Jupiter's Legacy

I haven't read the comics; just seen the Netflix show.  Reading the synopsis of the comics, it doesn't seem like a particularly faithful adaptation.  That can be fine, but there are problems with the structure of the storytelling.

The basic premise of the show is the conflict between two generations of superheroes, where the codes of conduct the old superheroes lived by maybe don't work anymore.  This is a great idea, with a lot of potential.

The series begins when the next generation are small children, then jumps forward to when they're young adults who are joining their parents as superheroes, and then flips back and forth between the present and the time before their parents gained their super powers.  Flipping back to the past can be a great technique when the events of the past directly affect, or provide a mirror for, the events of the present; unfortunately, the scenes of the past have little to zero bearing on the scenes in the present.  We are simply being shown two different stories in parallel. 

There are at least a couple of approaches that could have worked:

1. If they want the past to be about the period before the old generation got their super powers, then the "present" time period should be when the next generation are small children, before their powers manifest, so that we can examine the similarities and differences between what generation went through when their powers were nascent.
2. If they want the present to be when the next generation are young adults at the beginning of their careers as superheroes, then the past time period should be just after the old generation got their super powers, so that we can examine the similarities and differences between what life was like as a super in the "good old days" versus the now.
   

The promised premise suggests #2, but the show's choice is to take the past from #1 and the present from #2, and it just doesn't work at all.