And yeah, I love the characters - they're so charming in their various ways that they make up for the occasionally failtastic writing, for me anyway.
The combination actually reminds me a lot of The Wolf Man (1941), which I just saw for the first time last week: the plotting and even first principles are occasionally from Mars, but all the people are real people and the emotional resonances are in real and right places and it winds up feeling both idtastic and complexly touching. And then sometimes ninja fights just happen.
Danny is such an unusual protagonist for this type of show - I really love how gregarious and people-oriented he is, as opposed to the more brooding and mainpainy superhero types
Yes! And when he takes a turn for the dark and brooding at the end of the first season, it is explicitly a sign of how badly he's doing and how hard he needs to course-correct: "Danny, some shit you just can't punch!"
- and Colleen is great,
I love her as a character on her own terms—especially that in the same way Danny is not defined by manpain, Collleen's turn as an antihero in the first season does not cancel her general no-bullshit charge-in paladin tendencies—and they also have a romance I actively root for, which again is not always the case.
and "three-piece human dumpster fire" is the BEST description of Ward (whose actor is also really good, I think; he's got the nuance that it takes to pull off a character like that in a sympathetic way).
Hah. Thanks. (He is. I'd never seen the actor before, but he has the crucial quality for a character of this type, which is the willingness not to look good. It doesn't make him not sympathetic: it makes him real.)
I hope you continue to enjoy, and also hope you feel better soon!
Thank you! In point of fact, I spent most of today on the couch watching the rest of Season 1. I am now into Season 2 and literally just hit the "not an asshole boss" exchange, which is where we came in. I'm already sorry there's no Season 3 to move on to. People have conversations on this show. It's so refreshing.
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The combination actually reminds me a lot of The Wolf Man (1941), which I just saw for the first time last week: the plotting and even first principles are occasionally from Mars, but all the people are real people and the emotional resonances are in real and right places and it winds up feeling both idtastic and complexly touching. And then sometimes ninja fights just happen.
Danny is such an unusual protagonist for this type of show - I really love how gregarious and people-oriented he is, as opposed to the more brooding and mainpainy superhero types
Yes! And when he takes a turn for the dark and brooding at the end of the first season, it is explicitly a sign of how badly he's doing and how hard he needs to course-correct: "Danny, some shit you just can't punch!"
- and Colleen is great,
I love her as a character on her own terms—especially that in the same way Danny is not defined by manpain, Collleen's turn as an antihero in the first season does not cancel her general no-bullshit charge-in paladin tendencies—and they also have a romance I actively root for, which again is not always the case.
and "three-piece human dumpster fire" is the BEST description of Ward (whose actor is also really good, I think; he's got the nuance that it takes to pull off a character like that in a sympathetic way).
Hah. Thanks. (He is. I'd never seen the actor before, but he has the crucial quality for a character of this type, which is the willingness not to look good. It doesn't make him not sympathetic: it makes him real.)
I hope you continue to enjoy, and also hope you feel better soon!
Thank you! In point of fact, I spent most of today on the couch watching the rest of Season 1. I am now into Season 2 and literally just hit the "not an asshole boss" exchange, which is where we came in. I'm already sorry there's no Season 3 to move on to. People have conversations on this show. It's so refreshing.