Jupiters Legacy Cancellation Means It Cant Tell Its Best Stories

Jupiter’s Legacy Cancellation Means It Can’t Tell Its Best Stories

Contents

Jupiter’s Legacy was cancelled after only one season. With its big twist coming at the end of season 1, it leaves its best comics stories unresolved.

You Are Reading :[thien_display_title]

Jupiters Legacy Cancellation Means It Cant Tell Its Best Stories

The cancellation of Jupiter’s Legacy means it can’t tell its best stories. After only one season and a month of streaming, Netflix ended the superhero series for good. Based on the comic by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy got a live-action adaptation that received a generally poor critical reception and it seems like not enough people tuned into the show during its first month on Netflix. With the series leaving off on a cliffhanger that saw Brainwave’s diabolical plans beginning to take shape, the potential to finally adapt some of the comics’ greatest storylines was cut short.

The series told a multigenerational story that set up the founding of the Union of Justice, the first-ever superhero team to exist in this fantastical world, in the 1930s and their children’s generation carrying on that torch to some extent in the present day. Jupiter’s Legacy had a much different start by comparison to most superhero shows. The majority of season 1 was spent building up the primary conflicts, but the approach was slow going. By the time the end of the season rolled around, most of the major comic book storylines hadn’t been covered at all, with the twist of Brainwave’s betrayal and Sheldon’s deteriorating relationship with his son Brandon (aka, Paragon) being the cliffhanger that would have presumably been the focus of Jupiter’s Legacy season 2.

With Netflix’s cancellation ending the show before it really got a chance to get started, Jupiter’s Legacy missed out on quite a few major and interesting storylines from the comics that it could have adapted to live-action.

Jupiter’s Legacy Can’t Show The Utopian vs His Own Son

Jupiters Legacy Cancellation Means It Cant Tell Its Best Stories

The first season of Jupiter’s Legacy set up the tension between Sheldon Sampson (aka, The Utopian) and Brandon. Season 1 revealed that Brandon and Sheldon weren’t very close, but there was still a sense of the former wanting to please his dad and live up to the expectations previously set for him, especially since his sister Chloe had gone in an entirely different direction in life. Paragon and The Utopian’s primary conflict was centered around the fact that Brandon broke the Union of Justice’s moral code by killing Blackstar’s clone.

See also  The Cast & Crew Of Christmas Vacation Where Are They Now

However, the Brandon of the show was much different than his comics counterpart, who had much more of a volatile attitude towards his father. Brandon is ultimately swayed to join Brainwave’s side and lashes out at his parents, killing both his mother and father before attempting to kill his sister prior to her going on the run to get away from him and their uncle Walter. With the show’s cancellation, fans will never get to see Brandon battle Sheldon at all and it’ll always be left hanging whether the series would have gone that route at all. The idea of the show’s iteration of Paragon murdering his own dad seems rather twisted considering the storyline of the live-action Jupiter’s Legacy, but it will forever be an unresolved plot thread regardless.

Jupiter’s Legacy Can’t Deliver On Its Own Twist

Jupiters Legacy Cancellation Means It Cant Tell Its Best Stories

Jupiter’s Legacy ended with Brainwave being revealed as the series’ antagonist. His plans, which were quite convoluted, involved creating Blackstar’s clone, letting out the original version of the villain, and blaming the absent Skyfox, who was once a part of the Union of Justice, for the rising tension between Brandon, Sheldon, and the new generation of heroes. Brainwave’s true nature and betrayal came too late in the game. While it set up an intriguing direction for the plot to go in season 2, the show being cancelled means that the twist falls short of the potential it created in the first place. Brainwave being revealed as the mastermind behind most of season 1’s events could have changed the entire trajectory of the show’s future, but the outcome of the fallout — including Brainwave murdering his daughter Raikou and manipulating his team and family members — will never be explored in live-action.

Jupiter’s Legacy Will Always Feel Like A Dead-End Prolog

Jupiters Legacy Cancellation Means It Cant Tell Its Best Stories

The superhero series spent the majority of its eight-episode season 1 on its buildup. All the interesting aspects of the plot — The Utopian faltering momentarily on saving Brandon while fighting Blackstar, Hutch trying to find Skyfox after his mysterious disappearance, and Brainwave’s ulterior motives — are incomplete. And because Jupiter’s Legacytook so long to get to the meat of its plot, the rest of the season felt like a long prologue to the actual story it will no longer be able to tell.

See also  Monster Hunter Rise G What Weapons Could Debut In The DLC

The series focused a lot on Sheldon’s visions and the trip the Union’s founding members took to obtain their powers in the 1930s. This took a lot of time away from the present day and the themes it set up, with the story offering up more of the mystery rather than delving into the characters’ lives. To that end, Jupiter’s Legacy will always be an incomplete story, with its slow nature preventing its plot from gaining any true momentum and the twist coming too late to provide any closure beyond working as set up for season 2.

Jupiter’s Legacy Comic Had A Lot More To Say

The Jupiter’s Legacy comics tackled a lot of various storylines and themes, including socioeconomic and political issues, what it means for superheroes to have influence and power in the world that goes beyond their superhuman abilities, capitalism, and ideological differences between the generations. The series really only tackled the latter and even the arguments that made it into the show barely scratched the surface. To that end, the comics handled these themes a lot better than its live-action counterpart because it actually delved into the stories it presented. The series gave its arguments with regards to the strict moral code the Utopian and the Union went by and the younger generation of superheroes, but there was also a disconnect because it refused to explore anything beyond the surface-level.

This is especially true with regards to how separate the superheroes felt from the world they were supposed to be so much a part of. What is it like to grow up in the shadow of one’s superhero parents? Jupiter’s Legacy didn’t really answer the question that the comics actually do because it barely spends any time on developing Brandon and Chloe’s relationships with their parents. What’s more, the comics didn’t just present its ideas, but thoroughly and more thoughtfully engaged with them as well. Walter’s belief that superheroes should do more than save people individually was well established, with the comics showcasing his attempts to build upon the superhero influence on a national and global scale. To that end, Millar’s world in the Jupiter’s Legacy comics felt a lot more lived in, with a lot more depth to the themes that it brought up at the start.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/jupiters-legacy-cancellation-best-stories-untold/

Movies -