Musings on the impact of point-of-view (POV) in the form of The Umbrella Academy’s Klaus Hargreeves — comics vs Netflix
The Umbrella Academy is a Netflix TV show based on Gerard Way’s comics of the same name.
My (and most of the fandom’s) fave character is the amazing Klaus Hargreeves, aka The Seance, whose super-power is the ability to see ghosts.
In the TV show, we can literally see the things, the ghosts, that only Klaus can see.
We get a much more intimate point-of-view (POV) for him than even the majority of the comics provide.
So what we see is what Klaus sees — but what Klaus sees is not what the other characters are seeing.
To everyone else, he’s someone who talks to thin air, looks at things that don’t seem to be there, and flinches at noises no-one else can hear.
Which, when you add mental health problems (addiction and possible PTSD,) and trauma to the mix… you start to understand just how strange Klaus may seem to everyone else, even though they’re well aware of what his powers are.