Doom Patrol Season 1 spoilerific megathread

[Karha of Honor]

I am happy with episode 2.

[Madner Kami]

I finally got around to watching this series. It's amazing. Completely chaotic humour, serious character-interactions, true emotions. It's an absolute rollercoaster of greatness.

[Frustration]

I loved both this season and the next, and own them both physically now. Neither are perfect, but they keep trying risky new things and enough of them pan out to keep me hooked. It's much better than boringly-reliable-except-when-they-screw-up - I'm in no mood to forgive them then.

As far as I can tell, the show is keeping to the spirit of the comics rather than the letter, which is a good idea; however, it also results in the show's biggest problem. The plot is very 1980s, playing with ideas that were cutting-edge then but haven't always aged well. The idea of multiple personalities resulting from sexual abuse is a particular example of a concept refuted with the passage of time, but it was just getting started at the time I believe the comics were written. I didn't think Larry's attitude was inappropriate in the 50s, and it would have made perfect sense in the 80s, but in the modern day his coming to accept his homosexuality seems more trivial and inevitable than I think it did originally. But it's like Captain America: they keep extending the time he was frozen, and it makes the future shock stronger and more crippling.

Having all of them been made immortal was a nice touch. (Although why Mr. Brain-in-a-Robot is now immortal is something I don't quite understand... eh.)