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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It is incredibly difficult for me to get invested in shows without at least a little bit of humor.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.What does "regular humor" even mean?
Oh God! Natural light!Arrow has its lighthearted moments, but they're few and far between. Which is a shame because the show is a lot better when it's not taking itself seriously.
I'm assuming he means something that's funny without relying on sarcasm and deadpan line delivery.
edited 6th Feb '15 6:42:12 AM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Arrow certainly borrows a lot from Batman, but Flash is almost definitely the most light-hearted and fun live-action comicbook show on TV. There's the requisite relationship drama you see in every CW show, but the people working on the series very clearly have a love for the character and how fun he is.
Agreed on being tired of Whedonsnark. Or all things Whedon, really.
I'd like to see more love for Wally, now that Justice League is over.
Well, humour comes down to either you're laughing with the characters or at them. Whendon's humour is very much the former, the characters themselves in universe make jokes. Marvel doesn't just rely on this though; they use a surprisingly large amount of slapstick in the Iron Man films and Thor The Dark World.
Personally; I don't see why a show would want to avoid snark; people in real like make jokes, it seems unnatural to write a cast devoid of a sense of humour. Character's employing humour allows the writer to display all kinds of things; from familiarity between the characters, confidence, misunderstanding and nervous hysteria. The good thing about snark is that it allows a work to be funny without breaking the immersion of the viewer. That's why the humour in the Dark Knight Saga and Man Of Steel is Just Snark, if sparsely used.
(I mean, seriously, if you remove the jokes the first half of season one gets even duller.)
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.See I felt many of those things went hand and hand. Who wants to properly develop your cast when you can have them using Buffy Speak and snarky pop culture jokes? It got very old very quickly.
And while I hope Daredevil does have humor (Murdock himself is pretty big on Gallows Humor) in it I don't need it to be SHIELD-style. That's all I'm asking.
edited 6th Feb '15 8:09:47 AM by comicwriter
No show should be 100% serious all the time because people aren't 100% serious all the time. Even people you would expect to be, like soldiers or emergency responders, don't abandon their sense of humor; it just develops into Black Comedy. The jokes are still there, but get darker because that's the world they live in.
Humor is an inherent part of how people communicate.
edited 6th Feb '15 8:08:54 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I actually don't dislike him. Sure, the more vocal parts of fanbase are annoying, as are the people who act as though he can do no wrong, but I'm looking forward to Age of Ultron.
My issue was less "I hope this isn't like Joss Whedon" and more like "I can see why they made a point of saying this isn't going to be like Agents of SHIELD, which happens to be very Joss Whedon-y".
edited 6th Feb '15 8:17:45 AM by comicwriter
@Comic Writer character exploration through humour does work. It's one of the the many powerful tricks Stephan Moffat uses to this day for example.
My problem with Agents of Shield was that it felt like watching a fifteen year old show.

This has to be the only place on the Internet where comparing the style of something to the works of Joss Whedon is supposed to be an insult.