Geek Kingdom : Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

WHAT’S THE STORY ABOUT?

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off begins similarly to the first volume of the comic. After dreaming about a mysterious girl for days on end, Scott, a down on his luck loser in a band with his friends while also “dating” a high schooler, goes to a party where he comes across the girl that he keeps dreaming of, Ramona Flowers. After the party, Scott manages to get in contact with her, but not before getting a letter from someone challenging him to a duel over Ramona. Being an oblivious dolt, Scott foolishly ignores this letter and convinces Ramona to go on a date with him, where the two fall in love. He then brings Ramona to the local “Battle of the Bands”, where he plans on also breaking up with his high schooler “girlfriend”, Knives Chau. Unfortunately, it turns out that the person who sent Scott the letter, Matthew Patel, is part of the League of Evil Exes, an organisation with Ramona’s seven evil ex-boyfriends who Scott must defeat in order to date her. And that is when the story veers off the tracks, abandoning the original plot to do something completely different. This works to the show’s favour, as a third direct adaptation would have been boring and predictable, and it manages to pull off this risky manoeuvre surprisingly well while going into more depth on previously shallow characters, such as Lucas Lee and Young Niel. In the end, the story manages to capture the same charm as the comics, while expanding on the universe and the people that inhabit the mystical land of Toronto, Canada.