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im good with Arrow. the first half of this season was stunningly dope, and the 2nd half didnt suck either. i loved s5. loved the Bratva flashbacks. LOVED bringin Slade back into the mix. and blowing the fuck up out of Lian Yu was a nice touch (symbolically anyways, tho im sure most of the team will make it out sumhow).
Flash i think exemplifies what i, deep down, kinda hate about these shows: the writing. it could be...SO much better. i don't think having these shows be on the CW should preclude them from aiming higher, ykno? how bout some concept episodes? somethin out of the box? thats kinda how i saw season 1 of Arrow. it was taking it there, being gully. feels like s5, if not close, is at least back on the right track. but we once again kinda got bogged down in Olicity bullshit. wasnt as bad as before, but it always grinds shit to a halt.
FLASH however...Tom Cavanagh is pretty much the only thing keeping me tuning in. the writing ranges from so-so to flat out bad. season 1 is still its best (due to Tom's performance and the overall mystery of who he is). and poor Iris became this show's Felicity (circa season 3-4). Wally just faded into the background and had little to no lines or input, other than crying, bitching and/or whimpering (really, writers?). i dunno. it could be so much more. i mean they're at least going for biggish storylines, but it's stuck in this...tween zone. too much pandering to some hypothetical 'oh chicks watch this too, we gotta cater to them' demographic. feels...condescending? i mean think about the intense shit that went on during Buffy and Angel's run (on the same damn network), and how tight the writing was, the drama, the craziness of what they did and got away with. even WITH their tween pandering, they more often than not knocked it outta the park. Buffy gets taught as a course at some universities, cos of its fucking writing.
why cant these DC tv shows do the same? cos they got shit.fucking.writers. which is kinda sad. i think i've run out of liquid in my eyeballs due to how many times i rolled my fucking eyes this season of Flash. i still dig the lovey family vibe that Joe brings, i always thought of him as being a pretty stand-up character. but there's too many 'someone gets upset by a comment and walks out followed by a character saying "i'll talk to him/her" and then going for a mini D&M' moments. it's like the writers don't know how to naturally express emotion through conversation. it all gets placed into a box on their script like "the cliche'd repetitive D&M happens in this scene".
i think enjoyed LoT and Arrow the most this season, though LoT kinda tapered off and i haven't seen the backhalf of the season yet. im not sure WHY, but most of u folks in this post seem extremely forgiving when it comes to Flash. think its about time we acknowledge, at least, the shitty inconsistency of its writing. and mishandling of characters, and human EMOTION. and EXPRESSION of that emotion. feels like a goddamn teenager is writing these fucking things sometimes.
anyways, alla that said..............
.......cyas next season? lol.
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