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Peace___Frog
07/31/20 9:25:21 AM
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Favorite character?










Season 2 is out now, please mark your spoilers here.

I recall a b8 topic introduced me to the show, and it seems fitting to have a topic for it again.

I plan on getting around to watching the first half at some point on Sunday. I remember it being rather campy and sometimes cringe, but all in all a good fun time. Hopefully s2 keeps it up!

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ninkendo
07/31/20 9:54:43 AM
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ZenOfThunder
07/31/20 10:14:55 AM
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yo I am so excited to watch this all weekend

Luther Boys represent

(I am the only Luther Boy)

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GildedFool
07/31/20 11:54:06 AM
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Wait, S2 dropped?

BRB in ~8 hours.

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Snake5555555555
07/31/20 12:31:38 PM
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Hazel the best

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Peace___Frog
07/31/20 12:50:35 PM
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Snake5555555555 posted...
Hazel the best
THANK YOU

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Aecioo
07/31/20 12:52:18 PM
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ChaosTonyV4
07/31/20 12:53:00 PM
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Hazels actor is fucking terrible, I dont see how hes anyones fav

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Peace___Frog
07/31/20 1:22:00 PM
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Hazel felt far more nuanced to me than many of the other characters and his personal story resonated with me.

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PerfectChaosZ
07/31/20 2:32:08 PM
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Hazel is ****ing great.

RIP Cha Cha you hardly get any love

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CoolCly
07/31/20 2:52:13 PM
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Hazel > Five > Klaus > Ben > everyone else actually sucks

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iiicon
07/31/20 3:35:22 PM
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Oh I thought this dropped later tonight. Gonna have to watch this today

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PerfectChaosZ
07/31/20 7:00:07 PM
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I like the characters.
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Grimlyn
07/31/20 7:34:10 PM
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just about 4 eps down I'm loving this much more than season 1, miss the hazel cha-cha moments tho

s1 I kinda hated everyone, or rather very few characters were likeable. this time around it feels more balanced

luther's still shit

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Aecioo
07/31/20 7:55:09 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
just about 4 eps down I'm loving this much more than season 1, miss the hazel cha-cha moments tho

s1 I kinda hated everyone, or rather very few characters were likeable. this time around it feels more balanced

luther's still shit

I finished about the same and this post is pretty spot on. It also doesn't help that his monkey body looks so ridiculously fake when they are just padding his clothes.

also I don't remember the fight scenes being, well, not bad, but not great. Everything is shot in shadows to hide the choreography. Maybe it was the same in S1 but it's been awhile.

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Grimlyn
07/31/20 8:08:17 PM
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happy Allison / Klaus / Vanya bonding at the barber shop is great

also like every ep's got a good music scene

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colliding
07/31/20 10:09:50 PM
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The worst is obviously Diego, followed closely by Allison. I don't get this Luther hate.
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guffguy89
07/31/20 10:42:20 PM
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Watching through this 2nd season. Currently on episode 10. What I'll say is that I loved the first half of season 2. The second half is kinda meh, declining with each episode.

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Grimlyn
08/01/20 1:10:10 AM
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Yeahhh I noticed it slow down by ep 6, then through to 9 the plot is pretty shaky, the doomsday scenario is silly and contrived when compared to s1, which you can't help but do what with the repetition. Still as far as the cast goes they continued to not be as unlikable as they were s1, although it kinda just stuffs Luther in the background but hey

After e9 I really didn't know where the rest was headed but it sure ended up as something wild, both in good and bad ways but I think I'm cool with that. I do feel ripped off from that initial intro scene where everyone was awesomely super-powered though :|

hype for s3 tho!

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Peace___Frog
08/01/20 12:54:27 PM
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On ep 4. I see that Luther still doesn't know how to handle any of his emotions. Granted, none of them really do, but he's especially bad and that's why he's the worst.

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PerfectChaosZ
08/02/20 9:18:54 PM
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Just finished it. Holy hell that was good.
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mnkboy907
08/02/20 9:54:09 PM
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Also just finished it. It's still pretty good but ultimately I think I liked Season 1 better. As someone who voted Hazel/Cha-Cha in this poll, that role in the show was sorely missed. The Swedes don't compare at all lol.

Still hyped for Season 3 after that end scene. My guess is Reggie learned from his encounter with them in the 60's, chose different babies that weren't going to grow up into a bunch of whiny failures, and to top it off he sees the Umbrella Academy rejects as a threat to the world that the Sparrow Academy must now defeat.

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Peace___Frog
08/02/20 10:15:44 PM
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I agree wholeheartedly, mnk. I was glad to see more of The Commission but would have really liked to see Hazel's shoes filled better.

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Mega Mana
08/02/20 10:31:34 PM
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Haven't binged a season of a show that quickly since the first season of The Good Place.

I think I liked it a lot better than the first season, partly because the characters weren't nearly as terrible and had some semblance of happiness going on more times than never. The music sequences were solid.

I will agree with earlier sentiments that it slowed down in the second half, and it didn't feel as driven towards the endgame as the first season, but I quite enjoyed it. And though I liked Hazel & Cha-Cha okay, their absence was a blessing. I didn't realize how much they slowed down the first season's pace mostly to establish Five's backstory and how time bureacracy assassins work, not to mention a constant element of danger.

The Swedes could've felt more special than they were. There wasn't much to them, though I still felt horrible what happened with Allison's rumor. They felt like Chronicoms/Team Rocket more than actual threats. Also, the infinite teams of time-travel assassins are showing up in one place at one time to get wiped out with a single blow? Yeah, that was far too silly. How do we take time assassins serious ever again?

Ben > Klaus > Five > Vanya > Luther > Allison > Diego

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ChaosTonyV4
08/03/20 4:36:54 PM
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Just finished it, without spoilers Ill say I enjoyed it a million times more on the basis of the actingholy shit it was vastly improved in every aspect.

Dont remember the ep so lets just say whole season spoilers: Holy shit hes an alien wtf, also god he sucks just as bad as they hinted at

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Aecioo
08/03/20 5:08:20 PM
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...
Dont remember the ep so lets just say whole season spoilers: Holy shit hes an alien wtf, also god he sucks just as bad as they hinted at

They showed that at the end of S1, at least that he's not from this planet. He got in a rocket ship and came to earth. Him not being a humanoid alien and being something out of men in black is new tho

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ChaosTonyV4
08/03/20 5:45:01 PM
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Aecioo posted...
They showed that at the end of S1, at least that he's not from this planet. He got in a rocket ship and came to earth. Him not being a humanoid alien and being something out of men in black is new tho

I didnt rewatch for this season, but I remember thinking that he originally lived on the moon, but I didnt think it was because he was alien

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PerfectChaosZ
08/03/20 5:55:35 PM
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When I first saw the scene with the rockets I thought he was from another future apocalypse and involved in some sort of Time Travel like the Commission. Only now do I realize he's literally a Reptilian. Gerard does love his conspiracy theories.

Any list that puts anyone above Luthor is wrong. How could you guys not like Diego? Sure he has his bad moments but he's genuinely the most heroic out of the lot of them.
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Grimlyn
08/03/20 5:57:27 PM
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PerfectChaosZ posted...
Any list that puts anyone above Luthor is wrong

wat

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Waluigi1
08/04/20 11:55:39 AM
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colliding posted...
The worst is obviously Diego, followed closely by Allison. I don't get this Luther hate.
Please stop trolling.

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banananor
08/04/20 12:41:40 PM
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burned through it last weekend. what i will say is that the cinematography (colors, editing, angling, etc) was absolutely fantastic. watching season 2 was eating tv candy

someone was saying the acting was better- i didn't go back to check, and i'm horrible at detecting good vs. bad acting, but i believe it

someone at their studio did a lot of market research and found ways to improve nearly every character. really well done romp

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banananor
08/04/20 12:43:50 PM
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i'll add that while the soundtrack was neat and they clearly dumped a bunch of money or leverage into it, the music felt inappropriate/anachronistic at times

having 90s/2000s pop songs pop up during fight scenes in the 60s featuring late 2010s characters just didn't seem to fit

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iiicon
08/04/20 1:16:36 PM
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the choice of music, as always, is impeccable

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banananor
08/04/20 1:56:54 PM
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oh last thing, the greyhound product placement was a netflix classic

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skullbone
08/06/20 6:23:32 PM
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I liked this season a lot more than season 2. Diego and Luther were much better although I don't remember them both being quite so stupid in the first season.

I also did not like Hazel and the donut lady's plot so I was glad to be rid of them. Don't really understand why so many people like Hazel as much as they do.

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Waluigi1
08/06/20 6:56:18 PM
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He was a likable guy. It's not complicated.

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colliding
08/09/20 6:31:52 PM
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They definitely made Luther and Diego stupider, but the show is better off for it.
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CoolCly
08/09/20 8:31:34 PM
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I haven't watched this season yet but man that's bad news... one of the biggest problems with the first season is how stupid everyone is and how they refuse to actually talk about anything together.

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ChaosTonyV4
08/09/20 8:45:03 PM
#39:


Diego is extra stupid this season.

(End of season 2 spoilers)

There are literally apocalyptic concerns, and he CANNOT help trying to save JFK/Grace, and is almost certainly 100% to blame for the Sparrow Academy being a thing.


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Waluigi1
08/09/20 9:38:06 PM
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Yeah he was super annoying about that shit.

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GenesisSaga
08/15/20 9:48:14 AM
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I haven't watched s2 yet so up until I get to
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