Constantine TV series last episode
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beccaelizabethHave to say, did not quite see that last sentence coming. Knew something was up but did not see what. And it makes the whole series make different sense, and fits together, so fair play to them.
Unfortunately it also dumps the show from not good at race to absolutely actively bad at it.
Not enough variety and Darkness was dark all along.
Actually not sad the major plot points didn't carry through in more episodes with that as the base.
Which is annoying because the characters remain compelling and the stuff I was worried it was glossing over is right there being complicated to hell. This week the concern I had about non supernatural murder being treated a bit casually got yanked front and center, and no, they were going somewhere very specific with it. John keeps tempting people into doing what he would consider the right thing, but this week that included straight up murdering a guy they'd already arrested, so, proper darkness. He wants them to Do Something to permanently end the danger, he wants them to send people straight to hell, and that's why he's involved in this and saving people but it is also the problem with him. The way Legends picked it up and worked it through is rather lighter than this, but it is an existing thread. Fascinating and compelling stuff.
Also Zed choosing to stay ill because she thinks god wants her to? Well with this new data that seems... like she got played. She's having trouble getting visions, in pain, and refusing treatment, and as I hoped this is all pretty freaking clearly Bad Things by the end of the series. Unfortunately for her she didn't get any more story after this.
The bits about fathers and daughters in this episode were probably going somewhere too.
The problem with this show, the early season clunk of it all, is I didn't feel any given episode's plot was particularly interesting of itself rather than to give characters a push. For instance this one had some girls that didn't make sense unless they were like compelled or possessed or something, they weren't doing human things for human reasons, and that is partly time constraints but partly clunky writing. The girls should have been a parallel for being drawn into abusive relationships with a side order of bad religion, all the elements were there, but they didn't make sense as people, just as horrors. Unpack that a bit and make it what the story is actually about and write characters where there were victims and you get a horror story worth watching. As it was, no, didn't work.
All the minutes spent on the zombies hunting John made sense because that was the bit the story cared about.
Which happens a lot, and makes any given episode less than it could be.
John Constantine as a character has a lot of precedent to work with so they've got a lot that is already compelling and they can just give him a showcase and watch him go. So you get a man who they keep calling arrogant, which he is, but he keeps solving things by finding the other people who can do what he cannot and encouraging them to believe in themselves, which isn't arrogant at all. Only turn that around and look at it the other way and you've got a con artist who talks other people into sticking their necks out for him over and over again. He'll risk his life over and over, especially for children, but you can never actually trust him, because he'll do what *he* thinks is right and damn the consequences. He believes he is damned with no hope of a way out, he keeps saying he'll pay when it's his time, but he'll do... so many things to put that time off. And he is *angry*. So angry. He thinks evil needs to be punished. Including his.
Fascinating and compelling character, who got more room to breathe on the other show.
Every wiki I read says that folding John into the Arrowverse retcons this series into the Arrowverse too, but I remain unconvinced. It could be a step sideways of all that.
Plus with the Crisis in the middle we see at least two versions of everyone anyway.
There were a lot of loose threads but they needed to do a Lot better at a great many things before I'd want this particular iteration of the story to be the one to tie them off.
Flawed stories with fascinating character in them.
Unfortunately it also dumps the show from not good at race to absolutely actively bad at it.
Not enough variety and Darkness was dark all along.
Actually not sad the major plot points didn't carry through in more episodes with that as the base.
Which is annoying because the characters remain compelling and the stuff I was worried it was glossing over is right there being complicated to hell. This week the concern I had about non supernatural murder being treated a bit casually got yanked front and center, and no, they were going somewhere very specific with it. John keeps tempting people into doing what he would consider the right thing, but this week that included straight up murdering a guy they'd already arrested, so, proper darkness. He wants them to Do Something to permanently end the danger, he wants them to send people straight to hell, and that's why he's involved in this and saving people but it is also the problem with him. The way Legends picked it up and worked it through is rather lighter than this, but it is an existing thread. Fascinating and compelling stuff.
Also Zed choosing to stay ill because she thinks god wants her to? Well with this new data that seems... like she got played. She's having trouble getting visions, in pain, and refusing treatment, and as I hoped this is all pretty freaking clearly Bad Things by the end of the series. Unfortunately for her she didn't get any more story after this.
The bits about fathers and daughters in this episode were probably going somewhere too.
The problem with this show, the early season clunk of it all, is I didn't feel any given episode's plot was particularly interesting of itself rather than to give characters a push. For instance this one had some girls that didn't make sense unless they were like compelled or possessed or something, they weren't doing human things for human reasons, and that is partly time constraints but partly clunky writing. The girls should have been a parallel for being drawn into abusive relationships with a side order of bad religion, all the elements were there, but they didn't make sense as people, just as horrors. Unpack that a bit and make it what the story is actually about and write characters where there were victims and you get a horror story worth watching. As it was, no, didn't work.
All the minutes spent on the zombies hunting John made sense because that was the bit the story cared about.
Which happens a lot, and makes any given episode less than it could be.
John Constantine as a character has a lot of precedent to work with so they've got a lot that is already compelling and they can just give him a showcase and watch him go. So you get a man who they keep calling arrogant, which he is, but he keeps solving things by finding the other people who can do what he cannot and encouraging them to believe in themselves, which isn't arrogant at all. Only turn that around and look at it the other way and you've got a con artist who talks other people into sticking their necks out for him over and over again. He'll risk his life over and over, especially for children, but you can never actually trust him, because he'll do what *he* thinks is right and damn the consequences. He believes he is damned with no hope of a way out, he keeps saying he'll pay when it's his time, but he'll do... so many things to put that time off. And he is *angry*. So angry. He thinks evil needs to be punished. Including his.
Fascinating and compelling character, who got more room to breathe on the other show.
Every wiki I read says that folding John into the Arrowverse retcons this series into the Arrowverse too, but I remain unconvinced. It could be a step sideways of all that.
Plus with the Crisis in the middle we see at least two versions of everyone anyway.
There were a lot of loose threads but they needed to do a Lot better at a great many things before I'd want this particular iteration of the story to be the one to tie them off.
Flawed stories with fascinating character in them.