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Finished it and I thought it was ok.
posted by InnovatorSTAFFMOD on February 16, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Not great, just ok. My main issue is that it tries too hard to be weird for the weirdness sake. I did like the powers of the kids, and the story is interesting. However, we get very few visceral action scenes and they tend to hold back on the power effects except for Number Five's teleport. There are also a few plot threads that are just left hanging, which I supposed will be addressed in season 2.
Reply by Daddie0
on March 5, 2019 at 3:20 AM
Turned out better than I expected. Early on I was underwhelmed, but the character and backstory of Number 5 kinda hooked me, the most intriguing thing about this series.
Reply by Movie Queen41
on March 10, 2019 at 11:40 PM
Klaus and No. 5 are the best characters.
Reply by write2topcat
on March 11, 2019 at 7:09 AM
There are plenty of ways for this to go in the second season. There were 43 kids born to suddenly full term pregnant women the same day, and only 7 became Hargraves's kids. I have to wonder how and when the others might come into play.
I thought they made it an interesting show, different enough that it doesn't seem transparently like a knock off.
The drama with Vanya was predictable. Pretty cliche stuff; "I felt left out. Nobody wanted me around cause I didn't have powers" drama drama, victim victim, revenge revenge. But....you're gonna see that kind of drama in most shows these days I think.
All in all, I liked the first season. I will watch the next.
Reply by write2topcat
on March 11, 2019 at 6:34 PM
A couple of thoughts, questions, about the developing series:
In the flashback about the young Daddy Hargreeves shown in the last episode, he seems to have been a young man sometime back in the 1800s. Does he age slowly or was he just a very old man when he died? I sense that the old man has special powers also. Somehow he taught that monkey to act like a butler. And he built a robotic mother for the kids. It would not be too weird for him to return somehow, maybe a version of him from a parallel universe type thing or something. Or the kids could meet him again if Five jumped them back into his timeline. A faked death would have been an option, but the devastated earth thing would have taken him out.
And what about Vanya's powers? They are only just developing now. Does she have only one like the others? Will she keep hallucinating her "hurt and angry child" self, and taking her marching orders from it? I think she will for quite a while. Her adult self isn't much more mature, so the point is almost moot. What part of her went to the moon in that beam of light that burst out of her when she was shot?
And what significance does that violin hold? Daddy Hargreeves' late wife owned it and gave it to him. And now Vanya owns and plays it. I don't think so much would have been made of that were it not somehow significant. It turned white just like Vanya, and it was pointedly shown lying on the stage by itself as Five time jumped the group somewhere else. There is something going on with that violin.