Runaways: Tsunami - Jan 4

‘Tsunami’… The eighth episode of ‘Runaways’ S1… What can be said about it?

Old Lace finally got her place in the spotlight, so yay. She is just as amazing as any of the dinosaurs from the JP franchise. The official/canon relationships of the teen characters of the show got established, so yay, although considering how loose does ‘Runaways’ play with the comic canon, let’s not put too much stock into this – who likes whom; the fans will pair whom they want with whom they want all the same.

The main conflict of this episode is the fact that Victor Stein got shot (by his wife Janet) and is dying. Since the Pride, (the grown-ups), are almost at their end game, they do not want to involve the authorities – neither the cops nor the doctors, so they have to try to save Victor themselves. They are among the most incompetent and chaotic villains ever – they barely get along, (though they love each other, many of them love different people than their legal spouses/partners), they barely can agree on anything, they all want to go in different directions, (and maybe they do), and basically, as far as villains go, not only are they more of a dark grey, (though yes, this still can change). Jonah sometimes seems to be herding cats – and he sort of is: as you name a boat, so it will float; ‘pride’ isn’t just a deadly sin, but is also the name of the lions’ social unit – look it up on the Internet; and while lions are formidable, they are still ‘just’ cats, albeit perhaps the biggest cats of the modern times. Jonah is herding cats here, and as Mythbusters™ have showed, this is impossible. Anything else?

…No, not really. Just as the ‘Gifted’, ‘Runaways’ are a conflict-driven show. Unlike the ‘Gifted’ though, the conflict in ‘Runaways’ is that of parents and children, (maybe literally in case of Victor and Chase), rather than of ‘us vs. them’ of ‘Gifted’. The cast of ‘Runaways’ are also doing a very good job of depicting this generational issue…in combination with Marvel’s™ type of super-hijinks, yeah, (but people already know that). The result is a success, as we can all see, (and not just in case of Old Lace either). And thus, as ‘Runaways’ are rolling into their penultimate and ultimate S1 episodes, all we can do is wish them good luck, really.

That’s it for this week’s episode; see you soon!