Post by stargazer1682 on Apr 16, 2019 2:46:46 GMT
I sat through literally the first half of the episode before having any observations worth noting; and even that is nominal. This episode is so much more boring than it usually is; and that really says something.
When you're going to do a time travel series, do you know what the least entertaining thing to see? The vast majority of the story take place on board your ship. I mean, this isn't Doctor Who, where at least if they're going to be stuck in the Tardis for most of the episode it's at least central to the plot; and such "bottle episodes" are more of an outlier than anything else. Other than that, it is just the literally vehicle of putting the main character in the thick of that week's plot; which takes place anywhere else. Oddly enough, Doctor Who actually did a Jane Austen episode episode too, so there's a more direct point of comparison; and not surprisingly, Doctor Who did it better...
It's like last week - you're going to go pay Nixon a visit in 1967? Cool, so you're going to actually explore events pertinent to 1967 or have any extensive interaction with Nixon or the role he played in history during that time? No? Oh, you're going to spend the entire episode inside an RV and keep Nixon in a closet so he can occasionally pop out fora one-liner and remind us he's still there....
This time it's Jane Austen, but instead of Jane Austen, we have 2/3 of the characters on the ship having sex dreams, while the rest are at an actual funeral, where the story is somehow livelier than back on the ship. And it's weird for me, because I like the series Archer and the sort of humor they seem to be going for on Legends, especially in this episode, is very similar, yet it falls flat for me and I don't know why. Arguably the writing and wit on Legends isn't as sharp as Archer's. Archer also gets away with some very strong adult content, both visually and in what they get to say.
It's like they can't make up their mind which story they want to tell; the Legends meet Jane Austen or the Legends meet the Hindu god of love and sex, so they do both and end up splitting their focus and don't tell either story as fully as they could. They do not need an A story and a B story, because they never balance it right. For that matter, most of the Arrowverse shows would do well just telling one story per episode and give it their full attention and effort.
They're at a point where the time travel element is pointless, what with them capturing demons. There's no point traveling to the past if you're not going to do something constructive there. Quantum Leap at least had the premise of putting right what once went wrong; while the Legends are just on clean-up duty.
So the reason Jane Austen's books aren't being published is because she decided to stop writing them, because publishers were turning them down? This has to do with the Karma Sutra god how....? At best, this would seem to be a self-fulfilling paradox, where the only reason Jane Austen becomes a successful writer is because Mona is a huge fan of her work; and the only reason Mona is a huge fan of her work, is because Jane Austen became a successful writer...because Mona was a huge fan.....
Augh... a musical number? You're kill me. I like a good musical, emphasis on "good". I also tend to like a lot of the musical episodes of shows I watch, with the exception of the Flash/Supergirl "musical" that was actually, unironically more like an episode of Glee. I really hope that's actually the actress who plays Zari singing, because she's good, but Jesus Christ writers, pick a lane! I get it, it's a Bollywood musical number, which I'm sad to say I'm only peripherally aware of; so it may very well be the convention to only use the musical numbers sparingly, but in this case it just seems random; and also a little weird, seeing how Zari and Karma Sutra-boy are hopped up on some sort of magical LSD where the initials stand for Lust-Sex-Drug - a pun so bad, I'm surprised the show didn't use it.
Oh, and they're randomly blowing the sex dust at everyone. In the words of Buffy Summers, way to invoke the great roofie spirit...
On an aside, maybe it's because I spent the weekend watching all 4 of the original Christopher Reeve Superman movies, but God damn, Brandon Routh really does look like him. It truly is a shame Superman Returns was so bad, playing Superman probably should have been his defining role.
And holy shit, he's still in his 30s??? He's barely 3 years older than me. What??
What the hell, can Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford not sing? Because at best that was beat poetry.
This whole love/lust/sex plot would have been better served a) had they been able to schedule this during Valentines (which, I realize they were still on hiatus for, but still) and b) if the episode had centered solely on this god of love guy and the characters in relationships; with more of the characters who had partners factoring in somehow. I mean, this would have arguably been the better time to dive into Sara and Ava's relationship and ultimately lead to it ending or their break or whatever it is; instead of the forced conflict a couple of weeks ago. Using it to exploring Mona's grief for Konane is interesting, but the fact that she had romantic/sexual feelings for him when they were different species is kind of weird and takes me out of the story a little. Surely there could have been a better way to get Nora on board without the contrived tie-in to the death of Hank and dumbass.... I mean, Ray, hiding her out... like a dumbass....
Hank's funeral shouldn't have even been part of this episode; the themes are so different and the whole thing with Hank's lingering spirit, the truth about how he died (or for that matter what he'd been up to recently) and Nate dealing with his death - that should have been it's own stand alone episode.
How is Mona the voice of reason in all of this?
Seriously, Zari snorts a bunch of love dust, knowing full well what it's going to do, goes on a drunken magical binder where she gets engaged - engaged mind you; so far by all accounts she didn't even screw this guy in this mental state - so are we supposed to care or be shocked when the love god says he has 1000 wives or that this somehow snaps Zari out of it and breaks off their engagement?
Oooh damn, last week for some reason I thought maybe it was Felix Faust who killed Hank, given the "faustian" deal Hank seemed to have with him. Never thought they might be using Neron - although I just realize that the guy we saw was (I think, probably) Constantine's ex, who had been possessed (it's been so long since I saw the earlier part of the season I kind of forgot about that) and now I'm trying to remember if they had already established that he had been taken by Neron....
I would pay good money - up to $5 - if when Nate found the secret room with a camera in it, that it had nothing to do with Hank's death or any of his story in the time bureau, but instead was like, his parents sex room or something.
Oh ffs, a magical creatures theme park? That's what all this bullshit has been about? Did Hank never see how that sort of thing worked out for Jurassic Park, or for that matter for Jurassic World? Never mind that it would almost have to be easier, to say nothing of safer and cheaper to just fake the creatures that might otherwise want to maim and eat your patrons.
Hank talks about his "son's dream" as thought Nate was 10 instead of a grown-ass man. Although I'd love it if we found out that Nate drew that picture a week ago.
When you're going to do a time travel series, do you know what the least entertaining thing to see? The vast majority of the story take place on board your ship. I mean, this isn't Doctor Who, where at least if they're going to be stuck in the Tardis for most of the episode it's at least central to the plot; and such "bottle episodes" are more of an outlier than anything else. Other than that, it is just the literally vehicle of putting the main character in the thick of that week's plot; which takes place anywhere else. Oddly enough, Doctor Who actually did a Jane Austen episode episode too, so there's a more direct point of comparison; and not surprisingly, Doctor Who did it better...
It's like last week - you're going to go pay Nixon a visit in 1967? Cool, so you're going to actually explore events pertinent to 1967 or have any extensive interaction with Nixon or the role he played in history during that time? No? Oh, you're going to spend the entire episode inside an RV and keep Nixon in a closet so he can occasionally pop out fora one-liner and remind us he's still there....
This time it's Jane Austen, but instead of Jane Austen, we have 2/3 of the characters on the ship having sex dreams, while the rest are at an actual funeral, where the story is somehow livelier than back on the ship. And it's weird for me, because I like the series Archer and the sort of humor they seem to be going for on Legends, especially in this episode, is very similar, yet it falls flat for me and I don't know why. Arguably the writing and wit on Legends isn't as sharp as Archer's. Archer also gets away with some very strong adult content, both visually and in what they get to say.
It's like they can't make up their mind which story they want to tell; the Legends meet Jane Austen or the Legends meet the Hindu god of love and sex, so they do both and end up splitting their focus and don't tell either story as fully as they could. They do not need an A story and a B story, because they never balance it right. For that matter, most of the Arrowverse shows would do well just telling one story per episode and give it their full attention and effort.
They're at a point where the time travel element is pointless, what with them capturing demons. There's no point traveling to the past if you're not going to do something constructive there. Quantum Leap at least had the premise of putting right what once went wrong; while the Legends are just on clean-up duty.
So the reason Jane Austen's books aren't being published is because she decided to stop writing them, because publishers were turning them down? This has to do with the Karma Sutra god how....? At best, this would seem to be a self-fulfilling paradox, where the only reason Jane Austen becomes a successful writer is because Mona is a huge fan of her work; and the only reason Mona is a huge fan of her work, is because Jane Austen became a successful writer...because Mona was a huge fan.....
Augh... a musical number? You're kill me. I like a good musical, emphasis on "good". I also tend to like a lot of the musical episodes of shows I watch, with the exception of the Flash/Supergirl "musical" that was actually, unironically more like an episode of Glee. I really hope that's actually the actress who plays Zari singing, because she's good, but Jesus Christ writers, pick a lane! I get it, it's a Bollywood musical number, which I'm sad to say I'm only peripherally aware of; so it may very well be the convention to only use the musical numbers sparingly, but in this case it just seems random; and also a little weird, seeing how Zari and Karma Sutra-boy are hopped up on some sort of magical LSD where the initials stand for Lust-Sex-Drug - a pun so bad, I'm surprised the show didn't use it.
Oh, and they're randomly blowing the sex dust at everyone. In the words of Buffy Summers, way to invoke the great roofie spirit...
On an aside, maybe it's because I spent the weekend watching all 4 of the original Christopher Reeve Superman movies, but God damn, Brandon Routh really does look like him. It truly is a shame Superman Returns was so bad, playing Superman probably should have been his defining role.
And holy shit, he's still in his 30s??? He's barely 3 years older than me. What??
What the hell, can Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford not sing? Because at best that was beat poetry.
This whole love/lust/sex plot would have been better served a) had they been able to schedule this during Valentines (which, I realize they were still on hiatus for, but still) and b) if the episode had centered solely on this god of love guy and the characters in relationships; with more of the characters who had partners factoring in somehow. I mean, this would have arguably been the better time to dive into Sara and Ava's relationship and ultimately lead to it ending or their break or whatever it is; instead of the forced conflict a couple of weeks ago. Using it to exploring Mona's grief for Konane is interesting, but the fact that she had romantic/sexual feelings for him when they were different species is kind of weird and takes me out of the story a little. Surely there could have been a better way to get Nora on board without the contrived tie-in to the death of Hank and dumbass.... I mean, Ray, hiding her out... like a dumbass....
Hank's funeral shouldn't have even been part of this episode; the themes are so different and the whole thing with Hank's lingering spirit, the truth about how he died (or for that matter what he'd been up to recently) and Nate dealing with his death - that should have been it's own stand alone episode.
How is Mona the voice of reason in all of this?
Seriously, Zari snorts a bunch of love dust, knowing full well what it's going to do, goes on a drunken magical binder where she gets engaged - engaged mind you; so far by all accounts she didn't even screw this guy in this mental state - so are we supposed to care or be shocked when the love god says he has 1000 wives or that this somehow snaps Zari out of it and breaks off their engagement?
Oooh damn, last week for some reason I thought maybe it was Felix Faust who killed Hank, given the "faustian" deal Hank seemed to have with him. Never thought they might be using Neron - although I just realize that the guy we saw was (I think, probably) Constantine's ex, who had been possessed (it's been so long since I saw the earlier part of the season I kind of forgot about that) and now I'm trying to remember if they had already established that he had been taken by Neron....
I would pay good money - up to $5 - if when Nate found the secret room with a camera in it, that it had nothing to do with Hank's death or any of his story in the time bureau, but instead was like, his parents sex room or something.
Oh ffs, a magical creatures theme park? That's what all this bullshit has been about? Did Hank never see how that sort of thing worked out for Jurassic Park, or for that matter for Jurassic World? Never mind that it would almost have to be easier, to say nothing of safer and cheaper to just fake the creatures that might otherwise want to maim and eat your patrons.
Hank talks about his "son's dream" as thought Nate was 10 instead of a grown-ass man. Although I'd love it if we found out that Nate drew that picture a week ago.
