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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 11:15 PM Aug 2016

Amazon Dramatically Improves 'The Tick' In Streamable Pilot

NOTE: The pilot episode is free to view on the Amazon Prime website.


The Tick’ has latched on to Amazon’s new linuep of shows, but one thing is for sure: it definitely doesn’t suck.

When the first images for Amazon’s The Tick surfaced, I groaned a little. A gritty reinvention of Ben Edlund’s superhero parody? Yeah, no, I’m good. Tick does not have a place in smoky brown warehouses like he’s in Arrow.

But Wally Pfister and Tick creator Ben Edlund’s new effort for the streaming service is something else. Combining razor-sharp wit and emotional devastation, Amazon’s The Tick is inexplicably more fulfilling in 22 minutes than the slice of comedy gold that was the cult 2001 show with Patrick Warburton. Because of the profound impression that iteration of The Tick left, you might be curious what’s new and what’s so great about a reboot no one asked for. Turns out, there’s a lot.

On paper, giving Arthur a tragic backstory is a bad idea. Just like the comic book (and cartoon, and 2001 show), giving these characters real motivations feels misguided; having virtually no origin actually spoke volumes about the superhero genre. In the new pilot, The Tick (played hysterically and perfectly by Peter Serafinowicz) still comes out of nowhere, but Arthur’s origin with the loss of his family is straight out of a Batman graphic novel — a good one, like from the ‘80s or something.


https://www.inverse.com/article/19977-all-the-changes-to-amazon-s-the-tick-reboot
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Amazon Dramatically Improves 'The Tick' In Streamable Pilot (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2016 OP
Love love love The Tick! denbot Aug 2016 #1
Not so fast. RandySF Aug 2016 #2
Ah denbot Aug 2016 #3

RandySF

(57,661 posts)
2. Not so fast.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 02:20 AM
Aug 2016

Watch the pilot for free and vote on it. If there's enough interest, Amazon will go forward with more episodes.

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