The Flash season 7
Jul. 8th, 2022 05:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethby the end of the season I don't hate it but if this was a beginning I wouldnt keep watching it.
Whatever the story was trying to do it's a kind of blurred mess. They have moments where story and theme seems to emerge, then they... go away again.
I think they were trying to do better about mental illness but I'm not sure they managed it.
The fundamental problem is in this genre mental illness exists, mental hospitals exist, and treatments... apparently do not. So people just have problems.
*sigh*
The bit I predictably liked about the ending was when Eobard came back
but the lightning sword fight lost my interest despite it including at least three of my favourite things
I think because people were mostly swinging the lightning like bats. At best they were using strength moves when they're all dex fighters.
I think the show feels it is running out of ways to make actual speedster fights interesting, hence all these lightning throwing stars and whips and sudden light sabers, but they're not good at those kind of fights either.
... though come to think I suspect some of the moves are straight from Arrow...
Eobard coming back was interesting as an idea but as a thing to watch he was only, like, actually himself, for a few seconds and some sentences.
And there was nothing in the choreography to say he taught Barry, nothing about being equal and opposite, nothing in the moves that says Barry learned from and outgrew him. Because their fight choreography wasn't telling a story, and wasn't very good.
Also bringing back Eobard to stop Godspeed and then telling him off for only Nearly killing him, as if the man hasn't ripped hearts out with his bare hands before, followed up by explaining Eobard is the right man for the job Because there's nothing he won't do except let anyone else kill Barry?
I mean, hypocrite much?
But it is consistent, Barry getting Eobard to do the thing and then blaming him for doing it.
They have so much story and I like so little of it if we're meant to like The Flash.
Eobard's a setup this season, not a payoff, but I want to take the parts and themes of the season apart to make a different set of angles, about mental health and consequences and reaching out to people you made.
Like, the forces include someone who was an addict, with obvious parallels to Velocity the drug and to Godspeed trying to get more more more, and someone enhancing their fears, and someone stuck on a single moment he had to learn to move on from... and that just ended, and none of them as people turned up to reach out to anyone else.
I was frustrated and tired with the Ultraviolet story. Didnt think they dealt well with that. Disability stuff and assistive technology and I'm too tired to ugh.
... and I think I'll end there because I keep coming up ugh on the rest.
Did I just make it look as if I only care about the Eobard Thawne parts?
again?
... there were some nice bits (Jay?) and some bits I'll think on more (Nora who is aware of Other Nora but is not her, so they do not in fact get her back, but Nora knowing the stories feels like part of her lives on in her... this is a really long parenthesis, but, they just agreed that HR is not Harry, but also... didn't have Barry react to that? So what even?)
but none of this show has my heart any more, which is sad.
Whatever the story was trying to do it's a kind of blurred mess. They have moments where story and theme seems to emerge, then they... go away again.
I think they were trying to do better about mental illness but I'm not sure they managed it.
The fundamental problem is in this genre mental illness exists, mental hospitals exist, and treatments... apparently do not. So people just have problems.
*sigh*
The bit I predictably liked about the ending was when Eobard came back
but the lightning sword fight lost my interest despite it including at least three of my favourite things
I think because people were mostly swinging the lightning like bats. At best they were using strength moves when they're all dex fighters.
I think the show feels it is running out of ways to make actual speedster fights interesting, hence all these lightning throwing stars and whips and sudden light sabers, but they're not good at those kind of fights either.
... though come to think I suspect some of the moves are straight from Arrow...
Eobard coming back was interesting as an idea but as a thing to watch he was only, like, actually himself, for a few seconds and some sentences.
And there was nothing in the choreography to say he taught Barry, nothing about being equal and opposite, nothing in the moves that says Barry learned from and outgrew him. Because their fight choreography wasn't telling a story, and wasn't very good.
Also bringing back Eobard to stop Godspeed and then telling him off for only Nearly killing him, as if the man hasn't ripped hearts out with his bare hands before, followed up by explaining Eobard is the right man for the job Because there's nothing he won't do except let anyone else kill Barry?
I mean, hypocrite much?
But it is consistent, Barry getting Eobard to do the thing and then blaming him for doing it.
They have so much story and I like so little of it if we're meant to like The Flash.
Eobard's a setup this season, not a payoff, but I want to take the parts and themes of the season apart to make a different set of angles, about mental health and consequences and reaching out to people you made.
Like, the forces include someone who was an addict, with obvious parallels to Velocity the drug and to Godspeed trying to get more more more, and someone enhancing their fears, and someone stuck on a single moment he had to learn to move on from... and that just ended, and none of them as people turned up to reach out to anyone else.
I was frustrated and tired with the Ultraviolet story. Didnt think they dealt well with that. Disability stuff and assistive technology and I'm too tired to ugh.
... and I think I'll end there because I keep coming up ugh on the rest.
Did I just make it look as if I only care about the Eobard Thawne parts?
again?
... there were some nice bits (Jay?) and some bits I'll think on more (Nora who is aware of Other Nora but is not her, so they do not in fact get her back, but Nora knowing the stories feels like part of her lives on in her... this is a really long parenthesis, but, they just agreed that HR is not Harry, but also... didn't have Barry react to that? So what even?)
but none of this show has my heart any more, which is sad.