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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1205727" data-attributes="member: 5171">Man, I'm lovin' this season -- it's back on my TiVo season pass.My thought re<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />oomsday went like this:"Okay, Doomsday, that's wonderful, didn't like him in the comics, and now he's got pants and... okay, breaking stuff, that's fun, the fight, that's kind of cool, neat sonic boom effect, I always just hated that he was so dumb and... oh, crud, he can TALK?  Wow, that's funny, I expected him to be stu... oh, wait, nevermind, NOW he's stupid."I saw it as a deliberate tweak of our expectations.  In future episodes, he'll be just as dumb as he is in the comics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And to be fair, while they did name him in the credits, I don't believe he is ever named in the episode itself -- so if you really hate the concept, just assume that he wasn't actually Doomsday, just some strong guy who looked a bit like him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Wasn't that bugged by Bats building the dimensional gateway, since Bats already did it in "The Savage Time", right?Loved the Batman dialogue.  Loved the Flash getting to be useful.  Was interested in Luthor ending up helping the team, although I thought that giving him a pardon was going a bit far.  It felt like a heavy-handed way of getting Luthor to be a political villain again, rather than a supervillain.And I was watching this as a parallel of the Earth2 issue of JLA -- not exactly, of course, but as a neat new spin.Loved the way that they didn't show Luthor's body at the beginning -- just the chair that had been cut in half by heat vision.Loved the dummy, which made me laugh out loud.This season is kicking butt.  They've gotten the characters developed a lot better, they're letting people actually die (or doing it a bit closer to onscreen), and their dialogue has improved a bunch.  Watching Bats and Wonder Woman say "Excuse me" in unison when bad guys try to kidnap the princess in the recent Vandal Savage episode made me laugh out loud.</blockquote>

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