Cool ideas, amateurish realization of them

I think there may be something just inherently alluring about hero origin stories where we watch lowly underdogs come into great power and proceed to kick ass. Especially when it's a hero such as Thor, who is already ingrained so much in our culture.

That concept alone, I believe, is probably what hooked me so well on this series (which I binged in just a few days). Because, technically speaking, it wasn't good. The writing seemed to be objectively bad in terms of dialogue, characters, character relationships, cliches, plot conveniences, and plot contrivances. It also goes a bit heavy with the melodramatic Vampire Diaries/Twilight-esque teen fantasy fiction vibes. Or, at least, it tries to. The character relationships are so poorly written, however, that it even fails to reach that level of success in writing. One second, boy and girl barely know each other, for instance, the next they're inexplicably in love without there ever having been a buildup to that relationship. The series does a lot of rushed, tell-don't-show things like that where I constantly find myself thinking, "Wait, when the hell did they get to be so chummy?"

Like I said, of course, the basic concept of the story was good enough to keep me interested and I enjoyed the actors that were chosen for it. But I nevertheless found myself rolling my eyes every 5 minutes. It's a shame, really, that this idea wasn't put into the hands of more skilled writers. I feel like we lost out on a far better series than we ended up with.