It's just too serious.

I feel like the Tick should be funny. REALLY funny. That has been the defining quality of that world. Goofy, strange, sometimes nonsensical and completely over the top absurd. I didn't really get that out of this pilot.

It just seemed like another cliché superhero origin story with too much melodrama and a tiny bit of humor. Funny that the one thing that makes the Tick different from every other superhero story is what they failed to focus on. Like no one cares about the relationship between Arthur and his sister. We just want a good laugh. That's why you watch THE TICK instead of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Spiderman, etc. If you try and make it more serious it defeats the point of the story.

I do think it has potential though, they just need better writing.