DC fans the company is back with a new series for there popular streaming service and well you all know what that means yours truly is here to bring you my thoughts on the pilot episode. I will say that this pilot isn't what I expected and in this case that's a good thing so here are my thoughts on the pilot episode of Doom Patrol.
The basic premise of this episode is actually hard to describe because there really isn't a story because all we see is how the team got there powers and came together. That perhaps is the episodes weakest point because while it is good that we get what is basically on origin story there's nothing that ties the scenes together and so we have no reason to even begin to care for the characters but I have to admit that it is good that the show is about a bunch of characters who could very easily be bad guys.
Starring in this episode is Diane Guerrero (not related to Eddie) as Kay Challis / Crazy Jane , April Bowlby as Rita Farr / Elasti-Woman , Alan Tudyk as Eric Morden / Mr. Nobody , Matt Bomer and Matthew Zuk as Larry Trainor / Negative Man , Brendan Fraser and Riley Shanahan as Clifford "Cliff" Steele / Robotman and James Bond himself Timothy Dalton as Niles Caulder / The Chief. Now you may have noticed that there are two credited actors for both Robotman and Negative Man well that's because two different actors play them in both the flashbacks and voice work there's played by Matt Bomer and Brendan Fraser but in physical form there played by Matt Zuk and Riley Shanahan.
As for what I thought about the acting in the pilot episode it's pretty much the type of acting you'd expect from a pilot. All of the actors are still trying to figure there characters out and other such things so you can't really fault the actors if the acting in a pilot episode isn't as good as it would be in later episodes but with that said when the acting is good it's really good with the likes of Tim Dalton and Diane Guerrero being the best performers in this episodes.
What I thought was a good move on the part of the show was that they made Robotman the main character in this episode. To me that works because he can then also act as the audience and ask all of the plot relevant questions now I don't know if there going to keep with this in the later episodes but I hope they do not only because his character seems really interesting but because for a show like this there should be a character that acts as the audience.
I've not heard of the team of characters that this show is based on so i have no idea if the characters in the show are the acting as they would in the comic books but after viewing this episode i'm not really inclined to go and check out the comics. Mostly because I don't want to be let down by the books because this episode really isn't that bad.
This show is a spin off of Titans not like you'd know it because visually they look nothing alike it's almost as if this show was made after they saw how good Titans was shaping up. Which if your creating a spin off show is not a goof thing at all since it's meant to be the same world as an already popular show so you'd think that they would make the effort to make the shows look the same but nope they don't at all.
Overall if this episode is anything to go by then this series does indeed show alot of promise but only time will tell if this series will be worth watching or not and yes I will try my best to watch every episode but i'm not making any promises and yes there will not be a rating for this pilot episode.