This show was on my radar for one main reason; I was told it is like X-Men meets Buffy (and one of my story concepts I’ve been working on since I was a teen has been described as Buffy meets X-men), so I was instantly intrigued.
I finally got around to watching it and I was sadly a little underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the show, I do agree a bit with some commenters saying they felt the runaway part shouldn’t have taken the full season to happen, but overall, I was intrigued by the show… I just feel I didn’t like it for the reasons one should.
Let me explain, and I’ll be as spoiler-free as possible. The premise of the show, based on the comic of the same name, is a group of teens finds out their parents are part of an evil organization, and they team together to defeat their parents. Interesting enough, I’m sure many can relate to thinking their parents are evil. My issue was I related to the parents way more than the kids. As the title is The Runaways and not The Runaways’ Parents one can assume I’m supposed to root for the kids. Maybe it is because I’m about a week shy of 30, but I empathized with the parents more than their angsty, whiny kids.
I can’t speak for the comics but in the show, the parents made a deal years ago that locked them into the evil they must commit and they do so to protect their children. The children who turn against them. I guess I just found them to be ungrateful.
It’s interesting because I realized The Runaways is by the same creator of The OC (we’ll be covering that shortly) and though I enjoy the kids more in The OC, I find the parents more #goals at this point in my life and the kids too angsty.
That being said, I am looking forward to a second season as I want to know where the story goes.
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