This second episode continues the positive momentum from the Pilot, but I think I liked the Pilot just a little bit more. Episode 2 slows things down, but not too much. Also, unlike the Pilot, this episode actually has a standout character other than Courtney and Pat and that would be Brainwave, superbly played by Christopher James Baker. Brainwave is appropriately clever and intimidating, but he also has depth as we see his complex relationship he has with his son Henry, the high school bully who got into a couple of scrapes with Courtney in the Pilot Henry is obviously being set up to be a key player as the season progresses.
It's becoming very obvious based on the first couple of episodes that the cast for this show is going to be HUGE and maybe this is a reason for my 1 less star in this episode. Two episodes in, and I'm not yet feeling a huge chunk of the cast, but that's mainly because the writers haven't given most of them enough to do. In particular, they've done NOTHING with the prospective group of Courtney's high school friends and enemies, with the exception of Henry of course, who looks very promising.
One thing that I hope this show continues to do and even expand on is the slice-of-life and comedic elements because it really nails those. I'm not a comic book aficionado and I couldn't care less about action movies anymore, so I'm a lot less interested in stuff like adhering to canon and action scenes and a lot more interested in strong character development and telling a good story. I've seen shows pile on with a ton of canon/comic book characters that, but also FAIL at telling an actual coherent and good story. The Flash and Once Upon a Time are prime examples of this where they had good storytelling in their first couple of seasons, only to degenerate to time-wasting exercises into tedious fan-service storytelling in the later seasons. Let's bring in all these famous characters just to elicit oohs and ahhs, but do absolutely nothing substantive with them. Thankfully, Episode 2 did something substantive. Keep with this type of storytelling and don't cater to fans and Stargirl could have a strong multi-season run of quality entertainment.
It's becoming very obvious based on the first couple of episodes that the cast for this show is going to be HUGE and maybe this is a reason for my 1 less star in this episode. Two episodes in, and I'm not yet feeling a huge chunk of the cast, but that's mainly because the writers haven't given most of them enough to do. In particular, they've done NOTHING with the prospective group of Courtney's high school friends and enemies, with the exception of Henry of course, who looks very promising.
One thing that I hope this show continues to do and even expand on is the slice-of-life and comedic elements because it really nails those. I'm not a comic book aficionado and I couldn't care less about action movies anymore, so I'm a lot less interested in stuff like adhering to canon and action scenes and a lot more interested in strong character development and telling a good story. I've seen shows pile on with a ton of canon/comic book characters that, but also FAIL at telling an actual coherent and good story. The Flash and Once Upon a Time are prime examples of this where they had good storytelling in their first couple of seasons, only to degenerate to time-wasting exercises into tedious fan-service storytelling in the later seasons. Let's bring in all these famous characters just to elicit oohs and ahhs, but do absolutely nothing substantive with them. Thankfully, Episode 2 did something substantive. Keep with this type of storytelling and don't cater to fans and Stargirl could have a strong multi-season run of quality entertainment.