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[TheHand]

I'm going to have to go back and give this another try.

I think the show really hits its stride when Trevor and Simon come together on screen, so if you give it another chance, I’d recommend at least give it an episode or 2 to see how their relationship unfolds.

 

[Morrus]

but on the whole it just felt a bit "Meh". I was expecting a lot more action. Maybe I'll feel different viewing it a second time but at the moment I just feel a little disappointed.

I'm the exact opposite. I'm so glad there wasn't much action. Marvel-style action bores me senseless these days.

 

[Echohawk]

I gave up as he was bursting into the meeting after learning about the new Wonder Man show.

If it's any consolation, I also found the first ten minutes or so hard to watch, but loved the series as a whole. And it wasn't that the first episode was badly made, rather it was that seeing Simon William's being so much the cause of his own misfortune made me cringe enough to want it to stop. I think that's almost the point of that sequence.

 

[brodahisou]

I'm the exact opposite. I'm so glad there wasn't much action. Marvel-style action bores me senseless these days.

Fair do's. I was thinking back to the Iron Fist series and comparing it to the Wonder Man series and thinking "Even though it was slow at least the Iron Fist series had some great action/fight scenes in it." I guess some of how I feel is my own fault because I'm comparing it to the comic character, who is pretty powerful and is involved in a lot of fights. Wonder Man just didn't grab me like other Marvel series have.

 

[Hussar]

I think the show really hits its stride when Trevor and Simon come together on screen, so if you give it another chance, I’d recommend at least give it an episode or 2 to see how their relationship unfolds.

Yeah, I gotta say I'm with @brodahisou on this one. I watched the first two episodes. Skipped through the third one and nothing's happened so far. He went to one show. He went to an audition. He went to a party. If I wanted to watch a bunch of people standing around doing nothing and talking, I'd watch soap operas. Sorry. Noping hard out of this one.

What's the point of a Marvel story without punching?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, I gotta say I'm with @brodahisou on this one. I watched the first two episodes. Skipped through the third one and nothing's happened so far. He went to one show. He went to an audition. He went to a party. If I wanted to watch a bunch of people standing around doing nothing and talking, I'd watch soap operas. Sorry. Noping hard out of this one.

What's the point of a Marvel story without punching?

Not being the same boring old MCU slop with different coloured spandex.

Yes, this show is a buddy comedy drama about super-Act-ORs, not an action adventure. I'm surprised you didn't figure that out from the marketing.

 

[Hussar]

Not being the same boring old MCU slop with different coloured spandex.

Yes, this show is a buddy comedy drama about super-Act-ORs, not an action adventure. I'm surprised you didn't figure that out from the marketing.

Not all of us live in the US. Never saw any marketing about this. Had no idea what it was. Certainly never would have guessed it was this.

Hey, I'm not saying it's bad. The acting is good. The actors are great. It's just 100% not anything I'm interested in. If it didn't have the Marvel tag on it, I wouldn't have even turned it on in the first place.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not all of us live in the US

I certainly don’t!

Didn’t stop me hearing what Wonderman was about though. There is this thing called the internets.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Yeah, I gotta say I'm with @brodahisou on this one. I watched the first two episodes. Skipped through the third one and nothing's happened so far. He went to one show. He went to an audition. He went to a party. If I wanted to watch a bunch of people standing around doing nothing and talking, I'd watch soap operas. Sorry. Noping hard out of this one.

What's the point of a Marvel story without punching?

Like I said upthread, it's a Marvel show for people who dont like Marvel or superheroes. It's for that A24 crowd, the contempt for the genre is fully in some of the responses here. Yes, there are room for different stories in the MCU, but, for me at least, if the same story can be told in the real world with the bare minimum of the things that are part of the genre, why did it need to be part of the genre? Same question we ask about what it means to be human in terms of transhumanism. How much of your humanity can be stripped away before you're no longer considered human or something else entirely for that matter?

The issue here for me isnt that it's a comedy drama about two actors that appeals to people who who are contemptuous of the supers genre. The issue is that there's almost NOTHING in this series for the people who DO enjoy the supers genre. You literally could have filed the names off, made Trevor an actor who had done something that caused him to be ostracized or "cancelled" (like Michael Richards) and kept Simon as someone who may have an ability or power and was hunted by "generic government agency" and it would literally be the same show.

No one is debating the perfomances, direction and pacing of the show. The craft is on full display. And the thing is we could have gotten a show with BOTH the acting and performances AND what most people expect from a "superhero" genre labeled show. But instead we really just got some "elitist", indie/A24 style, film bro appeasing tripe.

 

[Bagpuss]

I would bet money that Sir Ben didn’t have to practice those Shakespeare monologues.)

Only up to episode 3, but I love the reference to his knighthood they sneak into that one.