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You know, the more I look at the poster the more the figure in the middle looks like Static in his original costume. Look HERE for comparison. The hood, the baseball cap, the baggy gloves... looks like jeans instead of his usual skintight suit, and he doesn't have much a cloak, but, I dunno...

That's why there's Friender! :p Man, this show is just so good. Beautiful action, horribly depressing subject matter, constant death and hopelessness... no, not even hopelessness, that glimmer of hope that dies right in front of you. Like, you know it's going to end badly, but no one else...

"I felt alive for the first time in my life when I realized I would fall to Ruin, because in order to die, you must have life. Robots who were once considered eternal gained a level of humanity when they obtained death." - Casshern Sins

Ugh, that doesn't even make logical business sense - do they really think kids will notice that Spider-Man is being voiced by a different guy, but not that EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER is voiced by someone else, uses a different design, and exists in a completely different continuity? DC's never had a...

Liked Impulse; annoying, but charming enough. Loved Nightwing's takedown though - shot right to the stomach. Rough but fair. :D Overall plot was sort of plain, but it was mostly character stuff for the Flash Family so I was happy to see it. Wally being the slowest, the super-speed conversation...

Impulse has a nice design - good to be getting a "Flash Family" episode. Hopefully Jay has an appearance.

Ooh, Bruce Banner's back for the Red Hulk episode. Should be a good one.

I think it's one of the show's biggest strengths - I hear some people find the transitions confusing and the character motivations unclear, but it's a show that really plays loose with the conventions of plot. I'd say it relies more on impressions and ideas than any sort of traditional...

But it seem brutal for brutality's sake - the draw of this show IS the violence and brutality, not making any sort of statement on it but simply showing it off. I could be wrong, but that's the impression I'm getting from the first episode. I didn't really "feel" anything when I saw a guy's eyes...

Not necessarily gory, but... brutal sexy warden, a bunch of inmates beating up a little kid, some guy's eyeballs exploding? It's all very over-the-top and "entertaining violence." I mean, in comparison, that scene in Casshern Sins where he's tearing the robot's "guts" out. Less violent than...

Considering how well law enforcement relates with the black community of Dakota (well, I suppose the poorer part in general), I could definitely see the Light picking some targets there - not runaways, but definitely kids who "won't be missed" by society at large. As for Icicle Jr. keep in mind...

It's probably a bad fit for Toonami, definitely (putting something slow and moody RIGHT in the middle of the block at 1:00 in the morning is a recipe for failing asleep). But this episode had a lot more action than I remember, so the same could be true of the entire series.

It's sort of exploitation fare - having only seen the first episode, it seems less concerned with character and story quality and more with spectacle, violence, all that. It's boundary-pushing and entertaining, but not necessarily in a good way.

Later. Great night for the return - it's not prime Toonami, but it's at least as good as the last year or two in its lifetime. A few more bumps and such and we'll be rolling - two thirds are solid, a third is amazing, what more can you ask for?

I thought it was unabashedly stupid, but in a fun way: I look forward to seeing where it goes. A nice softball show to start things off... well, ignoring the horrible gore and violence and abuse and general bad-feeling-ness. :sweat: