JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time Review (Spoilers)

[mattzimmer]

Just heard about a new DC Comics direct to video movie yesterday sold exclusively at Target. Picked it up and thought I'd share my thoughts. Long story short: for a cheapo, quicky DTV it is NOT Brainiac Attacks. For my full review, read below the fold

Comments

[90scartoonman]

Teen Titans Go! "Breakfast Cheese" - This episode didn't do much for me, but I find it sad that it felt like a twist ending in that it was happy and not a kill 'em all ending

[mattzimmer]

Arrow: Thanks for the info on Sin.

Hulk and the Agents of SMASH: Yeah, the Herald's power corrupting Jen didn't work at all.

Revolution: Agreed on all points.

Sleepy Hollow: Who is Greenwood?

Grimm: NBC is the worst. Between the misleading promos and bouncing around the show's time slot it's like they are TRYING to kill it off.

Community: Troy was just nitpicking the logic of it. I actually DO know the real story why it's called that but Troy has always been a very literal person. He takes after Abed that way.

[90scartoonman]

Arrow: I love Sin on this show, though, I don't care if she's an "In Name Only" character.

Sleepy Hollow: Lyndie Greenwood/Jenny.

Grimm: Honestly, I think Grimm ads are NBC's weakspot because I don't mind the trailers for Revolution or even Dracula at all. UPN was the worst and Fox and WB/CW have done their share of messed ups. I agree about the erratic timeslot and the crops of new episodes/periods of repeats, though.

Community: Well that's a relief. Especially since there's really no point in asking a man who didn't get involved in the franchise until 25 years after it began.

[mattzimmer]

Sleepy Hollow: Oh, good, they use her almost every episode anyways.

Grimm: You're right about NBC's Dracula and Revolution ads not being too bad (especially not Revolution's). I don't get why NBC seems to be purposely damaging Grimm.

Community: Yes, there was. Because it was funny.

[90scartoonman]

Grimm: NBC wants to stir up higher ratings...they shouldn't meddle so much.

Community: I mean there's no reason for you to want LeVar to answer.

[mattzimmer]

Grimm: They really shouldn't. What they are doing will actually result in lower ratings.

Community: I'm not Troy though.

[90scartoonman]

You're right. I want them to stop trial and erroring Grimm because it's a solid genre show with modern TV sensibilities. Hopefully they'll be happy partnering it with Hannibal.

[mattzimmer]

There have been a TON of promising shows that have been killed due to bad scheduling decisions and bad promos (Dark Shadows, The Tick, Firefly, Brisco Country Jr.) so it is a testament to Grimm's quality and fanbase that it is still as successful as it is. There have been MANY better shows that didn't survive less mistreatment.

[90scartoonman]

Yeah, I'm relieved Grimm is surviving the Friday Night Death slot. I'm wondering how some of those shows, especially Firefly, would do today. It's been a LONG time since Firefly, and now we've got Twitter and web content NBC is giving to Grimm fans. Then again, you did say "bad promos"...

[mattzimmer]

Firefly would last two or three seasons at least today. I am certain it would not be a "hit", but it could have been the kind of show like Fringe or Chuck to slog through five seasons, and actually get to make a proper series finale. Heck, even Dollhouse managed that in two. It wouldn't have been canceled midway through season one, that's for sure.

[90scartoonman]

Yeah, that's true. Genre shows don't tend to be as mainstream as something like CSI anyway, and even Lost tricked a lot of the audience into watching a genre show. Firefly would be on Fringe's level.

[mattzimmer]

I believe that even if it had aired on Fridays for part of its run. Fox would never have canceled it midseason.