Chris Sims reviews Alphas

[james_davis_nicoll]

I'm linking to it less for the review and more for the slapfight that develops in the comments, although the observation about origins is one I hadn't made. It's not strictly true, because the episode is the origin of Koordination King, as he joins the ranks of Social Parasite Woman, Angry Black Man, The Annoying Nerd and Hostage Girl to fight crime.

Interesting that they've split the passive powers between one man and one woman and made one of the three heavy hitters female (I was going to compare her to Saturn Girl but SG was a receptive telepath, wasn't she? The classic Legion leaned towards giving the girls non-combat or at least non-damaging powers, like precog, gravity reduction and shadow-casting).

Less boring than No Ordinary Family without actually being interesting.

Spoiler for a show foreignlanders may not have seen:


Vincent Nigel-Murray died for this?

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Less boring than No Ordinary Family without actually being interesting.

Although for some reason what it reminded me of wasn't NOF but Human Target. Not sure why (aside from "I could be watching paint dry (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1489) instead of this" angle).

[alyxyn.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the show, but the trailers I've seen remind me of Mutant X. Although that may be because I misinterpreted Wifi guy's ability to see the EM spectrum as Brandon's lightening power.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

There's a lot less voguing than on Mutant X.