Flash season six: not a fan
Aug. 31st, 2020 05:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHave finished watching season 6.
I think if that was the first season I wouldnt watch this show.
It had good bits - Sue is so cute - but it was just frustrating mostly and it both did and did not engage with the thing where people can look identical and be completely different and I just ... did not end up liking it.
Also all the timeline changes introduce problems but Crisis is a whole other level and they're really demonstrating that. Like, the whole thing with Piper? For once they show us what the difference is, so that's helpful, but it shows that nothing we think we know applies here, nobody is the same, and they're not going to have consequences, or be held accountable for their own actions, they're going to have plot arbitrarily imposed on them.
So why are we still here?
I mean, it's different people in a different world doing different things.
And Iris of Earth Prime is no more Earth 1 Barry's wife than Earth 2 Iris was, and I thought they might actually look at that, but they haven't.
What has happened from Earth Prime's point of view is creation rolled along as per usual from the dawn of time until Crisis, and then precisely 7 people got swapped. Nash is weird, but other than that, the Paragons are swapped with their Earth Prime counterparts. It's only the universe that changed from the point of view of 7 people. For everyone else it's the Paragons.
Nobody mentions that.
J'onn goes around imposing entire different personalities on people to 'remind' them of something that never no more existed. That's like deciding Ava should be one of her clone sisters, or vice versa. It's really screwed up. And nobody notices that.
So now what am I supposed to like about all this?
The changes mean they dont keep the characters, the story, or the world.
But hey, supers punch things every week.
I just feel values dissonance here. They should be trykng to save people they are punching. Grodd and Piper got a chance so that's good, but everyone else?
I am going to go back to the version in my head.
... I feel about the tv show the way I do about the comics, I guess, and for the same reasons.
Too many reboots, I'm hanging out in fanfic instead, at least then we choose which bits of character and history to keep.
I think if that was the first season I wouldnt watch this show.
It had good bits - Sue is so cute - but it was just frustrating mostly and it both did and did not engage with the thing where people can look identical and be completely different and I just ... did not end up liking it.
Also all the timeline changes introduce problems but Crisis is a whole other level and they're really demonstrating that. Like, the whole thing with Piper? For once they show us what the difference is, so that's helpful, but it shows that nothing we think we know applies here, nobody is the same, and they're not going to have consequences, or be held accountable for their own actions, they're going to have plot arbitrarily imposed on them.
So why are we still here?
I mean, it's different people in a different world doing different things.
And Iris of Earth Prime is no more Earth 1 Barry's wife than Earth 2 Iris was, and I thought they might actually look at that, but they haven't.
What has happened from Earth Prime's point of view is creation rolled along as per usual from the dawn of time until Crisis, and then precisely 7 people got swapped. Nash is weird, but other than that, the Paragons are swapped with their Earth Prime counterparts. It's only the universe that changed from the point of view of 7 people. For everyone else it's the Paragons.
Nobody mentions that.
J'onn goes around imposing entire different personalities on people to 'remind' them of something that never no more existed. That's like deciding Ava should be one of her clone sisters, or vice versa. It's really screwed up. And nobody notices that.
So now what am I supposed to like about all this?
The changes mean they dont keep the characters, the story, or the world.
But hey, supers punch things every week.
I just feel values dissonance here. They should be trykng to save people they are punching. Grodd and Piper got a chance so that's good, but everyone else?
I am going to go back to the version in my head.
... I feel about the tv show the way I do about the comics, I guess, and for the same reasons.
Too many reboots, I'm hanging out in fanfic instead, at least then we choose which bits of character and history to keep.