Smallville: The Final Season, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games Trilogy Reviews (Major Spoilers)

[mattzimmer]

Also reviews for the latest episodes of DC Nation, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Young Justice: Invasion, ThunderCats, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Fringe, Once Upon A Time, The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Grimm, Community, 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Recreation

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[dcauyojimbo]

Phew, had to skip over The Avengers part. Haven't seen it yet.

YJ: Yep, that was Garfield Logan from "Image" who is now Beast Boy five years later. MM gave him the blood transfusion but it also slowly gave Logan powers until eventually he could shape shift and his skin turned green.

GL: We just might see more of the Manhunters in a future season.

[mattzimmer]

YJ: That was a smart plot turn.

GL: Good.

[dcauyojimbo]

YJ: It was a good turn if you didn't pay attention to information gathered online. It was known he was going to become Beast Boy since February 14, 2011 when the voice actor Logan Grove's agent accidentally spilled the beans on the agency Twitter account and website. It got removed soon after but you can't make the Internet un-forget completely.

[mattzimmer]

YJ: Yeah, I can usually avoid internet spoilers so it was a good twist for me.

[90scartoonman]

Marvel's The Avengers - Loved it, and glad it didn't take itself too seriously. The action was awesome, could've used more character bits. ScarJo's Widow went above and beyond, but I wanted Hawkeye to have more moments. I actually loved Ruffalo's Banner, and he played him differently than Norton, but still enjoyable. I figured the tag, despite being at the end, happened before Thor and Loki went off. Maybe SHIELD detained Loki for a while to study him while Thor joined the others for shawarma. I miss Coulson already (I guess now we know why he has time to do Ultimate Spider-Man), shame he had to take an apple for the team

[mattzimmer]

The Avengers: Yay! It's officially a thing! And yeah, the tag happening after the climax but before the ending makes sense.

Young Justice: Invasion: Me too. I bet it was freaky.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: I just hate Hank with a passion and the new Ant-Man isn't any better. The episode sucked.

Once Upon A Time: Yup.

The Simpsons: What did you hate about the ending?

Community: You are most definitely right.

The Office: They blew it in the season finale but I was so relieved by it I let it slide.

Parks and Recreation: Martha Coakley was FAR more quailified to be Massachusetts' Senator than Scott Brown but she was such a horrible candidate she didn't deserve to win and didn't. I honestly think Leslie's gaffe was almost as bad as anything Coakley ever did and I'm surprised the writers actually went there especially since she won in the season finale. I guess her speech in the debate made up for a lot. It WAS pretty awesome.

Smallville: Fixed.

[90scartoonman]

The Simpsons: That Nelson became an even bigger bully than before and it showed him beating down a bunch of people including the principal. Even with Lisa swooning, I didn't find it funny.

Parks and Recreation: They did it so that Leslie wouldn't have a smooth campaign, and despite how qualified she is, I doubt she'll have a smooth term either.

[mattzimmer]

The Simpsons: That's weird. I didn't even notice that.

[90scartoonman]

Smallville: The Final Season - Agreed that this was its best season. Smallville is going to be near impossible to top in terms of a live action superhero show (it had about as many seasons as the live action Batman, Wonder Woman, and Incredible Hulk shows COMBINED), and I'm glad towards the end we got a Superman show that also really cemented itself in the DC Universe. As for returning characters, here's one I would've liked...Pete Ross. Yeah, I know, you're going to say he's a buttmonkey, but one of the biggest complaints I had about Homecoming is that NONE of Clark's high school friends were there...not even Chloe. Lana would've hogged the episode, but it would've been nice to see Pete. I do agree at some point it would've been nice for Lana to return and then for Clark to be SURE that he wants to marry Lois because he's completely over Lana

[mattzimmer]

Smallville: I don't call Pete a "butt-monkey" anymore. He's a buttmunch.

Supergirl: In what respect?

Abandoned: I love that tradition too.

Patriot: She was ridiculously hot. No real person can possibly look that good.

Fortune: This interpretation of Zatanna isn't all good. It makes sense that early in her career she'd be really irresponsible at times.

Finale: The comic book bugged me. They weren't about to get married, that was a few days away. The election thing was probably only to set up that Smallville takes place in a MUCH different universe than ours. And yes, Aaaaawww, yeah!

[90scartoonman]

Smallville: Buttmunch is an even worse thing to be!

Supergirl: When Tony Stark revealed his secret identity at the end of the first Iron Man movie, it was a huge moment. No superhero movie had ever done that before. I felt like doing the same for Green Arrow on Smallville was just riding its coattails.

Patriot: I think she's supposed to be on that new show Magic City or whatever it's called.

Fortune: I guess it does make sense, but Clark's a walking WMD, unleashing him into the world like that could cause a TON of damage.

Finale: I thought they had to call the priest to reschedule? If the wedding was a few days away, that's fine. And the election thing, I just don't see why they needed to establish the different universes, what would be the harm in setting it in an actual election year?

[mattzimmer]

Supergirl: Excellent point. That was the high point of Iron Man.

Fortune: There are two ways to look at Zatanna's thinking here: either she knows the spell she cast isn't actually dangerous or she has enough faith in Clark to know he would never do anything to harm anyone else. It was irresponsible but totally the kind of prank someone her age might pull.

Finale: Yeah, they had to reschedule the wedding but it STILL wasn't on that day. I thought of something. I'm guessing they might have changed the election date to coincide with Chloe's kid's age i.e. hiring a kid who could act, was young but not too young, and could still believably be tucked in at night. Still doesn't explain who wrote the comic book though.