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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAmazon Dramatically Improves 'The Tick' In Streamable Pilot
NOTE: The pilot episode is free to view on the Amazon Prime website.The Tick has latched on to Amazons new linuep of shows, but one thing is for sure: it definitely doesnt suck.
When the first images for Amazons The Tick surfaced, I groaned a little. A gritty reinvention of Ben Edlunds superhero parody? Yeah, no, Im good. Tick does not have a place in smoky brown warehouses like hes in Arrow.
But Wally Pfister and Tick creator Ben Edlunds new effort for the streaming service is something else. Combining razor-sharp wit and emotional devastation, Amazons The Tick is inexplicably more fulfilling in 22 minutes than the slice of comedy gold that was the cult 2001 show with Patrick Warburton. Because of the profound impression that iteration of The Tick left, you might be curious whats new and whats so great about a reboot no one asked for. Turns out, theres a lot.
On paper, giving Arthur a tragic backstory is a bad idea. Just like the comic book (and cartoon, and 2001 show), giving these characters real motivations feels misguided; having virtually no origin actually spoke volumes about the superhero genre. In the new pilot, The Tick (played hysterically and perfectly by Peter Serafinowicz) still comes out of nowhere, but Arthurs origin with the loss of his family is straight out of a Batman graphic novel a good one, like from the 80s or something.
https://www.inverse.com/article/19977-all-the-changes-to-amazon-s-the-tick-reboot
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Amazon Dramatically Improves 'The Tick' In Streamable Pilot (Original Post)
RandySF
Aug 2016
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denbot
(9,900 posts)1. Love love love The Tick!
Now I gotta get Amazon Prime.
RandySF
(58,899 posts)2. Not so fast.
Watch the pilot for free and vote on it. If there's enough interest, Amazon will go forward with more episodes.
Will do as soon as I get a moment in LTE coverage.