Legends of Tomorrow Wants to Be Doctor Who With Superheroes, and That’s Just Fine by Me
There was a lot of excitement surrounding Legends of Tomorrow’s first season, but for all the fun of its mish-mashed premise, things never really seemingly clicked until the end—by which point, most people had already checked out. Thankfully, last night’s second season premiere was a strong new start, and fun as hell.
Legends of Tomorrow Wants to Be Doctor Who With Superheroes, and That’s Just Fine by Me
There was a lot of excitement surrounding Legends of Tomorrow’s first season, but for all the fun of its mish-mashed premise, things never really seemingly clicked until the end—by which point, most people had already checked out. Thankfully, last night’s second season premiere was a strong new start, and fun as hell.
Stephen Colbert’s Defense Of The New Lightsaber Is Awesomely Nerdy
Stephen Colbert has something to say to all of the scruffy-looking nerfherders who insist that the crossguard lightsaber in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is impractical: he’s been a Star Wars fan a whole two weeks longer than the rest of u…
NBC censors Constantine’s cigarettes, but is fine with scenes of murder & demonic possession.
NBC censors Constantine’s cigarettes, but is fine with scenes of murder & demonic possession.:
The original Hellblazer comics were aimed squarely at an adult audience, and were chock full of sex, violence, and adult storylines. But oddly enough, the one thing that’s been forbidden from the TV adaptation is… smoking.
“You can’t smoke on network,” Constantine director Neil Marshall told Collider this weekend. “That’s one of his character traits. We’re working around that. We’re trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We’ll see.”
Smoking isn’t just an iconic aspect of John Constantine’s character, it also has a significant effect on his life story. After discovering that he has terminal lung cancer while he’s still in his 30s, he sells his soul to two rival lords of Hell. This resulted in them curing his illness, because his death would lead to them having to start a war over his soul. Constantine’s smoking was also a major part of the Keanu Reeves movie, which portrayed the habit in a similarly negative light.