I am loving the show and the over all concept but I feel they are spending WAY too much time on the origin story and dragging it out much longer than need be. I figured they are trying to drag it out for all 8 episodes but its getting annoying, would have been happier to see less time spent in the past and MORE time on character development for the present.
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Edvis-199713 May 2021
Building and burning
joshuaonofrio10 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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.
Better than the Boys
h-160638 May 2021
Chloe (daughter) is the WORST .
amidhasimov18 May 2021
Hate it when shows think they have a compelling character.
LightningB28 May 2021
Yeah already done with Chloe. Was before this one. Tired of the cliche battling-personal-demons character. It's not interesting. Feels like another streaming superhero show where they most the time not doing superhero stuff. Whether you check Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, they work way too hard to make sure we are aware how all their characters have flaws. But it's being done to death. At this point if they actually perform superhero acts, it would be something pretty cool. And apparently unique. Whatever you do, less of Chloe please.
Unbelievable
gqesmx18 May 2021
I hate that I spent time watching the episode
It spouses to be superheroes series, not super drama series they only talk about one person miserable life I wish if they stuck in the subject, there is no shame to make the series 7 episodes instead of 8
There were too many unclear scenes.
Red Gets Up Off His Lounger...
Gislef12 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
... 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?
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?
I Have Never Been So Bored
ericsandberg3430 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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