Riverdale. I haven't watched an8d episode, but I've seen so many thinkpieces about how the first season was good but everything past that is a chaotic mess. Taking classic characters and putting them in a new setting or genre is generally a good way to shake up previous dynamics and introduce new challenges... but it can easily result in an underwhelming plot if characters aren't handled well.
I thought "Inkheart" had a cool power of reading stuff to life however, I do not care about the characters, the plot or the anything. But that narration-creation powers, still fantasizing.
On a side note, recipes are sometimes like this for me. There are foolproof instructions you can not mess on for this delightful-whatever food, but I execute cooking poorly.
Death:rescheduled by snailords or anything by snailords really, the plot is people are able to kill people legally and the mc wants to change the law, so pretty much hunger games kinda , but the authors strange writing ruins the story and every one is pretty much the same 2d character personality, plus the author pretends to date his mc which is really weird .
- In anime recently, Sakugan1. Great classic feeling first episode. Cheesy, not much mental power required for enjoyment. Then, other episodes are trash fire on top of a dumpster fire. The most "by committee" anime I've ever seen.
In gaming, ooh boy let's see:
* Hellgate london: Yes I am that old.
* Kingdoms of Amalur
* Dragon age Inquisition
* Dragon age 2
* Evolve
* Everything Hi-rez studios does
* Heroes of the storm
* Overwatch 2
* All WoW expansions after legion.
* Firefall
* Lawbreakers
* Dead space 3
* Stonehearth
* That Kojima Walking simulator. (That developer makes videogames out of manga plots and I'm losing my mind because no one sees it).
* Everyone who's trying to copy Rimworld and make a full game out of a Rimworld overhaul mod.
I'm getting into V Rising('cuz friends want to), which is from another red flagged studio for me. Can't wait to see this one crash and burn.
Oh and also my comic.
you could not be more incorrect. Riverdale season 1 is a boring, mediocre, entirely meh teen drama. Season 2-5 are some of the best madcap black comedy ever made.
Like as soon as you get to the point where (one of) the cult leaders from (one of) the cults that tries to take over the town is about to take off in a rocket from his secret hideout in mexico in order to avoid the FBI, you can tell this show isn't meant to be taken seriously. But when he's chased down and confronted by a high school girl and her suburban chatty-kathy mom, only to grandstand to them about how great he is while wearing an evil kneevil outfit with his name emblazoned on his belt buckle, that's the part where you know you're dealing with some genuinely transcendent comedy.
RWBY. God damn that series had so much potential and they have just continued to squander it with every single new season.
At least I can spend the next month or so fantasizing about how good Ice Queendom could be before it comes out and reality sets in and I have to accept that the actual product rarely ever lives up to expectations.
I dunno, man, if you somehow manage to get to the point where the 4th serial killer is introduced, or the 2 cults try to take over the town at the same time, or the part with the underground prison boxing ring, or the weird gay tickle fetish video thing, or the weirdly-incestuous-twins-except-one-of-them-has-been-dead-since-episode-one-and-his-corpse-gets-used-in-multiple-subplots part, or the third secret twin sibling has been introduced, or the part where they do a flashback that is literally the breakfast club AND the satanic panic over D&D in the 90s at the same time, and are still trying to take the show seriously, I really just think you haven't been paying attention.
The show really does its best to give you every single opportunity to jump off the 'taking it seriously' train and on the road to comedyville starting at the very beginning of season 2. It honestly shocked me to learn how many people DIDN'T get the memo that Riverdale stopped giving a single shit about doing anything other than being as stupid as possible a looooong time ago.
RWBY didn't ever go up a hill to begin with. It was sitting at the base of a hill and it kept saying it was definitely 100% for sure going to go up that hill at some point we promise for real. Don't worry guys we are definitely going up that hill any second now, it's comin', and it's gonna be really great when it does. We're gonna go up it, and it's gonna be great. The greatest hill climb you've ever seen, it's on the way. It's seriously gonna happen real soon.
And then they forgot that 'having a plot' and 'characterization' and 'cohesive worldbuilding' are really integral parts of going up a hill, so it just kinda kept sitting at the bottom of it and pretending like it was about to start climbing for like 5 seasons.
I beat that metaphor to death, but my point is RWBY has always had the pieces of an amazing show just sitting around, but never bothered actually putting any of them together.