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double negative posted:This show is real good, but holy poo poo that fight with Darius was not Yeah, that was the strangest plotting of a fight I have ever seen.
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There was a fight? At least all the kids are together. And aware of each others' abilities. Kind of. I won't say this is the most aware I am of how far the MCU has strayed from THE PLOT of its source material, because I definitely read all of Alias more than once, but it's the most I've cared that they did so. And not in a bad way. I just want to know what the gently caress is going on.
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Dec 6, 2017 21:26
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Inkspot posted:There was a fight? The weird scene where the car stopped. The girl lifted the car. Guys get out to look at girl lifting car. Girl puts car down, all kids line up in a row. Bad guy begins to act menacingly. SUV drives up from like a mile away. Another kid jumps out, runs 40+ feet to standing bad guy and shoots him. Kids pose in a row AGAIN and the bad guy gets up again and then starts shooting. The light girl did a thing in here somewhere too. It was all so poorly paced.
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Dec 6, 2017 21:33
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It was incredibly badly blocked but was meant to impress how a teen getting superpowers would react with wonderment and awkwardness over,say an adult being more fearful/confident. Which it did. But boy was it badly blocked
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Dec 6, 2017 21:48
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:It was incredibly badly blocked but was meant to impress how a teen getting superpowers would react with wonderment and awkwardness over,say an adult being more fearful/confident. Which it did. YES. Everybody got a moment to shine(lol) it was just... That.
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Dec 6, 2017 21:58
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Again, though, it was MEANT to come off as awkward and people sort of freaking out over how super cool suddenly having/using superpowers is, the failure was in how it was terribly blocked and the flow made no coherent sense. It should've started with all the runaways partially whiffing all their attempts and getting lost in the moment of how cool it was that they were having and using their powers so Darius got away, instead of...this weird cascading thing that was incoherent within the cinematic language of the scene
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Dec 6, 2017 22:09
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yeah that scene was real bad. rest of the episode owned tho
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Dec 6, 2017 22:12
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I guess it’s what happens when a crew who do teen soap melodrama for a living are told to put together a superhero fight scene.
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Dec 6, 2017 23:06
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I spent most of that episode expecting the kids to actually run away, but they didn't. No biggie. Plot's moving forwards, that's cool, and I'm enjoying the parents (Nico's mom makes a particularly great villain) and most of the kids. The actors who play Chase and Alex are still rubbish, though. Alex's performance couldn't be flatter if run over by a steam roller, and Chase is just... bizarre. The stuff with his father alternated between wacky cartoon fear acting and him looking turned on. Like, tone it down, maybe?
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Open Source Idiom posted:(Nico's mom makes a particularly great villain) I don’t know if letting your daughter go to bed with the “magic” staff you use to help sacrifice people after a long period of distrust between the both of you counts as something even a passable villain would do...
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Dec 7, 2017 04:15
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Hidingo Kojimba posted:I guess it’s what happens when a crew who do teen soap melodrama for a living are told to put together a superhero fight scene. It's time to pose as a team, because poo poo JUST GOT REAL.
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Dec 7, 2017 16:40
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I also hated that scene. I was half expecting the dinosaur to show up because it sensed Gert was in danger. Actually that scene would have been improved if Old Lace had shown up and horribly mauled the poor gang leader.
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Dec 7, 2017 18:24
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It stan lee!
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Christ, Molly is so arbitrarily stupid
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Dec 12, 2017 15:55
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When are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?
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haven't read the comics yet but that episode was real solid. this is definitely one of the best Marvel shows.
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I like Pride better than the kids. Especially Tina and the Yorkes.
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precision posted:haven't read the comics yet but that episode was real solid. this is definitely one of the best Marvel shows. Senerio posted:I like Pride better than the kids. Especially Tina and the Yorkes.
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Dec 13, 2017 12:46
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Nothing they can and/or are willing to put in the show happens after they run away.
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Aphrodite posted:Nothing they can and/or are willing to put in the show happens after they run away. Which, if true, makes this entire exercise very odd.
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I think it would have worked better in media res. I know it's getting to be a tired gimmick, but we're 6 bloody episodes in. Have the kids already running from the get go. Tell the story of the sacrifice and their parent's trying to fix things in flashbacks. Hell, I feel Chase's story of him making the gloves and finally bonding with his dad would work far better when we've already seen how bitterly it ended. It does mean we lose the "everyone finds their superpowers" bit, but that also means they could have skipped the "everyone posing by the car like idiots" scene. Start with a bang and have the kids hiding and running for their lives. Leave the "our parents are serial killers for an alien sex god" as a reveal for a couple of episodes in for anyone watching who someone didn't know what the show was about.
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I don’t think they are going to run away. Probably not until the end of the season, at least. I think the eponymous runaways in this case are the kids being sacrificed to Dr. Doom.
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Dec 13, 2017 15:01
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By the way they are pacing things, we will be at the end of season two before the kids actually run away. I think the slow pace is starting to hurt the show.
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Dec 13, 2017 15:05
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Phylodox posted:I don’t think they are going to run away. Probably not until the end of the season, at least. I think the eponymous runaways in this case are the kids being sacrificed to Dr. Doom.
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Phylodox posted:I don’t think they are going to run away. Probably not until the end of the season, at least. I think the eponymous runaways in this case are the kids being sacrificed to Dr. Doom. I floated this idea earlier. It does seem likely at this point. Tiggum posted:That's certainly the impression I got. For one thing, if they were going to have the kids run away in order to match the name then it should have happened by episode three at the latest. For another, they've spent far too much time on the parents to not keep them as major characters. I guess they could split the show between the kids and the parents, but from what we've seen so far it's clear that the kids are the protagonists, which means that the only way to keep this level of focus on parents is to keep the kids with them. They could make a split work. A nonzero chance. We'll see what happens I guess.
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Phylodox posted:I don’t think they are going to run away. Probably not until the end of the season, at least. I think the eponymous runaways in this case are the kids being sacrificed to Dr. Doom. If this is the actual case, I suppose you can't blame them for not wanting to promote underage children running away from home; even on Hulu.
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Part of the problem with the kids feeling flat so far is a lot of their characterizations and arcs come about because of the shift in dynamics that happens after they run. So they can't really start as characters beyond their introductory archetypes until that moment without rewriting the story even further beyond what they seem to be aiming for. But the show is expanding the parents as characters well beyond the comics, and can only do that before the kids run. So we have an episode introducing the kids and their initial relationships, and then 5 episodes of them standing around while we go through like a season and a half worth of plot for the parents on fast forward.
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Catching up on the last couple episodes. V pleased they're already laying the groundwork for 'Karo wants some o dat witch rear end'. Enjoying the show a lot, still, changes and all. lol tho at that brief powers scene when rescuing Alex
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Double postin', but just finishing catching up and lol at Karo bitterly no selling that bottle of vodka like it's water Also oh poo poo is she gna fly, pls fly e: hahaha yasss bitch fly
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esperterra posted:Double postin', but just finishing catching up and lol at Karo bitterly no selling that bottle of vodka like it's water When is she going to friendzone Abercrombie ?
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Rocksicles posted:When is she going to friendzone Abercrombie ? Soon, one would hope.
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I appreciate that the character who literally glows rainbow colors is gay. Her innate rainbow-ness is stifled by the symbol of her church. A very subtle show. So, I haven’t read the comics. When they run away, does the tumblr girl take the dinosaur with her? Does she just have a dinosaur?
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Yeah. To be fair, Alex doesn't even have a dinosaur.
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Dec 14, 2017 12:46
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I'm always ridiculously happy to see a Stan Lee cameo 
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fractalairduct posted:Yeah. Yes but he is a master strategist because he plays some lovely Avengers MMO.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Yes but he is a master strategist because he plays some lovely Avengers MMO. Yeah, but he doesn't pay to win. 
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Aphrodite posted:Nothing they can and/or are willing to put in the show happens after they run away. You mean we're not getting the nazi scientist villain made entirely out of bees?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:You mean we're not getting the Didn’t they already do that in Arrow?
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Phylodox posted:Didn’t they already do that in Arrow? Flash wasn't it? The girl from Walking Dead was a hacker with magic bees.
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Rocksicles posted:Flash wasn't it? No, it was in Arrow where she made the bees form a person for Oliver to punch.
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