You know how modern female protagonists generally lack meaningful character growth or story arcs? Turns out this is just a reflection of the writers’ own lethargy and stagnation. These people could learn how to write courtroom drama by watching other shows and studying legal texts. That’s what I would do. Instead, they limit the show to “what they already know”: useless activism and millennial snark.
From what I've seen of the show and heard about the writers, it just reeks of "single women in their late 30's writing about the struggles of single women in their late 30's". In other words, extremely vapid and shallow.
It's a shame because the lead actress is actually super talented. See: Orphan Black.
It's representative of the writers' own strugles. Step 1: Hear that comic books/fantasy/sci fi are popular. Step 2: Own a vagina. Step 3: Ask to write. Step 4: Showrunner. Same arc as Flat MCU Superman girl and sassy brown spiderman girl.
Yeah, I guess picking up a comic with the character's name is too much to ask.
There's a literal arc in the she hulk comic where she has to represent heroes and find or discover legal precedents to bring cases forward in a world filled with super heroes. There are even places for funny moments, shenanigans and a little bit of underhandedness and tongue in cheek moment.
They could literally use those. But nah. Just admit defeat and make it terrible. Sounds good.
I mean that's fair, who can they ask for reference? We've all seen how shit a lot of the ideological left lawyers are and the ones either centrist or right leaning lawyers have contacts stating:
"You will pay me x amount for my advise and you can't legally put my name in marketing or credits of this eventual pile of shit "
True but then that's their only excuse out the window. If they can't even watch Law and Order, Suits, Better call Saul or even the Good wife for a week then this was just a petty excuse for "we didn't want to put in the effort"
Bosch, my favorite Detective Procedural, (last season sudden wokeness notwithstanding) was written excellently, hour long episodes with maybe 1-2 action scenes in the whole mix.
The rest was simply detective work, homicide office daily business, paperwork, interviewing, the works. And I loved it, and so did the people. Very high rated.
Literally a well written procedural with superhero shit would print bucks. These people are morons.
"A cishet white male just wrote a law show about some privileged Irish punk whom has no obsticles in life, it'd be twice as easy to make a law show about a waman of kulur"
I appreciate this kind of honest. A legal drama series in the MCU sounds like it would be interesting if they had proper writers and maybe a few legal consultants to assist.
Kind of already happened in Daredevil season 2 anyway with the Punisher trial. Sure it was not an entire series but there already are characters in the MCU who are both crimefighters and lawyers hence the cameos in both Spider-Man: No Way Home and this of the same character.
Didn't Lifetime have a fucking feminist legal drama? I know Camryn Manheim played a fat feminist. ALLY FUCKING MCBEAL! There's no chance at all any of these cunts couldn't even watch a single episode and take notes?
Oh, wait, they're women. They slept with their professors or took gender studies to pass.
The scary part is every single one of them will continue to get writing gigs because they are women and mostly minorities.
Read your statement until the end, got confused, then reread it again, and realized why none of them ever experienced a trial.
You know how modern female protagonists generally lack meaningful character growth or story arcs? Turns out this is just a reflection of the writers’ own lethargy and stagnation. These people could learn how to write courtroom drama by watching other shows and studying legal texts. That’s what I would do. Instead, they limit the show to “what they already know”: useless activism and millennial snark.
Great point.
From what I've seen of the show and heard about the writers, it just reeks of "single women in their late 30's writing about the struggles of single women in their late 30's". In other words, extremely vapid and shallow.
It's a shame because the lead actress is actually super talented. See: Orphan Black.
Oh shit. It's her!? She was awesome. I didn't make it through the show, but she was excellent
Sounds like a half-assed ally mcbeal. At least they bothered to do the lawyer part.
It's representative of the writers' own strugles. Step 1: Hear that comic books/fantasy/sci fi are popular. Step 2: Own a vagina. Step 3: Ask to write. Step 4: Showrunner. Same arc as Flat MCU Superman girl and sassy brown spiderman girl.
The only experience any writer in Hollywood has is texting on Reddit in Starbucks.
I’m sure some of them write on their Harry Potter fan fiction blogs.
It's true, faux-witty one liners are not an effective trial strategy
Hey you're offending Melissa McCarthy
Yeah, I guess picking up a comic with the character's name is too much to ask.
There's a literal arc in the she hulk comic where she has to represent heroes and find or discover legal precedents to bring cases forward in a world filled with super heroes. There are even places for funny moments, shenanigans and a little bit of underhandedness and tongue in cheek moment.
They could literally use those. But nah. Just admit defeat and make it terrible. Sounds good.
Source Article- https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/08/16/she-hulk-head-writer-admits-disney-plus-series-originally-developed-as-legal-procedural-until-writers-room-realized-none-of-us-are-that-adept-at-writing-rousing-trial-scenes/
I mean that's fair, who can they ask for reference? We've all seen how shit a lot of the ideological left lawyers are and the ones either centrist or right leaning lawyers have contacts stating:
"You will pay me x amount for my advise and you can't legally put my name in marketing or credits of this eventual pile of shit "
Just watch suits or better call Saul. They're awful because that's not at all how real trials work, but it makes for good TV.
True but then that's their only excuse out the window. If they can't even watch Law and Order, Suits, Better call Saul or even the Good wife for a week then this was just a petty excuse for "we didn't want to put in the effort"
Or play the Phoenix Wright games.
Should have fuckin someone.
Bosch, my favorite Detective Procedural, (last season sudden wokeness notwithstanding) was written excellently, hour long episodes with maybe 1-2 action scenes in the whole mix. The rest was simply detective work, homicide office daily business, paperwork, interviewing, the works. And I loved it, and so did the people. Very high rated.
Literally a well written procedural with superhero shit would print bucks. These people are morons.
Should've hired Ben Edlund, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick. That'll be plenty to make a satirical Super Law show that also takes itself seriously.
But this show will be Lawyer McBeals Sex in the Cities blah blah Womens Bathrooms something something.
Just Crap.
"A cishet white male just wrote a law show about some privileged Irish punk whom has no obsticles in life, it'd be twice as easy to make a law show about a waman of kulur"
I appreciate this kind of honest. A legal drama series in the MCU sounds like it would be interesting if they had proper writers and maybe a few legal consultants to assist.
Kind of already happened in Daredevil season 2 anyway with the Punisher trial. Sure it was not an entire series but there already are characters in the MCU who are both crimefighters and lawyers hence the cameos in both Spider-Man: No Way Home and this of the same character.
Didn't Lifetime have a fucking feminist legal drama? I know Camryn Manheim played a fat feminist. ALLY FUCKING MCBEAL! There's no chance at all any of these cunts couldn't even watch a single episode and take notes?
Oh, wait, they're women. They slept with their professors or took gender studies to pass.
Any guy that watches this garbage is an absolute cuck faggot bitch