I agree with everything.
Looks like we got a Scott Pilgrim Multiverse now.
I watched with the gf. She never read the graphic novel and just saw the movie, like... way back, so I explained to her the thing we'd been talking about, how the movie misses key elements in Scott's character development and that I'd hope the show would go and do better, and well... they didn't go and do better but literally addressed that on a meta level. And the way they did it makes so much sense.
Like, we got comics Scott who went through character growth, who healed and addressed his own mistakes and found closure for him and those he hurt, but... Ramona never did.
Both comics Ramona and movie Ramona only got her past pushed away by way of her new bf beating her exes to death. She never found closure, and never worked to heal and get better, she just... got a new start, with her past just being compartmentalised away... never mention movie Scott, who heavily suffers from Nice Guy Syndrome and works through nothing really.
So now we got a version of Scott and a version of Ramona who went though character growth and learned how to heal and face the pain they caused others... while also giving closure to those they hurt.
When Lucas started to befriend G-Man I had kinda hoped they'd end up creating a League of Friendship or something, also taking Scott under their wings, but well, we can't have it all.
Still kinda missing Lisa - I feel like they could have used her well for this type of plot - and I think they did Envy dirty in this version.
Also, at some points I like how this all was filled to the brim with cameos and references, at others it felt a bit much. Like, yeah we get it, Edgar Wright plays the director Edgar Wrong here, it was fun, but... he doesn't have to get like 15 minutes of screen time in this episode, it doesn't really add anything.
Speaking of Edgar Wright, at some points I actually said out loud "That must have been a cameo!", and one of those was when the studio guards appeared. And I went "Wait are those Simon Pegg and Nick Frost?", all the way from "They did sound British right?" to explaining their connection to the movie via Edgar Wright, actually throwing my arms up in victory after reading their names in the credits.
But yeah, while I'm sure insufferable weird misogynistic nerds are already writing up manifestos about how much they hate it, I had fun and enjoyed it a lot!