I just watched the first episode. I kind of liked it and had a good laugh though probably for all the wrong reasons.
Frankly, it reminded me of the typical team in a so-called role-playing game. You've got a group of people that it makes no sense why they would be together or stay together but they do because of a contrived plot device that has nothing to do with anything intrinsic to the characters. You've got the professional assassin working side-by-side with humanitarians. You've got the two "players" who really want to be playing villains but they have to have at least a shallow pretense of being heroes to be in "the game".
I wasn't taking it seriously and very little about it struck me as being all that good but it wasn't bad either and strikes me as something that will be fun to watch.
Power with Girl is better.
Stein and Jax probably have my favorite dynamic in the whole show. There was anger in what they said to each other but truth as well plus concern for each other. Next favorite may be Snart and Ray. Such a huge contrast is probably why they keep pairing them together. I love Snart stealing everyone's wallets.
We get to see Rip and Mick interact this time as well as Sara and Kendra. They both have the urge to kill that they can't suppress so they have to embrace the warrior and channel it. Nice to see the two women on the team find common ground that way. Speaking of which, why does Gideon refer to them by their first names on that viewing screen thing while everyone else is their last name (except Ray was "Atom" when he shrunk inside Kendra)?
There might be more than a nod - they're experimenting with some powerful forces trying to create a superhuman. It wouldn't surprise me if Vostok ends up "negative-ized" before the storyline is over...
I do like the nod to a Russian Firestorm though. (wish I'd remembered more about those comics, but it's a bit of a blur)
Somebody explain that ending to me
Poor Ray Palmer sure did have to take a beating in this episode tonight in order to get his point across to Heatwave.
Old Man Ollie is coming. The one armed archer!
Good episode this week. I hope we see Negative Woman in the future.
DC Extended Universe Thread (DCEU)
That's how it starts. The fever. The rage. The feeling of powerlessness. That turns good men....Cruel - Alfred.
This may be the only thing that I do that matters - Bruce.
Stay down, if I wanted it, you would be dead already - Clark.