Nerdy Obsessions (Spoilers abound)

These have been getting less and less frequent up to the point that I forgot how things work with these posts. Luckily for me, I remembered pretty quick. Welcome to my Nerdy Obsessions of this current point in my life!

Now you're probably thinking. Oh, my Gawd so much has happened what juicy stuff will he be sharing with us! Is he going to talk about Crisis on Infinite Earths? Oh my god! That show was so good! Oh! Or Batwoman! Batwoman! Scribbles you had to see Batwoman right?

I am not going to be spending too much time on the Crisis or Batwoman because I haven't seen them yet. I am only obsessing over the things that I know. Apologies. I am not going to fake my way through geeking out and will instead just tell you about things I do know.

A new area of geekdom has been recently uncovered for me, and that area is actually the wonderful world of anime! For those of you who do not know, anime is a Japanese style of animation for film or tv style shows. And oh boy, I sure do love it. I have been going slowly, watching certain animes episode by episode and trying to finish some of the ones I have started, but come onnnnn. There are so many good looking ones on the anime app I use, Funimation!!!!

Funimation! A fun place where you can watch anime for free, but only with the app on your phone! You can get access to the animes themselves in English or Japanese with subtitles. THIS BLOG POST IS NOT SPONSORED.

My favorite so far has to be Danganronpa! Danganronpa is a video game series, which has been made into two (and possibly other) animes, that follows groups of high school students who are forced into a killing game that is led by a talking bear named Monokuma, and a secret mastermind lurking in the darkness. These students are trapped with the threat of never getting out and tempted into murder by different motives all while everyone tries to survive and find the killers so they can be brought to justice and executed. Because if someone gets away with the perfect crime, everyone else gets executed and the killer wins the game. 

CAUTION: THIS GAME IS NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 DUE TO LANGUAGE AND GORE, AND I AM PRETTY SURE THE ANIME IS SIMILAR. BUT I AM NOT SURE SO WATCH OUT BUCKAROOS!

I saw the new Little Women and the English major in me loved every second of it, until my mom turned to me and joked with me saying "Now that's a real writer." I was so mad. >.< Not much else to say about the movie though. It was an excellent rehash of the source material. I did cry.

The CW is stepping things up this year not just with the crisis, but with it's newer Nancy Drew series. Again. There needs to be a lot of caution, especially in the first few episodes as there is some adult content. If you do want to watch the show and you can't wait for it to come out on Netflix, it's on the CW app. 

This Nancy Drew series shows a reluctant former mystery solver pushed back into the world of mystery when she and her acquaintances get roped into a murder investigation where they all could be suspects. But each one has a reason to look sketchy. And why does everything seem to have something to do with Nancy's dead mother and a bloody wedding dress?

This show takes Nancy Drew at the heart and portrays the story in a Riverdale-like light. Nancy is not the innocent girl we remember. Ned Nickerson is an ex-convict with a startling connection to the victim. George is Nancy's supervisor who completely hates her guts. Bess is a city girl with a huge secret. And then there is Ace, a character that seems to be exclusive to the CW show. The season has one overarching mystery with several tiny ones strewn out in between them. The season is still going so if you can, catch it on the CW or watch it on the app!

Batwoman. The trailer looks pretty amazing, and from what I have seen of her, Ruby Rose is killing the role. The premise of the show seems interesting, and it brings Batman into the universe. I have to watch it.

There may be some spoilers in this post below here! BE WARNED. I will try to keep as much as I know hidden and not spoiled.

Yep. You guessed it. SEGWAY into CRISIS. The nerd in me really wants to go dive into research and just figure out the plot. But instead, I limited myself to easter eggs and BOOOOOOY. Did I find some easter eggs. As you can guess, in a DC show, the amount of easter eggs you can put in is pretty cool. Except why settle on easter eggs when you can just get a full-on cameo. I am talking about an old CW show hero that made an appearance in Crisis. Superman himself. Tom Welling comes back as a  depowered Superman to give Smallville fans some closure after that ending over seven or eight years ago. And while it's a bit of a bummer, it closes that chapter nicely I feel. It definitely made me scream. Tom isn't the only one who reprised his role as Superman. Legends cast member, Brandon Routh, donned the cape again to play a Kingdom Come version of Superman. Wonderful, right? But I bet you have been thinking. Man. Superman is here. Where the heck is... 

Batman. You were gonna say, Batman. We got the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman from all the animated films, Kevin Conroy, in the cape and cowl as Kingdom Come Batman... Sort of. I am going to let you guys find out for yourself. But it is still so nice to see a flesh and blood Batman rather than another reference. Now, of course, there were cameos from other shows and movies that were mere clips, but there might have been a part you didn't recognize that I found was a nice little reference thrown in there.

Birds of Prey, the 2002 Warner Brothers TV series surrounding Barbara Gordon and her team including a telepath and Batman and Catwoman''s love child, had a fair amount of screentime in Crisis. Ashley Scott reprised her role as Helena Kyle in a post-apocalyptic Gotham. It was actually really cool to see a show that isn't as talked about in nerd circles get such a long cameo and you might not have understood it if you saw it. I know I didn't. I had to go googling to find out. There are also cameos from other DC related franchises including Burt Ward, who played Dick Grayson in Batman '66 aside Adam West, Ezra Miller the DCEU Flash, Tom Ellis's Lucifer, and the cast of Stargirl.

Oh? What's that? There's not an old show named Stargirl?
OH! Well GUESS WHAT? It's a new show! Coming soon to the Arrowverse! Isn't that neat. Haven't seen the trailer but I should totally analyze it right? But judging by this little cameo scene, the show is also going to be reigniting the Justice Society, bringing back a new and improved Stargirl and Hourman, along with Doctor Midnite, and a female version of Wildcat. 

The crossover also introduced the likes of Nash Wells/Pariah and Ryan Choi to the mix. Pariah is someone I have wanted to see in this series since the beginning. One of my first theories about Harrison Wells, in the beginning, was that he was Pariah. Heh. Hehehehe. HEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHE TAKE THAT!

Ryan Choi is simply the successor to Ray Palmer as The Atom. That's all on him.

Like I said. Need to watch this show in it's entirety.

And that my friends is it. I didn't touch on everything, but that isn't my job anyway. :) Till next time folks BYYEEEEEEEEEEE


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