Amazon's The Tick

[TheVileOne]

All the e-mails I got from Amazon and the PR reps said early 2018. Unless the show got a good response and that's changed? I haven't heard anything.

Also, Townsend Coleman, the voice of Tick in the animated series, voiced Onward the dog.

I hope this means Patrick Warburton will have some type of role in the show.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Was my birthday today and treated myself to finally catching this. Well, as a longtime fan of The Tick I freaking loved this. If I had to pin it down I would say it's a live action version of The Venture Bros. That is its tone to a T. Add my voice to thinking they screwed up with the series momentum by giving us six now and the rest in a year. Still, super happy with the show.

 

[chintai80]

debating to renew my amazon prime subscription so i can watch the next 6 episodes.

i am trying to save some $$$...but i have been enjoying this show so far - each episode just keeps better and better.

i have eps 5 and 6 left to watch.

the tone reminds me of kick-ass but much more over the top.

peter serafinowicz as the tick is better than i expected.

love how they are playing around with all the modern day gritty superhero tropes as well.

my fave character so far is yara martinez's miss lint.
she hawt yo.

overkill is badass too - he seems to be a parody/mix of batman, punisher, and deathstroke all rolled into one.

 

[ludovica]

I'm really enjoying it.
Sole nitpick, maybe they could have gone with a little bit cartoony photography to make the colors pop more, I think it would have enhanced the absurdity but also somehow grounded the most outlandish dialogues and situations, like really a live action version of the cartoon.
I already loved Serafinowicz, maybe I even slightly prefer him to Warburton.

Dangerboat is the best.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I finally got Amazon and binged this the other day. It's absolutely great. Peter Serafinowicz is the perfect Tick. He just kills it. And Griffin Newman is a great Arthur. I've also been a fan of Valerie Curry since The Following, and she does a great job as Arthur's more level-headed sister. Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Alan Tudyk and Scott Speiser also had me cracking up. They really manage to merge the zany ridiculousness of the Tick's world with a real world setting.

I can't wait to see more.

 

[Sithborg]

Honestly, it isn't so much a real world setting, but as how much the craziness is part of the world. In a lot of very subtle ways.

 

[Deck Rickard]

LOL yeah, true. That talking dog killed me.

 

[TheVileOne]

We'll be getting the rest of the first season in about three months. So hopefully we start seeing some new footage soon. They had already completed shooting the first season when the first half was released.

Hoping we hear about a second season sooner or later.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I hope that they don’t split the season up next time around. There are too many plot threads that aren’t even close to being wrapped up, like the giant naked dude.

 

[TheVileOne]

That was my only gripe with the first set of episodes. It seemed to cut off too early. 6 episodes it not that much in the grand scheme of things. One episode was already released way before hand, so it was really like five new episodes.

 

[Sithborg]

Returns Feb 23

 

[TheVileOne]

Glad we finally got a date. And Tick finally says spoon!

 

[Deck Rickard]

Looks great. So glad this is coming back!

 

[ludovica]

I can't wait!
It seems also a really ambitious step up in effects and world-building for what could easily have been content being a sitcom.

 

[TheVileOne]

Not great, but I think the effects and production values look decent for what they have. I think the costumes all generally look good. And at least they aren't afraid to show those type of things.

 

[Sithborg]

Renewed.

https://www.cbr.com/tick-tv-amazon-renew-season-2/

 

[Matt]

Spoon. I hope they go a bit more episodic in season 2. Season 1 is pretty much one giant episode. At least 1.0 was. The trailer of 1.5 seems to indicate the same. By going more episodic they can grow the world easier and introduce some of The Tick's supporting cast (Sewer Urchin, anyone?).

That said, whatever they do, PLEASE use Chairface Chippendale as the villain.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd love to see Chairface Chippendale in the show, but not holding my breath. I think they will use a lot of new characters like Overkill instead.

 

[TheVileOne]

New Episodes:

IMO, this is a show that really got better as it went along and the world started opening up. Glad we are at least getting a second season with the implication:

Spoiler

That AEGIS and Superian might be the real bad guys who are controlling the world, and Terror's real plan was to free the world from their control. Even though Terror was a total ******* about it.

I especially enjoyed the scenes with Tick and Onward, considering Onward is voiced by Townsend Coleman, who voiced Tick in the 90s animated series.

Also the dialogue for the show was fantastic. My favorite exchange is after Overkill has a fight with Onward he says, "It's how we relate."

Tick says, "Have you tried words? They bleed less." Almost a bit too clever of a retort from Tick but it was so funny that I was dying from the exchange.

Also, Terror's t-ship having an escape pod that's shaped like a lowercase T. Things like that are symbolic of this show's greatness. I think it helps that the creator of the Tick, Ben Edlund has been working in film and TV for years, and he was on board to oversee the show.

I also like that Tinfoil Kevin turned out to be a pretty useful helper to the heroes. And he he has a whole lair basically in the severed giant robot head.

 

[Matt]

I wonder if the Armenian robot was meant as a homage to the Red Scare from the 2001 series.

 

[TheVileOne]

Wasn't Armenian. It was Urmanian .

It was definitely reminiscent of the Red Scare robot and I thought that as well. I guess the idea was that those type of countries would have really cheap, out-dated killer robots. Like the Bakkup robot from this show was making AOL Dial-up sounds.

 

[rashad]

Great to have this show back. Seeing Onward with freaking glasses on nearly killed me! lol Seeing the origin of the VLM was hilarious too.

"I don't want life. I want revenge." - Overkill

LMAO!!

 

[Matt]

Good end to the first season, albeit a bit rushed. I don't know why Amazon is confining the episodes to 22-25 minutes, but an additional 5 per episode could really flesh things out a bit. Amazon also needs to commit to a larger budget, the effects were downright awful at times, and not in a funny, quirky way. Just in a bad way. I do hope that next season is a bit more episodic, taking time to explore the characters rather than a convoluted, serialized plot.

That said, Chairface Chippendale needs to be the big bad. Although, I do hope that to the extent that the Terror is still around, there is a bit more exploration of the Tick and the Terror's relationship. It kind of took a backseat to Arthur facing the Terror. But in many ways, Tick is the natural heroic counterpart to Terror. As Superian and Arthur pointed out, Terror isn't some Moriarty-esque genius. He is just going around, acting more or less randomly, and then calling whatever falls together a plan. In other words, he is the evil version of Tick: a complete mess of chaos. Heroes are not a match for the Terror because they cannot anticipate his erratic behavior, but by the same merit, Terror cannot anticipate Tick. Tick isn't so much the yin to the Terror's yang as much as he is the yang to his yang and that makes them perfect adversaries.

 

[TheVileOne]

Overkill was basically like TV parody version of Zack Snyder's Batman .

Obviously, Terror is a bit more put together than Tick. He was smart enough to fake his own death, and everyone bought into it.

I'm assuming Arthu's step-father is a retired former superhero. Or maybe Arthur's special and he's some sort of embedded Aegis agent.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Three episodes n and so happy for the show to return. Outside of the Netflix offerings from Marvel, and even then that's a mixed bag at this point, this is the best super hero series out there. I mean that. It's better than all the network offerings out there by a wide margin. Gonna space this out rather than binge it all at once.