Super to Stupor
Apr. 19th, 2018 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreI'm done with the last two superhero shows I was watching, Arrow and The Flash. Neither kind find anything original to do, the characters are stagnant, and the writing sucks.
For the third season in a row, Team Flash is facing a villain who is always ahead of them. Nothing they do matters, as DeVoe has every variable planned. Even for things he can't possibly know are happening. As in last season, episode after episode of futility is not entertaining television. As I said before, the good guys need to win a few battles to keep people rooting for them.
Then there's the sudden moralizing. Barry Allen has literally reset time to get what he wants. Suddenly, even the option of killing a serial murderer who absorbs the powers of those he kills is somehow off limits? This option is raised by Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man. Ralph is on the list of metahumans DeVoe is hunting for absorption. After their multiple failures to even slow Devoe down, Ralph brings up the necessity of killing this monster to save his own life.
Barry, being a condescending twat, says that "we're heroes, we don't kill." Fuck that. So of course, you know what happens. DeVoe has a plan based entirely on everyone acting exactly as expected exactly when expected (seriously, a second cup of coffee and a bathroom break ruins his scheme) and kills Ralph.
Fuck this. Ralph had become the only interesting character on the show. The CW writers seem determined to reduce everyone to a bland cardboard cutout.
They get one more episode to fix this.
Meanwhile, I've given up on Arrow, as I have completely stopped caring about any of these fuckers. None of them have the brains to pour piss out of a boot. More unstoppable bad guys, more terrible decisions made by allegedly smart people, and the fight sequences have become dull. The CW rule applies here: no one is ever allowed to be happy for more than one commercial break. Everyone spends their lives in constant gloom and fear.
Done.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: American televisions have to adopt story arcs with set endings. Arrow vs. the League of Assassins would have been a great five-year storyline. Give The Flash a similar arc, facing off against a large threat that builds while he battles the rogues gallery and picks up clues. And let people be happy once in a while!
For the third season in a row, Team Flash is facing a villain who is always ahead of them. Nothing they do matters, as DeVoe has every variable planned. Even for things he can't possibly know are happening. As in last season, episode after episode of futility is not entertaining television. As I said before, the good guys need to win a few battles to keep people rooting for them.
Then there's the sudden moralizing. Barry Allen has literally reset time to get what he wants. Suddenly, even the option of killing a serial murderer who absorbs the powers of those he kills is somehow off limits? This option is raised by Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man. Ralph is on the list of metahumans DeVoe is hunting for absorption. After their multiple failures to even slow Devoe down, Ralph brings up the necessity of killing this monster to save his own life.
Barry, being a condescending twat, says that "we're heroes, we don't kill." Fuck that. So of course, you know what happens. DeVoe has a plan based entirely on everyone acting exactly as expected exactly when expected (seriously, a second cup of coffee and a bathroom break ruins his scheme) and kills Ralph.
Fuck this. Ralph had become the only interesting character on the show. The CW writers seem determined to reduce everyone to a bland cardboard cutout.
They get one more episode to fix this.
Meanwhile, I've given up on Arrow, as I have completely stopped caring about any of these fuckers. None of them have the brains to pour piss out of a boot. More unstoppable bad guys, more terrible decisions made by allegedly smart people, and the fight sequences have become dull. The CW rule applies here: no one is ever allowed to be happy for more than one commercial break. Everyone spends their lives in constant gloom and fear.
Done.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: American televisions have to adopt story arcs with set endings. Arrow vs. the League of Assassins would have been a great five-year storyline. Give The Flash a similar arc, facing off against a large threat that builds while he battles the rogues gallery and picks up clues. And let people be happy once in a while!
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Date: 20 Apr 2018 07:03 (UTC)Barry, being a condescending twat, says that "we're heroes, we don't kill."
Condescending and really hypocritical as well.