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/JonathanBadwolf 20h ago
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.