The good:
Mom and Dad each have a friend supporting them in learning their superpowers - sort of a fun concept.
Son is learning quickly - that could prove to be interesting.
Daughter - well, mind reading is kind of a boring superpower, although I suppose practical in a way.
The bad:
Suddenly there are “others” who have it - and now the Mom wants to learn more so they can get rid of the powers.
I think the biggest problem is they are losing the “fun” aspect and trying too hard to become the next big X-Men franchise, and following in the style of Heroes they are adding too many new villains with other superpowers.
Will probably watch one more - but if it doesn’t go back to “fun”, will probably stop watching.
I like it. Nice to see the exploration of their powers and the control of them. Also, the ambiguity of good vs. bad in the whole super power phenomena. It’s not all good, fun and games. There would be some really down sides and the whole dynamic of the family interacting with these new, mind-blowing abilities would lead to some crazy interactions.
I do agree that I don’t want to see them lose the fun and real humor in the writing and I suppose that is a possibility. But so far the story has some really interesting areas to explore. Looking forward to seeing how they proceed.
I’ve given it two episodes and I’ll probably watch a few more (the GF likes it), but my gawd, when the lab assistant said, “you’ve probably burned up all your glucosamine” my eyes rolled so hard I think I sprained them.
It’s funny… the actress who plays the daughter kept looking, and sounding, familiar, so I looked her up.
She’s the younger sister of the girl who played Layla, the plant controller, in the movie Sky High (the superkids in high school Disney movie). Jeez, they look and sound almost exactly alike.
I watched both episodes on Hulu today and I like it, except…in the first episode, there was a blue KitchenAid stand mixer on the counter in the kitchen. I noticed it because it is the color I wish I had, but the damned things last forever so I will never get to buy a new one so I’m stuck with pale yellow…sorry! In the second episode, the mixer is a pale shade of green. It irritated me so much I kept obsessing about it every time they were in the kitchen. I’m hoping to get over it by the third episode. I can handle breaking the laws of physics, being able to organize a school carnival of that scope in four days while never actually going near the school for more than an hour, and the whole “boss is an evil genius in disguise” thing. But changing the color of the mixer for no real reason? They got some ‘splainin’ to do.
The continuity department lost the one used in the pilot. :shrug: I’ve seen entire sets replaced between pilot & second ep (though I can’t give you examples off the top of my head).
Oh, I mean, Mr Powell broke it while getting used to his new strength, & had to replace it. They didn’t show this because there just isn’t that much time in an ep.
Hanging With Mr. Cooper. Pilot used the set from Growing Pains (and they even had a little segment with Alan Thicke telling Marc Curry how he hoped the set would be as good for their cast as it was for his) then the 2nd ep on had an all new set.
We made it through 1 and 1/2 episodes. My main problem is that the best part of superhero shows is the exploration of new powers. For this family, all the fun was undercut by the ham-fisted effort to give this family conflict. None of the conflict felt real, but it was sufficient to take away any real sense of fun.
Secondarily, these writers are completely ignorant of science, and I could not buy anything at all about the mom’s job. It was a ridiculous two dimensional depiction of some apparently generalized pan-scientist-research-venture-administrator. Perhaps the stupidity of her depiction made it harder for me to buy into the conflict of her finding difficulty to make time for her family.
Then there’s the inconsistency in their powers. I’m sure there’s a reason why the guy can catch bullets, but can get a little hurt if he gets shot in the back of the head. I thought it was a cop out to do away with all the legitimate questions about why the mom does not suffer ill effects of running so fast just by having the research assistant ask them. However, we finally had our fill and turned it off when the mom tripped over a tricycle and skidded for a quarter mile. Okay, either her clothes are immune to the effects or they’re not. Having her get up with a few slight tears on her jacket was moronic. Also, running along surface streets faster than the speed of sound would present thousands of obstacles, not just one instance of a kid on a bike in the way. How could anyone check their email and then run with their head turned around to begin with? How could she trip over a tricycle? Wouldn’t it have been obliterated? Why does her hair billow behind her when she runs?
The whole thing is just a nonsensical and terrible attempt to cover familiar ground. If it were being done in a smart way it would be fun, even though it’s not novel.
Geez… some of you guys don’t like the show because parts of it aren’t realistic? I don’t like the show because it’s already heading down the same path as Heroes. They’re going to flood the show with people with super powers.
I don’t like that they’re doing a “mythology” take with some big conspiracy, but it might work. Also, (end of the 2nd ep)I was relieved that George lived, but very disappointed that they killed off Cho. A sign this may turn to suck.
I think maybe they realized that actor mentioned second in the spoiler had absolutely no appeal at all and it was better to reduce the role than recast.
Did anyone else notice that hot Supermom’s boss, Dr. King is also the boss of the super criminals? After the telekinetic bad guy killed the female cop, he called Dr. King at his office in Global Tech. Seems strange that the show would do a major reveal it like that.
So this means some of the exposition thus far cannot be trusted. Dr. King could have rigged the shipment so the Belem water sample would test as ordinary.
I’m not spoiler tagging this, because it was in the aired episodes.
I’m trying to like the show, but it’s getting hard to do so. So many things that don’t add up. Why exactly don’t the wife’s eyes get messed up by wind and particles when she runs at apparently thousands of MPH? Why isn’t her hair torn out? Why isn’t she eating 24/7 to support all the energy it takes?
And really the characters aren’t that likeable. They make promises and immediately break them. Mackey (I don’t know his name on this show) lies right to the face of his TELEPATHIC daughter.
They hung a lantern on that. Her perky assistant said that she’s probably generating a force field or something so she doesn’t suffer the ill effects of running so fast. Also, she’s been shown to have a really high metabolism- her assistant said, “I officially hate you.”
Yeah, that was really stupid. When will TV writers figure out that telepaths don’t make for good TV?
Within a few episodes the whole family will combine powers to fight crime. Fairly predictable stuff.