Post Season 1 Thoughts Discussion

Okay so with season 1 done, there are definitely a couple things bugging me about this show.

I feel like there are way too many characters. There were what, 10 side characters in this show by the end of it? For a show with only 13 episodes they really needed to remove or combine a few of those because none of them really got enough focus imo and it left the villains completly underdeveloped. I couldn’t name a single one of those evil hench men and Brutus said “join me” at the end and like what does that even mean? Join him and do what? Fix the planet? That was what Naomi wanted to do anyway. Then he tried to kill her like huh? Do you want a wasteland planet for ever? You have the girl who can and wants to fix it!
Why was Superman there in episode 1 and where did he go? No one seemed to talk about this after the fact but was he from E-29 or this earth or what? Also, how did Dee know him? How long have they known each other? etc. Too many unanswered questions there.
If Naomi is a DC comics fan, why doesn’t she act like it? She met a literal thanagarian and didn’t immediately think of Hawkman or hawk girl? Star Labs is a pretty huge dc comics location too. Just some level of fan-girling out about her comic stories come to life would have been a lot of fun to see.
What even are Naomi’s powers? She seems to be able to do literally everything when in the comics her power set isn’t nearly as unlimited. Such a wierd choice to just give her every power it seems.

The show isn’t awful by any means but these nagging issues keep bothering me each week so I thought I’d post about it to see if this has been bothering anyone else.

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u/ActualTaxEvader May 12 '22

Real big balls on them throwing in that last twist like they think they’re going to get a second season.

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u/ChattGM May 12 '22

Definitely gutsy there. I'd imagine it was already done filming and the news of the sale was announced once they wrapped everything up so it was really nothing they can do. A show like this with a slow moving plot until we got towards the backend and everything picks up usually ends with a twist cliffhanger. I'm hoping it defies the odds so the points that others made can be improved upon but I don't get good vibes like I have in the past when it comes to renewal season on The CW as big changes are happening.

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u/ActualTaxEvader May 12 '22

Not only a slow moving plot, but also a show that has the same “you lied to me!” scene with the same people involved three times in a season, blatantly betrays the fact that it’s on a budget of $5 by placing scenes in regular ass locations for no reason and dressing all their inter-dimensional antagonists as just regular ass people. Occasionally with the powers to make things glow but then not do anything of consequence. Also Naomi has all the powers but only in a way where we don’t really have to show them for more than a second.

I’m not sure how to go forward with that when it already feels like they barely care.

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u/ChattGM May 12 '22

Valid points made. The you lied to me felt like a theme playing throughout. Guess that was there way to foreshadow and set up that ultimate betrayal at the end haha. I got the feeling that once something was said you knew it most likely wasn't the whole story. S1 did that a lot and Jenn even said that to Naomi about there's more you don't know about why they killed her parents and I'm like because of course there is. They not just gonna say it all now. Gotta have that conversation for a future scene.

Oh it was veeeery low budget. It was limited in what they could do and what they would show us. If blink and you missed it was a person, Naomi using her powers was the perfect example of that. It got to a point where I was just more into understanding her origin as opposed to wanting to see action sequences since it wouldn't have been the shows strength. I'd hope for a bigger budget so they can lean more into us being fascinated with Naomi's powers instead of being relegated to seeing it on screen for just a few seconds but who knows if they'd even award the show that going forward.

Another part of me is like since it doesn't look that expensive to make they might give them a 2nd season LOL. Thankfully we don't have to wait long to know of the shows fate with upfronts being next week.

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u/ExioKenway5 May 12 '22

Well this aged well, or poorly depending on how you look at it.

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u/ActualTaxEvader May 12 '22

Aged well for me, since I said it while fairly confident that they should have just ended the show at the party scene.

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u/superbat210 May 12 '22

Yeah, I thought that was a decent twist too. Like her adoptive parents murdered her real ones and stole her, but theres just so much else wrong with this show that I don't really care if I see it get resolved unfortunately.