Is that because you don't like found family style stories at all, or because gratuitous trope use in summaries feels like a red flag?
I'm definitely not into found family stories in my fic reading or writing, but in this case it's the latter.
And then The Umbrella Academy frustrates me sometimes because damn, three seasons in everyone still barely tolerates each other.
I don't watch UA anymore, but I watch Doom Patrol, which is an interesting case of the writers i) using therapeutic language and concepts seriously but ii) deliberately subverting them via the sheer stupidity of the characters.* The result: everyone behaves in a one step forward, seven steps sideways fashion (funny, but also frustrating). Though at the end of the latest season (3) the characters (a found family though they would one hundred percent kill you for calling them that) finally seem to have stumbled upon real progress. While still being morons. We shall see what happens next season...
* And also the complexity of the situations they are in. There's no right answer.
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Date: 2022-07-26 04:01 pm (UTC)I'm definitely not into found family stories in my fic reading or writing, but in this case it's the latter.
And then The Umbrella Academy frustrates me sometimes because damn, three seasons in everyone still barely tolerates each other.
I don't watch UA anymore, but I watch Doom Patrol, which is an interesting case of the writers i) using therapeutic language and concepts seriously but ii) deliberately subverting them via the sheer stupidity of the characters.* The result: everyone behaves in a one step forward, seven steps sideways fashion (funny, but also frustrating). Though at the end of the latest season (3) the characters (a found family though they would one hundred percent kill you for calling them that) finally seem to have stumbled upon real progress. While still being morons. We shall see what happens next season...
* And also the complexity of the situations they are in. There's no right answer.