The Week In Geek 10/21/15

This Week In Superhero Television.... Agents of SHIELD is really coming around. It's nice that this has finally turned into a full fledged show with an identity. Some people still aren't as excited about Daisy Johnson (formerly Skye) still being the focus, but I think if they look closer, they won't see the same character they did before. In fact, Quake was a character that mostly fun but never really got to see her potential reached.

I mean, really....what the fuck ever happened to Quake? I mean, she had this great setup as Nick Fury's protege that "will go on to do great things and be one of the best agents ever." She had her own team of young, DIVERSE superpowered agents, most of which we've never heard from again including Phobos, the goddamned god of fear. This is one of those cases where Marvel could have BEEN doing the All New All Different thing ages ago. As a matter of fact, I'm going to go ahead and take that, in retrospect, as a direct attempt on Marvel's part to not let Brian Bendis OR Jonathan Hickman be great (even though they are both clearly allowed to be great now), but I digress. I think the complaining about Daisy wouldn't be so vocal if it weren't for the fact that the Most Interesting Story On The Show (What the Fuck Happened to Simmons) has been relegated to the side story.

Meanwhile, on The Flash, some of the sins of Season 1 have come back to bite this show in the ass. This week's episode mostly dealt with Captain Cold's abusive father blackmailing him into a crime spree. Since the writers have essentially defanged Cold, making any episode with him involved into anime filler (at least until Legends of Tomorrow finally debuts) it took them bringing The Voice of Darkseid in to give The Flash a reason to get shot with the cold gun. It's always interesting to jump into the minds of villains and their vulnerabilities, but the fact that it's a CW show means there's always the possibility that the writers will give into their urges to pander to the Lowest Common Denominator. In this case, that means having Golden Glider sit in the hero's lair and make doe eyes at Cisco. By the way....if your sister is a supervillain that can turn things to gold, why the fuck are you still robbing banks?

And then there's Arrow.... Last time we talked, Arrow was at least TRYING to move back to a palatable direction that isn't Oliver Queen becoming an assassin god. Now, things have picked up speed and the writers have begun to inoculate the show against sins of the past. It makes sense for the characters, given the events of last season, but come on, Oliver and Diggle starting off the new season in a bromance quarrel is not quite the nail biter we'd like. So, Felicity locks them in a room and basically orders them to suck it up. This barely takes an entire five minutes to accomplish before the duo are back on the streets, kicking butt again. So, they're speaking again and Felicity solved a problem by doing something other than crying. Two birds in one stone. They even got rid of Oliver's horrible flashback wig (despite the ever looming problem that these flashbacks are still happening even though nobody really cares at this point). Now, if only someone would do something about Diggle's awful welding helmet. I mean, his superpower is a gun. Don't you need depth perception to effectively shoot people? The show started off with him missing a bad guy directly at his side and I can't help but think maybe the narrow ass slits might have been an obstacle. Oh, well. I guess we can't have everything we want.

My comic reviews for the week on Tokyo Ghost and The Invincible Iron Man are available on Black Nerd Problems for your viewing pleasure. And don't forget about my webcomic, Neverland: The Untold. As always, feel free to like, share, comment and spread the word at your leisure.