DC;DW: Seems to be a darkly humorous show about a secret superhero group that acts when other superheros abuse their powers/positions.
I like the look, I like the tone, and I like the good-for-many-metaphors milieu. The cast looks great: I like Keith Urban (he’s a decent actor who’s great for certain parts, plus he likes SF and comic books so he’s cool ya), Elisabeth Shue is fantastic, Jessie T. Usher is apparently an up-and-coming star, Erin Moriarty, etc.
S1 is only 8 episodes but they’re 60 minutes each, so they should be able to cover a fair amount of story & character(s) development.
I had no idea this show existed until today, but now I’m looking forward to it.
Yeeeeeaaaahh. . . Keith, Karl. BIG difference. One, I dont’ care, the other, I’m psyched. A dark comedy superhero series with Karl Urban? I am SOOO in. I was pissed when I found out it’s not out yet. I was getting set to waste the next 24 hours on this.
I don’t like the look of this at all. It seems really ugly and gratuitously violent, which I know there are big audiences for, but I’m not one of them.
Putting that aside, though, it also seemed like it was missing something fundamental, which I can’t quite pin down or explain, so I’m curious to see if it will succeed.
So it seems that part of the pilot’s plot consists of the Seven sending some sort of invisible killer to get rid of Wee Hughie, probably because he was suing them for his girlfriend’s death.
Not a bad idea. In the comics Hughie refuses a payout, but his girlfriend’s demise is still written off as colateral damage.
It looks fine and fairly close to the book… who’s producing it? Let me check…
Oh. Seth Rogen and friends.
Makes sense.
I wasn’t that happy with Preacher. I didn’t even feel like watching season 2.
That’s great news for me. I love Preacher. BTW, i feel like it picked up after the first season. They got out of town and went on the road. The town setting, and the townsfolk, were a drag. It’s a pity of you never watched the season two opener. It really took off. Of course, if you followed the Preacher comics, you’d have a different perspective than I.
I’m getting a bit off-topic, but damn, there’s not much to say about the Karl Urban show, unfortunately. At least it’s not far away.
What bothered me from S1 was that, at some point, the writers stared ignoring the original story and wanted to develop their own off the wall ideas… and some of those ideas worked well enough (like the motel clone massacre) and some fell really flat (The meeting “God” at the church scene).
So I suspected that S2 would be more of that. But if you’re telling me it picks up, I guess I can give it another chance.
FWIW, I feel the same way about the clone massacre and the Skype meeting with God. I think the series has more hits than misses thereafter. The season 2 opener should be a good gauge for what follows…well, for season 2. Season 3 has a darker feel.
I stuck with Season 2 until the characters just started hanging out in New Orleans, harassing street preachers and shooting each other in the chest. That was the point I realized that the show had nowhere to go and nothing to say.
I just can’t feel optimistic about this, because the original comics were such a grim, ugly, cynical slog. Pointing out that comic book tropes don’t work in real life is like shooting fish in a barrel, but doing it by making pretty much every super, politician, and corporate executive a mass murdering psychopath and sex maniac is ridiculous overkill.
A vigilante group that works to reign in out of control “heroes” is an interesting idea. I’m not sure this is the best source material to use.
Yeah, it’s based on Garth Ennis’ work. It’s gonna be violent.
On the other hand, the comic is one of the better deconstructions of the superhero adolescent power-fantasy genre there’s ever been. I loved it. So we’ll see how this goes.
Fortunately for me, I have no pre-conceptions at all; didn’t even know it was a comic until I read it here. The Umbrella Academy was the same for me, and The Tick (well, I knew aboutThe Tick, natch) and I really enjoyed those.
I just watched the first 3 episodes and I think this show is brilliant. Scary and funny and gory and ironic and horrifying and triumphant and just fucking brilliant.
Gotta sleep and go to work; gonna finish it tomorrow prolly.