Reasons:

  1. Amber and Mark’s relationship is no longer layered. I appreciated how Amber and Mark shared a very idealistic outlook of the world, but still butted heads, because they’re capabilities and methods of helping and implementing change were largely different.

I don’t like how perfect their relationship now appears to be

  1. Eve’s dad now lacks any sort of nuance. I felt that Eve’s dad extremely misguided and controlling action’s stemmed from a wanting to have a “normal” family and with a teenage superhero daughter this couldn’t happen.

I also liked how based on their different upbringings you could infer why Mark chooses a much more healthy partner in Amber, but Eve chose the far less healthy partner in Rex.

All that nuance is gone though, and now Eve’s dad is a south park “They took er jobs” meme.

  1. Immortal is goofy and based off of what we’ve seen of him so far, it seems so out of character for him to have sex with duplicate. Maybe this will be explained though with changes to his personality caused by Cecil’s resurrection.

  2. The abusive home buyer scene was so on the nose, I don’t like how they’re handling Debby’s grief at all. I think Debby in many ways was Nolan’s pet. There was always this passivity to her interactions with Nolan up until she learned the truth.

I would have preferred the home buyer to not be abusive, but more so condescending, talking down to his wife, acknowledging her feelings, but acting in a superior way, with a wife going along with it all, not noticing it, with stars in her eyes looking at her “perfect man.”

This type of dynamic would have been far more familiar to Debbie and also would not have allowed her to be so clearly in the right with her “she’s not your pet,” line.

It would speak to the unique experience that Debbie faced and how after hearing herself being called a “pet,” only she could really pick up on something as subtle as an unequal partnership.

Just my thoughts.

  • DreadfuryDK@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Honestly, I vastly prefer this version of Eve’s dad to the comics’ version.

    In the comics, he was just ludicrously sexist to the point where it was extremely uncomfortable/unsettling. In the show, him being a blue-collar construction worker who eventually works a minimum-wage job who feels threatened by superheroes’ unbelievable powers makes him a bit more… I don’t want to say sympathetic since the dude’s still a colossal asshat, through and through, but maybe believable? Like, he’s absolutely an asshat and he’s absolutely in the wrong, but I feel like his prejudices are a lot more understandable considering superheroes and their antics have genuinely given construction workers a lot of problems in this universe.

    I dunno; I vastly prefer this characterization for him. There’s still probably gonna be plenty of room for him to be extremely sexist later on in the show’s run, but I kinda like how they kept him deplorable without keeping him gross.

  • docwhoisdabest@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I agree with the blandness as well. It’s only been two episodes but so far it isn’t living up to season 1 and if it continues like this I can’t see it reaching those heights. My main issue is the plot doesn’t feel cohesive like it did in season 1. Its hard to explain, but I don’t feel like the events portrayed really flow smoothly from one to another. And not to mention each scene doesn’t really have the same impact as those in season 1, they feel very shallow and one dimensional. You already kind of know how the scene will end as soon as it begins, the scenes don’t offer much past what they convey at face value.

    Like even in the scene where Mark is hanging out at eve’s tree house, the only real meaningful plot point driven there was that Mark was on duty ready to be called into action and the rest of the gang was just talking about their summer plans. Didn’t understand why this scene made the cut, I didn’t feel like it added much value to the runtime tbh. It was already pretty well driven into the audience that Mark wanted to be on duty as invincible to somehow make up for Omni man’s actions. Could have spent that screentime maybe delving more in depth into Mark’s psychological turmoil PTSD etc. about the situation and why he feels that being on duty will make things better and not have him turn out like Omni man. Maybe have some details thrown in there that reference earlier episodes or later ones. Most of the run time we are just shown that he feels this way and that’s just the way it is. The characters overall don’t feel like they have the same depth they did last season.

    Idk there’s so much little things I could pick apart about this season, some of which people might not even consider to be good reasons. I’m no articulate journalist nor do I have the time or passion to make a detailed essay of why I feel this season isn’t turning out to be as strong. But what I can say is I agree with you. It just doesn’t feel as impactful or meaningful as S1, good news is we are only two epsisodes in, things can change but even if it unfortunately doesn’t, it still will serve as a decent time waster since it’s free on prime though lol.

  • Vegetable_Tear3941@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    i‘m glad i wasn’t the only one who felt that these two episodes were kinda meh. but i am still excited for what’s to come.

  • tac624@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    glad other people are picking up on this. i was shaking my head the whole episode

  • bootymuncher187@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I liked this recent episode, but you pretty much listed the problems I’ve had with this episode. Especially the home buyer scene

  • Mission-Composer8689@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I agree with everything except for amber. I really didn’t like her in season 1. She’s actually pretty likeable now, but I can see how the perfect relationship could be bothersome to some people