I watched the first episode last night. Despite a lot happening, the episode seemed to drag a fair bit for me. Hopefully the writing improves in episodes 2 and 3; the majority of the dialogue seemed to consist of the main characters swearing at each other and calling each other names.
It has been 2+ years since I watched the first season, did Little Cricket learn how to change her size without eating/vomiting at some point?
These days she can shrink with just crushing self-hatred. (A quote.)
I watched all 3 episodes. I thought the resolution of the previous season’s cliffhanger was pretty lame (maybe it would have been better if Chance Perdomo hadn’t died), but it could all be part of the dean’s nefarious plan or something.
You know, I never fully realised that female Jordan has different powers than male Jordan.
I was kind of annoyed that Emma never told Harper to put up the posters somewhere else, because the poor barista was breaking down.
I finished watching it. I thought it started out kind of uneven, but overall I thought it was a decent season. Can’t wait to see the final season of The Boys!
Overall, pretty satisfied with how the season evolved and the growth of their super-powers. The Cipher character is great. And for fans of the background supe-characters and their unusual powers, this season will not disappoint.
It looks to be tying in more closely to The Boys as parallel narratives, which should be interesting when that lands. And like others, I’m hanging out for that final season. Maybe Homelander will commit to designing a huuuuuge discotheque?
The power of “tail”.
Speaking of tail, I was really surprised we didn’t see God U PR Bee Lady disembowel herself.
Yeah, that was a Chekhov’s Gun not used. I wondered if she would accidentally kill Cypher.
I’m only through 7 episodes with my wife, but consider us pretty disappointed the burned up body was just the bad guy controlling some dude, which is what we figured/guessed way ahead of its reveal.
I mean, fine, but don’t pretend for a second we did not see that coming.
If you figured it out before Cipher showed his mind control powers in episode 4, then I tip my hat to you.
Just finished bingeing it. Liked it a lot.
Pluses:
-I for one was caught completely flat footed by the Cipher twist, which I loved. Not quite end-of-season-1-of-The-Good-Place, but up there
-And speaking of Cipher, he was a great villain
-Overall good production values. And just generally a fun show. Never boring. Well acted. Reasonable enough dialog. Fun and imaginative effects.
Minuses:
-Sure it’s part of the story that this should happen given that they were being manipulated all along, but good lord did our heroes just always do precisely the most obvious thing as fast and as recklessly as possible
-I also really REALLY hate the cliche (similar to monologuing but not quite) where there is a villain who significantly outclasses all of you, and there’s a very brief moment when they’re totally helpless, and they’re also incredibly evil, and…. you don’t kill him. Come on. You’re clearly willing to fight him to the death. He’s just been tied up with pubes (fairly lame… had she never until meeting our heroes ever thought that ropey entangley powers are useful regardless of their source) and then his powers have been stolen and he’s being puppeted. SMASH HIS HEAD IN FOR GOD’S SAKE. And this is clearly not a show like, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender where our heroes are too nice to do so
-A fair number of other plot points that just seemed like “ok, and now this happens, because it will be neat”. Jordan fighting Marie, for instance. First of all, since when is that a thing? Secondly, they’re both experienced fighters who have done lots of hand to hand combat. What’s so hard about agreeing “ok, we spar fairly hard for 2 rounds, then Marie cuts her hand, ties up Jordan, starts to joke them just a bit, and they tap out”? Similarly, Polarity has gone to confront Cipher, and looks like he will beat him up (although we later know that that wasn’t the “real” Cipher”). Then a bunch of our heroes, who know that he can puppet them, show up to help. Morons!
-And some stuff left very unclear. How were Godolkin’s injuries incurable for 60 years? Are there no supe healers (either healers-of-supes or healers-who-are-supes)? Was Godolkin serious about the culling business (vs just pretending to get an excuse to fight lots of students to power himself up)? Because he seemed happy enough to choke that one guy…. but then he was doing something incredibly stupid which was testing purely by trial of combat… there are plenty of very powerful very useful supes whose are just going to be killed dead because hand to hand combat is in no way related to their skill set. Unclear what really motivated him.
So, overall, enjoyed, would watch another season, psyched for final season of The Boys, but overall grade in the B- range.
Wasn’t the point of the whole project essentially to create a supe healer? That would strongly suggest that there weren’t any currently in existence (at least not one strong enough to restore an elderly person with catastrophic burn injuries to perfect health and youth).
Even if they had planned to choregraph a whole fight routine, the plan would have gone out the window once Cipher used his powers. But I agree that the whole televised fight thing was not the strongest part of the season.
This was my impression as well. The decision to have them “escape” between the end of last season and the beginning was an odd one. Even if they were going to revisit and re-contextualize their confinement and escape mid-season, I really do think they should have spent at least an episode and possibly two showing, not simply opening post-escape and telling us it happened. I have to imagine it turned a number of viewers off before the season gained its footing as it progressed. It nearly lost me. Episode one was by far the worst for it.
They were kind of limited in options, given that one of the main cast died between seasons.
Oh, did not know that.
From an earlier post
They said they would not recast the character, and I did appreciate how they integrated his death into the plot of the season. There were lots of stupid ways they could have handled it, from just not mentioning the character, to having him be visiting his Canadian girlfriend or something. I thought making it a key plot point was a respectful tribute.