he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.
no, just there to be fake-bisexual.
Can you expand on this?
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@TheOnceler said in Bad TV:
he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.
no, just there to be fake-bisexual.
Can you expand on this?
They wavered between whether Sara Lance (between her time on Arrow and LoT) was straight or lesbian or bi so much it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@TheOnceler said in Bad TV:
he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.
no, just there to be fake-bisexual.
Can you expand on this?
They wavered between whether Sara Lance (between her time on Arrow and LoT) was straight or lesbian or bi so much it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
I never saw them wavering. She was coded as straight at first and then she was coded as having sex with whoever she was with at the time, which was Oliver (again, for some reason) and Nyssa (for obvious reasons). But on Legends she's pretty clearly always been coded as bisexual, far as I could tell.
@TheOnceler said in Bad TV:
he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.
no, just there to be fake-bisexual.
Can you expand on this?
They wavered between whether Sara Lance (between her time on Arrow and LoT) was straight or lesbian or bi so much it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
The characterization in comics changes constantly based on the writer. One person's Spider-man is often drastically different than another's.
The same applies to TV characters, only there not just the writer changes but the entire show, narrative, plot devices, everything.
Bad TV: Locke and Key - No spoilers edition
1.) The lead child actor is terrible. Teeeeeeeerrible. There's lots of good child actors out there. They did not pick one.
2.) Oh, I know! Let's give one of the villains a mental illness to explain why he does craaaaazy shit. It'll be edgy! Because BPD totally makes you kill people.
3.) Supernatural horror? Pfffft. No way. Let's make it a teen fantasy drama.
4.) The writing is stilted and uneven. The characters do stupid stuff for sake of plot instead of organic reactions to situations. Important things are ignored so people later can go 'Buh?' when it's already been in a situation to come up.
5.) It pretty much uses the source material as a mask with the content being entirely different from the original theme.
I wanted to like it. I really, really did.
@Admiral said in Bad TV:
The characters do stupid stuff for sake of plot instead of organic reactions to situations.
Although overall I enjoyed the show, this bugged me so much.
Sometimes the good guys would win a fight but do something really fucking stupid just to promote the plot.
OMG The Order is so bad. It is the TV equivalent of getting stuck with a drunk, high, and somewhat of an asshole ST with all the people who irritate the fuck out of you on the mush in the scene with you and it lasts so long that at first you want to bail but then it is SO BAD that you start to enjoy yourself because it is just ridiculously unintentionally hilarious bad.
I am laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes, y'all. First time in many years I actually feel nostalgic for WoD MUSHes of the 90s because it reminds me of so many scenes. Except at least no fucking, yet. I'm only 3 episodes in though.
Including the faction leader who clearly maxed out his social stats for his sheet, but can only RP coming across as a creepy mess.
Definitely this series is growing on me, but man it is soooooooo WoD City by Night. 
would recommend!
Bad TV? "Alta Mar" on Netflix. It's so horrible I'm in love. Why did I live 49 years before anyone introduced me to Spanish soap operas?
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@L-B-Heuschkel said in Bad TV:
Bad TV? "Alta Mar" on Netflix. It's so horrible I'm in love. Why did I live 49 years before anyone introduced me to Spanish soap operas?
Spanish shows in general on Netflix have been pretty great. Just binged the hell out of Elite, in all of its occasionally cringe-inducing glory. Toy Boy, same. Queen of the South. They're all sort of 'wtf why even' in that way that leaves you totally hooked.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
Motherland-Fort Salem
Hey, let's take an interesting AU premise (magic is real and the Salem Witches fought back and won...) and turn the interesting premise into Christian Fundamental Theocracy with Sprinkles (Magic)!
I noped out of there in 5 minutes once they tried passing off Christian Faith Healing as Witchcraft.
@Runescryer said in Bad TV:
Motherland-Fort Salem
Hey, let's take an interesting AU premise (magic is real and the Salem Witches fought back and won...) and turn the interesting premise into Christian Fundamental Theocracy with Sprinkles (Magic)!
I noped out of there in 5 minutes once they tried passing off Christian Faith Healing as Witchcraft.
To be fair, that was kind of "ick", however, later in the episode they explained what magic was and how it worked.
Pay no attention to me. I'm old, jaded and generally unfriendly. I am prone to fits of stupidity, but I am still unique, just like everyone else. ~~ Current President of the Anti-Faraday fan club.
@Seamus
This all sounds like a cheap rip-off of Mage: The Ascension.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE
Sheerly for the sake of Black Summer. Netflix has been pushing this on me for a while and I finally gave in, and for some reason sank an entire day into bingeing its brief two seasons. It's...boy.
Did you find The Walking Dead just way too cheerily optimistic and upbeat? Black Summer is your grimmest darkest. Thought TWD's cast was too bloated? No worries, Black Summer slaughters a cast member approximately every 5.8 minutes.
Every instance of even the briefest moment of human kindness is immediately punished. Every time more than three people group up it falls apart. Humans are wretched, vicious, horrid animals and there's no goal that the protagonists make that doesn't fail spectacularly.
Sometimes I am in the mood for some bleak and nihilistic media, but the finale had me slack-jawed and legitimately concerned for the writers' mental wellbeing.
This is an ugly show, y'all.
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F you, buddy, I love Black Summer for all those reasons. 
Nobody, and I mean nobody, is safe.
It's glorious.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
Motherland-Fort Salem
Hey, let's take an interesting AU premise (magic is real and the Salem Witches fought back and won...) and turn the interesting premise into Christian Fundamental Theocracy with Sprinkles (Magic)!
I noped out of there in 5 minutes once they tried passing off Christian Faith Healing as Witchcraft.
