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mikexmachina t1_iuhuqay wrote

Not shocking, but still disappointing. I thought Stargirl should have been the model for all the Arrowverse shows - 13 episodes max, with tighter storytelling and character focus. If only The Flash had fewer episodes per season it might not have gone so dramatically off the rails...

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LostNewfie t1_iuiej90 wrote

Ironically, the final season of the Flash will be 13 episodes long.

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utocmc2020 t1_iuiqyz8 wrote

Wasn't the last season of Arrow short too?

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LostNewfie t1_iuit4uq wrote

Yup. I think 10 episodes. Most of the season built up to the crisis crossover and the last two episodes were more or less epilogues.

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utocmc2020 t1_iuitapj wrote

Regardless, it was a good last season imo because of that shortness. Outside of the future episode that let to nothing

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LostNewfie t1_iuiur5b wrote

I really enjoyed that season too. I like how the first seven episodes each had call backs to a previous seasons (i.e. episode 3 featured the league of assassins, the main villains from season 3).

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TamagotchiMasterRace t1_iuimvhn wrote

I was really shocked how much I liked Stargirl. As a lifelong comics fan I'm a pretty dedicated consumer of superhero media, but after Crisis on Infinite Earths on CW i just stopped caring about any of their superhero shows, then stargirl came out on DCUniverse and I was more than happy to follow it back to CW (though if it premiered strictly on CW i may never have started it, assuming it was more mediocre arrowverse content). I'll be disappointed its gone but maybe Titans can absorb some of their writers. I will 100% watch titans, the production quality is high, but the "Titans are a family" while constantly ignoring each other and stabbing each other the back so they can go off and fail miserably on their own is getting extremely tired...

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mikexmachina t1_iuipmrb wrote

I was really surprised at how much I liked Stargirl, too; and same - once Arrow was done, I only cared about Legends of Tomorrow because the other shows were such a slog...

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ThingCalledLight t1_iujhw6t wrote

I thought Season 1 was strong. Season 2 was ok. Season 3 ain’t great for me.

There’s only so much Luke Wilson can do to carry this mother.

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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_iujxqfw wrote

The Flash went off the rails because the showrunner is terrible. The seasons were too long, yes, but made worse by the show being left in the hands of a terrible storyteller for three-plus seasons.

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ehxy t1_iujq0do wrote

It really surprised me how much I liked stargirl more than anything the CW has done superhero wise. I haven't liked a show this much since supernatural tbh.

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