Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-1410838-20190304165546/@comment-1410838-20190311040124

GothamKnight1031 wrote: I don't like the political messages either, but I don't really think it warrants sending them a complaint. We have critics for that. I don't need a critic to speak on my behalf, I'm perfectly capable of doing so for myself.

Personally, despite the fact that I don't enjoy the writing, I continue to watch the show cause I gotta be caught up for the crossovers. They did a pretty decent job of setting up Elseworlds on each participating show in the weeks leading up to it. And as the Arrowverse expands (yeah, Arrow will be ending, but Batwoman will most likely "replace" it on TV as the "dark and brooding" member of the universe and Black Lightning's inlusion is a matter of when, not if), the number of shows included in each crossover will be invariably reduced as evidenced by the Legends sitting out Elseworlds. Hell, with CW planning to do away with the multi-verse in the next crossover, I expect them to become more common and self-contained with much less fanfare around them.

However, I do enjoy some of the characters (mainly Brainy and J'onn) and how they get developed. Bottom line is: if you're writing a dumb tv show about a comic book character that nobody really cares about, don't treat it like it's more than it is. I do, too. Like I said, I really like Brainy (probably my favorite character in the Arrowverse right now), Nia, and Manchester Black (I'm shocked no one has complained about "Black" being his last name, but I digress). And I'm not unempathetic to the challenges faces by minorities and members of the LBGQT community especially with a slimeball like Donald Trump as president, but I feel like the show is practically battering its viewers to death about the whole thing and it's on the verge of turning my empathy into indifference. I just need an extended break, at the least, from it.