I don’t think I’ve been so excited for a new TV series since . . . well, since a heck of a long time ago, to be honest.
I’ve long been a fan of the Evil Dead films (the originals anyway – that recent remake? Not so much) and having seen the trailer for this series leaves me wanting more. There’s a nice little featurette here which clearly shows the cast enjoying themselves but while the show is due to start towards the end of October in the States, it has yet to get a UK release.
I don’t care who picks it up – hell, I’m even watching Fox because it has the excellent Agent Carter – but someone here in our little island needs to be showing this soon.
I’m looking forward to the new Supergirl series – from the trailers that I’ve seen, it looks to be a lot closer in tone to Flash than Arrow or even Man of Steel (which is seriously no bad thing.)
However, the newly released image for Red Tornado who appears on the show has me feeling . . . less enthusiastic.
My Red Tornado’s is from the satellite era Justice League of America and looks a little . . . brighter:
It’s a good time to get back to blogging, I think. There’s been a bunch of things over the last year or so that I’ve wanted to talk about but simply haven’t had the time but with the new site, now’s as good a time as any.
I watched most of the first season of Arrow and, I’m afraid, didn’t really like it. It wasn’t bad – it was just not engaging enough; I’m not really a fan of the grim ‘n’ gritty approach so I ended up falling away. The first season of Flash, however, I absolutely adored. Sure, early episodes were the by now standard monster of the week style, but all of the characters were played so well and there was a freshness and joy to the series – even amongst the darker episodes – that it quickly became a favourite in our house.
And now the trailer for the second season:
Jay Garrick! Yes, there was the tease of his winged helmet in the final episode of season one, but he’s here! Alternate worlds! Yay!
And something else that I’m cautiously optimistic about is Preacher finally getting off the ground and being granted a full series.
Sure, Seth Rogen’s name doesn’t fill me with wonder as about the only thing I really know by him was the woefully inadequate Green Hornet, but I’m willing to give this a go.
I’m just waiting for the American fundamentalist Christians to start shrieking either at the poster on the left or once they get wind of the content of the series.
Crisis on Earth-Prime 