It has anime-isms like Totally Spies did, though to a lesser degree. No one really stands out or impresses me, though Hawk kinda annoys me. Big and muscular, gruff voice, brute with intelligence etc. Janus Lee is a bit of a doofus for a tech genius with 6000 patents, but seems nice enough.Īlexander Paine is a very, very, very typical bad guy. King is a big tough strong guy who is also noble. Hopefully she gets better with this down the line. To be fair, she can seemingly take care of herself and has a good head on her shoulders, but she just matches up so perfectly with her character archetype that it’s appallingly obvious. Oh and if you want to get a good idea of her girlness, her Wikia page reports that her biggest fear is getting fat. They even have the dumb ‘falling on each other’ trope. So far she has three of the four guys hitting on her, even though, like so many shows before it, it’s so obvious that she’s going to fall for the main guy. Lioness is the girl, and, man, she blinds you with ‘I AM THE GIRL OF THIS GROUP OF X-TREEM TEENS FIGHTING CRIME.’ She’s hot, she can fight though that doesn’t seem to matter much because she still has no effect in her one lone fight and needs to be rescued in some way afterward, and because she’s a lone female in a group of males, she’s so obviously the projected love interest. A.T.O.M. ALPHA TEENS FOR MACHINES KING FULLThen you have Hawk, a complete ego-maniac, but one of those ego-maniacs who is so full of himself and kinda dumb that he doesn’t even have time to be a typical jackass most of the time. REVENGE!!’ That coupled with the magic martial arts out of nowhere makes this show kinda smell B-Movie-ish Axel, the leader, is brave, responsible, smart, and of course has the most cliché backstory of ‘The villain killed my father. The characters are pretty much cutouts and stereotypes. Gee, wonder if he’ll come back in the next episode. The departure is framed as a cliffhanger. A.T.O.M. ALPHA TEENS FOR MACHINES KING FREEWhy do you need to bring magic martial arts into it?Īt the end, the bad guy gets away, and Hawk suddenly leaves because he doesn’t want to damage his precious face while chasing baddies even though he decided to help Axel this time of his own free will, even without knowing the connection between the two of them. I thought this universe was just ours in the fairly distant future, then you throw magic martial arts in the mix? You didn’t think your premise was strong enough on its own with cool machines? Hell, the team is called Alpha Teens on MACHINES. Reading the Wiki, this martial art only gets more insane and more like arcade game and DBZ fare. The leader, Axel, because leaders always get the best stuff, knows a martial art called Jo-Lan which makes his eyes glow and allows him to shoot Kamehameha waves or pseudo-Hadokens, if you will, from his hands. For the most part, yeah, that’s right, but then….they introduce magic martial arts. Then………I really thought this show would just be focused on X-TREEM sports and cool vehicles and doing crime fighting stuff with that. First off, just to get this out of the way, COPS? Hellooooo? Rampant escaped convict involved in a really destructive car chase? Kidnaps the guy following him? Yoohoo? Are you there? I don’t know what happens in episode two, but I really believe it would work as a standalone. They could’ve started out the episode with introductions to the characters, have them be new recruits to be testers for Lee’s creations simply because they’re X-TREEM and cut a good five minutes down for more exploration. I really believe they spent too much time focusing on the game show, especially considering that the show was basically fake. But even as a part-one this episode’s second half seems rushed and weird. I was going to complain that this seemed like half a story, and it is because it’s a two-parter. When they find they have failed, they vow to stop him no matter what. After a prison break results in the release of a man that Axel has a grudge against, they group up together to stop him. The premise is simple five strangers are selected via weird challenge show to test out the latest tech creations of a man named Janus Lee, a man so rich he basically owns the entire city. I couldn’t really get a good lock on how I felt about this show. When a prison break occurs, releasing a man named Alexander Paine, the five, especially their leader Axel Manning, take it upon themselves to pursue him since he supposedly killed Axel’s father over a decade ago.īreakdown: This show is really silly….but kinda fun? Plot: Five teens are recruited by an insanely rich man to test out his various high-tech vehicles.
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