Movie Night by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas
My Rating: ★★
A year after the events of the previous volume, we discover how far everyone from Bay Point has come. Nearly everyone has been working together to turn the school into their new home. The fight for who will be the next leader of everyone from Bay Point is on as it becomes increasingly apparent that the fight is getting dirty. Meanwhile, Karen has gone off the deep end and soon finds herself tangled up in more secrets that New England are keeping their lips sealed about.
I’ve been enjoying the series up to this point and this is the volume that’s taking an odd and unexpected turn that is making me feel iffy about where it’s going. I’ll read the next volume and make my decision then, but this is the volume that is making me question the series. There’s also a time jump with a clunky opening left me a bit confused at first. I’m also sad that we barely saw New England this time around, especially after the events that took place in the previous volume. It just feels like it was all glossed over to quickly move to what’s clearly the next big storyline.
However, some of it was good. Since a year has passed, there’s a jump in all the relationships as well. There’s a romance that’s on the rocks, friendships that have frayed to completely ended, family relationships that have gotten closer while others are further apart than ever. We also see some rivalries, including one that had some good foreshadowing leading up to it in the previous volumes. In addition to the relationships and rivalries, we also see a jump in all new to this moon’s living situation as they’ve been working hard to make it home while trying to retain the things that are forever left behind on Earth. These are all interesting things that I had been looking forward to seeing develop, so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes if I decide to continue the series after the next volume.
All in all, the good and bad was split pretty evenly here. Hopefully it sorts itself out in the next volume, but I’m not feeling very hopefully at the moment with the way this new major storyline appears to be going.
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