was attacking her and everything but I hope Kara didn't actually kill Kelex. He's adorable, it's not his fault he got reprogrammed or whatever

I'm really liking that they've brought the real Henshaw in as an antagonist, David Harewood is great so it's cool seeing him play the dual personalities of J'onn and Henshaw both in the present storyline. At first I thought Henshaw being called Cyborg Superman seemed random but I found out that is actually Hank Henshaw's role in the comics. Although in the comics he apparently ends up with a body identical to Superman (just a cybernetic version obviously) so I hope they go down that route eventually because otherwise having him branded as a cyborg counterpart to Superman still feels random

I love Lena and this trend of her having such an active role in saving the day Upgrade Katie to a regular tbqh. "Some mothers wear a locket with a picture of their kids around their neck. You wear the keys to a bazooka."

I loved the breaches that randomly showed up throughout the episode being revealed as Barry and Cisco, I feel so stupid for not making that connection.

[Toy Soldier]

OMG ultimate crossover. Darth Revan turns up alive and well in Supergirl

[Nicky91]

season 5 has begun this month

i had watched first 2 episodes last night

Spoiler:

so we have Lena quitting as owner of catco, her selling to a best friend and tech businesswoman bitch Andrea Rojas, who immediately has a dislike for Kara, Jimmy quitting at catco

a new villain, Midnight shows up, and also J'onn's brother

Lena also towards a villain arc, she wants to do good, no more conflicts for the world, with help of some AI called Hope, who is now inside miss eve teschmacher's body

we still love trans queen nicole maines as Nia Nal/Dreamer, and she and brainy are now dating

[Oliver_W]

I skipped to the end of the thread to avoid spoilers, but: What DC Comics shows do you guys think are worth watching?

I haaated Titans S1, but S2 is ... okay. I'm not liking Batwoman. But I've not seen any of the other shows yet! Supergirl is the one I know the least about from the comics, so I'll have less to compare it to so may like it more haha.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I skipped to the end of the thread to avoid spoilers, but: What DC Comics shows do you guys think are worth watching?

I haaated Titans S1, but S2 is ... okay. I'm not liking Batwoman. But I've not seen any of the other shows yet! Supergirl is the one I know the least about from the comics, so I'll have less to compare it to so may like it more haha.

The Arrowverse is quite fun but you have to go into it knowing that it's junkfood TV. Supergirl and Batwoman are part of that as are Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. In order to get the most out of one of those shows, you kinda have to watch all of them since every season they do a week long crossover event and there's little bits here and there that you may miss by not keeping up with all four shows.

If you're gonna watch those shows and you wanna keep in line with each show properly then this is a rough way to watch them

- Watch Season 1 and 2 of Arrow
- Watch Season 3 of Arrow alongside Season 1 of Flash
- Watch Season 4 of Arrow, Season 2 of Flash, Season 1 of Supergirl.
- Watch Season 5 of Arrow, Season 3 of Flash, Season 2 of Supergirl and Season 1 of Legends of Tomorrow.
-Carry on until this year's seasons in which you'll add Batwoman to the list.

There's also a show called Black Lightning but it doesn't take place in the same world although it will have a part in this year's crossover.

Is it worth it to watch them all? Certain seasons are excellent, Season 2 of Arrow for example is damn near perfect, Season 1 of The Flash is both wonderfully magical while simultaneously making you cry ugly tears, Supergirl Season 4 starts off a bit heavy handed but becomes great as it goes on and Legends of Tomorrow is just wacky ridiculous from Season 2 onwards. There's at least one bad season in each show though (Two of an half for Arrow, two for Flash, one and a half for Supergirl and the first season of Legends is difficult to get through).

If you love trash easy-to-watch TV, you'll probably burn through it but if you can't get past the fact that the scripts are never great and the performances are your typical teen drama-esque calibre then you'll hate it.

[Toy Soldier]

As Dezzy says; it's all wonderful trash honestly.

That said, I'm not the biggest fan of Supergirl... I like Kara herself, but I think it has the weakest supporting characters to be honest. Supergirl is at her best in the yearly crossovers .

Both Flash and Arrow have some weaker seasons (The Flash writers clearly didn't know what to do with his abilities for a while when he got "up to speed", so to speak, so were constantly nerfing him). Arrow started off slightly too brutal, then went too far the other way (lots of arrows hitting guns out of people's hands) but found a balance in the last few seasons - less killing poor random henchmen for no reason like in S1 , but still realistically injuring (and occasional deaths). It's on its final season now though.

Legends... the first season isn't great but at this point it may be my fav CW DC show. Because it KNOWS it's wonderful trash and just runs with it. I mean... it had Biff from Back To The Future as a main character's dad ffs. And he even made the "Make like a tree" joke .

[LukeB]

Is this show any good?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LukeB

Is this show any good?

Read the thread

If thread is tl;dr...

It's cheap n cheerful, perfectly watchable but not exactly hard-hitting drama.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Read the thread

If thread is tl;dr...

It's cheap n cheerful, perfectly watchable but not exactly hard-hitting drama.

Spoilers

Is it better than The Flash? I gave up on that

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LukeB

Spoilers



Is it better than The Flash? I gave up on that

I personally would say no... It's my least fav of the DC shows on CW.