once more, everyone say it with me: "guilty pleasure"! this show has never been a masterpiece from the very start, so I don't know why that's expected of it now. from my point of view it has all the same problems that it did 4 years ago, and a revolving door of writers and showrunners hasn't made much difference so I'm taking it as is.
yes, 80% of the time the characters are annoying, act illogically, find themselves in the same predicaments, and are frequently victim to wonky performances. but usually something happens in each episode that has a glimmer of coolness, so I'll stay around as long as that keeps going.
and finally, the comics themselves are definitely not award winning stuff either. just like the show, it's often issue after tedious issue of characters going in circles, punctuated by the occasional awesome moment. I can only fault the show to a point when the source material itself has some real limits.
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