I get that it’s good comic relief but making Luther (and sometimes Diego) just so damn dumb is way different than the comics. On the show it makes no sense that Reginald would’ve chosen Luther to lead the team. In the comics he’s and intelligent and tactical leader (though a bit of an asshole). Comics Diego is an…

She uses sonic frequency as a tuning fork of some sorts, so sounds help her focus her powers, and act like a sorta conduit.

David Castañeda is a stealth MVP for me this season. Five’s actor is the strongest of the bunch, by far, but God, Castañeda makes Diego into something more than a Batman-wannabe. (He would make an excellent Jason Todd. Somebody cast him as Jason Todd. He could breathe such life into that role.)

Favorite moment would have to be Five and Reginald at the bar, since they show some modicum of respect to each other. I also liked Allison’s arrival to 60s Dallas, and it emphasized first her need to survive as a Black woman in a divided city.

Her ability seems to be re-written as well. She’s called “The White Violin” because she causes destruction through playing music, but I guess the show has excised that aspect entirely for more general psionic powers.

Was just going to say how much I also liked Elliot as an ally to the team, and I was worried something might happen to him. Poor fella

The way he just started sinking lower and lower in his seat during Reginald’s whole mocking speech – ouch.

I was thinking the same thing, but then again, Five doesn’t engage whenever Diego suggests that they need to save Kennedy.   I think Five knows that they should let Kennedy die, but he doesn’t want to argue that point.   

YES! Although this season is much, much better than season one, that was a big problem. Five is too smart not to at least consider that, but he doesn’t bring it up and that’s obviously for plot purposes.

When Five landed on the day of the nuclear apocalypse, the newspaper headline was about JFK declaring war on the Reds. Surely that would imply the major timeline change is that President Kennedy survived his assassination attempt, right?

Hargreeves have never been good at actually doing anything together so it’s more surprising when they do hang out with each other voluntarily than when they just wander off.

To be fair, in the comics it’s revealed right off the bat Reginald is secretly an alien in disguise.

Indeed. His power being practically useless, and hearing such directly from Reginald, is basically what drives his inferiority complex and constant overcompensation. His combat skills just come from training though he was always good at throwing knives, even as a child. I don’t remember it being to the supernatural …

In fact in the comics, IIRC, Diego only had the ability to hold his breather indefinitely. His knife throwing skills he picked up on his own.

In the comics Hargreeves numbered them based on how useful he considered them to be, but their definitely seems to be an inverse correlation to their numbering and how powerful they are.

Kind of funny that you’d give spoilers about the next episode when you threw a hissy fit about a title of a review of an episode vaguely alluding to a minor plot point as a “spoiler”

With regards to Five’s placement, I always thought of the numbering being in reverse order to power level. One and Two are purely physical, Three has a useful power but can be countered in a fight, all the way up to Seven who’s basically an audio wave nuclear bomb. The only odd one in a reverse ordering is Six, but we…

Completely agree. I think there’s a lot of points this season misses on the nuance on its characterizations of characters. I’m not sure I even agree with it being specifically complex characterizations of sexuality when it comes to Vanya or Sissy. Rather, their story seems pretty rote for what to expect from a 1960s…

Looked it up online, and the Greek message that Five gives is the opening to Homer, It comes up next episode, and doesn’t really have a plot point other then Homer is something that Reginald teaches all his charges.

Without being too heavy handed about it, The Umbrella Academy is touching on complex ideas about patriarchy, motherhood, mental disability, and sexuality in the 1960s.