or rather, a list of things i didnât like about it and a few things i did.
spoiler warning, of course :~)
hello friends, thank you for joining me on my journey to convince the world to hate season 2 - IâM KIDDING LOL i liked season 2, but there are quite a few things i wasnât that happy with and iâm going to cry about them like a baby now.
1. my second biggest disappoint with this season... NO HAZEL!!! iâm devastated!!!! i absolutely love hazelâs character and the depth cameron britton brought to the role.. i canât believe they killed him so quickly :( maybe cameron had other work commitments but man iâm so sad. i seriously felt the lack of his presence this season and it was a dynamic that was sorely missed imo. the swedes could never.
2. the plot moved slower than iâd like. season 1 was very well paced, it felt non-stop, and like they were always working towards a goal, moving somewhere. some parts of season 2 felt slow or like things had come to a standstill and we were just watching them live rather than seeing them work towards something. which is fine if thatâs what youâre into, but for me i think TUA works best when itâs GOGOGO like in season 1, and when it wasnât, we had really intimate character moments, which i felt season 2 lacked.
3. the music didnât hit as hard :( when i think of season 1 i can immediatley name a multitude of iconic scenes with the soundtrack - five murdering everyone in the doughnut shop, the bowling alley fight, i think weâre alone now OF COURSE, the slowmo montage to all die young, hazel and chacha burning the prosthetics building, gerardâs cover of happy together, five walking through the apocalypse to noel gallagher, run boy run, etcetcetc. those all just came off the top of my head. when thinking about season 2 i can only name two scenes off the top of my head (frank sinatra and backstreet boys). which is pretty sad.
4. the characterisation felt weaker overall. it didnât feel as complex or deep whereas i felt season 1 really delved into each character and explored them a lot more. they all felt slightly watered down, especially luther, oh my god!! they turned him into a characeture whose only purpose is to eat a lot of food and pull silly faces. that was really disappointing. iâd hoped weâd get some scenes with him where heâd discuss all the pressure put on him by their dad, the guilt he feels for screwing up, insecurity etc. the scene with him and five in the club only scratched the surface. plus, allison only mentioned her daughter two times? it was really bizarre to me, it literally seemed like sheâd forgotten about her. and speaking of forgetting family members...Â
5. why does nobody give a shit about ben. iâm fuMING. they all saw ben in the season 1 finale and then they didnât even care to mention him other than five asking if ben was there once, only once the family were all back together mind you, and when klaus said no, none of them even questioned it. despite the fact that klaus very clearly is talking/bickering with a spirit in front of them several times. none of the are like âuuhh klaus are you talking to ben or like...â and that is really goddamn sad. ben deserved so much better.
6. benâs arc in general! this is my biggest disappointment with this season. personally iâd really hoped theyâd go the route that klaus would learn to control his powers and manifest ben in the real world for limited periods of time, like when ben punched him in the face or when ben pulled klaus and diego out from under the falling roof of the academy. and then eventually, when the show ended, ben could ~move on~ and go to the afterlife after being able to spend time with his family. but nooo. heâs back to being invisible, uncared about, forgotten and miserable. i like that they let him possess klaus for a bit and experience the world again, that was nice. though when it turned out klaus had already slept with his crush and she called him d*ddy i did my bigget sigh ever. and heâs just gone now. he doesnât even get to go to heaven. heâs just. nothing. and vanya is the only one who even acknowledged it (other than klaus obviously). i swear to god, if season 3 doesnât do a scene where klaus ~dies~ for a bit and goes to the afterlife again and sees ben there, i will RIOT.Â
7. didnât much like klausâ storyline this season either. the cult thing was a bit weird and wasnât done in the way iâd expected them to do it at all. i thought klaus would be a lot more sombre and serious this season too without the drugs to distract him, but he still acted high and Quirky the whole time, which is a shame, iâd love to have seen some more depth added to his character. plus, i thought he took the drugs because the ghosts were always bothering him.. we literally didnât see any other than ben. also the stuff with dave was... Not Good. the kid they cast as dave had zero chemistry with klaus/robert, and he looked super young so it was.. kind of weird to see klaus be all like I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU. and i donât think it even went anywhere. it just seemed pointless to me.
8. i felt like the fallout from the previous season was really glossed over. like vanya just forgot everything and everyone else is kinda like *shrugs* ah well. idk man i feel like there wouldâve been a much bigger emotional cost and internal turmoil than there was.Â
9. i hated the ending. sorry. it felt really ~generic superhero story~, as did the siblings vs commission thing in the last episode, which TUA isnât supposed to be. and emo âbenâ made me cringe gfhjskkdfj. plus the oopsy we did a timeline fucky thing is getting a lil old now but whatever. plus the sparrow academy means a bunch of new characters which means screentime will get even more split from the main siblings, which i donât want.Â
so yeah.. i have some gripes with season 2. that said....
i did like some things!! i loved vanya having a female love interest, hell yeah. i loved five meeting old five, their dynamic was really fun and the dude who played old five was great, i feel like he really delivered his lines the same way aidan does. lila was cool too, i really liked the actress, she did great. seeing the siblings get closer was really nice too.Â
overall, iâd give the season a 6.5/10, so yeah, i did still enjoy it!!! i just donât think it was as good as season 1, by quite a long way, and i have some things i didnât like. feel free to disagree with me tho, iâm just a big dumb idiot. and thanks for reading :~)
HEY GANG iâm about to binge all of season 2 because of course i am, will be tagging anything related to season 2 with #tua spoilers so blacklist that if you arenât being a crazy person like me!! see u soon!!! âïžđ
HEY GANG iâm about to binge all of season 2 because of course i am, will be tagging anything related to season 2 with #tua spoilers so blacklist that if you arenât being a crazy person like me!! see u soon!!! âïžđ
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