Finished watching this second season with the kids this morning and what another good season of the Avengers, looking forward to season three coming out whenever it does. This is one of the more adult, kid cartoons out there and I don't mean that in the content of the show but in how the story lines progress. They don't progress in the standard stand-a-lone content where things in one episode don't affect the other episodes but there is an over all story arc that each episode builds upon and requires a lot of paying attention to what is going on because things that happen in one episode do affect the other episodes. There's a lot live action shows that don't have anywhere near the in depth story line progression of this cartoon show.
Just some good examples of this: the last season ended with Captain America being kidnapped by the Skrull (who are shape shifters). So when this season begins Captain America is not the real Captain America but a Skrull who is undermining the Avengers and doing his best to help the Skrull empire take over the world. The first 5 or so episodes have this happening in it to the extent that my son had two Captain America toys and one of them was the Skrull Captain America and the other was the real Captain America. This Skrull invasion really affected everything in this season. Iron Man took a back seat to most of this season as he started not trusting any of the Avengers because he couldn't figure out who was a Skrull or not, so he figured he'd just not trust anyone. Shield had their Helo Carrier blown up during the Skrull invasion had to live out of basically a rent-a-base the whole season. Hulk got taken captive because of the Captain America Skrull so he wasn't there for the better part of the season and when he came back it was Hulk smash time, something both my son and daughter were excited about. Ant Man wasn't here this season because of some choices he made from the last season and then had them finally dealt with this season in some surprising ways. Then one of the major plot lines from Season one dealing with Chang - whose from the future and came to kill Captain America because of a choice he made that affected Chang's present - finally arises near the end of the second Season where Captain America has to make that choice.
The level of in depth story telling just blew me away as I watched each episode, clearly the writers weren't just writing as they went but had written things down in advance. This is sort of a children version of Game of the Thrones, the storyline supports itself that well. I wish Marvel comics would have this same type of arc set up in their comics, instead of just flying by the seat of their pants.
This is also type of show that actually makes the Black Panther and Hawkeye really cool which is something Marvel comics has never been able to do, the writing is that good for the show. Also some new members are brought in as are a lot of the other super heroes from Marvel comics making this a feast for all of the nerds out there - of which I am one. The last episode brought in one of my favorite Marvel characters: Galactus for a huge show down and was a worthy season ender. Now bring on the third Season.
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