the Suicide Squad Proposal

A few posts ago I discussed DC and Marvel’s plans for the small screen, and now I have decided that I wanted to make my own recommendations for shows that I would love to see on television.  And the Suicide Squad was the first thing that popped into my head. The Suicide Squad is a team of B and C list Super villains who are inmates at Belle Reve Penitentiary that the U.S. government has deemed useful. The team is essentially a super-villain Black Ops group who the government has blackmailed and threatened into serving their country.  They are led by government Agent Amanda Waller a.k.a. “The Wall” who gives the group their assignments and keeps them in check on their missions.  The suicide Squad could work perfectly for a DC Televised Universe that coexist with the CW’s Arrow because the suicide squad can easily be cast by super-powerless villains which would help maintaining the realism that Arrow prides itself on.  As for the cast, you have to have the team’s field leader the assassin Deadshot, who has already made several appearances on Arrow. The calculating Clock King is known or his strategic planning and the show could benefit from having a calm and collected member who is forced to work with spontaneous and irrational teammates. Plastique, the bombs and weapons expert could be part of the teams muscle. And speaking of muscle Captain Boomerang, who is known for constantly bickering and disobeying Deadshots’ orders could do wonders for the show and provide us with some comic relief. With this cast the show would not have to worry about spending a huge portion of its budget on low end CGI, a problem Smallville faced, and it could focus its budget on other things such as actors or locations. The focus of the Suicide Squad should be how these different characters struggle to achieve their tasks working with one another, as well as the problems they face being pawns of the government. The Suicide Squad should also be about how the United States’ deals with domestic terrorism in the DC universe.  An obviously this show should be on the CW, so that it make a plethora of references to Arrow, and hell maybe we could even see a crossover event. I think the suicide squad has the potential to be one of DC entertainments greatest hits if it is down well and sticks to the realism that has made Arrow successful. So what do you think? Do you think the Suicide Squad has the potentially to shine on network television or is there another show you would love to see DC Entertainment develop that co-mingles with Arrow? Do want the Suicide Squad to be realist or would you prefer to have the show relate more to its comic counterpart?  Finally, which super-villains would you like to see as part of the team? Leave your comments down below. And look for my other recommendations in the future.

Microsoft Admits that they @#$%ed Up

You can imagine my surprise as I was scrolling down Facebook and noticed an article discussing how the Xbox One had forgone another inverse in its policies.  Microsoft did the unthinkable and actually put gamers first, or so they say. Apparently all of the backlash that they garnered from their terrible E3 release made it back to them, and they listened. After a series of middle fingers that were given to the Xbox One Facebook page and thousands of posts all over the internet damning the console to the ninth circle of hell, Microsoft executives made the smartest decision that they have made since the initial conception of the console and that was to not only remove the always online and 24 hour check-in requirements, but also to remove the used game draconian doctrines that had gamers bashing the mere mention of Microsoft or its new offspring. The executives exclaim that the Xbox One will allow you to play games just like you do now on your 360. While this is great news for the company and their retailers, is it good news for us gamers? As a game, I find it very hard to believe that they thought all these new policies were going to fly within the world of gaming, and that gamers were going to chose a system that is basically punishing them for the sins of a few, over a system that rewards its loyal fan base with freedom. Microsoft now want us to believe that they put gamers first, but if they had done that from the very start they may have avoid this whole fiasco and the Xbox One would have been the real show stealer of E3. So what do you think? Do you think it is good that Microsoft is actually listening to its fan base so late in the game? Are you more inclined to buy a Xbox One or has the damage already been done? Finally, do you think the Xbox One would have been better received if it had never adopted gamer hating policies that start this whole controversy in the first place?

DC and Marvel Suit Up for the Television War!

With Marvel’s Agents of Shield coming to television this September, we see a new conflict arising between DC and Marvel comics. This rivalry between these two franchises was born in comics and then moved to animation, and is currently being fought in the realm of film with DC kicking off their cinematic universe with Man of Steel (review coming later).  Now we see that this competition has moved to live-action television. The CW’s first season of arrow was considered such a success that there were rumors floating around the internet that DC decided to create a DC televised universe. These rumors soon became somewhat true once news arrived that the CW was pushing forward with its new Wonder Woman show titled Amazon, as well as Eric Kripke’s (the creator of Supernatural) the Deadman, and that Sci-Fi has green lit a Booster Gold television show. Now the interesting thing about these developments is that there has been no news confirming that any of these planned shows will be tied to Arrow or to each other, but they are all DC and Warner Bros. properties. Do you think DC does not want to draw lines between these shows between they will more likely than not have opposing tones?  Should these three new TV shows be interconnected with arrow or should day all represent their own respective universes and honor the character that they are being created for? I guess only time will tell. Also, I find it interesting that Marvel has decided to make their Shield live-action television show connect to their cinematic universe. Many feel that by adding this TV show to their cinematic universe it will subtract from the greatness of those films. What do you guys think? Do you think that the Marvel universe will suffer from having a television show absorbing some of its material or do you think that having the show share a universe with the films will contribute to success of future films? Also what other characters would you like to see it show up on your screen at home?

A little about myself

Hey everyone I am really bad at these about me things but here goes. I am currently a senior at Bard College, in Hudson Valley NY, majoring in political theory. I also have a strong passion for theater, especially play-writing and Dramaturgy.  I am a huge comic book fan with DC, Marvel, Image, and Boom Studios as the main publishers that I follow. My favorite series at the moment is Robert Kirkman's the Walking Dead. 

 I am also reading pretty much all of DC's Batman comics (sans Nightwing and Batgirl, nothing against them), Suicide Squad, Earth-2, Wonder Woman, Justice League (original, Dark, and America), Superman Unchained, Birds of Prey,World's Finest, the Uncanny Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, All New X-Men, X-Men, Suicide Risk, and Supurbia.

As for Television shows my top picks are:  The CW's Arrow, and Supernatural, AMC's the Walking Dead (of course), ABC's Scandal, and Hopefully Marvel's Agents of Shield, CBS' Elementary, NBC's Law & Order: SVU, HBO's Game of Thrones, and FX's the Americans.

My favorite movies are:  Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, Citizen Kane, Inception, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Resident Evil (Guilty Pleasure), Memento, Star Wars (the original trilogy) Silence of the Lambs, 12 Angry Men, Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead (original and remake).

So if any of these things have any serious developments you can expect a post from me!