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Do you want to know what I thought while watching this episode?

I mean, through most of it.

Do you want to know? Do you think you can handle it? I mean – especially – if this is your beloved show and hate to hear anything negative about it.

Are you sure?

Well, I was effing bored out of my mind. I’ve seen so much about this show. I’ve seen the large compendiums at work all the time and how many people have told me the show is amazing. A faithful adaption. So good! Amazing! Wonderful! A critically and fan loved show.

Then I watched like 38 minutes of the first episode and the entire time I was annoyed.

It felt like a freaking knock-off.

The Guardians of the Globe as a cheap imitation of the Justice League. Omni-Man bland.

The only interesting character is Mark.

But is it enough? Are J.K. Simmons and Sandra Oh being wasted on such one-dimensional characters? It’s dull.

Duller than dull for most of it.

The opening is weird because the people we meet in the first three minutes basically mean nothing to the overall story. I’m happy you’re going to miss your training to hang with your stepson. Sounds great. What does it have to do with anything?

I’m right about to click the eff out of there, but I like to give shows as fair a shake as I can. So I thought, this episode. I’ll finish this episode and if I’m still annoyed by the knock-off characters that are not as interesting as the ones they borrowed from, I’ll go and write a review that everyone will hate.

I will be hated on by an entire fandom for not seeing the brilliance of boredom.

Then the last freaking scenes happened.

When I saw Red Rush (I think that’s his name and I honestly can’t be bothered to double check) rush forward to move The Immortal, I was like what fresh hell is this. But then Omni-Man comes flying out of the darkness, his fist where The Immortal’s head was… and everything changed.

Suddenly, everything got super interesting!

Why is he doing this? What is happening? Why isn’t he saying anything? Is he being controlled?

Mind you, I know nothing about this series. Beyond it’s about a superhero and it’s relatively new comparatively. Like to Batman or Superman. However, so many people raved about the series, I saw it recommended to me on my Prime account and thought, hey, this can’t be bad. Right?

I thought I screwed up spending 45 minutes with this show.

Then I was super interested because this was the shock of a lifetime to watch a hero, who had rescued and helped these very people at the start of the episode, brutally execute them.

Which – I also – was not expecting.

I didn’t realize this show fell into the same rating as The Legend of Vox Machina, Harley Quinn, and The Mighty Nein in terms of gore and violence. I thought was more kid-friendly and most of the episode supported that.

Until Omni-Man straight up squeezed Red’s head into apple sauce.

Also, guys stop standing there and maybe help the guy who was carrying you until he died.

Like, he was doing all the work getting everyone out of the way because he was simply faster than Omni-Man. Which is also why it makes sense that Omni-Man needed to get rid of him first.

Thus, all the knock-offs were killed. One by one.

Until only The Immortal remained. Asking him why. Why has Omni-Man done this?

I loved that the didn’t quite believe it was him. That he must be possessed or something. Which just goes to show how much trust they had in him all this time. Until this very moment.

Which makes me wonder what changed this moment.

Was it his son getting powers? Did that set something in motion for him? Was he just sick of them? Was he always evil? Is he being controlled by someone? What is happening?

I have so many questions.

However, the Guardians of the Globe decided it should be them instead of Omni-Man, trying to kill him. Except, that went poorly.

Apparently, they forgot how to work like the team they were at the start of the episode. Costing them dearly.

Although, here’s the thing. I’m thrilled to be rid of them. I didn’t care for the fake Justice League and clearly, they were only here to be killed and set the stage. Which explains why there was little to no depth to them.

Which makes this episode like the finest bait and switch I’ve ever seen. I went from ‘this is nothing new’ to ‘what is happening’ ‘I need answers’ and ‘where’s the next episode’ in the span of minutes. Kudos to the writers for flipping the script so hard.

Damn.

Overall, I do find this episode pretty flat until the end.

Mark was the most interesting character until Omni-Man went on a murder spree.

Mark is a teenager through and through. Irritated that his dad has powers and his have not come in yet. Something his parents don’t entirely seem certain will ever happen. Until it does.

Then for whatever reason, Nolan doesn’t seem thrilled.

Which is odd, because earlier it seemed like he was cool with his son getting powers. Except… He doesn’t seem sure when it happens.

I loved the trash bag yeeted into space with his little ‘finally.’ Like, yep. That’s how anyone would react to get their superpowers they’ve known they should have since they were children because his dad is a freaking superhero.

Apparently, the world’s greatest. Except for the murder spree.

He loves his wife. Takes her for breakfast. Disgusts his son with their affection. Yet murders people in his spare time after luring them out there all alone.

Weird.

Oh, and punches his son too hard for day one of training.

Reflecting back on the episode after knowing how it ends, changes so many things. Mark wants to be like his dad. But does he really know his dad?

If he wasn’t controlled by someone else, then he’s a murderer. One who actively planned this out by luring them to the arctic hideout to kill them. And not even with some mercy. Some of them, he killed horribly. Like Red Rush, whose death must have felt like an eternity to him.

He’s wanted these powers for so long.

To be a hero.

However, his father pointed out that it’s not all fun and games. Someone might try to hurt you. A lot of someones might try to hurt you and succeed.

Which conflicts with who his dad might be. He doesn’t have powers, yet he tried to the right thing by his classmate Amber and stop Todd from hitting on her. Sure, he gets his butt kicked, but he tried. Without powers. Making it all the more poigant.

He wants to be a hero, when I’m not sure that’s what his dad is. So how will that conflict?

Does Debbie know? Is she aware of what he went to do?

I have so many questions. So many. I brought a notepad with me while I was watching it, just for some quick notes while I watch that I might want to include here.

I literally wrote, “This show is nothing to write home about. Considering not watching anymore.”

Then Omni-Man killed everyone. “WTF is happening?”

Consider me hooked and looking for answers by watching the rest of the show. Kudos to the writers for managing to hook me even through the first episode isn’t an overall favorite of mine.

Onto the next episode!

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