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    Constantine: The Hellblazer Relaunch

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    That looks remarkably like a haunted trenchcoat

     

    Yay! The worst story in the entire existance of John Constantine, and like the haunted trenchcoat of the story, it just won't die.

     

     

    I would not read that.

    Too much burned by the internet "experts"

     

    What if you were one of the 'experts"?

     

    *puts on Clouseau voice* Swine, Milligan!

    Constantine: The Hellblazer Relaunch

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    On the one hand, hopefully this will mean something more creative done on Constantine, as the creators seem like DC is going for something different here.

    On the other hand, Ray Fawkes really isn't a terrible writer, as shown by his creator owned work.

    Moving back to the first hand, outside of all the stupid cross-over shite, the Constantine plots weren't that bad. If they were just written in a less straightforward manner the book could have been much more enjoyable.

    On the other hand, I don't think there's anything very positive you can do with DCU John Constantine as long as he carries such a horrible back-story, so hopefully DC jettison that with the big event.

    Staying on that hand, the book being called "Constantine:THE Hellblazer" keeps my trepidations. It's not simply sub-titled "Hellblazer", it's saying that John Constantine is a Hellblazer, whatever the hell that is.

    I am glad that DC will continue to publish a Constantine comic book, really. Even though the New 52 version has been a horrible misfire, I really didn't want to see John Constantine totally off the stands. Hopefully, DC has learned from all the problems of the "New 52".

     

    All I know is the backstory better be back to how we all know it other than the bland unrelatable cack of the New 52. Then I'll read it.

    Potential New Home? (in case of the Big C)

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    I didn't realise they were doing that.

    That would definitely have been a good choice.

     

    Someone said SyFy is NBC ?

    Via a friend I have heard a 2nd hand thing from someone not indirectly involved in the series has heard it's cable bound.

     

    As long as Amazon UK keep it on, I am fine with that.

    Still think the people who made Luther should have done it.

     

    Now I gotten a bizarre thought of Neil Cross writing for our boy all of the sudden.....

    Ratings

    in Constantine - Adaptations on screen

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    “Constantine” (0.8/3 in 18-49, 3.3 million viewers overall from 8-9 p.m. ET) retained 95% of last week’s 3.468 million in total viewers, the show’s biggest overall audience since Nov. 21. “Constantine” will add substantial audience via time-shifting, last week having increased by +56% in 18-49 rating (from a 0.93 to a 1.42) and 1.1 million viewers overall (3.5 million to 4.6 million) going from L+SD to L+3.

     

     

    Supergirl flies to CBS

    in Comics in other media

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    two questions: will they dye her hair and eyebrows (there is not a lot looking as cold as a brunette with blonde hair that has a) no bleeched eyebrows and b) brown eyes). second: will there be a power girl... *drooling... i mean no ulterior motive behind the question *cough

     

    No Power Girl

    Look on the Bright Side

    in Constantine - Adaptations on screen

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    If they don't renew the TV show, and with Constantine's (the comic) allowed horrible sales figures, I have a feeling that we probably won't be seeing much of John Constantine in comic books for a number of years.

    I don't see him as a big enough character that fans will demand to see him popping up as a regular guest star.

    Yeah, he's still in Justice League Dark, but I don't think it has long to last either. Maybe it won't be coming back after this big cross-over. Sadly, John Constantine will end up as just another character like Deadman or Ragman, I feel.

     

    Because DC couldn't leave well enough alone; because a certain balding mustache man decided to snatch away what worked just to keep his job for the next 15 years or more. They could've cut Milligan abruptly and relaunched Hellblazer with a vol 2 instead of the New 52 cack. That version of John: happy childhood, follower to Nick Necro, JL member will never be relatable as the John Constantine we truly know and DiDio, Johns, Lee, Harras, and Nelson know this as much as they try to uphold their lie as a truth.

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    Constantine S01E09: "The Saint of Last Resorts" pt2

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    Yeah, that was great. Especially since one was twitching.

     

    I think my main problem boils down to one thing: I just cannot stand the dialogue. I really can't. I know we're all supposed to be giving the show the benefit of all doubts, especially with the Big C looming, and I know I'm always being Mr Grumbles The Comic Book Guy, but I've been wincing my way through basically every episode, and if I try to smile and nod and studiously avoid being a Negative Nancy for much longer I'm not likely to survive.

     

    But let's admit it, I'm not criticising something they've put blood-sweating amounts of effort into, am I? Because aside from the occasional John Quip, they don't seem to care about it. This is true of pretty much all the episodes, but this one was the worst for it. The plotting's good, and they have great character ideas, but when it comes to actually delivering those ideas, they just... deliver those ideas. In the blandest possible fashion, and usually by just flat-out telling you them. Or in the case of this episode, shouting them at you. Because that's how you do drama: take a summary, and shout it.

     

    The best example is the dialogue between Zed and Anne-Marie about why she's having trouble exorcising John: the big climactic emotional catharsis moment, and the entire scene's like listening to the people in the writing room pitching concepts, with their words divided randomly among the characters. I've complained from the beginning of the show that everything's always so blatantly spelled out all the time, and I had assumed it was the classic television thing of assuming the audience are idiots. But I'm starting to think it's more that they just can't be fucked. Ah, good enough for TV.

     

    Perhaps I'd enjoy the show more with the sound switched off. It is pretty much the only thing I dislike about it; everything else is fine. This one problem is just a big deal for me, and I'm surely not the one crazy person who thinks this way. For an adaptation of a comic whose main defining feature was its voice, this show doesn't seem to have any interest whatsoever in developing one. John's the only character in the whole thing who doesn't speak in tired television cliches 100% of the time, and even he manages to sit around 80%. They might as well just have the characters say "television television television" all the time and have done with it.

     

    Or they should hire someone to do the dialogue. I've never seen a show that would benefit more from that. Everything else is in place; if they can just make us glad when people open their mouths*, they'll have a great show.

     

    *this is not a forbidden concept; every single TV show that people actually care about or remember does it

    I agree with some instances but disagree on others.

     

    Hellblazer in my experience wasn't exactly "Mr. Never-Cliche-Jay". Most of it derived from how John spoke when talking to people like any other normal guy you'd find on the streets of England. But it's when he monologues is when he begins to sound like something from a Shakespeare-esque character floating around in his head. I just didn't find it to make sense that his inner monologues were filled with this intricate style of speaking with punctuation and deep philosophical wording, but when he actually talks, it sounds like he's just some down to earth guy who doesn't think any further then now. I know it might be a way to con people around him to make them think he's not anything special but he talks like this when he's alone or with Chas or people he loves.

     

    Then more issues came out and the monologuing started to lower on that style of speaking and becoming more sensible, but even then, it became more-so the brooding melodramatic kind of speaking with the cliched negative Nancy attitude. Something you'd find in the diary of a goth kid whose sick of life. I know it's a reflection of John's life but that didn't excuse it from being pretty emo cliched even back then.

     

    And then came the final comics where all deepness went out the window for most of the dialogue and inner monologuing and sadly I think this is where NBC's Constantine is following. Most of the dialogue in this show reminds me of something you'd see in comic books, which is where it's originated from. And not the deep, dark, and Shakespeare talk of the first Hellblazers under Alan Moore, but more so the cliched comic book style of the Hellblazers of the Milligan run and the DC NU 52 Constantines. But the difference in NBC's Constantine and DC's NU52 Constantine is that NBC's doesn't completely throw HB out the window. We could've actually gotten worse then this. We could've gotten completely NU52 John Constantine and stories mixed with Milligan's hand from the last Hellblazer issues by him put together and have...a big mess. We could've also had another Keanu Reevers movie of black haired John who spoke slow and obnoxiously with a disinterest in anything.

     

    Yeah NBC's dialogue is pretty cliche in some areas but it could've been worse. You ever seen the Blade TV series? There's a reason it was canceled and most of the fanbase hates it. WIth NBC's Constantine, they have John being this normal guy with much knowledge on shaby magic, the smoking, the dangers of not only demons but humans as well, and the messages of not all ways believing blindly without seeing with your own eyes. SO you gotta give it props for the show not being as bad as it could've been.

     

    Not Spike's finest hour. Nor Goyer and Johns come to that.

    Ratings

    in Constantine - Adaptations on screen

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    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/01/24/nbcs-constantine-grows-week-to-week-delivering-its-most-watched-episode-since-november-21/354868/

     

     

    In its second week in a new, earlier time period, “Constantine” (0.9/3 in 18-49, 3.5 million viewers overall from 8-9 p.m. ET) grew week to week by 0.1 of a point or +13% in adult 18-49 rating (0.9 vs. 0.8) and increased +14% in total viewers (3.479 million vs. 3.064 million.

     

    “Constantine” delivered its most-watched episode since Nov. 21 (3.541 million at 10 p.m.).

     

    “Constantine” will add substantial audience via time-shifting, having increased so far this season by an average of +79% in 18-49 rating (from a 0.98 to a 1.75) and more than 1.8 million viewers overall (3.4 million to 5.3 million) going from L+SD to L+7.

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