But there are too many tropes that are a bit annoying. Harold basically being Syndrome from the Incredibles, Pogo the unnecessarily-secretive background figure, Klaus being a nihilistic comic book character that takes drugs + acts wacky, Diego being yet another secretive vigilante that literally sucks the life out of any scene he's in...
And the details that would actually flesh these characters out into being more realised and compelling (Allison's daughter, Eudora's history with Diego, Klaus' Vietnam boyfriend, Cha Cha/Hazel's history, ANYTHING on the Commission other than "this lady wears a veil and has a briefcase :shrug:") are just...missing. So whilst it's a nice and stylish series, it's nothing great and not particularly something I'll love when it's over.
Other plot points I have difficulty with:
- Diego turning Grace off, and that just being....that :shrug:
- Ben's death hasn't been explained yet. I would assume that's covered in later episodes though. If not that's...odd.
- I'm only halfway through e8 so I wonder if Allison's daughter went to sleep and never woke up, or something? Otherwise that's a huge overreaction on her stupid ex-husband's part :oh:
- There being literally no personality to Cha Cha at the moment. I've already mentioned I want some backstory on how they became agents, what their powers are, if they even have any?? Because Hazel seemed to be able to knock the hell out of Luther. But at least Hazel has a whole "sympathetic big boy who wants to watch birds and eat donuts" angle, even if it is a bit...random. Cha Cha... I don't see her motivation.
- Throwing in random acts of history to distract the viewers instead of explaining more about how the Commission came about :shrug: all very well dangling the Hindenburg, Franz Ferdinand's assassination, Johannes Gutenburg's printing press in our face and just ignoring the big question: why are they driven to apocalypse? Who made them? etc.
That said, I may be wrong and the last two episodes cover all of this and then some :whistle:
