This show is #1 right now in US on Amazon Prime. I’ve tried to get into it but I feel like maybe I am missing something. The animation is janky as heck. The overall plot seems coherent but the episodic plots are very hit or miss. There have been a few decent interactions but so much of it just seems so awkward, like the voice actors were never in the same room, or didn’t really understand the context of the dialogue they were delivering. The back and forth between Mark and Amber is so wooden. Amber’s voice actor at least makes her sound genuine but all Marks’ responses are so flat. It was sort of funny at first but since they seem to making the relationship a significant portion of the first season it has just gotten tedious. That episode about Mars and protecting the astronauts was so incredibly bad. Not so bad it was good either, just bad. Thus, I ask to those who are making this show the #1 stream on Amazon is there some back story, or companion comic that makes this all make more sense? If not, what is grabbing y’all about the show? Not trying to troll, genuine inquiry.
Personally, I feel very attached to the characters and I’m not into a lot of nerdy stuff so its really fun to get excited about goofy bs like “Viltrum” and powerscaling and the cool tech and (weirdly, especially) the demon detective and the backgrounds of the characters – plus, just from the first episode when Omni-man killed the guardians of the globe, I was hooked. It was so exciting and uncertain trying to figure out why he would do something like that. It wasn’t even just the subversion of the genre (even though I kinda believe it to be), but just the massive narrative upset that it was. I love omni man. His inclusion in the show somehow makes the show feel like to me more like a real story than a ‘take on a superhero origin’
Eventually, I just liked it because of Mark – he has so much heart and charm, and I can sympathize with him and root for him so easily. His relationship with his dad is interesting and painful. I personally think he’s cute with Amber in a couple scenes in the first season and all of them in the 2nd – I remember one on their study date, when she picked up a comic book or something and said she’d read it to show she was interested? I just thought they were sweet.
I also personally find that the characters lie in this weird, interesting gray space between ‘believable’ and ‘what the fuck’ cartooniness, and it gives me a strange feeling to watch that I haven’t felt watching anything else. That’s not so much a plus, I don’t know what that is
The story kept me on my feet too. It was never too slow, and there were always a few plotlines going on and intersecting. Its just fun
I also really like superhero stories and the batman has been watched and marvel is shitting the bed rn so who else to turn to