I really liked the first season of Marvel's "Runaways". It was an interesting plot and the kids, though looking initially like obvious teenage tropes were well written and had funny sparky dialogue. The second season I was less enamoured with, the villain that should have been wrapped up in season one is continued with, and the plot settled into a lot of repetition. Season three finally wraps up that alien arc - about halfway through, before a shorter and more interesting switch to a new villain.
It's that familiarity of Runaways that ultimately killed its potential. Running with the Pride/Aliens as the antagonists for two and a half seasons just couldn't sustain my interest, particularly as the various characters swapped sides over and over until I just couldn't remember who was with whom, and why, or why they swapped back. I can't help but feel the overall series would have been much better if Pride/Aliens were the villain for the first season, then Morgan Le Fey for the second and Evil Alex for the third. The parents should have been relegated to guest stars after the first run and more time could have been spent on the kids.
Morgan Le Fey is a decent villain (and my god! Elizabeth Hurley looks amazing) and I like there there's a shift in the magic to bring it closer to what we've seen in "Doctor Strange". In fact, I did spend a lot or time wondering why he wouldn't have gotten involved in a story that clearly is right in his wheelhouse - that's the drawback of crafting a connected world. Speaking of which, there is a cross over with the show "Cloak and Dagger" which I haven't seen yet, but provided more of that welcome variety.
I'd like to see the characters crop up again in other iterations of the universe, but for now, I feel like the story of "Runaways" is one of wasted potential.
It's that familiarity of Runaways that ultimately killed its potential. Running with the Pride/Aliens as the antagonists for two and a half seasons just couldn't sustain my interest, particularly as the various characters swapped sides over and over until I just couldn't remember who was with whom, and why, or why they swapped back. I can't help but feel the overall series would have been much better if Pride/Aliens were the villain for the first season, then Morgan Le Fey for the second and Evil Alex for the third. The parents should have been relegated to guest stars after the first run and more time could have been spent on the kids.
Morgan Le Fey is a decent villain (and my god! Elizabeth Hurley looks amazing) and I like there there's a shift in the magic to bring it closer to what we've seen in "Doctor Strange". In fact, I did spend a lot or time wondering why he wouldn't have gotten involved in a story that clearly is right in his wheelhouse - that's the drawback of crafting a connected world. Speaking of which, there is a cross over with the show "Cloak and Dagger" which I haven't seen yet, but provided more of that welcome variety.
I'd like to see the characters crop up again in other iterations of the universe, but for now, I feel like the story of "Runaways" is one of wasted potential.