This Week: The Writers Room for Legends of Tomorrow

An Honest Fangirl: Football season is officially upon us, so I spent far too many hours watching that and various pre and post game shows. But I've also been watching more Shudder documentaries. Horror's Greatest is currently airing and it's very good!

It covers a different subgenera or aspect of horror movies each week. This week's episode was on Japanese Horror. I only wish that it was longer and could cover more movies. They didn't mention anything that was made in the last 15 years, which feels like an oversight. But as a broad overview of what would be considered classic movies that everyone should watch, it did a good job.

I've also been watching The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time. And it's absolutely excellent. It's eight episodes long, and while it does dive deeply into a specific moment from each movie, it also offers a great overview of why the movie is scary or a classic. Highly recommend, if only because where else do you get to watch special effects legend Tom Savini lament how the blood in the original Day of the Dead looks like melted crayon?

What's everyone else watching?

Victoria Grossack: I switched continents this week, so I watched a movie on British Airways: Turtles All the Way Down. I rather enjoyed it. I also watched parts of the debate, and continued my The Umbrella Academy rewatch.

Billie Doux: I'm a couple of episodes into Kaos and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Other than it's exceptionally clever. Zeus played by Jeff Goldblum in a tracksuit?

Samantha M. Quinn: I started watching Umbrella and I'm looking forward to finishing the final three episodes. So far I kind of love it. Especially episode two, that song, that road trip, that might be the most over the top thing I've ever seen on this show.

I'm starting to get hyped for the final season of Arcane dropping in November. I'm somewhat interested in trying Kaos, if only for Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. Both 9-1-1 shows come back in a couple of weeks so that's something to look forward to.

I'm tentatively excited about Agatha All Along and the Netflix Tomb Raider animated series. There's an upcoming gameshow with a title that made me smile. So does anyone remember Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. Well this is Are You Smarter than a Celebrity? using basically the same format, but without Jeff Foxworthy (thank god).

Mommy shark do do ta do ta do!

Mark Greig: The BBC got hold of all 1000+ episodes of the original One Piece and against my better judgement I got into it so that's going to consume my attention for the next few months.

Juliette: I loved the road trip in Umbrella Academy too! 😆

Samantha M. Quinn: Wow, that's ambitious, Mark. At least you aren't trying to watch all of Pokemon. I am in the middle of the first season of a Supernatural rewatch, and I finished 14 seasons of Grey's Anatomy because I'm a masochist.

Mark Greig: Admittedly I will cheat somewhat and skip all the filler arcs, but I don't think they are that long. It's not like with Bleach where they'd stop the main story arc in the middle of a fight to have 36 episodes of filler. I don't know how anyone watched that live without repeatedly banging their head against the wall.

Josie Kafka: My list of things to watch is longer than my list of things I have watched these days:

I'm waiting for all of the Rings of Power episodes to air before I binge them.

I'm looking forward to the In Vogue documentary about 1990s fashion which premieres on Disney+ this weekend. And I was surprised and delighted to learn that we're going to get a Salem's Lot movie soon! Apparently they made it back in 2021 and it went into whatever cryogenic storage facility HBO/Max keeps its IP in. Until now! It'll be streaming on Max on October 6th.

I did watch Kaos and really loved it. The pacing in the first half is a bit iffy, but it's worth the payoff.

I also have a long, long list of things I really want to review once I find the time. Some of it is obvious stuff, like Kaos and the second season of The Tourist. But I also have a list of movie reviews I think would make our site even better: Babe, Shawshank, Glass Onion ...stuff like that. I'd be curious to see what everyone else's "movie review wishlist" might look like.

Mark Greig: I have the Lord of the Rings trilogy planned, but will probably hold on on them until I've finished rereading the books (currently just got started on Two Towers). I've thought about finishing off some of the four film franchises we've only covered half of (Batman, Superman, Alien), but keep getting put off by the fact it would mean rewatching all the bad films in those franchises.

Billie Doux: Yeah, I think there's a good reason why half of those film franchises aren't reviewed. Superman III was one of the biggest movie disappointments of my life. I should add how much I love that Fangirl and Josie are posting shark attack movies and Robin Hood movies. It's just fun, and very us.

Mikey Heinrich: I can't be the only one desperately wishing that there existed a movie about Robin Hood fighting a giant superintelligent shark.

An Honest Fangirl: There are movies about shark/octopus hybrids, sharks that swim through sand, house sharks, giant mecha sharks fighting giant prehistoric sharks... but alas, I don’t think there’s any Robin Hood fighting sharks movie. Although if I’m wrong, I will absolutely review it in a heartbeat.

Mark Greig: Sherwood is too landlocked for it to work, better to make a prequel about Robin (Jason Statham) returning from the crusades when his ship is attacked by sharks who are also wealthy giving him a life long hatred of the rich.

An Honest Fangirl: No, no. The sharks are ancient forest sharks that swim between the trees being driven from their ancestral home by Evil Anachronistic Capitalist Lords who are mining or cutting down the forest or something else for Progress and Money. Or demons summoned by the sheriff to finally rid himself of them once and for all. Take your pick.

Mikey Heinrich: I would watch all of those movies.

Josie Kafka: One of the sharks can be a loan shark, robbing the poor through extortionate payday loans.

Mark Greig: Or how about a musical where the Sharks are a rival gang just moved to Nottingham and everything has to be resolved with an energetic dance number.

Mikey Heinrich: I bet this is exactly what it was like in the writers room for Legends of Tomorrow.

Josie Kafka: Mark, will the Sharks battle the Jets?

Mark Greig: Yes, but then they'll all team up with the Merry Men to fight Josh Brolin's Sheriff of Nottingham before he can collect all the Infinity Stones.

Mikey Heinrich: Why has Disney never done an animated West Side Story that's a Finding Nemo/Cars Mashup and they're actual sharks and jets?

Huge missed opportunity.

Mark Greig: Now that I think of it, those are Pixar, aren't they? My point still stands.

An Honest Fangirl: This is where I’m reminded that there is a movie called Planes. Which, despite being a spinoff of Cars, is not produced by Pixar.

Mark Greig: Considering their vastly different natural environments, I'm curious to know how jets and sharks would even interact.

Mikey Heinrich: It would make things awkward if halfway through One Hand, One Heart, Maria asphyxiates and dies.

Mark Greig: Bernardo vs Riff:

Mikey Heinrich: Chef's kiss. No notes.