We Liked: That It’s Ramona’s Story
Scott’s early removal from the plot does the unexpected in a lot of ways, but its best fallout is that Takes Off immediately then becomes Ramona’s story, as she navigates the loss of someone she was just beginning to bond with and then eventually goes rooting through the mystery of what really happened on the night of Matthew and Scott’s battle.
In a way we never really got in the movie, and only got a little of in the original comics, Takes Off spends a lot of its time exploring who Ramona is as a person—as complicated and laden with almost as many faults as Scott is—and her own relationship with the people that were in Scott’s lives, and now become parts of hers. She’s no longer the object to be fought over for the most part, but the active agent of the narrative.
