Umbrella Academy Season 2 trailer/topic.

[Miss Chicken]

It didn't really make a lot of sense to me how everyone was suddenly so powerful during the apocalypse in 1963. The season went on to show where they had been and what they had been up to during their individual lives in the 1960s, and none of it involved training to improve their powers. And they never reconnected until after Five arrived, so they wouldn't have had any opportunity to work together before then, either. Just feels like they did that scene because it would look cool but didn't really think it through.

Maybe Hazel did not just take Five backwards just a few days but a little sideways as well ie the timeline in which they were so powerful in was a different timeline from the one we saw them in for most of the season? Maybe in the ‘powerful timeline’ they had all arrived together (minus Five) and had a year or together to master the powers?

Another possibility is the very act of travelling through time awakened some of their previously latent powers.

 

[Snaploud]

I don't think they were actually more powerful. They just had no reason to hold back anymore. The world was pretty much screwed, and they were fighting invading soldiers.

 

[Kor]

I was rather miffed that this season ended on a cliffhanger.

Kor

 

[dupersuper]

I don't think they were actually more powerful. They just had no reason to hold back anymore. The world was pretty much screwed, and they were fighting invading soldiers.

I buy that for every one except Luther. He's gotten knocked out by normal humans, then he's shrugging off tank shells like he's from Krypton.

 

[Snaploud]

I buy that for every one except Luther. He's gotten knocked out by normal humans, then he's shrugging off tank shells like he's from Krypton.

Lila had an interesting line when she copied Luther's power:

"You gotta believe in yourself, Big Boy."

I think Lila was implying that Luther's powers fluctuate based upon psychological factors.

 

[dupersuper]

Lila had an interesting line when she copied Luther's power:

"You gotta believe in yourself, Big Boy."

I think Lila was implying that Luther's powers fluctuate based upon psychological factors.

So he's Gladiator?

 

[Snaploud]

So he's Gladiator?

Basically, yes.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I was surprised how much I ended up liking this, initially I had this show conflated in my head with Syfy's Deadly Class. I think some of the promo pics had them all in their uniforms which was not a big part of the actual series. Now that I think about it did they ever really explain the name? I know Hargreeves had an umbrella a couple of times but it didn't seem to be exactly a trademark.

Well, thanks to a long weekend and Amazon not putting Boys out all at once I took a chance to check this out and I'm glad I did. I think Season 1 was a little better than Season 2 but it was still pretty decent. I had to roll with the series a little bit on some things, such as I don't think the early 60s would be quite so oblivious to Diego's shaggy appearance. Klaus just might get away with the guru thing maybe.

I think the tone and pace of the show is a plus with distinct characters that are fun and makes subplots like Hazel/Agnes and Ray feel compelling and integrated. I like that the show incorporates and deals with things like racism and LBGTQ issues in an organic fashion that doesn't feel like it's preachy or overbearing.

I think Season 2 risks becoming too breezy at times but I don't think it goes over the line so hard that it gets to the point of no return. It does get there at the end when it doesn't seem to quite know how to get the team out of the corner its been painted. With the setup being so packed I think that could've been tighter and more satisfying.

EDIT: It occurs to me that Umbrella Academy and Doom Patrol share a lot of the same beats, DP is the punk version and UA is the pop version.

 

[Kor]

The concept of a time travel story surrounding the Kennedy assassination vaguely reminds me of an idea that Gene Roddenberry kept throwing around for Star Trek in the early '80s.

Kor

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I think JFK comes up a few times, I think Stephen King wrote a book about time travel and JFK, there was the episode of Red Dwarf, I'm sure there are plenty more.

 

[Snaploud]

I think JFK comes up a few times, I think Stephen King wrote a book about time travel and JFK, there was the episode of Red Dwarf, I'm sure there are plenty more.

Yeah, people seem obsessed with saving JFK. Personally, I think saving RFK would be more useful. That way we don't risk wiping out the civil rights legislation passed by LBJ.

Of course, time travel by its nature requires risking everything. You never know if saving one guy in the past will lead to nuclear armageddon. It's probably only truly justified if we're talking about preventing an extinction-level event.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The series has been renewed for a third season!

 

[Mage]

Oh, here's a question.......

Spoiler: SPOILER

The man amongst the Majestic 12 that smoked a lot..... Was that a nod to Cigarette Smoking Man from X-Files, or just a simple coincidence?