Last week's episode was horrid. Like, it pulled hard on the stupidity detector in everyone's brain and just made us all mad.
This week's was dull and vacuous. I fell asleep watching it. Twice.
Nora's a joke. Iris is still annoying and her need for a constant girlpower vibe is not helping - she's a journalist, well, not trained to be, but, kind of, and that gives her the qualities necessary to run the team? I know lots of journalists and most can't run their own lives competently much less organize and develop strategies for a group of heroes with super powers. Maybe that's why they don't do the obvious things very often. Like Barry is faster than anyone and takes way too many hits. That's only remotely possible with the right villain, if he's only half paying attention.
The story was unbelievably finagled into making Barry out as wrong and Iris as right. Another yank on the stupidity detector. Oh, and the finagling itself was a full-on tractor pull on said detector. I could almost sense a collective wince from fans the world over desperately trying to hold onto something in this show to like.
And that's the saddest part. We want to like this show. We're all pulling for it. But the writers and producers are bent on putting out a product that kicks us repeatedly in our collective teeth. Most are hanging on for a good finale, but that won't help. It's like someone smacking you hard in the face and offering a candy bar to forget the offense. We may take the candy, but we won't forget the abuse.
This week's was dull and vacuous. I fell asleep watching it. Twice.
Nora's a joke. Iris is still annoying and her need for a constant girlpower vibe is not helping - she's a journalist, well, not trained to be, but, kind of, and that gives her the qualities necessary to run the team? I know lots of journalists and most can't run their own lives competently much less organize and develop strategies for a group of heroes with super powers. Maybe that's why they don't do the obvious things very often. Like Barry is faster than anyone and takes way too many hits. That's only remotely possible with the right villain, if he's only half paying attention.
The story was unbelievably finagled into making Barry out as wrong and Iris as right. Another yank on the stupidity detector. Oh, and the finagling itself was a full-on tractor pull on said detector. I could almost sense a collective wince from fans the world over desperately trying to hold onto something in this show to like.
And that's the saddest part. We want to like this show. We're all pulling for it. But the writers and producers are bent on putting out a product that kicks us repeatedly in our collective teeth. Most are hanging on for a good finale, but that won't help. It's like someone smacking you hard in the face and offering a candy bar to forget the offense. We may take the candy, but we won't forget the abuse.