It was good! The second half of The Tick was a little smoother than the first half, and I liked the first half just fine. I also liked everybody’s character development and how the show never devolved into self-parody. The message was, I think, “You never know when somebody will turn out to be awesome.” I even ended up liking the guy who was kind of a jerk*, because the thing was he knew that he was kind of a jerk, and he was actually doing a better job than I credited him for in trying not to be.
Also, once I figured out that the guy playing the Tick was channeling Adam West not in mockery, but admiration, things clicked a bit for that character. The Tick and the Adam West Batman would have gotten along well. And a lot of stuff between the Tick and Overkill needs to be filtered through that lens, I think.
So: worth your time if you haven’t watched it yet.
Moe Lane
*No, not Walter. Walter’s a great guy! We need more people like Walter out there.
Okay, here’s the deal. I figured it out.
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You know when I told I was getting Amazon Prime from my aunt? Well it turns out that she stopped paying it and I don’t have Amazon Prime. However the website keeps telling me I have Prime despite that is not the case.
Huh. Weird.