@Arkandel said in Good TV:
@Coin It's possible it's the bar that's been raised so high after Netflix got in the game and we also got a barrage of blockbuster superhero movies hitting us with their much higher production values.
I just don't see why exposition needs to be rushed; if a full complex plot of a film can be narrated through better storytelling in a 90 minute span then surely they can afford to be just slightly more patient with a TV show which by definition has way more time to feed it to us. Leave some mysteries in there, don't force-feed everything in one go; do we need a teenage Medusa walking in the room with Bolt to explicitly say "I know everyone is afraid of you but I'm not" in so many words or Maximus giving us the 101 on his relationship to her in another 20 second monologue, right in the first episode?
Maybe I'm nitpicking too hard, I dunno. I guess I didn't like it.
Keep in mind that the first two episodes were also written with an IMAX theatrical premiere in mind.
Was that a great decision? Probably not. Did the premiere come off pretty clunky? Sure.
My question is, though, in an age where the adage is basically "you have to give it a few episodes before you judge it" (literally the majority of shows have had this said about them in the past decade) why are people so quick to throw shit under the bus after a poor premiere?
It probably doesn't help that we've been told The Inhumans was gonna suck ass by every media outlet for months now, so you go into it already biased.