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I agree 100%. i have not read the book, therefore I don't know how the show compares to it, but I watched the first episode and it was disturbing. There are so many movies and shows that manage to portray a dystonia without showing scenes of rape, maiming, gruesome murder and distressing psychical violence. And that's only the first episode.
To each their own, this is not for me.
1. Legends of Tomorrow S2
2. Legends of Tomorrow S1
3. Arrow S2
4. Arrow S1
5. Arrow S3
6. The Flash S1
7. The Flash S2
I find that Arrow, since the middle of S4 and most of S5, as well as Flash S3, are not worth mentioning at all.
I haven't seen Supergirl.
And he learned nothing from that. Otherwise, he wouldn't do ridiculously stupid things like snatching Snart from a previous time, both the 19th century and "last year" in the show's "real-time". If something would have happened to Leonard while on that futile mission, the whole timeline of the Arrowverse would have been screwed, starting with probably all the Legends, some of which he calls friends, ending up dead.
Another thing felt not right during season 3: when Barry created the new timeline (after realizing his mistake with creating Flashpoint), the timeline from S3, how can it still be Earth 1 in the multiverse? Shouldn't it be more something like Earth some infinite number?
1. Mick
2. Ray
3. Sara
4. Jax
5. Zari
6. Stein
7. Nate
8. Rip
9. Amaya
I actually like LoT , so having her there would pretty much ruin it for me. The character made Arrow unwatchable for me since the middle of season 4, I would hate that to happen with LoT.
Same here. Although, it's not just season 12 IMO. The quality of the writing was constantly deteriorating since the end of season 9.
Good for him! Crowley was a great character and Mark Sheppard made him even greater. But the writing was just so painfully bad the last few seasons (since the beginning of S 10) that I'm glad he got out in time (before it turns 100% into a soap opera). Crowley was a well established character: extremely canny, charming in a devilish way, machiavellian cross-roads demon, aspiring King of Hell, knowledgeable in all things supernatural, brave (going against Azazel's and Lilith's plan to free Lucifer, i.e. Lucifer himself) and the most intelligent supernatural being in the show (always had a plan B and even if he lost, he won - pun intended). And then came season 10. Suddenly, this self-serving entrepreneur becomes infatuated with Demon Dean and we have the (b)romance ending with the "Lonely Girl" photo - session on Crowley's phone. Then, his long lost mother, who has no love for him, appears and manipulates him (yes, he is aware, but still looks like a mama's boy in front of his Court), double-crosses him with the anti-MoC spell and leaves him helpless to be killed by rabid Castiel. The next season we have Lucifer mistreating and humiliating him. And the final season cements the opinion that the once smartest demon obviously suffered major brain damage somewhere along the way, when instead of putting Lucifer back in the cage (which is the greatest punishment for Lucy, as well as the safest place for him to be) and retaking his throne and power, he decides to keep his archenemy and to have to be vigil for ever over the possibility that Lucifer get's free, all-along knowing that Lucy has supporters among the demons. Still, Crowley was the reason that I was still watching, because in spite of all stated above, Mark Sheppard gave such a performance in portraying him that it was worth watching trough all the other nonsense. I am sure that Sheppard will get more great roles, because where ever I watched him he gave a both excellent and memorable performance.
I'm with you 100% (same characters, same reasons)
Same here. But it has that effect on people. My mother, a middle aged woman with a slightly conservative taste in movies, experienced the same urge to watch it till the end. When I asked her what she thought of it, her answer was: "I can not explain why, even to myself, but I liked it. It's extraordinary!"
It is a mesmerizing piece and I also couldn't explain why, except that I was in a David Lynch faze when I saw it (during my university years).
I absolutely agree with you that the "porn level" scene is over the top, but not only the one with the jinn. STARZ has a habit to be extremely graphic with their sex in general. Same goes for violence. I presume that they do this to get a wider audience, but I personally find their sex scenes distasteful and unnecessary (they did the same in the first and some episodes of the second season of Black Sails - explicit sex scenes for no good reason).
I like the show itself for many reasons, but it does have the same level of graphic sex and violence all the STARZ productions have and that is not something I support.
Sadly, sex and violence are the biggest moneymakers in today's society and quality of storytelling is getting more and more neglected.
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