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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Marvel's Runaways: But Mooooom, I don't wanna be evil!
 
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Vanderdeath
Oct 1, 2005

I will confess,
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.

Nameless Pete posted:

I'm enjoying the show. But, like, at this point in the comics we've already established a secret base, picked superhero names, abandoned those names because they sounded stupid, and watched a vampire explode.

I do like when the costumers replicate stuff directly from the comics. Spoilers if you haven't seen the ep and want to be surprised by a shirt of all things.




His facial expressions sometimes seemed a tad off to me, but Adrain Alphona is super good at designing outfits.

I was really happy to see some of the comic outfits to pop up in this episode but overall my opinion on this show has been a resounding meh. It doesn't help that I think every actor in the show is better than Alex's actor and I can't see how they're going to make him into the leader of the group at this point. I also like Julian McMahon, but I wish shows would cast him as something else other than "threatening white guy that looks good in a suit." It feels like that's all he plays.

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Vanderdeath
Oct 1, 2005

I will confess,
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.

Otherkinsey Scale posted:

That was my favorite moment in the show so far. I wish we had an entire show that was the tone they managed to strike in that moment. Maybe season 2 will deliver now that they've actually run away.


Comic spoiler: That text probably means there's a mole, but it's someone else. Everyone who's read the comics probably saw Alex sneaking off to make a mysterious phone call to an unknown party and thought "oh drat, it's happening!" But then he turned out to be contacting Darius to get a gun and some cash, in exchange for promising to help take down his dad.

Also I looked up Alex on a Marvel wiki and apparently he was resurrected a few years ago, and now he's fighting Power Man and Iron Fist as a crime lord in Harlem and attempting to become "the grandmaster of Street Magic"? Which is weird. As an "adult" supervillain Alex strikes me as more of a "Master Planner" type.

Man, poo poo like this bugs me. Runaways got me into reading comics because it was cool seeing a team with a non-stereotypical black teen as the leader of the group. Alex's betrayal sucked but it made sense and served the story. Learning that he's now some street dude hedge mage in Harlem is just disappointing. What a disappointing turn for a character that had potential to not be a stereotype. Between this, Secret Empire and Marvel Legacy I'm starting to think they have no idea what they're doing nowadays.

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