Umbrella Academy - Not bad, not great

[Blue]

We really enjoyed it as a action-drama-comedy about a disfunctional family with delightfully quirky characters. Trying to judge it as a "superhero" show seems like trying to say that "set in space" is a genre, or all anime are cartoons and therefore are for young kids. Yes, the setting was powers, and that was an important part fo the show, but it wasn't "about" power except for the McGuffin, and how they impacted the character's relationships.

I'll give it a solid 8/10.

 

[Kramodlog]

The melodrama between the character is pretty stereotypical for TV. A lot of the plot exist because characters do not share info or make stupid choices. It points to lazy writing. The universe seems rich, but underused.

 

[Istbor]

The melodrama between the character is pretty stereotypical for TV. A lot of the plot exist because characters do not share info or make stupid choices. It points to lazy writing. The universe seems rich, but underused.

People keep secrets and do make stupid choices, whether due to incomplete information, or without thinking things through, maybe even just due to their personal skewed look at events. What you call lazy, I call an attempt at realism.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah. One of my pet peeves is when people call non-perfect characters “lazy writing”. A show where everybody makes the perfect decision and acts in the most optimal manner sounds boring as hell to me.

 

[Hussar]

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The scoring for this season was really well done I felt. Looking back there were no songs that made me was to skip ahead to save my sanity.

Actually, I think the scoring was the low point for me, although I did like the show overall more as episodes went on.

In the 1st episode, they have the big musical number to Debbie Gibson's I Think We're Alone Now. But, these people were born in 1989. That's a song that came out a few years before they were born. Why would they be all grooving on this? These guys are solidly Millennial. Their anthems would be Brittany Spears wouldn't it? So much of the music was drawn from the 1980s, and it really jarred to me. Barracuda? Stuff like that. It just seemed so out of place.

Never minding that you have them playing music on a turntable. These characters would be in high school in about 2004. That turntable would be about forty years old by the time they were using it.

I just found it really out of place.

But, overall, I did think the show got better as time went on. But, on the whole "lazy writing" thing, well, I do see the point. It's not about being perfect, but, there's a pretty wide gulf between perfect sharing of information and blindingly stupid actions that are easily preventable. Particularly by characters that are supposed to be pretty intelligent and are trying to resolve a problem. This was the reason I gave up on Walking Dead very early in the run.

If the only way you can keep your drama going is to treat your characters as if they are concussed gerbils, I'm just not interested in watching.

 

[Morrus]

Actually, I think the scoring was the low point for me, although I did like the show overall more as episodes went on.

In the 1st episode, they have the big musical number to Debbie Gibson's I Think We're Alone Now. But, these people were born in 1989. That's a song that came out a few years before they were born. Why would they be all grooving on this?

Same reason I groove to the Beatles.

 

[Kramodlog]

Yeah. One of my pet peeves is when people call non-perfect characters “lazy writing”. A show where everybody makes the perfect decision and acts in the most optimal manner sounds boring as hell to me.

A show where everyone makes bad decisions all the time is good TV for you? Low standards, man.

 

[Kramodlog]

People keep secrets and do make stupid choices, whether due to incomplete information, or without thinking things through, maybe even just due to their personal skewed look at events. What you call lazy, I call an attempt at realism.

5 says the apocalypse is coming. And nothing else for a while. A no one and him what is up after je was gone for years. Forget lazy writing. This is bad writing.

 

[Hussar]

Same reason I groove to the Beatles.

You only groove to music made before you were born?

I mean, sure, I love the Beatles too. Listened to them lots as a kid. But, as a Gen X'er born in the 70's, I'd hardly call them the anthemic music of my generation. And, nearly the music in this show was 80's stuff. Makes sense for Stranger Things, but makes a lot less sense for someone born in 1989.

I'd also point out that the Beatles are hardly a one hit wonder band that never did anything else than one popular song. How often do you groove out to Honey by Bob Goldsboro?

 

[cbwjm]

I'm up to the final episode and I ing love it.