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What a treat! As a big fan of Scott Pilgrim (the comics, though I also liked the movie in its own right), it ended up surpassing my expectations, especially around episodes 3-6. The animation is really pretty, and the more ensemble style the story takes is perfect for what it's telling.


I want to make one thing clear though: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is not the original story, and you'll probably enjoy it better if you keep an open mind about where it's taking you. The trailer for Takes Off made it seem like a remake, and that was a mistake to me. A lot of people who have already seen the original might not bother watching a remake (which this isn't), while a lot of people who have not seen the original might expect Takes Off to stand on its own.

I'm not sure it fully does! I see it more as like... a B-Side to the original.

An Invitation to the League of Evil Exes, taking place at Gideon's Secret Lair.

And damn are these new tracks worth it. Ramona shines in this show, but the real surprise for me was Matthew Patel?? He's so funny in this, on top of getting character development that he never got to have in the original.

The show's just ton of fun! And through revisiting a story that's affected the author as much as the original has, it adds some meta elements that don't feel out of place or overstay their welcome.

Ramona Flowers cast as stunt double for the role of Ramona Flowers

It may have stumbled a bit for me at the very end when trying to wrap everything up, but the journey was more than worth it! :eggbug-uwu:


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in reply to @TheBlondeBass's post:

A question from someone who haven't read or watch the comic and movie. The whole 'Scott future bad' isn't like they're saying that the original story is "wrong"? I mean, I guess in the final Story Scott and Ramona married and ends there, but with what Take Off main antagonist being the Scott from the original story isn't a way of saying "the original story/protagonist recieve actually bad endings"??

Hey hey! The last episode is the only part where I'm a little conflicted with the direction of the new show -- I'll try to explain as best I can without spoiling specific moments, as I think the original comics are 100% worth checking out.

Scott and Ramona are flawed main characters. Scott's... kind of lazy, self-centered, and does not take enough responsibility for his bad decisions. See for example the whole kinda-dating a high-schooler thing. Ramona's got issues of her own, of running from conflict instead of sticking for what's important to her, of not being honest with the people around her. And as the series progresses, the looming danger in the horizon is that Scott would become an evil ex himself, in time. There's some character growth to be had, past some low lows.

But the characters do grow, and the story did end up on a positive note. And I understand growing as a person is not a one-and-done thing, that is something you work on until the day you die, but still the part you're mentioning about felt... like a strange decision to me, compared to everything that came before. I'm curious what the author's meaning was there.

I just read this because the notifications didn't say anything. I've reading the comics, not all the volumes yet, and it's good. I get your point. I personally see what the director did with the og Scott as something that happens to writters that is hating your old works (I do that all the time hahaha) more than the og Scott was hopeless (I think he's not, is notorious how he progress and fixes stuff in the original story bit a bit).