I really appreciated the fact that we now get to see the League members actually interact with one another and bounce off each other. In the movie, you never saw any of them really together in the same scene, so it's cool to see what their interpersonal dynamics are.
It's interesting how you read Envy's musical number. My impression was that she didn't really care about Scott and wanted to make the whole funeral about herself. Like, it was just an opportunity to prop herself up and take over the spotlight.
The fact that coin death here is a real thing is a nice detail. But l have to wonder: what are the laws? I mean, do you have the right to just kill anybody you want and not face any consequences? The movie was very murder-happy as I recall, it didn't take death seriously at all, while the show seems more aware of that, and trying to push back against that mentality.
Notably, Matthew beats Gideon but doesn't actually kill him.
The thing with Envy is that she cares WAY TOO MUCH about Scott. That doesn't necessarily mean affection -- both the comics and the movie have Envy keeping tabs on Scott, feeling ownership over his love life, and actively trying to sabotage him. She's still hurt by him and hung up on him in her own way. I think the aloofness on stage is an act, and nobody besides her and Scott's mutual friends are going to question it because she's Envy fucking Adams. (Her having any affection for Scott and their time together is more subjective, and mostly based off stuff that happens between them in Volume 6 of the comics)
I think there's a joke alternate ending to the movie (or maybe it was just a proposed one) where Scott is branded a serial killer and chased by the law. Death in this story is something we probably can't think too much about without breaking the entire conceit (the world runs on video game logic, but video game characters don't have funerals), and honestly, it's too early to tell whether calling this much attention to it was a risk worth taking or not.
I really appreciated the fact that we now get to see the League members actually interact with one another and bounce off each other. In the movie, you never saw any of them really together in the same scene, so it's cool to see what their interpersonal dynamics are.
It's interesting how you read Envy's musical number. My impression was that she didn't really care about Scott and wanted to make the whole funeral about herself. Like, it was just an opportunity to prop herself up and take over the spotlight.
The fact that coin death here is a real thing is a nice detail. But l have to wonder: what are the laws? I mean, do you have the right to just kill anybody you want and not face any consequences? The movie was very murder-happy as I recall, it didn't take death seriously at all, while the show seems more aware of that, and trying to push back against that mentality.
Notably, Matthew beats Gideon but doesn't actually kill him.
The thing with Envy is that she cares WAY TOO MUCH about Scott. That doesn't necessarily mean affection -- both the comics and the movie have Envy keeping tabs on Scott, feeling ownership over his love life, and actively trying to sabotage him. She's still hurt by him and hung up on him in her own way. I think the aloofness on stage is an act, and nobody besides her and Scott's mutual friends are going to question it because she's Envy fucking Adams. (Her having any affection for Scott and their time together is more subjective, and mostly based off stuff that happens between them in Volume 6 of the comics)
I think there's a joke alternate ending to the movie (or maybe it was just a proposed one) where Scott is branded a serial killer and chased by the law. Death in this story is something we probably can't think too much about without breaking the entire conceit (the world runs on video game logic, but video game characters don't have funerals), and honestly, it's too early to tell whether calling this much attention to it was a risk worth taking or not.