DCE-Hulu: Doom Patrol- 'Pilot'

After a sudden introduction on Titans and then vanishing from the face of the Earth, the Team is back.  There have been some changes from Backdoor to regular Pilot.

Will it succeed or is it, well, doomed?  Let's see...

In 1948, a man- Alan Tudyk- goes to a Nazi in Brazil to get super-powers.

They turn out to be Breaking the 4th Wall, since he's now our sometimes Narrator a la Deadpool.

Decades later, a Racer is nearly-killed and given new life as, well, this robot body.

He lives at a Mansion with a strange Actress and a man covered in bandages.  "Hey, you sound like the guy from White Collar."

We learn that the Actress- aka Elastigirl- was transformed via...something in Africa in the 1950s and hid here ever since, barely-holding herself together- literally!

After we suddenly move to the Present (and past Titans, it seems), Crazy Jane shows up and creates enough chaos in the nearby Town with the group to get attention.

Said attention is from our omniscient Narrator, who appears to have great power...and an odd sense of humor.

What happens next?  Check out the next Episode to find out!

An interesting Pilot, if a bit slow-paced.  The actual Story here could be really interesting.  A man assembles a group of people with powers who don't fit into society.  The problem- the narrative takes an eternity to play out.  All of the marketing shows the group- including Cyborg.  Yeah, he's not in this.  I don't doubt that he will show up, but he's not in the Pilot for the Series.  It feels weird, especially given how much focus DC in general gives to the Character (literally replacing Martian Manhunter with him at first).  If they had picked up the pace a bit, we could have gotten a more clear explanation about Elastigirl and Negative Man too.  He spends 98% of the Episode as a guy in bandages and then BOOM suddenly a power.  That's...not how that is supposed to work.  I like the focus on Robotman, even if they cheat a little bit with his story.  He gets the lion's share of the focus, which is good...to a point.  This could have been a very, very strong Pilot if everyone got a stronger focus.  Instead, they just used Tudyk's Character to add some Narration- a lazy writing trick- to explain everything.  There are TONS of unanswered questions here, but maybe the Series will answer them.  My biggest one- how long has Crazy Jane been around?  They tell Robotman that she 'comes and goes as she pleases,' but this is after we learn that he's been there since 1995!  As a Pilot, this one is stronger than Titans and at least warrants the more morose tone than that Show did/does.  If they can polish the Pacing issues and give everyone more focus, that would be great.  Of course, I'm a Marvel 'Fanboy' who critiques DC (fairly), so I'm sure that some of you are just glaring at me for continuing to (rightly) complain...

A promising start, even if it continues the 'Dark is interesting' thing at DC.  Can anyone be friendly at some point?