Hello faithful fans to the 2nd edition of my blog; I am your host Christopher Smith the Peacemaker the greatest superhero in the world! I didn't mention this in the last review but in the hospital I had a conversation with someone here at the hospital who didn't know who I was! I know what a shocking prospect as who could not know the greatest superhero in the world? Well I am going to easily fix that since I have also been writing a screenplay for a biopic about yours truly! Working title as Peacemaker: League Buster it has everything: it has a big action scene in front of Lady Liberty herself the Statue of Liberty, it has bad guys being kicked in the nuts and I am hoping to have Wonder herself have a love scene with the lead which is sure to be packed with American patriotism! I have a first draft ready to send in so be excited for that!

For this second episode I thought I would try something different, this time it's a TV show but the first impression of the first episode as I think I want to try for the future ones. This is the first episode of the Netflix Original Series called Jupiter's Legacy. The show that got cancelled after only one season and will just get a spin off in the same universe.

That is such a great sign; isn't it? I bet all the work Netflix had done in the special effects and costumes they must regret now like how they probably regret picking up Cuties. I will be a superhero right now to all my readers that if you don't know what that is then please just live in blissful ignorance.

This is based on a comic book by Mark Millar a hard hitting badass writer of Superhero comics who goes all out. His work on the Ultimate Universe version of the Avengers called the Ultimates is super dope with a take no shit Captain America. Wait for when I eventually get to his first MCU movie for my thoughts on that wimpy ass loser.

Just a heads up that off course spoilers for not only this episode but later down the season as well.

So let's start with the first episode entitled By Dawn's Early Light also known as the best goddamn title for a first episode ever! This is an episode title that deserves a title card with the best Muppets character ever Sam the Eagle!

Basically this is about a group of long lived superheroes called the Union of Justice which is a name I can get behind. We start by flash backing to three young future generation heroes as kids with brother Brandon and sister Chloe playing as their parents. Chloe is playing as their mother Lady Liberty which is an amazing name and Brandon is playing as their father the leader of the Union who is like Superman if he wore whiter instead of the American blue and red colors and had a Santa look that he uses in modern day... The Utopian.

Seriously.

Seriously...

Seriously!

Serious F-N ly!

That is not a superhero name, that is the name of a bad guy of a bad science fiction novel. But I will not waste anymore time on this because trust me there is plenty of stuff to criticise this guy for besides his name!

Their friend acting as the bad guy tells Chloe that she missed with her laser beams and he ends up getting blasted by Chloe being emotional super yelling like this chick from Gotham that I heard about. The Utopian comes to her about using her powers responsibly and then tells them about how they don't kill bad guys and they lock them up. It's all about the Code of Ethics that he created and has the Union live by acting as their superheroics. So he is a wimpy ass bitch who is not a real man like me who shows bad guys how much mercy that they deserve. As in none at all.

If you don't like him talking about this Code the first time that he does in the show then you won't like the rest of the time because I swear talking about the Code is like 90% of his dialogue.

He offers to get them ice cream but he hears a crisis and flies off.

By the way for the record there are two flashbacks or something in this episode back to the 30s that continue throughout the show showing how the Union members came together and got their powers but I just fast forward through this boring nonsense.

Brandon grows up and dons his superhero costume and name as Paragon (something tells me that the name should be used for the Utopian) to fight this villain Iron Man rip off woman who took over this heist from a group of bank robbers wearing primate masks which somehow isn't as bizarre as it sounds on screen. He gets his butt kicked being treated as a kid sidekick by the villain and by his dad as well when he curb stomps the bitch who told him that he should have called for backup and he will be paying for the damage to the bank.

Yes for convenience sake I will not even be bothering listing the Union members by their real names.

I am sure the news talked about economic strife or something but at the house of Utopian and Lady Liberty which is a small farmhouse, Utopian's brother Brainwave (sounds like a supervillain name but still a better name than Utopian) joins them for Sunday dinner starting without Chloe with it being clear that she was usually late but she turns up. It is revealed she works as a celebrity model and is quite rude and disrespectful swearing and she leaves after disrespecting them and makes the worst crime of all – she takes Brainwave's wine.

Brandon follows her as it is shown that Utopian's sucky parenting and not being there for his kids affected them both with Chloe resenting him and doing away with Superheroics while Brandon feels pressured to try and live up to be the Utopian's future successor and his impossible standards with Utopian even telling his wife that Brandon is nowhere near ready.

I have to admit that something about these two millennials I somehow find myself relating to them. Something about them being shaped by their father's parenting and one of them trying to be the best Superhero that he can be.

Move on before my tears get on the keyboard...

I can't remember the order but there is a scene in a club where Brandon's friend from the beginning convinces him to enjoy himself there.

So Brainwave takes Utopian to the Union headquarters as this is one of the better scenes in this first episode. They end up discussing the founding Union member that turned evil Skyfox (sounds like a drug you would find in a movie), the state of the world with people divided and what Utopian calls Nazis in all but name walking the street (I am not completely certain but I am sure that he is referring to the type of people that my father is drinking buddies with). They end up discussing everything that had happened since they became the Union in the 30s (Along with their separate powers they also seem to have super slow aging) with Brainwave thinking that they should have done more like they could have ended World War II earlier. Without exact words Utopian called what he is saying a slippery slope and I agree with Brainwave; if I had Superman or in this case Utopian's powers during the War you bet your ass I would have littered Berlin with the bodies of SS officers and paraded Hitler around with the US flag shoved right off his ass!

Utopian says that they have to respect free will and Brainwave says that free will allowed things to get this far...

Okay let me get this out of the way and spoil the season for you; for the like 2 people who are not already thinking it but yes Brainwave is the ultimate mastermind antagonist for this show. Probably the best character in that some small minded naive fools would call him a villain but he is doing the best for the greater good of the world. Just like Ozymandias from Watchmen only with a less dope costume, even compared to the Snyder movie the Brainwave costume is still less.

We find two second generation heroes including a guy with fire fists and Brandon's ex and they hear that the Union is fighting this villain called Blackstar (seen in news footage earlier in the episode awaiting verdict and sentence) who is like the Bright troll from that Netflix movie beefed up and put on a knock off Iron Man armor. The guy shows what kind of brave hero he is decides to sit it out and join in the photo op afterwards.

Stuff like this is what gives millennial a bad name.

Anyway Blackstar mops the floor with the Union in a nice little fight scene and after a mind battle with Brainwave ends up close to killing Utopian and killing Blackstar and I mean really. After a tame first episode we see his head with a hole in it. It's nothing compared to the shift from the finale of the first episode of Invincible compared to the rest of the episode but still.

So how does Utopian comfort his son after making a hard choice when the bad guy was about to blow?

He yells at Brandon shouting at him at what he should have done and orders him back to the Union.

More depressing reminders of my life growing up...

Brainwave contacts the Supermax prison to see how Blackstar escaped but he says that they have a problem. The Union are at the headquarters where Supermax prison guards bring in Blackstar who never escaped so they just fought another one.

That ends the episode.

Okay the story was meh, the acting was line and the special effects didn't really stand out though the final fight scene was nice. The costumes were fine and it's sad that the ugly ass alien villain was one of the best looking characters. I told you what I had to say about the characters with Utopian being an irritating preachy self righteous prick.

Okay how does it compare to the comic? Well they are taking an EXTREMELY expanded look and changing of the events of the comic with the end of the show's season being about the 2nd issue. The biggest change would have been Brandon. In the comic he was basically a male Chloe who didn't have a suit or name and just enjoyed the perks of being a celebrity (with the same resentment that Chloe has in this show) though Utopian wanted him as a successor as well.

Seriously with this parent you wouldn't be surprised to learn in the comics he ends up betraying his dad and joining in his uncle's plot.

The show tries to tell a story about Superheroes and their ideals being seen as outdated by the modern generation and how there could be a slippery slope if the Superheroes do more to change the world for the better. I for one wouldn't mind if Superman just heat visioned every oppressive dictator in the world though I am sure such a world where he went that far people would find it as an injustice...

Okay funny enough in the comic there was a time skip after Brandon joins Walter in taking over which brings the year in that universe to 2022 and if the show didn't get cancelled then we could have seen a similar time skip in the season which could have been next year...

Anyway this first episode and this entire title just gets an Eh from me. You want better Superhero shows there are the Boys, the Tick before that got cancelled and Invincible which is much more interesting in trying to deconstruct the idea of badass Superheroes.

This is Christopher Smith saying:

Peace Out!