This is another pretty good Netflix series. A bunch of kids are born all at once and some old rich cruel dude collects them all and raises them and makes a superhero club. Club falls apart and they are all adults going their own way when he dies and they all come back together to stop the end of the world. Sometimes a show is a series of elements of other shows put together in an interesting new way. This is one of those series. There is clear influence here from a number of different sci fi and anime shows. It does reveal some spoiler points, and makes some things predictable. There is twin peaks strangeness and style to a lot of it. I don't know what happened in twin peaks so I apologize if this actually spoils some things. There is a lot of stuff in the show if you know where it is pulled from you will see some of the end result. For example if you have ever seen elfen lied you will see some major similarities between the father/scientist there and the father/scientist here. But it is cool because it is twisted up so much that you can see the creator's influences but the story and characters are gripping. There is tones of watchmen in here too. I especially like the ideas of time travel incorporated with #5. It brought forth an idea of why time travel to a certain point would be near impossible and sort of result in a random location. If you think about it time is another coordinate in where we are, but then you need to factor in personal choice and environmental choice in as other infinite to the power of infinity coordinates. Basically to jump from here to there would involve knowing every choice you and everything else would have to make in order to get you to that particular path in the space of infinite possibilities from infinite variables. It would be near impossible to navigate if you wanted to get to a specific location. That is, without being the universe.
I'm part way through watching this and I like it so far. I agree it has some Twin Peaks vibes, but I'm also getting a distinct Heroes vibe. But ultimately, it's fairly different and unique to be its own thing. The casting is pretty good. But I gotta say, the kid who plays Number 5 is incredibly talented. Casting child actors can be pretty hit or miss, but this guy knocks it out of the park. He does a great job playing a guy who is mentally in his 50s or 60s.
The arc with #5, Hazel, and Cha Cha is pretty amusing and keeps the second half flowing while everyone else starts their drama. I do like how they keep ben in the series through Klaus since he can speak with the dead.
mostly through it... shelved Doom Patrol to concentrate, because the tones seem similar... which makes sense in I suspect there are a lot of the same people working on them both. The only thing I'm not fond of is the casting of Ellen Page... I just don't enjoy her in many of the roles I've seen her play. Still, that could be the roles she takes not working for her?
It is certainly a netflix 3rd season. It is not terrible, but it is a bit underwhelming considering the first two seasons. One small nitpick on the gender swap. Victor does an OK job at a shallow explanation of the whole thing. I did not expect the UA to go deep into the whole thing. However, there is no possible way every brother and sister of Victor would simp0ly be able to never call him a she and by his male name right after being told. You just cannot take humans who have made mental associations of your gender for decades and have them perfectly gender you after you get a haircut. I do think that creates unrealistic expectations of regular humans. If someone could just drop their mental associations that quickly there would be some serious mental processing difficulties in them that would be regarded as mental dysfunction. That is just a small nitpick on the way they did it. It might have been nicer for them to show the family screwing up and a positive way of forgiving them, and a realistic example of real people trying to support someone they love despite our hardwired mental associations.
So I finished it and good ending, but not the ending people will want. It seems to have concluded. Which actually makes the third season a decent conclusion. It may not be the conclusion people want, but it is an end.
Eh, it's a universe in which 16 women got super pregnant in the span of minutes to birth babies with superpowers, so I can stretch my suspension of disbelief on this one, TBH. Fuck cishets who don't like it.
