clairethecapricorn
The Uncanny Counter Season 2: Counter Punch
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by clairethecapricorn
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Huge Letdown
I loved season one of the uncanny counter and season two felt like a completely different show. A huge problem with this season is that they tried to make the stakes personal like they were in the first season, but it just didn’t work at all. In season one, the plot really revolved around So Mun and I was so invested in his character that it really worked. This season, they made everything revolve around side characters that were not at all compelling and that I was not attached to at all. If they wanted to do that, they should have made an existing character that we already cared about go dark, instead of trying to add on someone new.
The addition of the new counter was a huge misstep. While the plot has always been a little goofy, I feel like this character made the whole show feel really silly and changed the found family dynamics.
Maybe it’s because I did not care about Mr. Ma even a little bit, but I feel like this season did not have the emotional impact that the first one did. This season did not balance darker and lighter elements, but seemed to rotate between slapstick and action, with no real emotional weight behind any of it. I think the actor for Mr. Ma just felt like he was really not pulling off being a villain, so even those scenes felt very silly. I wish they had just made the main trio of demons be the villains of the season, as they were way more compelling and scary than Mr. Ma.
If they were going to give Ha Na a romance storyline, I wish it had been with So Mun. The introduction of so many new characters this season made it so that it was really hard to feel invested in any of them.
I skipped so much of this season and I really considered just not finishing it, but in the end I did watch all of it. This season did do a great job with a lot of the action sequences and I think those were some of the most interesting to watch. The heightened powers for the counters made for a lot of really intense fight scenes. Even though the group dynamics did feel really different, I still love a lot of these characters and feel attached to them. I do think that the show would’ve been a lot better off sticking to one season.
The addition of the new counter was a huge misstep. While the plot has always been a little goofy, I feel like this character made the whole show feel really silly and changed the found family dynamics.
Maybe it’s because I did not care about Mr. Ma even a little bit, but I feel like this season did not have the emotional impact that the first one did. This season did not balance darker and lighter elements, but seemed to rotate between slapstick and action, with no real emotional weight behind any of it. I think the actor for Mr. Ma just felt like he was really not pulling off being a villain, so even those scenes felt very silly. I wish they had just made the main trio of demons be the villains of the season, as they were way more compelling and scary than Mr. Ma.
If they were going to give Ha Na a romance storyline, I wish it had been with So Mun. The introduction of so many new characters this season made it so that it was really hard to feel invested in any of them.
I skipped so much of this season and I really considered just not finishing it, but in the end I did watch all of it. This season did do a great job with a lot of the action sequences and I think those were some of the most interesting to watch. The heightened powers for the counters made for a lot of really intense fight scenes. Even though the group dynamics did feel really different, I still love a lot of these characters and feel attached to them. I do think that the show would’ve been a lot better off sticking to one season.
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