Batson's Blog

I haven't done a full-on review of any of the seasons of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. yet, but I've been watching all the episodes since season 1. Granted, I got a late start -- having only watched season 1 once it was on Netflix. But, thanks to ABC's online offerings and Hulu, I've been doing a much better job with staying up-to-date on AOS. I saw the season 3 finale and I was a little bit torn. First off -- I can't believe Grant Ward died. Well, he technically died several months ago, as Hive took over. To be real, he wasn't the most amazing actor in the world. To be honest, I thought he should've been killed off in the season 2 finale. That being said, the dude has managed to survive two full seasons after turning his back on S.H.I.E.L.D. in a double-cross. That's a pretty big accomplishment --- and I was kind of looking forward to seeing what crazy way Grant Ward (or an alien in his body or his evil twin or his haunting ghost, et...

I went to see Captain America: Civil War on opening day and, I have to say, it was great! Yet another good outing for Marvel here. Let's get this out of the way right away: stay until the end -- the very end. There are mid and post-credit scenes. Also, no spoilers here, so don't worry. There were only a couple of minor nitpicks, but, outside of that, I’m not complaining. So I'm not even going to mention those.  They were very minor. I didn’t really know what to expect --- other than the fact that Cap’ does battle with Iron Man, which the previews indicated.  I’m well aware that there’s a popular graphic novel with the Civil War concept, but, growing up, I never bought that many comic books – not the newer ones anyway.  I wasn’t familiar with much of the Civil War story arc.  I did briefly Wikipedia the comic book version of Civil War about a year ago, but I didn’t want to spoil the movie, so I didn’t read too much about it. I’ve seen all of Marv...

I reviewed season one of Arrow a couple of months ago.   Well, today, it’s Daredevil – the Netflix original series. I watched the pilot episode about sometime last Thanksgiving, but it took a while for me to finish up the remaining 12 episodes. I wasn’t blown away by lead actor Charlie Cox.   As of that pilot episode, I liked Ben Affleck’s portrayal better.   I know, I know .    Affleck’s version of Daredevil is considered one of the worst super hero movies there is, but I always kind of liked it.  It wasn’t incredible-amazing-spectacular, but it was good. Meanwhile, whenever Foggy Nelson was on-screen I couldn’t figure out who he reminded me of.   It was distracting me from the show.   Well, Foggy Nelson (Daredevil’s law firm partner) is played by Eldon Henson.   Thanks to IMDB, I realized he was in The Hunger Games , The Mighty Ducks and She’s All That . I also couldn’t figure out if I liked Deborah Ann Woll, who plays secret...