User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 204 "Salvage" discussion/@comment-432124-20120522005658/@comment-99.140.170.200-20120523033327

For those of you who are responding to my blog with cracks that are trying to make me look stupid, you guys are obviously just trying to find an excuse to hate me because you keep twisting everything I say and making it seem like none of it makes sense. So let me break it down for you so that you can understand.

1. What I was disappointed about in this episode was that none of the plots really went anywhere. a. In the A-plot, Superboy didn't really find out anything about the bad guys that he didn't know already. All he found was that Intergang was up to one of their little schemes and it had nothing to do with what he was looking for in the first place. I wasn't looking for a quick resolution, but it would have made a lot more sense if he'd gotten even a hint of who was behind the alien bomb at Malina Island. Instead, he ended up right back where he started: confused and in the dark. b. A lot of the B-plot was just one extended scene that we just kept coming back to. It may have given us some exposition, but it didn't really move us away from the rooftop and we didn't really get to see that many more characters until the end. And it didn't even go anywhere because Red Arrow didn't have the slightest change of heart. Again, I wasn't looking for a quick resolution, but it would have been nice if this plot didn't just drag until the last minute.

2. Guardian may be a minor character, but he was still a very interesting one and he had a strong connection to two of the main characters. Plus, you can say the whole "minor character" thing about most of the Justice League, even Superman. I just would have liked to have been along for the ride when these characters went through these changes. Now it looks like we won't be getting much of a good explanation for any of these changes for reasons that I've already stated.

3. For those of you who are telling me to forget the drama and that this show is not a soap opera, the action and adventure may be what's drawing fans in, but it's the drama that's making them stick to the show. The drama is what makes this show interesting and it's what sets it apart from these cheesy CN shows like "Adventure Time" or these cheesy DC shorts that they're showing during the commercials. Drama is just as important on this show as the action, if not more important, and if you take out the good drama from this show, it makes it hard to care about this show.

4. For Zod and others who don't like that I hate the time skip and that I'm not afraid to show that, get over it! This time skip has messed this show up for me and for a lot of other fans out there who really enjoyed Season 1 and was looking forward to seeing Season 2 actually pick up where Season 1 left off. Instead we get this premature spin-off that is a fifth of the season in and still hasn't done much of a good job of answering our questions without confusing us even more. It's like a baby that's been taken out of the womb 5 months before its full term and given to the parents without letting it develop the body parts necessary to survive. Unless they put it in an incubator until it's ready, that baby is going to die, just like this show is going to die unless they explain it right. For this reason, you are going to see and hear a lot of these complaints about the time skip until or unless the creators do something to make us happy. Complaining about that fact isn't gonna change it and it's just gonna get you labeled a hypocrite. Right now, I'm just holding on to see what happens and I'm going to continue ranting about the time skip until they do a jump-back (which BTW is still possible since there has been no explicit refutation of it from the show nor any explicit denial of it from the creators) or until the creator explicitly state that the time skip is permanent. In the latter case, I will officially stop watching the show and you will never see me on this wiki ever again. But until then, again, get over it!