Overall I enjoyed this, however the heist that the show culminates in seems very odd/poorly written. He puts together a large team consisting mostly of strangers when he could have done the exact same heist with fewer people, fewer chances for things to go wrong, fewer ways to split the money and less dead weight.
He has 3 friends, a teleporter, an ice creator/manipulator and a jinx. Let's break down the things they could have handled
He brings on board a telekinetic to slowly levitate groups of people from a boat to shore and up/down an elevator shaft. The teleporting friend could have done the exact same job in a nanosecond and without drawing attention unlike a group of people levitating.
He brings on board 2 immortal siblings and tasks them with tanking the brunt of security systems. The teleporting friend could have teleported to the button to disable said security in a nanosecond without triggering any alarms/security to begin with or wasting time or run the risk of being discovered before reaching the inexplicably placed big red "off" button that controls a multi million dollar security system.
He brings on board a stranger who can kind of but not consistently control weather, he is brought on board to freeze a safe door to be cracked open. The ice wielding friend could do the exact job in an insant, with no risk of being unable to conjure freezing temperatures, his power is also vastly more helpful in a fight, he has much greater control over it and he is better in a hand to hand situation than the malnourished, cowardly, luck dependant weather guy. On one hand we have a guy who in less than a second can construct colossal ice structures capable of supporting massive amounts of weight on it, can instantly freeze any one or thing and who isn't afraid of a hand to hand fight, on the other hand we have a scrawny wimp who categoricaly cannot fight, his power extends to conjuring slighty abnormal weather patterns and it is entirely luck based on whether or not he will be able to use his power at all on any given day.
He blackmails a hero to tag along as reluctant muscle because he knows the bloated, incompetent, rng dependant team he put together will have to fight through security. When as mentioned above replacing the telekinetic and the brothers with the teleporter( transmit) he could have eliminated the siuation where super powered beings would see their faces and avoid direct attacks all together, in earlier epiodes we saw the telelporter instantly and effortlessly teleport multiple people and multiple vehicles moving at high speed ,so teleporting a small number of people and some loot up an elevator shaft and on/off a ship that is only a few hundred meters from shore are things he is easily capable of.
I just do not get it, he could have worked with friends he has known for years, get in and out in minutes without triggering any alarms or having to fight anyone or having to put a target on his back from both insane "heroes" and the most brutal, prolific villan in the entire lore. Instead he recruits a comparitively large amount of strangers who need luck on their side to be able to fill their roles, even then the way their powers fit those roles are so slow that he knew ahead of time they *would* trigger alarms and *would* have to fight their way out.
So overall the show was an entertaining watch but the final few episodes had me constantly asking why, the big galaxy brain plan that the show culminates in is sloppy, poorly put together, more dependant on luck than skill and characters that our galaxy brain protagonist has long standing relationships with and trust between are sidelined for random, inneffective characters with no readily apparent reasoning. Yes, I am aware the show is supposed to be about incompetent, small time crooks navigating a world with brokenly overpowered heroes and villains alike, but not even having a single sentence saying something like "transmit woud've been perfect, too bad he's still doing time for the jewellery heist" something as simple as that would've been fine, but having the protagonist so dumb he somehow forgets his friends powers while simulteanously knows enough to specify the names of strangers to recruit based on their sub par powers is just very poor writing.
He has 3 friends, a teleporter, an ice creator/manipulator and a jinx. Let's break down the things they could have handled
He brings on board a telekinetic to slowly levitate groups of people from a boat to shore and up/down an elevator shaft. The teleporting friend could have done the exact same job in a nanosecond and without drawing attention unlike a group of people levitating.
He brings on board 2 immortal siblings and tasks them with tanking the brunt of security systems. The teleporting friend could have teleported to the button to disable said security in a nanosecond without triggering any alarms/security to begin with or wasting time or run the risk of being discovered before reaching the inexplicably placed big red "off" button that controls a multi million dollar security system.
He brings on board a stranger who can kind of but not consistently control weather, he is brought on board to freeze a safe door to be cracked open. The ice wielding friend could do the exact job in an insant, with no risk of being unable to conjure freezing temperatures, his power is also vastly more helpful in a fight, he has much greater control over it and he is better in a hand to hand situation than the malnourished, cowardly, luck dependant weather guy. On one hand we have a guy who in less than a second can construct colossal ice structures capable of supporting massive amounts of weight on it, can instantly freeze any one or thing and who isn't afraid of a hand to hand fight, on the other hand we have a scrawny wimp who categoricaly cannot fight, his power extends to conjuring slighty abnormal weather patterns and it is entirely luck based on whether or not he will be able to use his power at all on any given day.
He blackmails a hero to tag along as reluctant muscle because he knows the bloated, incompetent, rng dependant team he put together will have to fight through security. When as mentioned above replacing the telekinetic and the brothers with the teleporter( transmit) he could have eliminated the siuation where super powered beings would see their faces and avoid direct attacks all together, in earlier epiodes we saw the telelporter instantly and effortlessly teleport multiple people and multiple vehicles moving at high speed ,so teleporting a small number of people and some loot up an elevator shaft and on/off a ship that is only a few hundred meters from shore are things he is easily capable of.
I just do not get it, he could have worked with friends he has known for years, get in and out in minutes without triggering any alarms or having to fight anyone or having to put a target on his back from both insane "heroes" and the most brutal, prolific villan in the entire lore. Instead he recruits a comparitively large amount of strangers who need luck on their side to be able to fill their roles, even then the way their powers fit those roles are so slow that he knew ahead of time they *would* trigger alarms and *would* have to fight their way out.
So overall the show was an entertaining watch but the final few episodes had me constantly asking why, the big galaxy brain plan that the show culminates in is sloppy, poorly put together, more dependant on luck than skill and characters that our galaxy brain protagonist has long standing relationships with and trust between are sidelined for random, inneffective characters with no readily apparent reasoning. Yes, I am aware the show is supposed to be about incompetent, small time crooks navigating a world with brokenly overpowered heroes and villains alike, but not even having a single sentence saying something like "transmit woud've been perfect, too bad he's still doing time for the jewellery heist" something as simple as that would've been fine, but having the protagonist so dumb he somehow forgets his friends powers while simulteanously knows enough to specify the names of strangers to recruit based on their sub par powers is just very poor writing.