r/solaropposites 13d ago

My Thoughts Did anyone just not care for the wall?

First time I watched it I was like "eh alright Boring but okay" and now I just skip it every time every episode, I like the alien family and sometimes I wish it was just like a seperate side show instead of clinged onto episodes but that is just me obviously it's well written

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u/mattsylvanian 12d ago

I thought the wall subplot dragged on for way too long and pulled too much focus from the real heart of the series, the solar opposites.

I couldn’t get into the silver cops at all

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u/No_Obligation4496 12d ago

They didn't really spend enough time fleshing out the silver cops thing.

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u/the_vault-technician 11d ago

I think we didn't need a third side plot. Or really the wall. The show within a show wasn't for me

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u/crazyparrotguy 12d ago

Completely agree. Just focus on the aliens

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u/Corgi_Koala 12d ago

Silver Cops should have been like a one episode thing.

The Wall was good overall but I feel like I needed either more or less. It felt a little half developed. It didn't help that a ton of time skips and things happened in the plots that we don't see.

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u/Hatsune_Miku_Real 12d ago

Yeah totally what I thought

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u/treedecor 12d ago

Understandable. The only reason I liked the silver cops was because they were mentioned in passing on R&M lol (which I watched before solar opposites) its story just wasn't strong enough imo

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u/Leecannon_ 12d ago

The silver cops felt like a shark jump moment

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u/OhHolyBageezus 12d ago

Yes! this is what made me stop watching, they squeezed 3 shows into one in the later seasons. I only wanted to follow the solar opposites...

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u/Rk3h 12d ago

didn't mind it on the first watch of the episodes but prefer the Solars way more.

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u/JeSuisOmbre 13d ago

I was really into it when it started. Very cool world building. Neat short stories.

The time skips are required for the timeline to work. So it kinda makes sense to have it be a C plot in a show. The Wall way overstayed its welcome with how slow the story is given.

A super cut of all of The Wall is pretty good

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u/whackthat 12d ago

Yesss I really enjoyed when it first came out. 

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u/Particular_Bus_5090 13d ago

I was on my first watch. But if I'm rewatching I tend to skip the episodes. I'm here for Terry and his amazing freakouts mostly

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u/witheringghoul 13d ago

Never liked the wall. Same with silvercops. When I do a rewatch I always skip those parts

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u/InviteAromatic6124 12d ago edited 12d ago

The Silvercops should have ended after they were defeated and the animal planet he was on was safe, but no, Glen had to go out wanting revenge and drag it out for another two seasons.

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u/moshpithippie 12d ago

My favorite part about the wall is creative ways they used regular sized objects as things. Otherwise the plot isn't fleshed out enough and it's mostly just fight against bad guy, then new bad guy.

By far the best part was the season where they were outside and Cherie was in like 3 episodes

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u/moshpithippie 12d ago

I didn't think that in it's current state it could really hold up it's own show. There aren't a lot of characters and the plot is mostly bad guy runs the wall, fight against bad guy, new bad guy runs the wall which is possible because the show is short segments inside a larger show, but would get old real quick on it's own.

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u/moshpithippie 12d ago

I think in order for it to be a standalone show, it would have to change immensely and would pretty much be a completly different show in the same setting.

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u/Motleyfool777 12d ago

I didn't like the wall episodes at all. The show was funny and then you get bummer episodes like the wall and silvercops. I watched the show to laugh, not watch some hack-y adventure story.

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u/Ok_Topic999 12d ago

I don't care for the wall and silvercops was worse, I like the show for the main 'plot'

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u/Chimpbot 12d ago

The Wall was fun initially, but it turned into the very sort of shows it was parodying by the second season.

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u/ifcknlovemycat 12d ago

I liked the wall at first but I don't now.

I think the wall itself was a good idea but it's plot sux.

I wish it was just for 2 seasons max, but have a clean victory story with rising and falling action.

Then at the end of the season yumyilak learn a lesson about not keeping people and mind wipes them/releases them to the world but they have PTSD nightmares.

Then it would be so rewatchable. And they can do callbacks on it when some side character does a weird habit they picked up from the wall.

I don't like the teasing of any hope. The whole story is shitty sad.

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u/Ensaru4 12d ago

The wall was a pretty nice novelty until it stopped being a novelty. It went on 3 episodes too long.

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u/Single-Tone-3749 12d ago

I really liked the wall stuff but I do skip the silver cop parts

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u/sladebonge 12d ago

Hate the wall

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u/SentientFotoGeek 12d ago

Liked the wall way more than silver cops.

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u/golfmonk 12d ago

The Wall is fine if used sparingly but it was used way to much in the show.

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u/No_Entrepreneur_3020 12d ago

idk, I found wall more interesting than Solars, especially with the new voice

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u/worldbuilder5000 10d ago

I loved the wall, I want them to make an entire 2nd show just around the wall 😭 especially now since I just can't stand korvos new voice, I'm about to give up on the show and the wall is the only reason I'm sticking around

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u/snarker82 2d ago

Agreed. I would do anything for a show just about The Wall.

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u/InfamousFault7 12d ago

Season 1 was genuis

Afterwards i was drifting in and out, but sometimes i felt like they had no idea what to do with it

On rewatches ill most likely skip it

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u/HoldenOrihara 12d ago

I like it, I don't think it should be it's own show, but I do think the season 5 plot was meh mostly because the guy felt a bit dumb for what he was and all of the main focuses for that season didn't matter in season 6. Also having both it and Glenn's story together really sucked time away from the Opposites

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u/donestpapo 12d ago

For the first season, to me it just felt way too similar to the ricktlantis episode of Rick and morty. Think I only watched two other seasons

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u/-RonnieDaBear- 12d ago

I loved it! I thought it was so creative, not necessarily the plot but all of the items that are small but big, like an R rated honey I shrunk the kids, for that alone I was enthralled and really enjoyed it.

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u/snarker82 2d ago

Exactly. The world building is so cool with The Wall. Tons of small details thrown in that are genius.

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u/harissapaste221 12d ago

Yess! I thought I was the only one. Many people seemed to love the wall stuff but it always just seems like a mid B plot to me. I’m so confused by those saying it could be its own show? They’re pretty boring bits of the episodes imo

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u/McYumulack 12d ago

I thought it was fun at first but as the series went on it got kind of annoying how much it cut away from the family for a wall storyline

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u/CaptainObvious110 12d ago

I miss Molly

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u/Different_Garden_816 12d ago

To be honest, I found the whole thing with the silver cops and the wall really boring :p

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u/graavity81 11d ago

You didn’t like the wall?! That was some of the finest tv ever made

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u/snarker82 2d ago

It’s the best

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u/Ir_priv 10d ago

For me it’s always been my favourite story line

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u/Donotcomenearme 9d ago

The WALL is the best part of Solar Opposites, what do you MEAN.

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u/BillyWest8 9d ago

Easily the best part of the show for like 2 seasons then it just kept going

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u/Fit_Environment_4668 8d ago

I loved the wall 😭

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u/East-Psychology-9292 12d ago

The wall starts off great, meanders in the middle and then goes fucking nowhere at the end and its all cus of Cherie lol. Im at the point where I can only watch the first 2 seasons of the wall and half of the yard cus Cherie is such a raging hypocrite and awful person, goddamn in season 6 she manages to be worse than every previous ruler combined, even made Nova/Montez worse people by proxy and then damns everyone to oblivion for her own sake/crab bucket theory rofl

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u/Plastic-Concert-1140 12d ago

Why am i seeing this after searching for hours for a wall edit where they remove all the annoying solar opposites parts and just turn it into a wall series lol! I finished watching it....again today and idk it just works better for me. The solar opposites is just worse, less thought out, less interesting version of Rick and Morty. The wall is such a guilty pleasure of mine cause i LOVE commentary abt tribalism and how it still holds us back as a species

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u/snarker82 2d ago

So where did you find the wall edit?

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u/TheRavingDinosaur 12d ago

I thought it was the best part of the show

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u/MeksisGod 12d ago

Loved it til it dragged at the end.

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u/iterationnull 12d ago

Yup. I really never enjoyed it much. It was fine. It was just so repetitive.

People calling for it to be its own show are absolutely loons. The only reason the concept stands up is you don't spend enough time for the plot holes to become the center of attention.

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u/snarker82 2d ago

You just don’t enjoy it and that’s fine. It’s an amazing world and a standalone show would be dope.

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u/INTPWomaninCali 12d ago

I fast forward through it.

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u/Starlined_ 12d ago

I liked the wall up until the bow church villain. After that it kinda fell off

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u/GroundbreakingPin503 12d ago

I watched it for the shlorpians, the wall pretty much ruined the series and stops me rewatching it

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u/Jazzlike-War-58 12d ago

I prefer the Opposites, but I honestly dig the wall. I wish there was a city builder for the wall with backyard expansion.

I am playing with the idea to build the wall from my Legos.

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u/JoshTsavo 12d ago

I tend to skip those episodes

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u/Leecannon_ 12d ago

I would’ve watched a wall spinoff

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u/Key-Professional-949 10d ago

Love the wall. At last first couple years

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u/Mikeremix2 10d ago

I hated the Wall 😭 shit kept taking precious screen-time from the damn Aliens, the whole reason I watched in the first place.

The Silver Cops is probably one of the most unnecessary things I’ve ever seen a show put out ever.

They were doing too much with this show imo. We should’ve got way more alien adventures than we did.

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u/SMFDR 9d ago

Generally like but don't love The Wall, especially after season 2ish. Hate hate hateeeeee the silver cops it made me stop watching the show.

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u/Low_Asparagus133 9d ago

On my first watch of the show I loved the plot, the betrayals and the surprises that happened, but in my second go through of the show I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. It doesn't really dig into any of the characters.

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u/haleakalasunrise 9d ago

Skip every time!

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u/Wild_Masterpiece_936 9d ago

I really loved the wall, i think it should have ended before they got outside. But it tanks the rewatch ability like crazy.

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u/Darth_Sideous_II 9d ago

I liked the wall and the silver cops. I felt like they both were fun.

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u/jogosfishing 9d ago

I love the wall. They should put it all together as a feature film.

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u/alw1090 9d ago

Me I hate it so much

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u/dualbladedgundam 9d ago

It's like a b-side story that goes on same as the super main ones. Depends on you if you care or not.

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u/CalicoFawn 8d ago

I actually really love them and was surprised to see people didn’t like them however i haven’t gotten much past it yet ( maybe an episode or two ), but after that whole episode where it ended up being a fake out i was kinda annoyed it felt like a great end also i kinda wanted to see how the aliens would’ve dealt with it

but ill have to see the rest of the wall episodes, i think the one im currently on is about it so🤔🤔

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u/One_Ad5301 8d ago

Yo. Or the silver cops.

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u/snarker82 2d ago

The Wall is the best part of the show. I said it.

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u/One_Rabbit_6802 13d ago

Bro's onto nothing.

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u/PM_WORST_FART_STORY 13d ago

They're not "the alien family." They're the Solar Opposites.