I wasn't overly impressed with the start of the season but there were some aspects that were interesting and I like to give shows a chance as some shows that I have loved started poorly or took me a little while to get into. It took a few episodes of teasing and then the story started to show some promise as I started to enjoy it more... but then it got bogged down with the teen soap opera as the twins negotiated their angsty teenage high school relationships.

The high school setting was mainly just there to service various morality messages that only had passing relevance to the core story. Of course these elements will appeal to a certain section of the audience who won't care that none of it is very well told. Issues such as gay acceptance, metoo and some undefined claim of "White privilege" that is levelled against a group of kids whose apparent leader is not even white. If this part of the series wasn't all so self conscious, over drawn and preachy it might have been fine. Surely it is a more positive and effective tool for social change just to present gay characters in a natural way, how does it serve the overall story to belabor it so much. The sexually abusive male was only relevant in his primary interaction with the core cast, the scene where he is outed is completely irrelevant.

All of this political rubbish drew attention to other aspects like the prominent strong female characters accounting for the mojority of the more powerful roles and the calculated racial casting. These aspects were for the most part done much better and the actors involved were quite believable in their roles.

Finally to the core of the story where their was plenty of promise except there wasn't enough time left to properly flesh it out with more engaging details. The underlying social messages in the main story actually mirror the high school drama in some ways which makes the high school stuff even more redundant. The various "monsters" aren't really explained very well. As is the fashion in many modern shows, the level of the effects available and trust in the audiences willingness to swallow anything that looks cool dictates how powerful a characters power might be from one scene to the next... in one scene they can kill a team of enemy combatants then in the next they are suddenly too slow.

The only hope for the show is that they feel they have set up the young characters storylines well enough and can now concentrate more on the main story... but I doubt it.