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    On the one hand, it'd be cool if they could do this show while sticking to actual comic book origins, but on the other hand why if you can make a better show by not doing it? I'm not saying they have made a better show by any means, but I'm assuming they think they can so whatever.

     

    It's not the worst TV I've ever watched by a long shot. Yet.

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    Just watched this tonight. I really don't think it's dumb or weird enough to warrant an ep, when there's so much dumber and weirder to explore. It's bland and hits every plot point in a rote way to achieve its young adult action movie end. Nothing terribly interesting.

     

    Though the idea of the 5 factions is hilarious. "You're either brave, kind, selfless, smart, or honest. So Dauntless are the most selfish, idiotic, lying assholes on the planet, but goddamn if they're not willing to jump off things."

     

    Also, the lampshading of the bad guys repeatedly telling Shailene Woodley that she wouldn't shoot them because she's a good person or whatever was legit great.

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    The character just needs a studio, script, and filmmakers working in-sync the way Winter Soldier or Guardians of the Galaxy had.

     

    Seriously. I'm not a big hater of Roberto Orci (for some reason) but I think his presence as a scriptwriter kinda shows the idea that the studio wants a very safe writer they can control and make the movie as paint by numbers as possible to easily mine the summer blockbuster bucks.

     

    Compare that to getting James Gunn writing Guardians and, when he came up with a safe, Hollywood script, was told by Joss Whedon "add more James Gunn." When the studio is supporting the writer of Tromeo and Juliet to 'add more of himself' to their summer blockbuster, something is going very fucking right.

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    The year is 1997. Patrick Stewart is no longer Captain Picard, but not yet Professor Xavier. Vincent Kartheiser is some nobody kid who isn't even on Angel yet, let alone Mad Men. Together, they make a horrible movie that I only know because I found a 25 cent VHS in a small town supermarket while they were trying to clear out their stock of unsellable shit.

     

    Here's a synopsis from IMDb: Oz, a rebellious teenager who just got expelled from his preppy school returns for one final prank. But as he goes to the basement to set things up, he stumbles upon a security consultant, former school employee, that just took the entire school hostage for millions in ransom. Oz must rely on his youth and love for pranks to outwit the devious criminal mastermind.

     

    Yeah. It's that good.

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    Holy shit, Gabrus is an asset to this show. This would've been a pretty good episode in its own right, but Gino consistently perfectly nails the balance between character work and actually doing the show with the guests. It might help that he doesn't really have any mythology to fall back on to make the episode about him(a now ever-present complaint I have with Marissa, even though I love her), but he works perfectly as a weird co-host with Scott. He's funny and he enhances the rest of the funny. It's fuckin' magic.

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