Wednesday, May 29, 2019

DCE-Hulu: Doom Patrol- 'Cyborg Patrol'

Another week of insanity courtesy of DC's Streaming Service.  It's my appetizer for the return of Swamp Thing, so here's hoping for something tasty...
The Bureau of Normalcy is an evil Organization that captures the 'strange' and exploits them in various ways.
In this case, it is Cyborg.

Where are Superman and Batman when you need them?  Oh right- recast and too expensive.
The Doom Patrol must work with someone they don't trust- Silas Stone.  Can they be cohesive?
Even if they can get to Cyborg, will he be in any state to rescue?

To find out, stream the Show.  Binge watch all 5 interesting Episodes of Swamp Thing before the new one, won't you?
A dark distraction...but what else is new?  They continue to do other things than forward the Plot.  Dull surprise.  Let's take the positive in stride, shall we?  The Setting of the Ant Farm is interesting.  They borrow a lot of the visuals from stuff like Brazil, but it still looks nice.  The Villains are clearly evil, but also in different ways.  They each get a form of comeuppance, so that's good.  The Cyborg stuff is different and feels like a natural escalation of previous Plot Points.  It takes an *interesting* turn at the end that I'm not super-fond of, but I also 100% saw it coming.  We finally get a bit more of Mr. Nobody, which is a good change from the nearly-nothing we've gotten from him in quite a while.  There are some good lines here and some appropriately-freaky visuals.  Moments in the Episode feel like what the Show really should be.  If there was more of them, I'd be all in.  Sadly, it's intermixed with less interesting stuff that I was less fond of.  I'm not sure that I like the direction of this Plot.  In any event, the good is outweighed by the bad...but not by that much.  It also shows us the true danger that Google Glass represents...
Next time, after a big moment, can the team regroup.  I think there's a guy missing...or something.  See you then...

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