Hope springs eternal. I check them all out, in hopes. But they always fail to live up to that hope. Not sure why.
My best guess is that the Marvel shows cost a lot more per episode than the DC shows, and a lot of viewers don't care as much about quality. It could be that purely business-wise, the DC shows make more bang for their buck than the Marvel ones. That being said, I still find them hard to watch. The fight scenes in Arrow, for example, just seem so much more obviously choreographed than the ones in Agents of Shield. Of course, all TV fights are choreographed, but it shouldn't be so obvious. Some of the Arrow brawls are like dances and you can just see the guys waiting for their cue like "sweep foot left on the third beat, wait two beats, and punch right".
I definitely agree with this, the DC shows generally do feel cheap. That gets especially obvious when they are trying to be more ambitious than their budgets really allow for.
However, I was more concerned that the writing on this was pretty awful. Rip Hunter was reduced to emo discount Doctor, the other characters were generally stupid as fuck, and the show was riddled with things that made no sense. The very premise of "travel around through time to stop Vandal Savage" is unbearably stupid. How about just picking one moment in time, assemble the necessary people and resources and go there to gank him? It's not like he has some master plan that unfolds through the centuries (another extremely stupid type of premise).
It was really put on display when Rip Hunter said he was from the future and called them legends, and the supposedly smartest member of the team was like "doesn't a legend have to be dead?" If he's from 150 years into the future, *of course* you're dead at that time.
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