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I'm five episodes in on Wonder Man, and I'm struggling a little. It's undeniably well crafted, but it's cringey train wreck after cringey train wreck, and that's just not a story style that I particularly enjoy.

Not sure why I was expecting any different from the trailer, to be honest though...

Trevor is as delightful as expected, but beyond that this one's just not for me.

i found myself in much the same boat, though i did decide to finish the season given the episodes aren't particularly long.
I imagine if i'd been a theater kid, or was more of a movie/production buff it would have went over better, but ah well

I just hope all of Doomsday is stop motion Mego Theater style action figures.

 insaniak wrote:
I'm five episodes in on Wonder Man, and I'm struggling a little. It's undeniably well crafted, but it's cringey train wreck after cringey train wreck, and that's just not a story style that I particularly enjoy.

Not sure why I was expecting any different from the trailer, to be honest though...

Trevor is as delightful as expected, but beyond that this one's just not for me.

Same here. The 30-minute episodes are a plus since it doesn't feel like such a slog to just watch an episode when I get the chance. It's not really pulling me in, though. Trevor is brilliant but even that's wearing thin now and it kind of feels like it's meandering along, not really sure what it's trying to be. It's sort of a character piece, but Trevor is more interesting than the main character, and they took a whole episode out to do the Doorman tangent, which takes away from that too.

The self-referential Hollywood stuff is also starting to get on my nerves a bit, though I think this may just be modern writing now. Seems like everything has to be constantly pushed front-and-centre rather than relying on something a bit more subtle.

I finished it an appreciate that they were trying to do something different with this one. It's like they took some of the jokes from She-Hulk and decided that they were too close to home and to do something very different. This one is very meta- Hollywood rather than Meta-Comics industry. We are reaching the end of the Superhero period when you start seeing the big guys making movies like this and She-Hulk themselves.

That said, the buddy chemistry worked really well in this one. Beyond that there is not much to see. I appreciated the quieter and lower stakes.