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It’s no secret that we at Popgeeks felt let down by Runaways’ first season, mainly due to the fact that the event we were promised didn’t happen until the season was over. We signed up for a thrilling superhero adventure about six underdogs forced to battle their own parents, not a rehash of The OC. The show has improved now that the kids are underground, but why did they drag their feet in getting there? A new interview with showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, published by iO9, sheds a little light on that decision. According to Schwartz, they wanted as much time as possible to establish the characters and develop them. The first season was spent setting up our world, our families, having the kids making this terrible discovery, and really earn that moment where they end up blowing up their lives to run away. We knew that once they went on the run, that we had to really hit the ground running and begin telling the story we

A trailer doesn’t tell you everything, and they can often be complete fabrications of what a show truly is. The trailers for Runaways Season 1 didn’t tell people they’d be dialing up Hulu every week to watch the gang NOT run away. If you feel like giving up on it now, I don’t blame you, but the Season 2 trailer suggests an improvement. For one thing, we KNOW they’ll be runaways this time, because they actually got around to it. They waited until the last minute, but they did the deed. And the trailer suggests a ton of other great things the comics have yet the first season did not: Karolina’s alien powers (she’s still going to be an alien, right? Right??) Nico working ACTUAL MAGIC (please, no pseudoscience “technology” excuses this time), and MORE DINOSAUR. Plus, we meet Topher the vampire. And….who’s the mole? The mystery introduced in the comic WILL be done on the show, as the season finale confirmed. Will we find out the answer this time?

The Runaways are coming back this holiday season, and we have the new trailer to prove it. Some might argue otherwise, but Season 1 was a large disappointment, stretching the plot of the first issue out to a season’s worth of episodes while focusing more on teen drama and talking than anything resembling superheroics. Seriously, when you find out your parents are dangerous supervillains, you RUN. It’s what you do. Fortunately, the minute’s worth of clips we get in Hulu’s new trailer come closer to what we wanted from the show in the beginning. There are lots of spectacular action shots, bright bolts of magic flung everywhere, Nico being awesome multiple times, and most importantly, appearances from the dinosaur. There is even one half-second glimpse of what appears to be Karolina kissing Nico — fans of the comics had to wait through 17 years of WT/WT teasing to see that. Assuming it’s not a dream sequence. Yes, now that they’ve actually become what the one-word title of the series describes,