YMMV / The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

• Angst? What Angst?: While Hannah is repeatedly shown grieving her daughter, she comes off as oddly indifferent towards the death of her husband, who was Driven to Suicide by the loss of his wife and child.
• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • The show ended before Top Dollar could make a full and proper reappearance as a Snake. In his sole post-resurrection episode, he was present only as a disembodied voice that gets thwarted by The Power of Love.
  • Similarly, the series being Cut Short meant that Eric also never got to have a final showdown with Frederick Balsam, who was last seen being handcuffed to a car by Albrecht.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Eric's weird vision of himself and Shelly dancing in Victorian attire to "My Bonnie" by The Painkillers in "The Road Not Taken."
    Eric: You know where I was, right before I found you?
    Hannah: I hope someplace better.
    Eric: I went back to a forest where Shelly and I had been. Things got real strange.
  • Eric's Offscreen Teleportation in "Brother's Keeper." While he was always sneaky, here it's just plain Over-the-Top.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Narm: Hannah's dramatic and entirely gratuitous posing in "Birds of a Feather."
• So Okay, It's Average: As noted below, the show was seen as a step or several down from the film and the original comic. On the other hand, it did garner decent ratings and reviews, and is looked upon more favorably than subsequent Crow media like Wicked Prayer.
• Squick: Eric slowly pushing a pencil through his palm in "The People vs. Eric Draven."
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The Lighter and Softer approach turned Eric into a fairly standard superhero. He has a secret identity complete with a normal civilian life, does "costume changes" into his superhero persona (which is supernatural coloring rather than makeup now), has his plucky kid sidekick and his buddy in the police force to feed him info, and he's supposed to avoid killing. This is totally the opposite of everything that happens in the film and the comics.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Funboy still comes off as a sleazy asshole even after being scared straight by Eric, so it's a bit difficult to feel too much pity for him when he's murdered by the unbound Crow in "A Gathering Storm."

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