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Just seen Umbrella Academy season 1 and that was chock-full of 'AS IF's'. It was full of improbable events, in between the total fantasy parts. So I thought I'd give this 'The Boys' series a spin next, to check out its credibility, storyline & action. See if it was all about being hip & shocking/perverting the audience over and above any hard edged credibility.
Right off the bat we have 2 kids in the street confronted by armed robbers in a van. Upon SEEING the automatic weapons do the kids flee?. NO they just stand around and wait around to be grabbed & taken hostage at the point of a gun.
EVEN when a firearm is held directly at one of the kids and is in the process of being melted by the Superman knock off, the kid just stands there, not bothering to move just in case the firearm isn't actually instantly incapacitated, that the robber doesn't fire a few rounds off and he needn't bother moving out the way. Cause he is secretly the LEAD BOOT kid, he can transform his foot attire into solid lead. Rooting himself to the spot.
Fantasy is fine in parts, BUT in between the fantasy everything else has to be something that is LIKELY to happen, by laws of chance & probability.
From that point on I knew it was going to be a SLOPPY script, an endless amount of improbable events, all to fit into the ill thought out script, all to actually make it work. Such being the limitations of the script writers.
We then had the sitting down in the park scene with the bereaved guy (son of Kelvin timeline Star Trek's 'Scotty', Simon Pegg with his totally laughable FAKE American accent), and just by chance, like the odds of few MILLION to one, Miss Flashlight was sitting there next to 'Richard Hendricks'.
In a city of millions he just happened to sit next to another prominent player in the series to spill his guts out & strike up a relationship with her before no doubt there is further relations between them & the gruff dark hair guy. It is SLOPPY and uncredible already, stunted minded script writing straight off the bat. Direct from a comic was it? Or all just dreamt up, written down on the back of a fag packet.
Like Miss Flashlight after being no doubt extensively instructed by corporate as to any problems at all, to go see them. Upon fish faces unwanted advances to her, she would have said, if you even attempt to try it I'll go straight to Corporate and it'll be YOU getting kicked out. And I'll blast it off on the spot as well. (whether she could direct her powers to one individual area, fish face would not be entirely sure on that). But no, with all her powers she has to be made the victim. To get our sympathy.
So that scene is as bogus as they come.
The most probable outcome just had to be kept out of the script as the script writers had to convey what a nasty individual fish face was, deserving of our HATE. Couldn't just leave it as him being a nasty bit of work who tried it on, though only with quick-wittedness was the dirty deed was avoided.
We all have to be conditioned from the start into hating these super types, (except her, the victim), then whatever happens to them we are rooting for their demise or even legal comeuppance.
Like we are to believe the new Miss Flashlight is about the only 'superhero' out of them all with any redeeming qualities. Not even a super-villain to be seen yet either. They all join up with that corporate outfit for the $$$, like some sort of WWE outfit on steroids, (in the proverbial sense... maybe not the other). We see as yet no super types who go it alone, doing their own thing, maybe later. NOT VERY LIKELY though is it if the only super-villains are those who break away from that corporate outfit.
Some of the material is far too rude & yes i agree it is vulgar, too excessive already so far. Luckily if it offends and the FF button can be pressed fast enough or even the stop button before we are purposely & deliberately targeted, some of it can be avoided. All of it can be.
Maybe the series is worth a spin, eight episodes for series 1, so it may have been condensed down from a 10 episode series. Good. The Umbrella Academy PADDED it out to 10 episodes, so at least some of the fluff & off tangent scenes that series had may have been cut out of this one, making it a tighter series, we'll see.
So far for the LACK of credibility in between the total fantasy parts and the outright improbabilities and the excessive perverse material, (that Amazon indeed do warn us of), it is barely worth a 3 star rating, for either ep1 & 2.
Have the fantasy parts, great!, but for the rest of it KEEP IT REAL. Got that script writers!!. Lucky to get 3 stars. Looks like this is another Sci-fi/fantasy series that could with better scripting been a far better series. Almost as if they don't want to produce really fine material in the genre, just having a stab at it appears to suffice.
Maybe they are just not up to it, have not got the imagination & ability needed out there in the industry. Such a shame, we'll see how it all progresses, but it could be from me a 6 star rating for the entire season. Intriguing enough so far to carry on.
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