Each episode is slightly different in focus and theme. I'd consider them distinct episodes, just painfully short ones. Certainly, if they were stitched together, it would also feel a bit weird.
Spoilers Vixen - Web Series
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She's really nothing like Oracle, except for the fact that she's the computer expert ally of a superhero. Personality wise, they're not remotely alike.
^Which is why I said "Oracle" and not "Barbara Gordon". Also why I used the qualifier "pretty much", not "exactly like."
Super-hacker, neigh omnipotent tech-support and disembodied voice for superheroes pretty much describes both Oracle and Felicity's role to a tee. (Note the use of the word "role" not "character".)
The person behind the proverbial mask is a whole other thing. Just as Terry McGinnis *is* Batman despite being nothing like Bruce Wayne personality wise and how Mile Morales *is* Spider-Man despite not being exactly like Peter Parker. Or perhaps more aptly how both Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown were very much Batgirl while Helena Bertinelli decidedly wasn't despite her attempt to do so.
So yes, Ms. Smoak is about as close to Oracle as you can get without the wheelchair and the big green holographic wall thingy.
By that logic, she's about as close to Data as you can get without making her an android. He, like her, delivers tech explanations/help, sometimes in person and sometimes over a communicator, and he does it generally from a big room with a bunch of computer/tech equipment. He also has more emotional range, but that's probably irrelevant to the conversation.
I'm pretty sure everything you just said is irrelevant to the conversation, but there you are.
Episode five is up. This one is mostly origin and exposition. I was surprised at the blood depicted, and had to remind myself that this wasn't meant for TV.
I'm assuming/hoping that Barry and Ollie will return next week.
I'm assuming/hoping that Barry and Ollie will return next week.
So which animal gave her the power of intangibility? The guy lunging at her was a couple feet away and she didn't move when she went chameleon.
It's typical of the PG-13-rated DC Universe DVD movies, which have a lot of the same creative team as this.
And yet again, American TV portrays Africa as consisting exclusively of tiny, primitive villages and empty savannah. At least the warlord's men had modern weapons.
Hm, a bit anticlimactic, and kind of rushed. Although if it leads to the gorgeous Megalyn Echikunwoke showing up as a live-action Vixen on one of the other shows, that's fine with me.
It wasn't bad, just extremely poorly paced. To fit through everything, it had to be rushed, which made the fight a bit weak.
Now I can binge watch the season in half an hour.
See if that works. To me, each episode was clearly distinct with a separate purpose, beginning, and end.
I just did that my self a little while ago. I think watching it in its entirety really highlights the limitations of the format. Even the longest episode was still a couple minutes shorter than the average Fleischer Supes. Everything just felt so cramped and claustrophobic. Scenes weren't allowed to breathe and develop.
However, the technical aspects were all excellent. I assume they were trying to go for a Timm style? The production quality was there.
I do see potential for a "Saturday morning" show if they ever choose to go that route. Might be a good way to really open up the DCW.
However, the technical aspects were all excellent. I assume they were trying to go for a Timm style? The production quality was there.
I do see potential for a "Saturday morning" show if they ever choose to go that route. Might be a good way to really open up the DCW.
It didn't look Timm-like at all to me. The character designer was Phil Bourassa of Young Justice and the current DC Universe DVD movie series, and Vixen was very much in his own distinctive style. If it suggests Timm to you, it's probably because Warner Bros. Animation has developed a fairly consistent visual style in terms of their use of color, lighting, and character animation, even across very different design styles such as Timm's and Bourassa's. (Really, Timm's is a lot more stripped-down and caricatured; Bourassa goes more for detail and relative realism.)
No market for that on TV anymore. Cartoon advertisers want the shows they sponsor to be aimed at the very narrow young-boy demographic that they consider the most profitable. Which is why Warner Bros. has taken all the older-skewing stuff to the direct-to-video market, and now the online-streaming market.
I binge watched all the episodes in just over half an hour. It worked pretty well. The whole thing felt like one cohesive story/half-hour episode. I could tell that if I were watching one episode a week, the hooks would have filled me with anticipation but the episodes themselves didn't feel like distinct parts.
- They managed to cram a lot into 30 minutes. Animation tends to be good at this. I don't think a live-episode show could have accomplished all that this did.
- Loved the story.
- Loved the character. She did embrace the 'Vixen' title rather quickly though, right there on the rooftop.
- I wondered if she could actually fly or if there were limitations to what she could mimic. Then sure enough, she eventually flew.
- I wonder what they'll do with Megalyn's long hair if she takes on the live-action version.
- I kept wondering who could play the supporting characters. Looks like the actual voice actors could reprise their roles... Neil Flynn as the father, Anika Noni Rose as the sister, Sean Patrick Thomas as the professor and even Kari Wuhrer as the foster mother. Kimberly Brooks as young Kari? Not so much.
^
You'd be surprised with what they can do with wigs.
You'd be surprised with what they can do with wigs.
^ Yeah, I suppose.