Fast national ratings show The Gifted rising to 1.1 in the core 18-49 demographic last night from 1.0 last week. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...1QNBJ6KsfJvJzIF8-bL6EPw/pubhtml?gid=776858817 I think it’s pretty solid for being reupped at this point. On ABC it would be a bit more iffy, but Fox is just happy to have dramas above a 1 in the core demo and it doubling its ratings by DVR also helps.
Last night's episode was good. We finally learned what July 15th was and it was not what I expected. I wonder if we'll get to see any other perspectives on it in more flashbacks? They actually made me feel bad for Turner at the end there. I have to admit, I was a bit surprised we actually got everybody together this quickly. I hope they actually keep them at least working together for a while. I have to admit, I'm getting a bit of a kick out of how they are having some of the characters combining their powers, like the Strucker twins last week, and now Polaris and Eclipse's little mirror trick last night. Seeing this show fully embrace it's characters powers really makes me wish Inhumans would do more with theirs.
Isn't the event pretty much exactly what the event was in Heroes Reborn? I definitely didn't want them to mindwipe the dude - the whole time i was going NO, don't prove them RIGHT; be BETTER then them! It definitely makes me miss Heroes.... any actual fans from back in the day on here?
The mind wipe was an accident. When the tear gas came in and the others pulled Dreamer away, she cried, "No, let me finish, I can't leave him like this!" So it wasn't what she meant to do to him.
I caught up today, having missed last week's due to baseball, Stranger Things, and real life (trademark pending). The story is getting better but the dialogue still sucks and the show is not subtle at all. They're working with great ideas but the execution remains poor.
Yeah, she was just looking through his memories for information on Pulse, and he only ended up the way he did because they pulled her away before she was done.
As suspected, the use of the name "Strucker" was not random. Andrea and Andreas are coming... http://themarvelreport.com/2017/11/andrea-andreas-von-strucker-gifted/
The sloppy battlefield surgery was sloppy. I'm not a doctor, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but the old cliche "get the bullet out and he'll be fine" schtick never rang true for me. Okay, the bullet's out, so what? What about all the damage the bullet DID? You still have to repair the ruptured kidney, lacerated liver, punctured arteries... Not to mention the further trauma of the incision she made getting the bullet! Oy! (And maybe you don't have to get the bullet out - my father had Japanese shrapnel in his groin since 1945. The docs chose to leave it in place, because trying to get it out would have caused more damage than leaving it in, and I wouldn't be here!).
Oh my God, the surgery bugged the hell out of me for exactly those reasons. The daughter clamped the bleeding with her abilities and then mom just seemed to sew up the incision. Is the powered clamp still in there? What happens when daughter releases it? That guy will have his abdominal cavity filled with blood!
That bugged me, too. It wasn't all that clear what they were doing. I also couldn't stand all the drama and debate going on while the guy is lying there, moments from death. Why was the Mom freaking the hell out over a bullet wound but was totally together when wormhole -girl was seizing and tearing holes in the fabric of the universe? I find it hard to believe a trained nurse would fall apart like that.
Yeah, that whole thing bugged the fuck out of me. Mom sews up and then the internal bleeding will resume. That's still a major problem and mom should've known that. That kind of obtuse storytelling really hurts the show.
I really want to like this show, but there's a combination of bone headed writing and a largely underwhelming cast that's making it very difficult. I don't have the Amy Acker love that others seem to that will keep me coming back week after week. I think I like Coby Bell's performance the best, to be honest.
But, will it be a flashback or will they be in the current mix? Anyway it will be really interesting to see tonight how Lauren and Andy respond to shall we say Lorna’s boot camp. It’s a good bet it will be laced with some philosophy unfamiliar to Lauren.
I'm not crazy about seeing Reed move into the lead-hero role and Caitlin get relegated to overprotective mom and helpmate. I liked her and the kids as a team choosing to work with the resistance. And of course Amy Acker is a much more interesting performer than Stephen Moyer. Hmm... So the X-Men specifically assigned Thunderbird to the resistance. Well, I guess that's a better fate than he had in the comics. I think this is the first time we've heard Sentinel Services referred to as "the Sentinels."
This series is circling the drain. Every scene from this week's episode was an uninteresting cliche, with the possible exception of Illusion Boy using Rome for Florence. Mom pulling her daughter from combat training was especially tedious; perhaps Mom should just turn herself in. So, you see a truck split in two at a four-way intersection, and you think the truck could have only gone one of those two ways?!? To me, that's screaming out that the third way forward is being covered up. Why not make it seem like the truck turned right or left? Why both?!? Just pick one way for the truck to seemingly go other than the way it went, and make it look normal. Gimme a break....
Is Jace the most interesting character on the show? Losing his daughter all over again is a pretty harsh fate. It drove him to call up the evil doctor, but you could kind of see just a tiny bit of worry on his face. Safe to say that whatever's happening to these mutants is also a pretty harsh fate, and my guess is that Jace will see the light and decide that he actually has to help mutants in the end. And yeah, truck-splitting is an odd illusion, but I can see why no cops would decide to go straight ahead, where there's clearly no truck visible, as opposed to around the corners that they can't see. The even crazier bit was the truck doing the Dukes of Hazzard thing in the first place. They showed an extremely violent ride for the folks in the back, but that's one tough truck right there. (Of course, it was a Claremont truck! Probably full of all sorts of convoluted history and connections, and won't be seen again for another hundred episodes.)
All of these issues and the terrible dialogue really hurt this show. I really want to enjoy it but it continuously holds itself back with the dialogue and the clichés. Amy Acker was the main reason why I decided to give the show a chance despite the lukewarm trailers, and as Christopher said, she's horribly wasted.
What disturbed me the most was when Agent Turner listed "They protest the government" as one of the reasons for thinking of the mutants as terrorists. That's horrifying, the mindset of a dictatorship, and is far more evil than anything we've seen or heard from Turner to date. Someone needs to give that guy a copy of the Constitution of the United States. Protesting the government is a guaranteed right of American citizens. At least, it still is for the moment.