The Umbrella Academy

[Milkster]

[Takiwaki]

Wait we never had a thread for this?

[Koyangi]

It was always in the "that's streaming now" thread.

[Alvinho]

Wow, who knew?! Actually came here today looking for this.

Up to Ep. 3 on the 3rd seasons, and it keeps delivering. Start of Ep. 1 had me rolling, lol.

[arus2001]

Maybe it was the long gap between seasons, but I just felt like something was missing with this one.

Spoiler: show

Hated pretty much every scene the kid had to actually act in, which was unfortunately far too much screen time.

[Odesseiron]

The CGI/Greenscreen is also particularly shit. I think a lot of this was filmed during COVID lockdowns. But the very first scene of the sparrows on the roof and I was like OOF. This is some Clone Wars tier shit. It's really jarring.

[Krandor]

The show has never had particularly good special effects other than Pogo

[Dotsudoku]

Lengthier opinion disappeared into the void, but this season was god awful and I had to force myself to finish it

[Laugana]

That’s a shame, I’m 2 episodes in and it’s not keeping my attention. Well at least I’ll have something to watch while I’m starting chemotherapy next week.

[Souj]

This saddens me to hear. My wife loved season 1 and 2 and it’s real hard to get her to watch shows and harder for her to find one she really enjoys that isn’t a real-life-murder show of Food Network.

[Takiwaki]

Yea It started off really good but fizzled out imo.

Klaus was great as always though.

[6souls]

I'm less bugged about the bad cgi than I am with the frame drops in random scenes.

[6souls]

I see that a fourth season is in the planning stages, but after that finale, I would be good if the series ended there.

[Kaisha]

I found the trick to the CGI was to have shitty internet so you were stuck watching it all in Youtube quality where the compression+resolution blurred it in enough.

Lengthier opinion disappeared into the void, but this season was god awful and I had to force myself to finish it

My disorganized thoughts on the season, assuming I remembered most of this shit correct :

Spoiler: show

I haven't read the comics, so I've no idea how much of this show is in line with those or how hard its diverted.

- It felt like they had enough story material for half a season and then stretched it out

-No real antagonist besides "world is ending" ball once the Umbrella vs. Sparrow is resolved.

- Whole season trying to point fingers at Reginald being the bad guy only to divert expectations.

- Having the kid from last season be the catalyst for the changed timeline came off as shit imo, and the 'payoff' for that was just Allison being more pissed off and the convenience of not having to start with "I heard a rumor", which didn't matter in the end since it didn't work the one time she needed it to.

- Viktor being taught to hear/feel stuff for it to only be used just for the kugelblitz, for it to not matter in the end. That character and whole subplot could have been axed.

- Don't understand why Ben's mother was left alive of the Umbrella group. I figure if the kid was able to feel their parents through the connection he had with Vik, it'd have hit up Ben's as well even though he wasn't present at all for him to know his existence.

- 5's whole development/foreshadowing is up in the air and feels like we got blue balled. Also that no one ever wants to listen/believe the 60ish year old despite him having done a good chunk of the work in prior series. Future-visit/Tattoo sideplot could have been tossed away.

- Shut the fuck up Allison & Vik

- All of the awkward scenes involving Vanya->Viktor that felt hamfisted into the script at the last second and no one questioning it other than Luther, just for him to be told to stfu by Diego, who would have been the last person to have done that, unless he was afraid it'd cause Vik to turn into an emotional bomb again.

- The visual design for the world at the end makes no sense. Just a floating 3-4 blocks of land hovering in fiery looking space. There'd have been no oxygen/gravity.

- Majority of the season taking place within the Academy/Hotel got old pretty quick.

- The 'Guardians' just being shoguns felt cheap. Those fights in general were lacking. Probably blew what little fight-scene budget they had in the Academy fight early on.

- Sloane not being at the end despite alternate-timeline Ben being there in addition to what was probably Umbrella's Ben in the credits sequence

- All that time Reginald spent on getting Klaus familiar with his powers only to kill him off in the end instead of say, helping with the Oblivion puzzle.

- My assumption is Allison's powers were spared, having been the only one that wasn't used as a battery for the machine, but why would Reginald want her to be untouched of the 8 in the room? He presumably didn't plan for Klaus somehow managing to resurrect his suicided corpse into the other dimension (and that wasn't even explained either), so she would have been part of the 7 minimum needed to make the rewritten timeline to occur.


- Reginald's wife being dead in both timelines, but only the original timeline he decided to send an Academy member up to the moon for years on a false mission, just so they're there to act as a potential watchdog who wasn't even in the vicinity of the station that had her sealed remains. How he required regular humans to build a hotel vs. the logistics of building a station on the moon decades later without anyone detecting it is beyond me. Most you could chalk it up to is "he's an alien w/ assets",

I see that a fourth season is in the planning stages, but after that finale, I would be good if the series ended there.

I would have been good if it just ended last season with a changed ending, with how this one turned out.


Side note: I feel bad for the poor sap that had to edit in "Starring Elliot Page" to the forefront of the credits of every prior episode minus the pilot.

[Alvinho]

A fair analysis, however, I tend to turn off my brain when I watch these things and just look at the pretty pictures.

But yeah, the CGI, specially the ones where human movement was involved, was awful.

[Dotsudoku]

Spoiler: show

yeah virtually every setup had no payoff, the plot made dickall sense, and the characters were wholly unlikable. Like the mustache twiddling villains they made the sparrows was insane, Ben worst of all. And the Allison/Viktor shit was so goddamn out of place and annoying. show should have ended in S2

[In Flames]

Accidentally double posted trying to figure out how the spoiler tags work.

[In Flames]

Finished S3 yesterday.

Spoiler: show

The most frustrating thing was people not telling other people were they going, and if they found something (e.g. diego and layla finding hotel oblivion) they usually told NOBODY ELSE about it. The two of them mention in the meeting in the final episode that they'd already been there and NOBODY questions it.

Also Reg told Luther he'd been alive for centuries and it just didn't seem to register with Luther at all. And how did Klaus put himself into the hotel oblivion at the end if the doorway was the only way in? 'Powers' I guess?

So many parts of the plot only existed because nobody communicates. I know that zero communication is necessary for the plot to happen but it just feels so lazy.

I'll watch S4 because I want to see how the plot wraps up. I'll be amazed if there is a S5 after this trainwreck of a season though.

[Qalbert]

i believe showrunner said s4 end is the plan

[Qalbert]

https://collider.com/umbrella-academ...kman-comments/

Blackman confirmed the six-episode season, saying, "It’s true. But you’re going to love them." This puts the final season four episodes shorter than all of its previous outings as Seasons 1-3 each had 10 episodes. 

Honestly, probably a good thing.