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jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-06-04 06:30 pm
jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-06-04 06:30 pm
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DC-CW finales roundup...belated
I’m not sure why I haven’t posted these until now, I just kept putting it off and now we’re here. I’d like to say I wanted to see if I had any extra thoughts to add (and I had a couple) but I kind of waited too long for that to hold a lot of water.
Supergirl 2x22
I want to like that a lot more than I did, which makes it about average for this show. I think a lot of the resolution would help if I believed in basically any of the relationships the show champions. Kara/Mon’el ended just about exactly as I’ve been predicting it would and it still left me cold. J’onn and M’gann are supposed to uncle and niece as far as I’m concerned so it creeps me out that this show has made them a ship. Alex ad Maggie have been dating for less than six months and still have so much to work out before talking about marriage (plus I still kind of have issues with the relationship in general, they’re getting better but I don’t buy this move yet).
I’m also annoyed by the plot resolution. Lead is also not good for humans, people. Considering Mon’el’s been running around all season and not getting sick every time he’s in a building with lead pipes it must take more than trace amounts to be effective, and a large concentration of lead in the atmosphere would not be good for anyone. Plus, while I’m sort of willing to trust Lena with that technology (not even quite that, as it’s basically a potential weapon of mass destruction or at least terrorism if it falls into the wrong hands), letting Lillian be involved in the process makes me nervous.
Also, I don’t understand the ending. I mainly mean the Krypton part, but I suppose I’m also hazy on what happened to Mon’el, did he travel to a parallel world? I’m sure someone will explain it at some point this summer.
I’m also sort of annoyed that we didn’t get Rhea and Jeremiah in any contrived reason to have them together. And I can’t decide if Cat’s bit about not marrying Rob Lowe at any point was funny or not since that was one of my favorite ships on Brothers & Sisters.
If we’re heading for the time skip I keep predicting is coming this isn’t a bad place to leave off. It’s not great, as there’s a lot of things that should be resolved in a more timely fashion, but I’ll only cry half-shenanigans.
As I say so often, this will probably work better on rewatch than it did watching week to week. Although I think I may have to give some thought to how I want to do a rewatch (if I do) before next season. If all the shows would work better if I dug in and watched their stories unfold, then I probably shouldn’t switch around between all of them in airing order.
The Flash 3x23
I’m not sure how I feel about that episode. I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t affected by some parts of it, but I don’t think I actually liked it that much. There were quite a few pretty good moments that probably should have resonated more with me than they did; I can recognize what they were trying to do in a lot of cases, but nothing felt like it was as good it should have been. In a lot of it I blame the writing not knowing what it wanted to be, but I also think the acting just wasn’t doing enough, everyone seemed really subdued for some reason.
But I really don’t know what to say about it. Maybe eventually I will, but not today.
Arrow 5x23
So...how is it that the one show that’s most made me predict a coming timeskip, is the one that convinces me that it’s absolutely not going to happen? I’m not even sure how they do the normal between seasons timeskip at this point. Because unless the Legends swooped in, we’re going to need to see how this resolves. Because no way in hell do I believe the show just killed off its entire supporting cast. It’s completely unsatisfying if they were treating this as effectively a finale, and absolute suicide since isn’t the series finale. I’m not even convinced Malcolm is dead, that cockroach wasn’t going to go down off screen like that (though he was fighting a guy named Harkness).
Unlike the other shows on this list, I have like a million things to process regarding this episode. I don’t know that it was wholly satisfying (I think things like Slade being a good guy again, and Nyssa and Talia’s backstory needed more establishment; and a lot of character dynamics were really underwritten and coasting on what we do know of them), but I think it was a good episode. Overcrowded, and in some ways intentionally so since it involved almost every character it could (not counting Ray and Sara, this leaves Lyla – dude even I almost forgot about Lyla, the show needs to stop that – and Roy and Donna and Anatoli as about the only characters that didn’t appear), but very much a culmination of almost everyone who mattered coming together for this battle.
But this is going to take some time to unpack. May have to put the retrospective on hold for a bit until I do (I kind of did, though there were other reasons too); I didn’t initially start with LoT because I was worried about it catching too much of my issues with that season finale, and this is probably even more so. We’ll see what happens...on all fronts I suppose.
Supergirl 2x22
I want to like that a lot more than I did, which makes it about average for this show. I think a lot of the resolution would help if I believed in basically any of the relationships the show champions. Kara/Mon’el ended just about exactly as I’ve been predicting it would and it still left me cold. J’onn and M’gann are supposed to uncle and niece as far as I’m concerned so it creeps me out that this show has made them a ship. Alex ad Maggie have been dating for less than six months and still have so much to work out before talking about marriage (plus I still kind of have issues with the relationship in general, they’re getting better but I don’t buy this move yet).
I’m also annoyed by the plot resolution. Lead is also not good for humans, people. Considering Mon’el’s been running around all season and not getting sick every time he’s in a building with lead pipes it must take more than trace amounts to be effective, and a large concentration of lead in the atmosphere would not be good for anyone. Plus, while I’m sort of willing to trust Lena with that technology (not even quite that, as it’s basically a potential weapon of mass destruction or at least terrorism if it falls into the wrong hands), letting Lillian be involved in the process makes me nervous.
Also, I don’t understand the ending. I mainly mean the Krypton part, but I suppose I’m also hazy on what happened to Mon’el, did he travel to a parallel world? I’m sure someone will explain it at some point this summer.
I’m also sort of annoyed that we didn’t get Rhea and Jeremiah in any contrived reason to have them together. And I can’t decide if Cat’s bit about not marrying Rob Lowe at any point was funny or not since that was one of my favorite ships on Brothers & Sisters.
If we’re heading for the time skip I keep predicting is coming this isn’t a bad place to leave off. It’s not great, as there’s a lot of things that should be resolved in a more timely fashion, but I’ll only cry half-shenanigans.
As I say so often, this will probably work better on rewatch than it did watching week to week. Although I think I may have to give some thought to how I want to do a rewatch (if I do) before next season. If all the shows would work better if I dug in and watched their stories unfold, then I probably shouldn’t switch around between all of them in airing order.
The Flash 3x23
I’m not sure how I feel about that episode. I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t affected by some parts of it, but I don’t think I actually liked it that much. There were quite a few pretty good moments that probably should have resonated more with me than they did; I can recognize what they were trying to do in a lot of cases, but nothing felt like it was as good it should have been. In a lot of it I blame the writing not knowing what it wanted to be, but I also think the acting just wasn’t doing enough, everyone seemed really subdued for some reason.
But I really don’t know what to say about it. Maybe eventually I will, but not today.
Arrow 5x23
So...how is it that the one show that’s most made me predict a coming timeskip, is the one that convinces me that it’s absolutely not going to happen? I’m not even sure how they do the normal between seasons timeskip at this point. Because unless the Legends swooped in, we’re going to need to see how this resolves. Because no way in hell do I believe the show just killed off its entire supporting cast. It’s completely unsatisfying if they were treating this as effectively a finale, and absolute suicide since isn’t the series finale. I’m not even convinced Malcolm is dead, that cockroach wasn’t going to go down off screen like that (though he was fighting a guy named Harkness).
Unlike the other shows on this list, I have like a million things to process regarding this episode. I don’t know that it was wholly satisfying (I think things like Slade being a good guy again, and Nyssa and Talia’s backstory needed more establishment; and a lot of character dynamics were really underwritten and coasting on what we do know of them), but I think it was a good episode. Overcrowded, and in some ways intentionally so since it involved almost every character it could (not counting Ray and Sara, this leaves Lyla – dude even I almost forgot about Lyla, the show needs to stop that – and Roy and Donna and Anatoli as about the only characters that didn’t appear), but very much a culmination of almost everyone who mattered coming together for this battle.
But this is going to take some time to unpack. May have to put the retrospective on hold for a bit until I do (I kind of did, though there were other reasons too); I didn’t initially start with LoT because I was worried about it catching too much of my issues with that season finale, and this is probably even more so. We’ll see what happens...on all fronts I suppose.