Post by taylorfirst1 on Apr 23, 2020 18:40:48 GMT
These 2 episodes actually weren't bad, relatively speaking. The Flash was a solid straight forward episode with a good supervillain (Ragdoll). The best part is that in the current story arc, Barry has an excuse for why he can't use his speed to immediately overwhelm virtually any threat. That makes it more interesting. Another plus is the fact that this episode had almost no call backs to the Crisis story. The Crisis story always screws up everything and the sooner they just pretend it never happened the better. Finally, the mirror story is starting to come together and is somewhat interesting.
Legends of Tomorrow was a mixed bag. The main story about stopping the Fates from getting the parts to the loom (or whatever) was very good. Good story, powerful villain, some nice action, and a satisfying resolution to the episode.
The bad part was the 2 stupid side stories that they kept cutting to. The stupid Zari stuff (I swear she's the most boring character ever) and the stupid crap with Rory's daughter that he never knew he had but she's mad at him for not being around instead of mad at her mother for not telling her father that she existed. These 2 constant distractions were very annoying. Eventually the Zari story did somewhat merge with the main plot but it was still unneeded.
This brings me to a more general complaint. Not just about this show but about modern TV shows in general. Why does every episode have to have multiple story lines going on at one time? Even 20 minute sitcoms always seem to have an "A" and "B" story in every episode. I really miss the days when Star Trek, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Magnum PI, etc could show episodes that only had one story line and they were able to flush out the plot and give the guest stars some depth and personality. Every single episode doesn't have to push the main "season-long" story along. But then people complain that the episode was "filler". No it wasn't "filler", it was an actually story that filled a whole 40 minutes (God forbid). Some times I wish more shows would just be pure procedurals but those are few and far between these days.