Post by Thumper17 on Jan 13, 2011 11:06:06 GMT -7
This isn't an issue with the series so much as Superhero teams in general and why it's a bad idea to have series' about them.
I was never a huge fan of Superhero team ups for the reason that a team of Superheroes would be able to destroy or fix anything in like ten seconds and it was unrealistic (I know, I know) to expect Superman, let alone Superman plus 5 people to fail at anything unless it was with Apokolips or Doomsday.
Though I did watch a few episodes of both JLA series'. I just couldn't get into it. All I can handle is having a sidekick or two and having two or three people following Batman around kind of defeats his stealth lone wolf i-am-the-night ideal.
Not to mention you can't ever flesh out so many characters at once. You have the members of the JLA, then you have their sidekicks/helpers, then you have love interests and then supporting characters, like police chiefs or politicians. Then you have all the villains and villain henchman.
That's so much to do that it often will end up, unless given to an army of writers, as the epitome of half assed.
I was never a huge fan of Superhero team ups for the reason that a team of Superheroes would be able to destroy or fix anything in like ten seconds and it was unrealistic (I know, I know) to expect Superman, let alone Superman plus 5 people to fail at anything unless it was with Apokolips or Doomsday.
Though I did watch a few episodes of both JLA series'. I just couldn't get into it. All I can handle is having a sidekick or two and having two or three people following Batman around kind of defeats his stealth lone wolf i-am-the-night ideal.
Not to mention you can't ever flesh out so many characters at once. You have the members of the JLA, then you have their sidekicks/helpers, then you have love interests and then supporting characters, like police chiefs or politicians. Then you have all the villains and villain henchman.
That's so much to do that it often will end up, unless given to an army of writers, as the epitome of half assed.
Supergirl was written cheaply off the series, but atleast she was there. As, for politicians and officials yeah, unfortunately they were introduced in some episodes and never seen again. Which, is ashamed because some seem like genuinely interesting characters. Heck, the villains got their time to shine in the Legion of Doom season.