Summary
Mark picks up the pieces of his life after his dad rearranged this teeth.
I am mixed on this season. On the whole I lean to it being good but it was such a half measure.
I liked that they are finally starting to set up the Mark and Eve stuff, I liked that we got more time with Alen, and I liked seeing the return to Mars and the decimating of the remaining heroes by the Serpent Society. However, outside of that I think that this season missed the mark. It spends far too long try to be deep and emotional and work through its trauma, and whilst the Radiohead and Nick Cave solemn moments in the first few episodes were good I found it got a little self-indulgent by the end. I understand that Mark breaking his no kill rule is a big deal but there is a lot of time in the last episode dedicated to him dealing with it, it feels too much its like cool can we get back to it. They waste time. Nowhere is that truth more self-evident than with Mark and Amber, they spent a lot of time this season with them realising they can’t work out, too much time. Think about all the Spider-Man films you have ever watched how much time has been dedicated to his relationship with MJ or Gwen maybe 5-10 minutes total per film, maybe more in Spider-Man 3, because though it is important to the character it is not what people are here to see. Here we get multiple scenes that go on for far too long and then a drawn out scene of them both having heart to hearts with other people at the same time to make it stretch even more. My point is that it is good to develop your characters emotionally but when it is taking up the same amount of time as them being heroes then you have a problem .
The animation and world building was good, but again it feels like filler. We got the tease of the wider galactic war but didn’t see any of it, you’ll have to wait another 3 years for that. Honestly I was a little disappointed that we didn’t even get Nolan and Alen busting out of prison as a final sting on the last episode. I don’t know what happened if they wanted to stretch the story out more, if they didn’t have time to write further or if it was a rush job, but I left this season disappointed looking forward to the next, and that’s not right it should be I left this season thinking it was epic looking forward to the next.
Overall, a disappointment.
2.5/5
Pros.
Mark and Eve
Alen’s return
Setting things up that will be cool
Cons.
It doesn’t actually progress the story much
It is too emotional and into itself
It wastes time
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