It's also not a coincidence that the writers originally came from the classic first three seasons of "Spongebob", which was also a show that had every excuse to be terrible but was brilliant because of the cleverness and strength of the writing.

Sava's reviews were honestly the worst I ever read.

"How can we contort this story to expose Superman to kryptonite" has less storytelling juice, when repeated over and over, than "how can we come up with a story that challenges Superman's [substantial] intelligence or puts him into a moral dilemma?"

The dichotomy heroes have between killing and not-killing always struck me as absurd. There's a very simple balance here - Only kill when you have to.

I agree, at least to an extent. It amazes me that the consensus seems to be that the first half of the season was better than the second. To me the second half was a huge improvement in nearly every way.

To be fair, you can say this about a fight between Daredevil, who is absurdly underpowered (technically his only power is radar sense, at least after Miller got a hold of him), and everyone, but he still manages to win. It also has to do with pure fighting ability and smarts. Luke Cage is a terrible fighter.

Hey, season 2 was fun! Flawed, but fun.

To be fair, that really doesn't describe Kilgrave. And "Luke Cage" looks like it'll be this but takes a big left turn mid-season. I don't think that's quite fair.

Of course, the biggest achievement of P and F was Doofenshmirtz. They managed to create a villain with a backstory that was actually, genuinely tragic without compromising even slightly on its absurdity and humor.

The cover of that one was displayed really prominently at one point.

Luke himself actually has a big problem with that.

"Phineas and Ferb" was exactly the right balance of self-referential and sincere that made it both uncynical and fun and funny and original.

BTW, I honestly could not disagree more regarding the first vs. second half of the show. Episodes one through six were well-acted and stylish but moved so slowly I nearly gave up. But after the big twist in episode 7 I felt like the entire series ratcheted up a level in intensity, and everything became way more…

Well, Claire does eventually say that he even healed from the shotgun blast amazingly fast.

Yeah, when I saw the book I was like "Hey, that makes sense!"

As for people who criticize P and F for repetitiveness - you're not technically wrong. The devil was totally in the details. If the writing had been even a hair less clever it would have turned into "The Fairly OddParents" and run out of ideas after a season and a half. But the writing was absolutely top notch, and…

Exactly. It's perfectly fine to have a message as long as you don't forget that your job is to tell a story.

One day, people will finally realize Phineas and Ferb was a genuinely great show.

"The Incredible Hulk" barely counts as MCU.

I'm not saying there's no message, I'm saying it's not AS important as the creators probably want it to be.