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Spoilers The Gifted - Season 1

Oh, I understand your position, and my problem wouldn't have been with him choosing his family over the other, it was just that if he had gone through with it, then we would have gotten a big story with him now trying to hide the fact that he cooperated with Sentinel Services. I get tired of characters constantly sneaking around with secrets like that.

That's not where I saw it going at all. I mean, that presupposes that he'd actually be reunited with his family sometime soon. But that reunion would be contingent on Turner actually succeeding on capturing the Mutant Underground and the Struckers (which seems an unlikely thing to happen so early) and then keeping his promise not to prosecute the latter (which seems unlikely in general). What I was thinking was that we'd continue to have Reed working with SS (hey, I just noticed how Nazi that acronym is) and Caitlin and the kids still working with the Underground, each of them getting more entrenched on opposite sides even though both of them see themselves as protecting their kids, and eventually coming into direct conflict, each of them unable to understand how the other could've made the choices they did. I think that could be an intriguing dynamic, two spouses starting in the same place and with the same goals but making totally opposite decisions for what they thought were the right reasons.


I wonder how long it will be before we get to learn exactly what the big incident was that killed Turner's kid and possibly took out the X-Men and Brotherhood? He said something about an energy blast that killed his kid (daughter?), so I'm thinking it might have been similar to The Stamford Incident from the comics.

To me, the phrase "energy blast" suggests something like the kind of individual energy-projection powers that many mutants have, e.g. Cyclops's optic force beams or Eclipse's bursts of light, rather than a massive explosion. It sounded to me like she was caught in the crossfire of a battle between the X-Men and the Brotherhood, and there were so many fighters and so many kinds of energy bolts flying that it was unclear which mutant the fatal blast came from. At least, that was my impression.
 
What you're talking about there does sound a lot more interesting than what I had in mind. I had just assumed he'd get reunited with his family and the Underground, and then we'd just get him sneaking around and feeding the SS information.

Some of the promotional stuff reffered to some kind of big 9/11 level mutant related disaster, so I had assumed that was where Turner's kid was killed. I would think that would probably be something bigger than just a normal battle between the two groups.
 
Some of the promotional stuff reffered to some kind of big 9/11 level mutant related disaster, so I had assumed that was where Turner's kid was killed. I would think that would probably be something bigger than just a normal battle between the two groups.

Sure, but I'm thinking along the lines of a battle that escalated out of hand and led to a lot of civilian casualties. As I said, the phrase "energy blast" suggests an energy-projection power rather than an explosion, at least to me.
 
Ah, I see what you're saying now, and that definitely would be a good possibility.
 
I wonder if they're going to deviate from the setup of this show anytime soon. The whole hiding from Sentinel Services from the same hideout seems seems rather limited and tedious.
 
I wonder if they're going to deviate from the setup of this show anytime soon. The whole hiding from Sentinel Services from the same hideout seems seems rather limited and tedious.

Well, they must've spent a lot on building such a big set, so I doubt they'll be abandoning it anytime soon. But I'm sure they'll find ways to advance the storyline.
 
I've been pretty happy with how the story has developed so far. We're still in the set up phase, so it'll probably be a little while before things really get going.
 
I enjoyed this week's episode, even if it wasn't quite perfect thanks to some of the complaints mentioned above.

I liked how we got to see Dreamer and consider the possible repercussions of her power. Also liked how Thunderbird was the teacher. Seeing as how he's one of the "veteran" characters they picked for the lineup of this show. And the aurora borealis effect was pretty cool.

I definitely enjoyed the moral dilemma Reed was facing, and am glad he made the choice that he did.

Perhaps the best little bit in the episode was the text exchange between Turner and his wife. Simple. Effective.

By the way, the mother there was played by Erin Way, who was a regular in season 2 of Syfy's Alphas, another show about a superpowered genetic minority persecuted by society.
Had to think about it for a bit, but then I realized that she was the teacher on Colony.
 
Interesting... Both DC and Marvel have female characters named Beautiful Dreamer, after the Stephen Foster song -- respectively, a member of the Forever People created by Jack Kirby in 1971 and a member of the Morlocks created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman in 1985. Both have psionic powers that can mislead people -- the DC character can create illusions and the Marvel character can create false memories. Neither one has a more conventional name, at least none that's been established. And both Beautiful Dreamers have been adapted to television simply as "Dreamer" -- the DC character in a 2011 Young Justice episode and the Marvel character here.
 
And the aurora borealis effect was pretty cool.
That was. It was really a beautiful moment. I also like how it laid the foundation for the discussion of the interaction of powers. It made the negatives of the episode frustrating, that it could be so good and so bad at the same time (although which is really typical of the whole comics in film genre).
 
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Perhaps the best little bit in the episode was the text exchange between Turner and his wife. Simple. Effective.
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What was the text message? My middle-aged eyes couldn't make it out and I was too lazy to pause the screen so I could get up and go squint at the TV set.

Seriously, I wish TV shows would stop assuming that we can easily read what's on people's phones. I get that people often text each other these days, but I much prefer it when any texts get rendered as big speech bubbles on the screen.
 
What was the text message? My middle-aged eyes couldn't make it out and I was too lazy to pause the screen so I could get up and go squint at the TV set.

Basically just a normal "Be home soon," "Okay, love you" sort of exchange, IIRC -- just to underline the Ordinary Men/banality of evil dynamic, the way that oppressive institutions thrive because of the basically decent, well-meaning people who unthinkingly participate in the injustice and brutality and then go home and hug their wives and kids.
 
Basically just a normal "Be home soon," "Okay, love you" sort of exchange, IIRC -- just to underline the Ordinary Men/banality of evil dynamic,
Just looked it up, his wife's name is Paula.

paula - "Be safe out there tonight."
jace - "Love you. Home late."
paula - "Proud of you."

The "proud of you" support from the wife is what I appreciated the most about the text exchange.
 
Okay, that was an episode of Burn Notice. We had the meeting with the villain in the nightclub and the ambush that went sideways that they had to recover from.

That said, cool episode, and I'm glad Lorna is back with the main group. Also liked how invisible guy got shot, showing that there are indeed consequences to our people's action.

Also impressed that the two kids actually listened to mom, and didn't stick around to help.
 
I don't much care for the "Eclipse gets drawn back into a drug gang" plotline, but I quite like the actress playing the gang leader. A gorgeous woman with an even more gorgeous voice. Kinda like a Latina Amy Jo Johnson.

Interesting to see the Strucklings combining their powers, since the comics twins they're very loosely based on only have powers when they work in concert (specifically when they touch).

A bit odd that Lorna insisted on being called Polaris when all her friends call her Lorna. I guess maybe the former is a statement she's making to the authorities, embracing a mutant identity as an expression of resistance/defiance. But the show is a bit inconsistent about which names they use. E.g. Blink is usually called Clarice, but Sage was addressed as Sage instead of Tessa.
 
The scene in the beginning reminded me a lot of morph being captured in the animated series.
 
This episode was better than last week's. It's alright with me if this becomes the Polaris show. I like how Eclipse is getting sucked back into his old life.
 
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