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Clean Talking Chimp said,
October 1st, 2008 

Who thinks this crap up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Niall said,
October 1st, 2008 
I’d like to say that I did - but it really is true!!

Niall

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October 1st, 2008 

YOur right! That GREYSON film on Youtube is pretty good! Well worth seeing!

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Clean Talking Chimp said,
October 1st, 2008 

Niall,I’m not referring to your reporting but to those who come up with really crappy idea’s in Hollywood.

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John "Kahless" Taylor said,
October 1st, 2008 

Can I have some of what the WB execs have been drinking? That’s a pretty good drug trip their on. :-)

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Daniel said,
October 1st, 2008 

This is really sad. Honestly is there anyone out there who would actually want to watch this? I like the Nightwing idea, but what is interesting about Dick Greyson before he becomes Robin? Nothing.

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INK said,
October 1st, 2008 

THat fan film preview is very good. I’d see it.

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steven the git said,
October 1st, 2008 

I really don’t get this one. I mean he has no powers, and no training or gadgets like he will have when he becomes Robin.
So basically he will fight badguys with, what, his trapeze act?

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Patrick said,
October 1st, 2008 

the name is what gets me. “The Graysons”
sounds like a sitcom. steven the git is absolutely right, what has Dick got going for him before he meets up with Bruce?

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Endri said,
October 1st, 2008 

For me they should do a continuing of Green Arow from Smallville.

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Daniel said,
October 1st, 2008 

At this point he’s just a young kid in a Circus. He has no real Rogue Gallery and sorry to say, but who in their right mind wants to watch a show about a 13 year old or anyone younger than that. To really create interest he’s gonna have to be at least 16 to get any audience at all and if they do that they screw the entire story. No one is gonna buy a 20 year old getting adopted and being coming a sidkick in that outfit. There is nothing about this show that will interest people it has nothing going for it.

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790 said,
October 1st, 2008 

Hey Clean Talking Chimp,,, this idea came out of the Manatee tank they’ve got over at WB Studios.
The tank has recently been upgraded with about 26 new Batman idea balls,and 69 new teen angst idea balls. 8-)

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blipvert said,
October 1st, 2008 

When I first heard the news, I didn’t read to deeply and assumed it was an animated cartoon and figured it would work as such (and would be geared at the kiddies).

However, a live action geared for the smallville crowd based on Robin before meeting Bats? uhh. so we get to watch a kid in tights do circus tricks for an hour every week. /snore

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steven the git said,
October 1st, 2008 

Damn you, Manatees!!!!

Great point. The Graysons is just an awful title. It gives no appeal or idea of the show to those unaware.

You can tell how bad this whole idea is by the fact no one is complaining about McG. ;)

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blipvert said,
October 1st, 2008 

Now, a show such as smallville based on Bats himself in his young days before donning the suit traveling the world and learning his batty ways. That I would watch.

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790 said,
October 1st, 2008 

“learning his batty ways.” Lol,!

Alfred, please throw that Batman canon out of the cave!!!!

Yes Master Bruce…

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Daniel said,
October 1st, 2008 

All of that was pretty well covered in Begins. While I would watch the show because I am a big Bat fan I probably wouldn’t enjoy it all that much. It dosn’t sound all that interesting and I would hate to see them do to Batman what they did to Superman in Smallvill.

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t'challa said,
October 1st, 2008 

I’d see it if it was well written, and maybe have Tony Zuko as the big bad crime boss that he goes against, hiring not as note worthy villans for his jobs:Deadshot, Clock King, Firefly. With him sometimes meeting batman as a cameo.

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Daniel said,
October 1st, 2008 

Ahh you’d watch it if they did with it what ruined Smallvill for me. Make it as anti cannon as they possibly can.

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Van Banoovong said,
October 1st, 2008 

I hope Smallville gets a 9th season and the Graysons would be a companion follow-up. It’d turn Thursday nights into DC superhero nights.

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blipvert said,
October 2nd, 2008 

lol. I just watched that Grayson fan movie. That was amusing. Out of all of it, I liked the Superman there the best. THAT’S the age and feel he should have been in Returns.

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October 2nd, 2008 

The fan film is great. They’ve covered a lot of bases and looks like they did it well. Too bad.

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John said,
October 3rd, 2008 

Frankly, when I first saw the title of this article, I thought “oh, c’mon, why don’t we give this one a chance first before we write it off.” But after reading about what CW intends to do with the story…I thought “Holy @#*%! What the heck were they thinking?”

Oh well, maybe I’ll give this one a shot first before I say anything more. But I have to agree that a “Nightwing” series would be more interesting.

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790 said,
October 3rd, 2008 

Sometimes you can see the suckage coming down Broadway…

That’s just how it is.

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October 3rd, 2008 

They should just move the pilot right along, tap into the ratings game and “reimagine it” into “Robin - 90201; The After Years!”

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KEL said,
October 3rd, 2008 

Niall!! That’s totally exactly my idea! If they did anything with Robin worthwhile, it would be a Nightwing TV series with flashbacks of him when he was Robin and occasioanl appearances of Batman. But doing a TV show about Dick Grayson before he was Robin (who, as mentioned, is, acoording to comics canon, a KID at this point in his life), is a SUCKY idea! What’s an even WORSE idea is making him in his late teens and still pre-Robin! WTF?

790, I got the South Park reference lol.

But scratch all that. A World’s Finest series with Superman and Batman teaiming up weekly is what I wanna see. It could be seperate from the movies, and since there’s no Superman/Batman teamup film planned for right now, a tv series would be a geat idea! They could even get Michael Green who writes the current comic of the same name to do the show (he also writes heroes and the GL film).

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Gary said,
October 3rd, 2008 

Why is WB so determined to do TV series set in Batmans world that dont have Batman in them?

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Stark said,
October 3rd, 2008 

Sorry guys I dug it. Would really like to see DG grow up, (the actor in this was a good fit), become Nightwing quickly and move on. BTW, ‘Birds of Prey’ wasn’t that bad! I might even like a team-up on that one! Gotta go buff the armor… -Stark

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Stark said,
October 3rd, 2008 

You know, on second thougt… maybe it IS time to have a ‘Smallville’ replacement. Batgirl? Young, built, Megan Fox… huh? Oh. Jarvis says my BP is up. (That ain’t the only thing!) Now I’m stuck on the image of Megan in the Batgirl getup… Oil Can!!! -Stark

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790 said,
October 4th, 2008 

Here’s a concept for the CW network…
“The Justice Teens”. Let’s just throw um all in together, and give them a Gossip Girl twist.
The show could introduce a new hero that uses the awesome power of teen angst to defeat crime, and heal like Wolverine.
To compete with Wolverine (Marvel), they might consider creating a new character called “Teen Wolf”, and then get sued by whatever Studio owns that character… Sure its short term gain,,, long term pain, but who cares, they just write that off anyway or get a bailout. 8-/
Maybe CW somehow owns Teen Wolf anyway by now ?
^
Brett Ratner interested says it all,,, oh I mean MCG,,, ;-)

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Joseph said,
October 4th, 2008 

No doubt once this one takes off they’ll announce a companion series for the kiddies: Bruce. Watch a young Bruce Wayne and his best friend, a dog named Alfred, learn important lessons about life, morality, and forming a personal relationship with Jesus*. Until the final season, where on a very special episode he watches his parents shot to death in an alley, goes more than a little insane, and becames a caped vigillante/dark avatar of vengeance.

I mean, come on. The whole point of Batman is that it’s a universe filled with otherwise normal people who were driven to insanity by life in Gotham. The only way they can make the show interesting is by making Robin an unusual character (more so than the normal circus-performing kid anyway), which only serves to make Robin a far less interesting character overall. The death of his parents, the defining incident in his life, is the one thing that makes Dick Grayson a character worth paying attention to, and knowing the producers probably the one thing that we’ll never see on screen.

(*I don’t know why, but that just makes it sound so much funnier in my head.)

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PhotoShopLifter Dan said,
October 4th, 2008 

Loved the idea of solving crimes with his trapeze…imagine him setting female hearts aflutter with his prepubescently-pansexual moves on the monkeybars at the park playground, setting the stage for his rumored “closerthanthis” future relationship with a vengeance-minded millionaire playboy who is rumored to already have a little (4-letter-diminutive-form-of-the-name-”Richard”).

And I’ll bet you thought I didn’t see that no-profanity rule, huh?

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DarkGrittyMovieLover said,
October 4th, 2008 

Pssst!!! They just couldn’t resist milking more money off their characters, couldn’t they?

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KEL said,
October 5th, 2008 

LOL @ 790! :D

They should really just do a “Teen Titans” show in all honesty, IMO. With Robin (Dick Grayson, NOT “DJ”, WTF?), Wonder Girl, Kid Flash (Wally West), Speedy, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Starfire, Aqualad, and Raven. :D

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Russ said,
October 22nd, 2008 

Smallville is a awesome show, now they want to take it out and put this in? What are the people at the cw smoking

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John "Kahless" Taylor said,
November 7th, 2008 

Looks like “The Greyson’s” have been scrapped, if comicbookmovie.com is right.

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