That was hell of a season! As with any freaking good tv show I had to wait until the season was over to watch the entire thing but wow... Can I be more happy that I've waited so long? I feel I've waited whole 2 season just to watch this. Only a little bit sad there are so little episodes but I think it was for the better bc it was awesome. So sad it's the end. I feel fo fond of Ethan and his strugles and it was great seeing Moon Bloodgood in a freaking great role on a great show. I just after all of it feel like the whole show is just this one season really... so bummed we don't have more to watch :(
can someone update it please? 9th ep is coming out like tomorrow.
Idk how I got through the 1st season (probably bc Stana Katic's acting) and why I ever wanted to watch 2nd season but OMG how am I glad to have done this. 2nd season is intense and great from the beginning to the end. Ifinally started caring for the characters and there is some development. I love how so many people looks at Emily with at least suspision and other 'bad' feelings but she still can develop really strong bonds with others, romantic or partnering. BTW she's a fucking great agent!
This season was a lot better than the previous one! 1st season I didn't really know for whom it was. Too childish for teens and too dark for children I guess. This was a YA story for sure. I'm almost 30 so it was still naive for me, but I still like YA and it didn't disappoint this time. Some characters finally became "whole" with their dark/light sides, like humans are. Even the ones I didn't like I could see some things I respected them for.
Nonetheless, I still had some issues with choices made in this season. Two main ones being Terra's coming out and Flora's main focus.
I feel like Terra is the stereotypical/bad assumptions on lesbians. I've heard so many times that women "become" lesbians bc no men could find them attractive. It really felt like Terra "made her choice" bc of that. I'm only saying that's the portrayal of the show that I've seen. From the beginning, Terra is the stereotypical "fat" girl, not self-assured, shy, doesn't believe she could be interesting. And ofc all her friends are confident so the show makes an assumption that beautiful and slim = confidence. She had two bad romantic interactions with men and the show didn't let any other to even befriend her. So I feel like the show targeted men as well as women here. It shows that no men is capable to love a fat/boring Terra but women can, but also making women/lesbians portrayed as "if guys don't like you, convert to women". I'm not saying that Terra could really always felt sth towards women BUT the show made it look different on the surface. She said she felt like that from the beginning but the show never showed us that. (If you would think about the one scene in 1st season when she couldn't look at naked Aisha it was clearly showed that it was bc of Terra's body that she wanted to hide and change and really not every heterosexual women are comfortable changing with others or seeing other women change).
And about Flora, she's so beautiful and confident, her magic looked beautiful as well, really liked her at the end BUT there are two scenes when she could really shine with her character if the show didn't make her main focus being the romance and romantic relationships of other girls. There is a scene when shes sneaking with Aisha and Rosalind or anyone can find them and there is possibility of expulsion but shes adamant to change Aisha's mind about Gray to the point of stoping and waiting for Aisha to stop, not listening her reason, and making her focus on the romance topic. Almost at the end, when she's on the cemetery with Terra they're already out of time to save Bloom (which is another stupid thing but whatever) yet she also stops and try to force the topic of romance on Terra even tho they are doing sth against the rules and there is a balance of her friend's life/confinement. It was annoying, stupid, and really made her superficial and egocentric. It could really be used as a flaw that during other episodes she could overcome but without it it's really pointless thing. Not to mention that pretty much from the first scene she's in the show forces her into the dynamic of friends which had one year to grow their friendship so mostly I was on team Terra to be pissed and suspicious, double checking, so I also hated the resolution that it was all bc of jealousy. And I remind you that I don't even like Terra.
All in consideration, I really like this season, it made me feel something not like the 1st one which I really had to watch again bc I forgot almost everything.
So I got through the entire season for them to get together and the main action was all in different places......... awesome.
I think the whole finale would make more impact if the villain was introduced in 1st/2nd season, even for a scene or two to show us that there is a bigger boss. We were just left season after season with scarier monsters but I just didn't make the connection between Vecna and them. Its just random that while sending him to the upside down world with the monsters already existing, Eleven made a way for them and Vecna just happens to be on the same level as them, not a boss and not someone they could eat I think. The series didn't show much to think otherwise. It would be great to feel the need to understand every little thing to connect the boss to everything, not at 4th season which while almost entirely premiered at the same time and you didn't need to think, just get through episodes.
Almost all the crew was "dying" soooo long for Vecna to have a slow speech to Eleven and for Eleven to found her braveness again... also I hate when suddenly the plot is saying 'you hurt one you hurt all the bad guys' x.x
And also the plan which all of others thought is not going to work, worked, and they almost didn't need Eleven.... well.
Idk, maybe this show isn't for me but it still has the thing that interests me. I just cannot with the characters. I barely like Steve, I liked Max in the beginning, not now. I like Eleven for her powers only nowadays. So this season almost got none of it. I'm just staying for monsters and Upside Down world so it seems next season will be it for me, but I also thought every time that the next season will be amazing/better than the previous so idk really anymore.
I also liked the new characters more than the old ones and I wished for the new guys to live more than the old ones.... hmmm.
I was very disappointed after 5 eps but there was no way I wouldn't finish the season but I'm still disappointed tho not that much.
Plus:
- new or previously unknown aspects of powers (hoped it would be for everyone or more of them than two but I guess Victor had his revelation in season 2 maybe the rest will have in the next seasons)
- bonding of sibling which previously hated eachother (Luther and Vanya) or more or less barely speak to eachother (Diego and Allison) tho very brief I need to mention it
- I like that we're getting more psychology of Reginald also seeing that Reginald isn't so bad/powerful and isn't the one who made their lives like they are, as the new family ended up mostly different it just makes me think Umbrella Academy just let him be as he was (which doesn't make them good for not drugging him or bad for putting up with his abuse)
- Idk I just love this hotel
- I like dark Allison, her powers don't do much to make her a boss bitch but this could be it
- Allison/Victor fight was THE FRICKING BEST SCENE. Omg I love when they're together but I also love when they're fighting.
Minus:
- I never expected neither sth bad from this season or sth greater that last seasons, i wanted same fun and all but it seems like there is so much less comedy this season. Maybe bc they as me are used to pretty much anything up this point.
- Previously I think everyone from the family had a story to get through, in season one and two from the beginning, here it seems the only one with some personal plot are Luther, Victor and Diego, with Allison having sth here and there thrown without consistency
- the whole Diego has a son thing is annoying and without any sense whatsoever, I really hoped watching ep 6 itll be already revealed as a joke and the boy disappears from the story. EDIT: so it was a joke, well... not greatly executed, it lasted toooooooo long and wasnt believable at all bc they didn't explained anything, why it was 12 years for her or why dindt she tell Diego before. Im confused why having it in the show, the reason which Lila after everything revealed wasn't enough at all. They also forgot about the boy death so quickly I forgot about him as well.
- I think Umbrella's family is even more stupid than last seasons, the most infuriating example was when Allison came looking for Claire. Firstly, it was stated that they had to change the future bc well Sparrow Academy and they were discussing that they might be themselves here in this future so going for her daughter could mean at least shes going to see herself and probably fight with herself in front of the daughter (not a good thing) or the daughter could not even exist bc they know for sure they werent growing up in Umbrella and didnt make the same choices so how her daughter could even exist?! I understand shes a mother she had to see but OMG dont walk into the house in the middle of the night!!!!!!! I'm not a genius but at least stay away and see who the f lives in the house. It's why I couldn't feel for her at all which made this scene pointless.
- I understand the ship Allison/Luther was a scandalous (?) one but I sort of liked it, then she met Ray and he really wasn't that great as she remembers him in this season so her pining over him just makes me annoyed. He was from the 60s through and through and she has a mind of a 21century black woman, that's not gonna end well in those times so after all of season 3 I dont understand why she couldn't bring him to 21 century.
- The Sparrow family has so much cooler powers in a way of battle so in each battle with Umbrella Academy I couldn't believe Sparrows won't win so when they didn't from various reasons I was again annoyed and confused. Their whole lives they were practicing for battles and they're so bad at them (maybe the first one was the only one they showed some thinking)
- OMG Ben (and Marcus as well) is so dumb, focusing so much on hating and blaming everything on Umbrella even when its so OBVIOUS its not them. I cannot...
- the plot with their mothers had so much potential. E.g. if they saw they would be so much more miserable with their lives not as Umbrella Academy, one of them killed their parents, someone's a terrorist, someone's used by their parents, feared, in an asylum... I think it wouldn't be a tough thing to create a different explanation for another apocalypse. It would be so easy after knowing their surnames to check where are they now, which could lead to them knowing how would they be without Reginald... and it couldn't be a long plot even... ehhh, I was so hoping for that while waiting for 3rd season.
- lila's powers still not being explained, the new thing we know is that she refers to it as mimicking others so why the heck she could use Sloane's powers when she just saw her by the window and she wasn't even using her power?! I also never understood how she could use the powers so well and know how to use the powers sometimes better than the one living with them their whole lives. As I would understand she mimics what she sees other do with the powers and be limited to only know what she saw, even immediately without practicing but for her to just see a normal person standing and somehow know what power does she have and how to use it? And know what to do with the power that the original one doesn't know it could be done? And yet I am to believe she can lose to anyone and be at the same level as Luther or Allison's powers which are constantly referred to as inferior?
- Most of the family doesn't use their powers or does it scarcely, like Allison and Luther (and even Ben) use it couple times without much effect, Klaus use it once but differently and I dont thing Diego used it more than once.
- yet again Victor's powers getting an upgrade which makes the rest of the family expendable, like Allison at this point... why is her power even significant to be liked by fans (in the show when they had their figurines and all)? It never became as great as it was depicted in the finale of season one or 1st ep of season two when the whole family was fighting and she could control many people at once. Even the last scenes when she used it on Reginald it didn't even work so how could it be so 'wow'?
- the whole last episode was so disappointing! They used the whole previous ep to constantly discuss if they should wait and die or die trying to save the world, OVER AND OVER the whole ep was a pointless discussion and then the last ep we were going to have battles, a teaser to the next season and they still had so much to talk over. It couldn't be done in one ep. The battles became so easy so the only thing to prolong them was to use 'jumpscare' moments for characters to even get hurt so we could feel some anxiety, and boom all guards are dead. The scene after that didn't have the time to be more explained and it all left me with anger and questions why so much of 3rd season's plot was pointless and forgettable and the things that should be the greatest from all of the season had the least time to be so.
FRUSTRATION!
It was really boring with so much stuff which didn't really connected to the main story, like addicts and daddy issues were overdeveloped considering how much screen time the main story get.
I really liked the scenes witch Charlie and Vic, but the whole 'she just had sex before the bad guy said she's pure so he won't kill her' x.x that killed all what I liked to this point. And now she's having a kid? No, thank you.
I have a huge problem whether to read the books... I love the lore but hate most of the main characters. Ive read some reviews and descriptions of books but nothing gave me hope. Ive read books just for the lore before but not that huge series. I feel like my fav characters arent the main focus in the books (Nynaeve, Lan and Moraine). I really cannot stand Rand and Mat and Rand being the Dragon..........
I do really love how the magic is shown in the series. Seems really fresh and unique but the young characters both in the series and as I can say, from the descriptions of the books, seem to YA for me. Ive had enough of YA characters and their 'problems'.
I hate the change of the pace of this season. They try so hard to keep up with Grey's Anatomy when GA has 24 eps and Station 19 has 16. It's not working. We lack so much context like when Jack and Andy decide to LOOK for apartments to live together and in the next episode in a scene Jack goes to Andy's room finding out she's not there. So they fastforwarded to them looking for apartments, finding one, moving in and starting to live together. As well as in one ep Pruitt starts the convo on marriage with Andy and Sullivan and the next ep we have IN RETROSPECTION they talking seriously about it and Pruitt giving away Andy to Sullivan. I love this show, this season more that GA even and it pisses me so much that most of the story I have to seek between the lines!
The relationship between Jackson and Vic was even worsly done, you had to watch ep by ep interlacing GA with Station 19 (which I didn't do bc I never do such things, I watch couple eps in bunk) to understand what's happening ... I was so fucking confused it wasn't even funny.
Make the damn decision to have 24 eps in Station 19 or don't try to make the time of the eps the same!
Christ, I need more! NOW!
I feel like this season is so all over the place. As it always is when you have many characters and everyone is elsewhere. Idk if the book goes the same but this season lacked in action and in creating anticipation. Every episode gives only a snippet in each journey which i forget in a moment. Maybe if this time the season had more episodes they could give characters longer scenes? I felt like those 7 eps for now had action of maybe two and were already before the finale and I'm like... meh? At least i started liking Egwene for a bit but what does it say about a character that she's likable only when being a slave/prisoner?
I REALLY would like to read the books but I could never get through Rand and Mat stuff X.X they're the worst
It's sad that the second part of this season made me want to track some plots and I started liking some characters like Vera. Itw would be a great show if youd kill off half of the main characters.
