Well, the new "volume" is certainly starting off with a bang... This storyline feels bleaker and scarier than any of the previous ones, because the enemy isn't just one shadowy corporation, or even two competing ones, but the US government. And given the atmosphere of paranoia in the US since 9/11, that makes it feel disturbingly realistic. The atmosphere is much less comic book this time around and much more dystopian political SF.
It's lost none of its ability to keep me on the edge of my seat, either... the three episodes I've seen so far of the new volume have all been tense, suspenseful and effective. It's hard to see how this all could possibly end well, but it's very gripping seeing just how scary things are going to get before they maybe, somehow get better. And in the meantime, it's almost as effective as political commentary as it is as entertainment.
It's lost none of its ability to keep me on the edge of my seat, either... the three episodes I've seen so far of the new volume have all been tense, suspenseful and effective. It's hard to see how this all could possibly end well, but it's very gripping seeing just how scary things are going to get before they maybe, somehow get better. And in the meantime, it's almost as effective as political commentary as it is as entertainment.
