User Reviews

This series took a turn at episode 3, a good one. This episode was good.

Chloe is still the worst. I hope they dig into her pains, but she's pretty annoying. Some depth or context would help, but her superhero dad not being there for here and she didn't ask to be born crap is really disengaging.

Otherwise great slow burn in the story.

Seriously, When are we do want to see superhero versus super villain??

Too much useless drama 🎭

Unnecessary episode because. The past scenes were meaningless without any interest. And we only saw Chloe's boring life. 👎

... and kills himself. Yes, it's Kurtwood Smith from 'That 70s Show' in the "Special Guest Star" spot, even though he isn't credited as such.

Smith brings some whacked-out entertainment value to what is otherwise a pretty boring episode. We see Chloe's side of last episode, and Sheldon stumbling thorough a 1929 Dust Bowl looking for the windmill from his vision. How these two tie together, I have no idea. Chloe and 1929 Sheldon are both on downward spirals, but that's about the only connection. At the end, Sheldon seemingly gets his act together. And Chloe... doesn't.

That's all that happens. Neither of the storylines seem to have anything to do with the main story. What main story? I've lost track at this point. Yes, I know that the 1929 flashbacks are the "origin story" for Utopian and the Union. But so what? To have an origin story about main characters, you have to have main characters. What little we saw of Utopian that made him a main character is a quarter of a season ago. Chloe has been mostly a side trip, with little or no impact on the main storyline.

Maybe this will make sense down the road, but I'm not watching a future vision of the show. I want what I'm watching _now_ to be interesting and relevant. And... it isn't.

And the padding! The vision thing is a good example. So Sheldon has a vision, of a windmill, that leads him to an old man, that leads him to coordinates written into the dust. Which lead him to the island where Sheldon gets his powers. While the ghost (?) of Chester tells Sheldon not to follow the bread crumbs. Does any of this makes sense? If the same aliens (or whatever) are sending the visions, and Ghost Chester, and want Sheldon to get to the island, why not just send him a vision of the coordinates? Or have Chester the Not So Friendly Ghost tell Sheldon the coordinates? Or kill Chester if there's two alien factions and one doesn't want Sheldon to find the island? Instead the quest continues because like Ryan George says on 'Pitch Meeting', "I have to have the story to happen."

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

Here's an idea. Make use of the source material. Someone constantly being harassed by a ghost is a tired trope. That's why Mark Millar didn't use it. They went to an island and got super powers. You can knock it out in one episode.

Just start earlier in the comic series. The story can move faster and rearrange the story to cover the backstory up front. Or just start earlier in the comic series. Also, the dust bowl didn't start until 1934.