We Didn’t Like: That Scott Felt Underexplored
The thing about making Scott Pilgrim Takes Off what it is is that, well, Scott Pilgrim takes off. Scott himself is key to the story told here, but he’s out of the picture for the vast majority of it. While he’s not as shitty as he is in the comics, we don’t really get to see too much of an arc for him where he grows as a person out of his connection to Ramona, because he’s cut off from her from the end of the first episode pretty much to the show’s climax. Yes, it’s clever that this time around it’s the masculine side of the relationship that is the trophy to be fought over, but it still means Scott suffers in exploring his character as a foil to all the excellent work the show otherwise does with the rest of the ensemble.
