It's like the show runners couldn't decide. Do we want to be a Nikita-like show about an evil spy organization that our protagonist is trapped in? Do we want to be a show about a scrappy group of super-powered refugees living in the tunnels under New York? Or how about a family comedy with superpowers?
And their answer to all of the above was YES.
I really think they needed to either start the show with Stephen in Ultra and focus there, with him not really interacting with the rest of the TP until we'd gotten a good feel for Ultra -- or they should've started him with the TP and no idea what Ultra was like on the inside or that his uncle worked there.
Personally, I like the second one. You could come up with a hand-wavey reason why the TP would decide not to tell Stephen about his uncle. And then you're just following various TP plots for a while, and you'd have a chance to get to know the characters before expanding the scope of the series to include Ultra.
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And their answer to all of the above was YES.
I really think they needed to either start the show with Stephen in Ultra and focus there, with him not really interacting with the rest of the TP until we'd gotten a good feel for Ultra -- or they should've started him with the TP and no idea what Ultra was like on the inside or that his uncle worked there.
Personally, I like the second one. You could come up with a hand-wavey reason why the TP would decide not to tell Stephen about his uncle. And then you're just following various TP plots for a while, and you'd have a chance to get to know the characters before expanding the scope of the series to include Ultra.