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jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-08-16 11:31 am
jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-08-16 11:31 am
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So I haven’t really been posting anything recently (to be honest, even my review all the arrow-verse project is hit and miss, only managing more hits because I was so on the ball at first), but when the DC-CW trailers came out I wanted to review them, then forgot to post about it; I did at least add some of my hopes/thoughts for the coming seasons.
-Supergirl s3
I don’t like this trailer or what it says about where we’re going with s2. It could be an interesting character arc, but it shows that I was seeing a fundamentally different show in s2 than they think they were showing; because Kara sucked at being Kara Danvers all season so having an arc where she turns her back on being something she sucked at for so long doesn’t seem like that big a deal. I also take some issue with the idea that she won’t be being Kara Danvers by working with the DEO full time, she’s not exactly turning her back on the people she cares about by hanging out with them even more.
In general, it’s an okay trailer, but I’m not super excited by it either.
I don’t know what I really want for this season, though I do hope it gives me something to finally really get into. That might be asking a lot since it hasn’t for two seasons so far. I think I have commented on this before though, that one thing I like about Lena is that it has a lot of the Smallville-Lex aspects without it feeling so inevitable that it’s all going to end badly; I don’t know this character’s comics role and even if I did this team has reinterpreted a lot of characters already so I wouldn’t feel there was a lock. And yes, the fact that I find more engaging about Lena than Kara is probably a problem.
-Arrow s6
That was a wimpy trailer, at least half of it was just stuff from last season and the other half was super confusing. Also, Slade seems super inconsistent with the way he was written in the s5 finale; it may well be intentional since the whole thing is giving off a vibe of either completely ignoring the finale or the premier being a dream of what might have happened after the finale but didn’t.
I’m a person who likes Arrow (a lot really), but this trailer didn’t give me anything to get excited for.
I don’t exactly know what I want from this show either, I spent so much of last season thinking it was clearly supposed to be the last season and/or expecting a time skip I don’t know what I think should actually come next. I do hope that however they contrive that people survived the explosions also spared Evelyn, that’s a story that really needed more exploration. I’ll be quite conflicted once we see how it does come out, because a part of me will feel like it was just cheap drama if everyone ends up surviving, but I also don’t really want anyone to die. Also, and I know this puts me at odd with the fandom, but I wish William had never existed; part of why I figured we’d end up with a time skip was so we wouldn’t have to deal with young characters which I don’t want anywhere near this story; plus I don’t think the writing has earned Oliver as a father and I’m not interested in watching it be earned. But at the same time what they have set up means he can’t just disappear again, so either way I’m probably not going to be super happy.
One thing I do want, the only young character I’ve ever cared about, Sara Diggle. Barry is still never forgiven until that’s undone.
-The Flash s4
That wasn’t a bad trailer I guess. I was hoping we could have longer time without Barry on the show than this is predicting; let Wally be the Flash for a while (I may not like Wally that much either but at least it would be different). They also seem to be slamming the reset button on Caitlyn’s whole “I’m not Caitlyn anymore” thing in the s3 finale, but I’ll reserve judgement. It’s main problem is that it’s a promo for the Flash, and I just can’t get very excited about it, but it’s not a bad trailer for people who could.
All of which is why I have no real thoughts on the coming season. I’m not entirely sure I’ll even be watching it; I may marathon up to before whatever the crossover is before it happens, or at least not until baseball is fully done for the year, but it’s not going to be priority viewing for me I don’t think. I ended up hating so much of last season that I have no real hopes or expectations of the coming year. I may expect to be disappointed in Arrow, but I definitely care enough to feel like I’ll be upset; here I want to not hate things, specially Barry, but like I said, he’s still firmly on my shit list.
-Legends of Tomorrow s3
I really liked that one, and maybe it helps that I really like Legends. It did a good job capturing the flavor of the show while hinting at the major arc that’s going to shape the season. I suppose it’s possible this will be used to explain inconsistencies in the other shows, but we’ll see I suppose. I wish there was more Rip, but he clearly hasn’t been forgotten so I expect that they’re saving his role for the episode/s.
Also the Stein and the Titanic joke made me laugh really hard; I facepalmed pretty hard at the same time, but I definitely laughed really hard. Though it does make me wonder how young the audience of the show skews and how many aren’t going to get the joke. Not that they won’t have had it explained to them so we won’t know, but I’m a touch curious if the under 20 crowd would have anything like the same reaction.
Aside from lots of Rip being my first demand of the show, I also want them to actually go to the future next season. History is easy, preserving it something that translates for a general audience; but future-history, speculative-future stories, time lines that are just as set to those people as our past is to us, that’s harder stories to tell and something I am at least as if not more interested in. They went to the future exactly once last season for like five minutes (I guess the Legion robbed a future bank too, but that doesn’t change my point), and it bothered me. I want to know what the future looks like now.
-Supergirl s3
I don’t like this trailer or what it says about where we’re going with s2. It could be an interesting character arc, but it shows that I was seeing a fundamentally different show in s2 than they think they were showing; because Kara sucked at being Kara Danvers all season so having an arc where she turns her back on being something she sucked at for so long doesn’t seem like that big a deal. I also take some issue with the idea that she won’t be being Kara Danvers by working with the DEO full time, she’s not exactly turning her back on the people she cares about by hanging out with them even more.
In general, it’s an okay trailer, but I’m not super excited by it either.
I don’t know what I really want for this season, though I do hope it gives me something to finally really get into. That might be asking a lot since it hasn’t for two seasons so far. I think I have commented on this before though, that one thing I like about Lena is that it has a lot of the Smallville-Lex aspects without it feeling so inevitable that it’s all going to end badly; I don’t know this character’s comics role and even if I did this team has reinterpreted a lot of characters already so I wouldn’t feel there was a lock. And yes, the fact that I find more engaging about Lena than Kara is probably a problem.
-Arrow s6
That was a wimpy trailer, at least half of it was just stuff from last season and the other half was super confusing. Also, Slade seems super inconsistent with the way he was written in the s5 finale; it may well be intentional since the whole thing is giving off a vibe of either completely ignoring the finale or the premier being a dream of what might have happened after the finale but didn’t.
I’m a person who likes Arrow (a lot really), but this trailer didn’t give me anything to get excited for.
I don’t exactly know what I want from this show either, I spent so much of last season thinking it was clearly supposed to be the last season and/or expecting a time skip I don’t know what I think should actually come next. I do hope that however they contrive that people survived the explosions also spared Evelyn, that’s a story that really needed more exploration. I’ll be quite conflicted once we see how it does come out, because a part of me will feel like it was just cheap drama if everyone ends up surviving, but I also don’t really want anyone to die. Also, and I know this puts me at odd with the fandom, but I wish William had never existed; part of why I figured we’d end up with a time skip was so we wouldn’t have to deal with young characters which I don’t want anywhere near this story; plus I don’t think the writing has earned Oliver as a father and I’m not interested in watching it be earned. But at the same time what they have set up means he can’t just disappear again, so either way I’m probably not going to be super happy.
One thing I do want, the only young character I’ve ever cared about, Sara Diggle. Barry is still never forgiven until that’s undone.
-The Flash s4
That wasn’t a bad trailer I guess. I was hoping we could have longer time without Barry on the show than this is predicting; let Wally be the Flash for a while (I may not like Wally that much either but at least it would be different). They also seem to be slamming the reset button on Caitlyn’s whole “I’m not Caitlyn anymore” thing in the s3 finale, but I’ll reserve judgement. It’s main problem is that it’s a promo for the Flash, and I just can’t get very excited about it, but it’s not a bad trailer for people who could.
All of which is why I have no real thoughts on the coming season. I’m not entirely sure I’ll even be watching it; I may marathon up to before whatever the crossover is before it happens, or at least not until baseball is fully done for the year, but it’s not going to be priority viewing for me I don’t think. I ended up hating so much of last season that I have no real hopes or expectations of the coming year. I may expect to be disappointed in Arrow, but I definitely care enough to feel like I’ll be upset; here I want to not hate things, specially Barry, but like I said, he’s still firmly on my shit list.
-Legends of Tomorrow s3
I really liked that one, and maybe it helps that I really like Legends. It did a good job capturing the flavor of the show while hinting at the major arc that’s going to shape the season. I suppose it’s possible this will be used to explain inconsistencies in the other shows, but we’ll see I suppose. I wish there was more Rip, but he clearly hasn’t been forgotten so I expect that they’re saving his role for the episode/s.
Also the Stein and the Titanic joke made me laugh really hard; I facepalmed pretty hard at the same time, but I definitely laughed really hard. Though it does make me wonder how young the audience of the show skews and how many aren’t going to get the joke. Not that they won’t have had it explained to them so we won’t know, but I’m a touch curious if the under 20 crowd would have anything like the same reaction.
Aside from lots of Rip being my first demand of the show, I also want them to actually go to the future next season. History is easy, preserving it something that translates for a general audience; but future-history, speculative-future stories, time lines that are just as set to those people as our past is to us, that’s harder stories to tell and something I am at least as if not more interested in. They went to the future exactly once last season for like five minutes (I guess the Legion robbed a future bank too, but that doesn’t change my point), and it bothered me. I want to know what the future looks like now.