Yay! "Hero" is a fantastic episode, isn't it? One of those episodes that causes a whole series to pivot around it and make you wonder what story you've been following all along. We're watching it because the 15 year old wanted to re-watch, and I can see why - I'm sure watching it all unfold, hidden in plain sight, is very satisfying. Yay for stealth-arcs! :D
And that sounds really good about TUA. I think it was mostly all the X-Men trappings of the first episode (and the talking chimpanzee) that made me go "...Not right now." I may really have to give it another shot. Well it IS based on a comic book, and the origins/trappings are very visible initially. But it then takes a deep dive into what all that would mean to actual people. It's difficult to explain, because there is a lot of ~plot~ ('we have to save the world!'), but it's all character driven ('we are completely rubbish at saving the world, let's get drunk instead'). /OK, stopping now.
Have finished S4 of She-Ra (which ended... pretty much exactly how I expected it to), so S5 here we come!
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Date: 2020-11-07 01:53 pm (UTC)We're watching it because the 15 year old wanted to re-watch, and I can see why - I'm sure watching it all unfold, hidden in plain sight, is very satisfying. Yay for stealth-arcs! :D
And that sounds really good about TUA. I think it was mostly all the X-Men trappings of the first episode (and the talking chimpanzee) that made me go "...Not right now." I may really have to give it another shot.
Well it IS based on a comic book, and the origins/trappings are very visible initially. But it then takes a deep dive into what all that would mean to actual people. It's difficult to explain, because there is a lot of ~plot~ ('we have to save the world!'), but it's all character driven ('we are completely rubbish at saving the world, let's get drunk instead'). /OK, stopping now.
Have finished S4 of She-Ra (which ended... pretty much exactly how I expected it to), so S5 here we come!