eshusplayground:

fromchaostocosmos:

I’m a nanny and the kid I take care likes to watch The Flash and Supergirl on Netflix (would like to watch Arrow, but they are too young for it since that show is geared for an audience that is older)

I have noticed in the random episodes that I have watched with them that like these shows are just really bad. 

Like humans just don’t act like humans, the plot holes are many, it is so fake progressive, people of color are treated like shit especially black people, any feminism is white feminism like supergirl has the very fake female empowerment thing going on and i’m like wow this works for white cis women and even then it is like very stilted and cooperate-y and fake feeling.

characters make such objectively stupid choices and characters just feel wooden like there is no nuance ever really

i mean there is reason i don’t watch these shows, but rather only see it when the kid i take off watches it and they are enjoying themselves so they can keep watching it

but like i just find it to be yuck i guess and like annoying cause people are just really doing dumb stuff and no one acts like humans and behaves any remotely the way people behave 

it is just bad shows and the cw kinda sucks at tv 

Black Lightning is a whole lot better. Actual QTPOC representation (like, they show it and everything!), the plot points are highly relevant to African American lives today (police brutality, drug abuse, the tangled mess of trying to transform institutions from within, balancing work and life when work also includes being a superhero vigilante, etc.).

Also, the characters act like grown people with grown people problems.

Finally: bulletproof Black lesbian.