05-07-2021, 11:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2021, 11:57 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Got 2 1/2 eps in. It’s okay. Basically it’s superheroes with dysfunctional relationships. Utopian, the leader superhero, is a twist on Superman - like what if Superman was a bad dad?
The effects a decent - nothing new yet but on par with Netflix production quality, perhaps even a cut above. There’s been a few interesting camera angles that felt somewhat fresh. The performances are serviceable for a comic based series.
It gets a heavy handed with its messages, but at least it has some, maybe a few too many and that becomes cumbersome. There’s no comic relief. Some of the moralizing is over the top but you know how comics can be caricature. The powers and the diverse assemblage of the superheroes is ill defined - you just gotta go with that.
E1 was designed to set the hook and pulled me right along into e2, but e2 lost some momentum. E2 got too talky. It needed more superfights.
E2 had the Hill fight, which Silvera (the fight choreographer I interviewed) was particularly proud of - and it was pretty good. Some amusing ultravi - superhero ultravi. Another earlier fight was okay too. I’m enjoying the action - there just needs to be more of it. More walk, less talk.
Having read the comic, I know where it’s going so I can’t comment on whether it builds suspense well or not. It seems to be following the comic fairly well and the way the characters are portrayed seems loyal to that, at least for me so far.
No swordfights yet. As for the DOOM rec, I’d say give e1 a peek and see if it works for you. I need to see more of e3 before declaring e2 skippable - you might just be able to leap frog over to e3.
The effects a decent - nothing new yet but on par with Netflix production quality, perhaps even a cut above. There’s been a few interesting camera angles that felt somewhat fresh. The performances are serviceable for a comic based series.
It gets a heavy handed with its messages, but at least it has some, maybe a few too many and that becomes cumbersome. There’s no comic relief. Some of the moralizing is over the top but you know how comics can be caricature. The powers and the diverse assemblage of the superheroes is ill defined - you just gotta go with that.
E1 was designed to set the hook and pulled me right along into e2, but e2 lost some momentum. E2 got too talky. It needed more superfights.
E2 had the Hill fight, which Silvera (the fight choreographer I interviewed) was particularly proud of - and it was pretty good. Some amusing ultravi - superhero ultravi. Another earlier fight was okay too. I’m enjoying the action - there just needs to be more of it. More walk, less talk.
Having read the comic, I know where it’s going so I can’t comment on whether it builds suspense well or not. It seems to be following the comic fairly well and the way the characters are portrayed seems loyal to that, at least for me so far.
No swordfights yet. As for the DOOM rec, I’d say give e1 a peek and see if it works for you. I need to see more of e3 before declaring e2 skippable - you might just be able to leap frog over to e3.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse