The Umbrella Academy - Netflix

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Anonymous wrote:Love it! A little disappointed in things being unresolved at the end of the season but I wasn't surprised. Also spent a fair bit of time getting irritated with Ellen Page's character until it becomes clear why she acts the way she does. Loved Hazel's story line as well.

See - I hated Hazel's story line. I just thought it was another useless sub-plot. Cha-cha was badass but seeing her continuously getting beaten got on my nerves. She was the better fighter, more intelligent, and loyal meanwhile Hazel was going after a woman that was so...ugly and twenty years his senior. I thought they had a weird partnership that worked, but I would have been happy for them just to die off in the first three episodes.

RE Ellen Page - they could have saved us four pill-popping episodes and made the villain one of the 35 other umbrella kids.

I loved that part. You must be young and beautiful. Nice to see a guy fall for an average older woman!

There's average and then there's a doughnut shop worker or bus driver 'woman of your dreams'. I like the older woman/younger man fantasy and I wouldn't have minded if she was say Carol from the Walking Dead and badass. But Christ the woman made donuts and was dumb as a box of rocks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love it! A little disappointed in things being unresolved at the end of the season but I wasn't surprised. Also spent a fair bit of time getting irritated with Ellen Page's character until it becomes clear why she acts the way she does. Loved Hazel's story line as well.

See - I hated Hazel's story line. I just thought it was another useless sub-plot. Cha-cha was badass but seeing her continuously getting beaten got on my nerves. She was the better fighter, more intelligent, and loyal meanwhile Hazel was going after a woman that was so...ugly and twenty years his senior. I thought they had a weird partnership that worked, but I would have been happy for them just to die off in the first three episodes.

RE Ellen Page - they could have saved us four pill-popping episodes and made the villain one of the 35 other umbrella kids.

I loved that part. You must be young and beautiful. Nice to see a guy fall for an average older woman!

There's average and then there's a doughnut shop worker or bus driver 'woman of your dreams'. I like the older woman/younger man fantasy and I wouldn't have minded if she was say Carol from the Walking Dead and badass. But Christ the woman made donuts and was dumb as a box of rocks.

Oh and how smart do you think Hazel is? LOL!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love it! A little disappointed in things being unresolved at the end of the season but I wasn't surprised. Also spent a fair bit of time getting irritated with Ellen Page's character until it becomes clear why she acts the way she does. Loved Hazel's story line as well.

See - I hated Hazel's story line. I just thought it was another useless sub-plot. Cha-cha was badass but seeing her continuously getting beaten got on my nerves. She was the better fighter, more intelligent, and loyal meanwhile Hazel was going after a woman that was so...ugly and twenty years his senior. I thought they had a weird partnership that worked, but I would have been happy for them just to die off in the first three episodes.

RE Ellen Page - they could have saved us four pill-popping episodes and made the villain one of the 35 other umbrella kids.

I loved that part. You must be young and beautiful. Nice to see a guy fall for an average older woman!

There's average and then there's a doughnut shop worker or bus driver 'woman of your dreams'. I like the older woman/younger man fantasy and I wouldn't have minded if she was say Carol from the Walking Dead and badass. But Christ the woman made donuts and was dumb as a box of rocks.

Oh and how smart do you think Hazel is? LOL!

Touche'.

There is the fact that he is very good at killing and technically works in an 'in-demand' profession with a high-level organization. But smart he is not.

Guess they deserve each other.

[Anonymous]

Diego doesn’t just throw knives; he can “bend” them to change their trajectory in the air. Definitely a super power. You must’ve missed that part.

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Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

How far did you get into the series?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

How far did you get into the series?

Finished it last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

How far did you get into the series?

Finished it last night.

Okay, didn't want to spoil anything. I don't think he was a time traveler - I just think he came from an advanced civilization and used all that tech to set himself as an eccentric billionaire over 70 odd years.

If he knew what was coming, he wouldn't have gotten them all together. Because those events of them being together were the cataclysm to set off the apocalypse or whatever you want to call it. Pretty sure she wouldn't have flipped if she'd just stayed in that cabin and never been imprisoned. Though that rat of a boyfriend got what was coming to him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

How far did you get into the series?

Finished it last night.

Okay, didn't want to spoil anything. I don't think he was a time traveler - I just think he came from an advanced civilization and used all that tech to set himself as an eccentric billionaire over 70 odd years.

If he knew what was coming, he wouldn't have gotten them all together. Because those events of them being together were the cataclysm to set off the apocalypse or whatever you want to call it. Pretty sure she wouldn't have flipped if she'd just stayed in that cabin and never been imprisoned. Though that rat of a boyfriend got what was coming to him.

Oh, that makes sense! Especially because when he immigrated to the United States, based on clothing choices, it looked like he was either really old fashioned or had gone forward in time by several decades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Love it! A little disappointed in things being unresolved at the end of the season but I wasn't surprised. Also spent a fair bit of time getting irritated with Ellen Page's character until it becomes clear why she acts the way she does. Loved Hazel's story line as well.

See - I hated Hazel's story line. I just thought it was another useless sub-plot. Cha-cha was badass but seeing her continuously getting beaten got on my nerves. She was the better fighter, more intelligent, and loyal meanwhile Hazel was going after a woman that was so...ugly and twenty years his senior. I thought they had a weird partnership that worked, but I would have been happy for them just to die off in the first three episodes.

RE Ellen Page - they could have saved us four pill-popping episodes and made the villain one of the 35 other umbrella kids.

Hazel was with his beshert— his love match that was meant to be ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, here is a thing that is confusing. The children were all born in 1989, right? And they're young adults now - in 2019 I assume? So why do they keep using pay phones, no one has cell phones, and there's no internet?

You know what I want to know - where the f the other 36 kids are. He only got 7. All of them should have powers by now.

- Also that surprise at the end, all I can say is its like we were given Superman's origin story, saw Krypton blow up and then it fastforwarded to Clark Kent at the age of 70 with arthritis. What happened to the rest?

- Who are the childrens' father?

- Why weren't they arrested for murder as teens?

- What happened to Ben? They keep saying he died as a kid but...the older version of him is at least a sophomore in college.

- WHERE IS THE MONEY? Their Scrooge McDuck father died and he had them living in places I wouldn't house my dog. No allowances, no inheritances from billions of dollars?

I'm assuming that the other kids will be part of future stories. Right? This will provide an endless supply of plot lines. Also what's the deal with the dad? Why did he know so much about what was coming? He must have been a time traveler too?

How far did you get into the series?

Finished it last night.

Okay, didn't want to spoil anything. I don't think he was a time traveler - I just think he came from an advanced civilization and used all that tech to set himself as an eccentric billionaire over 70 odd years.

If he knew what was coming, he wouldn't have gotten them all together. Because those events of them being together were the cataclysm to set off the apocalypse or whatever you want to call it. Pretty sure she wouldn't have flipped if she'd just stayed in that cabin and never been imprisoned. Though that rat of a boyfriend got what was coming to him.

Oh, that makes sense! Especially because when he immigrated to the United States, based on clothing choices, it looked like he was either really old fashioned or had gone forward in time by several decades.

I paused the Netflix episode to get a clear look at his boarding pass. It was for a ship in 1928. Think he landed on this planet sometime around then, he took a ship to U.S. east coast, and there you saw he bought that Umbrella Academy shop that was for sale.

I think he just passed the building down over the years to consecutive versions of himself until 2019 came around and he died. From the scenes with his wife I'd estimate him in his late 40s to 50s and then add in the 70 years he spent before he died - it would make him around 140 years old.

Though I would be interested to learn if someone had read the comics and could back that up.

[Anonymous]

I just finished and really liked it. It was a bit quirky so I can see why some people did not. As one poster already said, pogo threw me for a second.

[Anonymous]

Klaus and Five made the show for me. They were perfectly cast and elevated the show enough for me to binge through it. I fast forwarded through most of the stuff with Ellen Page. I predicted her arc in the first episode. I did find the stuff about her childhood entertaining, especially her first interactions with Mom. I think not showing where they came from or what happened to the others gives them a lot of plot options going forward.

I'm curious to see how season two goes given the way they all changed at the end of season one.