I thought that Oliver throwing Andy's death in Diggle's face was a writing mistake. That felt petty and cruel. If Oliver had instead snapped and declared that Diggle's decision is the reason why Laurel is dead, it would have been such a bigger, heavier moment. It would have come from some dark truth that Oliver might not have even realized that he carried with him until that moment. But it also wouldn't have been something that could easily be stepped back later.
I still see no point in following Dinah and Curtis at this point. Maybe the other three leads want time off, but the writers killed my chance of enjoying these characters. Now I want them gone. And I say this as someone who actually liked the new team for a while. I'd be happy to see Ragman come back.
Iris running Team Flash... And the whole "we are the Flash" thing... It just doesn't sit well with me. I don't get why she has declared herself the leader, or why anyone else is following her. They play it off as her being really great at it, but it just seems like they don't know what to do with her, so she tells everyone to do what they always did without her.
Iris should be her own character, contributing to the series in her own way. She is not the Flash, and she shouldn't want to be. I just don't think tye writers know what to do with her.
Legends... I stopped watching the show earlier this season. Having been away from it for a few months, I was starting to think that I might catch up with it once it hit Netflix. However, having seen the trailer for the Obamaporn episode, I'm just done. Not only 8s it a completely fictional, idealized version of tye man, which isn't based on anything that we know about him at the time, but it violated the universe of the series. The writers have established different Presidents for the Arrowverse, meaning that Obama never happened. That was their decision and they made it. Then they decided that their need to fantasize about Obama was more important than the world they built.
Needlessly violating your relationship with the audience by simply not caring about the reality that you've established for your series is sloppy, unprofessional, hack writing. If they don't care about their story, why should anyone else?
They could have made the story work with a fictional character, or some other historical figure. But their need to worship Obama overruled logic. And before anyone assumes that this is just me being mad because I don't like Obama, this is why I stopped watching months ago. This is why I cried foul when Oliver Queen got stabbed and thrown off a cliff, and just walked it off. When the writers don't care, it shows. This has always been a problem with Legends, and it's only gotten worse.
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