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beccaelizabeth) wrote2017-09-23 12:42 am
beccaelizabeth) wrote2017-09-23 12:42 am
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The Flash season 3
The time travel to 2024?
Ugh.
I mean, I know what they're going for. This is the hero at his darkest. He gave up so now everything is awful. That's what happens when the protagonist gives up.
But when the Buffyverse did the Wish it didn't pretend only one girl in all the world would even be trying. ... half of them went evil because demon possession, which I've said before I hate but was just kind of sexy as a one off dark future with all the leather, so that was kind of fun, in parts. Until everyone died. And when team Angel left Angel they... kind of got their arses kicked, but not for want of trying.
I just hate the idea that there's only one person whose actions matter. And I do know that's not where the arc of this 'verse goes on general, but, this episode?
Ugh.
Also the visual damage and trashed buildings didn't seem to necessarily follow.
Things were wrapped up tidy some places but hanging around damaged others. Flash went around fixing things after the singularity so it's just shorthand for him not even trying, but it kept distracting me making me wonder how that specific damage followed in that time frame.
Barry getting that depressed, the do nothing the world stopped kind of depressed, fair enough if they want to tell it that way.
Cisco just stopping because he got disabled, rather than going back to be the CCPD metahuman tech guy and building up his own team, does not make sense. It's a story that says disability is The End and I hates it. Plus comics always do a depowered repowered arc so in 8 years if he lost his powers he should have risen again some other way, so this feels contrary to genre and extra annoying.
Everyone else? Could and should make a difference themselves. Except not here, because it isn't their story.
Julian seems to be doing work, but the story doesn't tell us it matters.
HR's work clearly matters to a whole room of people, but, that isn't for serious somehow.
And Wally just stops. Because he's not the protagonist yet. Which... no.
So I'm just annoyed, because it's all very well telling a story about team Flash making a difference, but it winds me right up if they're saying they have to have Flash around to do it. Everyone can make a difference.
Except not when their name is not in the title.
Ugh.
I mean, I know what they're going for. This is the hero at his darkest. He gave up so now everything is awful. That's what happens when the protagonist gives up.
But when the Buffyverse did the Wish it didn't pretend only one girl in all the world would even be trying. ... half of them went evil because demon possession, which I've said before I hate but was just kind of sexy as a one off dark future with all the leather, so that was kind of fun, in parts. Until everyone died. And when team Angel left Angel they... kind of got their arses kicked, but not for want of trying.
I just hate the idea that there's only one person whose actions matter. And I do know that's not where the arc of this 'verse goes on general, but, this episode?
Ugh.
Also the visual damage and trashed buildings didn't seem to necessarily follow.
Things were wrapped up tidy some places but hanging around damaged others. Flash went around fixing things after the singularity so it's just shorthand for him not even trying, but it kept distracting me making me wonder how that specific damage followed in that time frame.
Barry getting that depressed, the do nothing the world stopped kind of depressed, fair enough if they want to tell it that way.
Cisco just stopping because he got disabled, rather than going back to be the CCPD metahuman tech guy and building up his own team, does not make sense. It's a story that says disability is The End and I hates it. Plus comics always do a depowered repowered arc so in 8 years if he lost his powers he should have risen again some other way, so this feels contrary to genre and extra annoying.
Everyone else? Could and should make a difference themselves. Except not here, because it isn't their story.
Julian seems to be doing work, but the story doesn't tell us it matters.
HR's work clearly matters to a whole room of people, but, that isn't for serious somehow.
And Wally just stops. Because he's not the protagonist yet. Which... no.
So I'm just annoyed, because it's all very well telling a story about team Flash making a difference, but it winds me right up if they're saying they have to have Flash around to do it. Everyone can make a difference.
Except not when their name is not in the title.