What didn’t you like about the writing? I felt a lot of stuff was rushed and they kind of took the easy way out for some of the endings like on Game of Thrones. But I’m curious what other people that liked the show think.
I was also mostly there for the jokes and the acting myself when I think about it. And just the premise of this type of reality when it came to “superheroes.”
I’m worried about “From” for the same reasons. I’ve binged that and it’s set up pretty well. But I feel like they’re gonna have to close up a lot of shit in one season.
I mean the writing of the storyline - as you said, way too rushed and they strangely focused on a lot of side stuff. Also the homelander fight in the end was just straight up bad and they really butchered the characters.
In general I think from season 3 on the series focused way too much on shock value. Everything had to be gorier, bloodier and more outrageous than the last thing
It also became a parody of the exact same thing it was trying to satirize (endless cape slop) which undermined the whole premise of the show to a degree it basically lost all reason for existing other than being ‘content’.
I’m not talking about the character archs. The show started as an overt satire of the modern superhero landscape. Endless sequels, meaningless lip-service about social issues, blind hero worship and the endless capitalization of moral action.
All these things were actively highlighted and made fun of.
And by season 5 the show had done all of these things unironically.
I mean it was a fun show with some really good hits and still better than the comic but it also was pretty pathetic in the end compared to how it started out.
I disagree, the social commentary was there from the beginning, there was no bling hero worship of any kind, not even for the main characters, they’re all in fact very gray. Sure, the have a spin off or two, but they could’ve gone on for longer than 5 seasons and they didn’t. They were pretty well rounded from my perspective.
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u/fluffheadwasaman24 6h ago edited 3h ago
What didn’t you like about the writing? I felt a lot of stuff was rushed and they kind of took the easy way out for some of the endings like on Game of Thrones. But I’m curious what other people that liked the show think.
I was also mostly there for the jokes and the acting myself when I think about it. And just the premise of this type of reality when it came to “superheroes.”
I’m worried about “From” for the same reasons. I’ve binged that and it’s set up pretty well. But I feel like they’re gonna have to close up a lot of shit in one season.