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Ragnarok (2020)
Came for autistic Thor, left with one of the worst shows I have watched
What a complete mess. I just came to laugh at a bad show together with a friend, and somehow it still managed to disappoint.
STORY.
It hints towards something big, and never delivers upon it. The first two season each end with hilariously bad "finales", in which it feels like the introduction to a fight is shown, and then never finished off.
You can just smell the "emotional moment hinting towards the next season, with pop music playing in the background, fading out to credits" from a mile away. The final "big thing" they lead up on is just insulting frankly.
Even if you want to watch this show as a joke, or ironically, as I did, spare yourself from the second, and most definetely from the third season. It's not even entertaining anymore, it is just very boring.
Even with the supposed "plottwist" of the final season, they could have at least done some more action scenes. The ones they had were incredibly boring, my friend and I both zoned out during a few of them because the fight choreography was just that BORING.
CHARACTERS.
Not a single interesting character. It is extremely difficult to stay invested in characters that all seem to change their mind about who they want to be every few episodes. Personality, motivations, ideals are all thrown out of the roof. The writers just do whatever they feel like, whenever, with whomever. If it fits the character, well who cares?
But I guess any bad writing can just be written off by "Well, since it is a figment of imagination by a mentally ill person, it has to be inconsistent!", right?
"Facts" about characters are made up as the show goes on, and immediately forgotten about again at times. This could also be written off to the main character's condition, but I would rather call this what it is, which is lazy writing.
ABOUT THE ENDING.
The final episode is just plain disrespectful to anyone that is actually suffering from conditions as shizophrenia. The portayal in the show couldn't have been farther from the truth. It was clearly not researched at all, just lazily throw some cliches together, and well "It was all in his head" always works as a surprise plottwist for midwits.
Instead of being a big reveal for the viewer, it is something you see coming from 20 miles away. I am sure I did, I just didn't think they had the balls to go through with it.
It didn't feel like a proper ending, but more like a cry for help from the writers, showing what they wanted to do... Well, and then putting together this absolute boring mess of an episode. If the twist was planned from the beginning, it was hilariously bad in execution.