Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151023123622/@comment-11464223-20151025141338

Unlike the apparent majority here, I'm really enjoying Season 5A after the catastrophe that was pretty much all of Season 4 (with the exception of Ingrid, as many of you have said, but not with the exception of the SoSS). It's far from perfect and it has many, many flaws, but I'm just happy we're getting a good freakin' villain (Arthur) who is well-written and has depth (unlike the QoD... and sort of Ingrid. I liked her as a character, but villain-wise... eh), a change in DO (which makes things all the more interesting, especially when it's Emma), and better writing overall.

I do have my criticisms, like the entirety of that scene at Granny's at the end of 5x01 when they come back and nobody remembers anything and Emma walks in and there's just so, so many bad lines and so much crappy acting. :|

After that though, it has gotten better.

I do still maintain though, that like I think Eskaver has said, there is a lot of "campy fun-fun," that I wish was gone. The whole "we want Emma to snuff out the light" is a liiiiiiiittle cheesy for me to take her too too seriously, but if I kind of block that part out and just focus on what she's doing and what that could mean (instead of it directly), I end up feeling a lot more mystery and intrigue. I certainly hope that there's more to "snuffing out the light" than what it sounds like, and that there's more complexities and whatever. Basically I hope it's not as cheesy and basic as it sounds.

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Joshleung, please do not pretend that the amount of viewers is what makes a series good, and please do not compare the garbage that is the Transformers films to the masterpieces that are the Avengers films. Have you never heard of "quality versus quantity"? Quality is what matters. Kings, for example, was a brilliant series that never got picked up for a second season because of the viewership. Firefly, while I haven't seen it, based on what people have said, is another good example. Viewership doesn't make a good series, and the only reason that Season 4's viewership was so damn high was because it was riding on the coattails of Frozen's fame. And as far as the Transformers and Avengers films:  the Avengers films (and the rest of the MCU) have overall amazing storytelling, well-developed characters, tons of intrigue and mystery, build-up like no other series of films has ever had in the history of cinema, and are plain amazing. The Transformers films are a crapfest. They barely have any story, can barely develop their characters, and are basically just explosions and machines and "bang"s and "boom"s. They are what The Expendables would be if they weren't self-aware (which, thankfully, they are, and that saves the entire series).