by OL » Thu May 25, 2017 3:36 pm
I'm aware that I'm just talking to myself on this, but the seasons for Arrow and the Flash just ended, and it's... just so weird.
I mean, this entire season on the Flash, everything turned terrible really, really suddenly, and I've pretty much hated it the whole way. Every character (except for one or two) has gone through changes that made me flat-out dislike them, and the story has been riddled with holes and truly idiotic "twists" at pretty much every step. Such a strange sidestep from the first two seasons, which I genuinely enjoyed; they were cheesy, yes, but entertaining nonetheless, and seemingly self-aware enough that the cheesiness was totally excused. This season, by contrast, seemed to take itself way too seriously, and sucked just about all the fun out of everything. And the season finale was no exception. I stuck with the show for the whole season despite thinking it was utter trash because it used to be good, and there's still potential... but goddamn. They even had a musical crossover episode with Supergirl, and that's just... no.
Just no.
Such a disappointment seeing it go so bad so quickly. I may come back and watch a few episodes once it starts again next year, but that'll be its last chance. It's been near-Supergirl levels of bad, and that's hard to come back from.
On the complete opposite side of thing, Arrow was fucking phenomenal this season. Sure, it had its flaws, like it always does (occasional unnecessary chessiness, a tendency to repeat itself a little too often, terrible dialogue now and then), but those flaws were always made up for by great action, a generally really solid plot, and possibly more comic dork fanservice than they've ever indulged in before. Seriously, they introduced mega-obscure DC characters this season like Wild Dog, Vigilante, Ragman, and turned an existing character into Mr Terrific, while also bringing in Talia al Ghul, the original Black Canary, and seemingly giving Deathstroke a much more comic-accurate turn in the finale (which, hopefully, could lead to more appearances in further seasons). And yeah, that finale was pretty damn great.
I'm just absolutely confused how two concurrently-running show led by the exact same creative teams could end up so incredibly disparate in terms of quality. The Flash was total shit, Arrow was fun and excellent. So strange.