Comments | frelling_tralk: Has anyone else on my flist been watching The Umbrella Academy?

frelling_tralk

Has anyone else on my flist been watching The Umbrella Academy?

May 31, 2019 15:23

I really enjoyed it! I loved the soundtrack <3 The cinematography was pretty great also, I liked how the world had a very retro feel to it, and you see characters using typewriters rather than laptops and mobile phones ( Read more... )

the umbrella academy, netflix

Comments 26

_profiterole_ May 31 2019, 15:28:25 UTC

I liked it, but wasn't super into it. It was a bit slow to start, then got better.

frelling_tralk May 31 2019, 15:43:34 UTC

I did find the pacing a bit slow in the beginning admittedly, it didn’t help that I was struggling to follow who all of the different siblings were and what their powers were, they could probably have done a better job with introducing them. Once I did have them all straight though, I felt like the show got really strong from around episode 4/5 time

malicat May 31 2019, 15:58:29 UTC

I liked it too :) The soundtrack probably the most. Such a creative use of songs and not just random choices!

Klaus is obviously the best sibling :D

that young actor was so good at playing a 58 year old man trapped in a child’s body

He was hella impressive. Not an easy role to play for sure but he really nailed it <3

Also agree on Vanya. I have sympathies for her of course. What was done to her was so very much not ok. People have been gaslighting her all her life but she was also super irritating re: Leonard. How could she believe him,a dude she just met,over her own siblings and be so fucking stubborn???

frelling_tralk May 31 2019, 16:14:01 UTC

I really found myself disliking Vanya from the moment when Allison said that in hindsight she remembers their father telling her at four years old to tell Vanya that she’s ordinary, and Vanya then goes right into accusing Allison of being the one to do this to her and refuses to listen to reason, even though it was perfectly clear that their father was the only one responsible, that Allison didn’t even realise what she was doing at that age. I mean really same with Pogo, my understanding was that he had no choice but to go along with their father ( ... )

shivver13 May 31 2019, 18:27:30 UTC

I loved The Umbrella Academy. I think I agree with you on all your points - namely, that Klaus was the best, Five's actor was fantastic, Vanya was uninteresting, and Luther/Allison pairing was weird mostly because no one else seemed to think it was ( ... )

frelling_tralk May 31 2019, 18:46:22 UTC

I’m glad I’m not alone in this anyway! I think I would have preferred her to make a choice to be consciously evil as well, instead she seemed like kind of a sad sack both before and after. As I said above, I think that also it was harder for me to buy into her poor me attitude when we see all of the siblings had terrible upbringings and many issues to struggle with. Obviously it hurt her badly to be told that she wasn’t special and couldn’t go on ops with her siblings, but otherwise they never quite got across for me that she was so much more excluded than everyone else, Klaus and Five seemed every bit as shut off from the rest of the family as she was for starters. And technically Leonard and Vanya both had very similar motivations even when it came to lashing out after being told that they weren’t special/powerful, and yet I assume that only one of them was meant to come across as sympathetic to the audience?

icecoldrain May 31 2019, 21:22:02 UTC

I LOVED IT AND THE SOUNDTRACK WAS AMAZING. THE SHOW IS EVERYTHING.

It cracks me up that Nathan left Misfits all those years ago and now he's on TUA as sort of an older, slightly different version of the character he was on Misfits lmao. That said, he was great and I love Klaus. On Ben, we saw how he died in one of the flashbacks. He was shot in the war!

Vanya was the weakest, and only weak, link of the show tbh. I don't think it was the character but the actress. I like Ellen but she's a terrible actress. It worked early on when she was supposed to be the most basic of the basic people in the world but even that was clearly stretching on her own acting ability. Once we got to a point where she really needed to start pulling out all the stops, she was just completely out of her element and it was just glaringly obvious that it was the worst casting choice possible.

frelling_tralk May 31 2019, 21:47:22 UTC

:D He really did feel like an older version of Nathan, it got me seeking out old Misfits clips in YouTube actually lol and considering a rewatch of that show!

Wasn’t it Dave that died in the war, Klaus’s love interest?

And honestly I didn’t really know what to make of Ellen Page as I haven’t seen her in much else, but I know that her acting has generally been fairly critically acclaimed, so I was assuming at first that it was a deliberate choice to have all her line readings be so flat, but then I was expecting a more radical shift in body language and such after Vanya stopped taking the emotion suppressing pills that she had been on all her life, and instead all that really changed was that Vanya’s violin playing seemed to become slightly more animated. The character still had that same dreary and mopey feel about her though, and maybe that was a deliberate acting choice idk, but it did make it hard for me to really connect with her character

icecoldrain June 1 2019, 02:48:39 UTC

Oh snap you're right. In my mind I mixed up the names lmfaooooooo. We never did find out how exactly actual Ben died! Also, Ben is a series regular next season so maybe we will!

I've seen Ellen in several things and she's exactly the same in everything: barely one note acting if you can even call that acting. I'm not sure why people rave about her. Her acting skills have somehow decreased over the years and she could barely act in the first place. I like her as a person but not as an actress. Not even the CGI and music could help her when she made the finally transformation from Vanya into the White Violin at the end of the season. It was def difficult to like her character due to the casting being all wrong lmao.

frelling_tralk June 1 2019, 11:08:59 UTC

I kept expecting a flashback episode with Ben, so I was surprised when that never came up, but yeah hopefully that’s something they’re saving for season 2!

chono88 May 31 2019, 21:25:11 UTC

yes yes yes on my phone at work so a more detailed comment has to wait until tomorrow but I LOVE IT

frelling_tralk May 31 2019, 21:53:41 UTC

I look forward to hearing what you have to say tomorrow :D

chono88 June 1 2019, 20:42:13 UTC

Sooo. Sorry Long nightshift, long week, long day ( ... )

frelling_tralk June 1 2019, 22:43:38 UTC

I also loved Diego and Allison. Wish Allison's character would have gotten more depth. I had a feeling she was only scratching the surface, maybe that was the intention.

It did feel like Allison and Diego were the least developed of the main cast, it seemed like Vanya, Five, and Klaus were the characters that the writers were most interested in exploring, I got the impression that they were the writers favourites

With sympathizing with Vanya so much in the beginning to like honey baby train wreck NOOOO XD It was a nice twist that she ended up being the main villain, maybe I’m naive/not well versed enough in comic book setups, but I really wasn’t expecting that. I was actually expecting a redemption arc after she was crying to Luther about how sorry she was, so I was genuinely surprised when the show had her bringing the house down after that and going completely crazy, although goes without saying that that was no thanks to Luther ( ... )