my mutuals make such beautiful art you all should get one million dollar
I thought I’d doodle a white violin Viktor
i like consistency too much for whatever the hell netflix has done to the umbrella academy. in season 2 someone got rumoured without using the magic word twice? diego figured out he can affect the trajectory of things other than his knives? five REWOUND TIME???? there are like a million ways those things could've been useful in season 3. it's believable that these dumbasses just immediately forget about these developments, sure, but five's a total perfectionist, and even outside of that, two of his siblings died and he just? didn't do anything about that? even after he decided to get involved again? sounds fake. allison was on a rampage of destruction but just didn't do anything outside of asking her brothers for help? the woman who CATEGORICALLY does not take "no" for an answer??? jayme used her drugged spit on diego twice and he didn't even try to use his neat new trick to deflect it? come on. i know they're idiots but that's been ramped up for comedic effect the longer this show goes on. season 1 diego would've turned jayme's power back on her. uno reverse card
actually forever angry that they didn't expand on diego's powers in season 3. like the season 2 finale moment where he stops all the bullets is SO COOL and really makes you go woah! we've underestimated diego this whole time! i can't wait to see the full extent of his powers and what he can really do! and then in s3 he kinda just sucks shit
luther in the bar with the two fives: this is nice, isn't it? the three of us, together like this
young five:
ALTold five:
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room full of ghosts, yeasssss... tbh the fact that they never did this again was tragic. and no the s3 ghosts do NOT count. wtf was that shit
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I just want to reiterate and stress just how exactly good of a pilot The Umbrella Academy had, from beginning to end, most notably, within the episode's first ten minutes.
The horrifying, body horror-esque beginning of a girl who wasn't pregnant before she jumped into the pool emerging not only pregnant but also now, suddenly, abruptly, going into active labour, punctuated by the sounds of stretching, tearing, ripping fabric.
The smooth introduction of the universe, the world, the situation, most notably, of Sir Reginald Hargreeves, as narrated by Pogo.
On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible.
The abrupt juxtaposition of he got seven of them written stylized on the screen while "Picture Book" by The Kinks plays.
The "Phantom of The Opera" violin medley, Vanya playing to an audience of no one while on stage. Diego, vigilante justice and still in their childhood Umbrella Academy masks. Luther, alone on the moon. Allison on the red carpet. Klaus, fresh from rehab, another thirty day token.
The moment, when, each of them learned their father had died.
All of it—all of it—packed. It flowed. It rolled. And it didn't stop, until the end of the episode.
And contrast all of that, sharply, and directly, to what we got in season three.
