Has anyone seen ‘The Tick’ (live action) series yet?
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Originally posted by dgrequeen:
Okay, so The Tick had to struggle for laughs a little more this week, and Patrick Warburton looked more uncomfortable in the costume than he did last week, but it was still hysterical. I agree with Doffy, those antennae alone are worth watching.BatManuel is a scream. And Lady Liberty crying her eyes out, with her makeup all smeared. But they need to give Mothman more to do. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I disagree. I think, story-wise, that this week’s episode flowed much more smoothly than the premiere (I think premieres are almost always too awkwardly paced for their own good), and the laughs came easier because of it. The Tick’s eulogy was hilarious, I think, and the characters of BatManuel and Captain (I mistakenly called her Lady earlier as well) Liberty were expanded on nicely.
It’s true that Arthur needs to be given more to do, but as we’re sort of seeing the show from his POV (outsider finding himself among superheroes, the new and relatively “normal” guy, etc. all cause easy audience identification), I think his character works well as it stands. Give him a lot more action, shift the focus away from the other three characters and adopt a third-person “objective” stance, and the audience ends up detatched from the characters and the action. I can see an eventual shift to a more third-person POV (the cartoon series was more along these lines) developing as the series progresses (if it actually does go on and isn’t canceled within 6 episodes) and the characters become more established, but I think the way it’s being handled now is just right.
–Aleck