Spoilers The Gifted - Season 1
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Way better than Inhumans. Not on Legion's level. So, it's watchable for now, but it's close to being on my bubble.
The civil rights debate is the strongest aspect, I think. The cold-blooded Jace Turner (Coby Bell) is easily the most interesting character so far.
Not a surprise on any level that Polaris actually does have green hair.
The civil rights debate is the strongest aspect, I think. The cold-blooded Jace Turner (Coby Bell) is easily the most interesting character so far.
Not a surprise on any level that Polaris actually does have green hair.
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of too. The daughter is a wanted fugitive + abandoned bank = raid. It was definitely a mistake to not move Blink, but I don't think the show wants to dwell on that.
First Coby Bell and now Sharon Gless. When do we get a Jeffery Donovan voiceover for an episode? Who will Bruce Campbell play?
The thing is, moving her was what triggered the attack in the first place. The more she was moved, the worse it got. So they didn't dare move her again.
What they should've done instead was just build a barricade in front of the point where the portal opened.
Not "willing," just out of options. The Underground members did express a lot of resistance to the idea of abandoning their base, but as I said, it had proved too dangerous to move Blink. Once she was knocked over in the fight and the shock threw her powers into chaos, there wasn't much they could do except run for their lives.
And if you're suggesting that they could've killed her, A, a building is more replaceable than a person's life, and B, for all they knew, killing her could've made things worse because then there'd be nobody with the power to close the portals.
Does Marvel have a Multiverse? I'm guessing this series is based on a different timeline from the X-Men movies, since there should be no Sentinel Services post-DOFP. I'm not familiar with the Von Strucker twins, so I didn't make the connection with the comics. I like Sean Teale as an actor, however. He played a charismatic Prince Condé on CW's Reign three years ago.
There was also Garret Dillahunt, so that makes three Burn Notice alumni in this episode along. I'm very curious if we'll be getting any more. Gabrielle Anwar and Bruce Campbell are both busy with other shows, so I doubt we'll see them in more than a small role if at all. I'm not what Jeffrey Donovan is up to these days.First Coby Bell and now Sharon Gless. When do we get a Jeffery Donovan voiceover for an episode? Who will Bruce Campbell play?
Really enjoyed this one. I'm a big Amy Acker fan so I really liked that this episode focused so much on her.
Pretty much every character got a chance to shine this week. I liked seeing the Struckers start to work and bond with the Underground.
Emma Dumont was one of the highlights of Aquarius, where she play our POV member of the Manson family, and she's proving to be one here too.
The Gifted is in a separate continuity from the X-Men movies, yes, just as Legion is. And one of the producers of The Gifted did invoke the idea of a multiverse (or rather, the existence of multiple timelines that Days of Future Past set the precedent for) as a justification -- though it could be just that it's a different adaptation with its own continuity.
Well, that didn't take long before the show started totally sucking.
We have Mom in contact with her brother, but the bad guys don't know it even after the angry mob who found out over the Internet came to his front door?!
That's in addition to Angry Son leaving a trail of warped parking meters to the cabbie counting change after taking them to the same place.
Like Sentinel Services wouldn't be watching her family.
Give me a break.
Too bad.
We have Mom in contact with her brother, but the bad guys don't know it even after the angry mob who found out over the Internet came to his front door?!
That's in addition to Angry Son leaving a trail of warped parking meters to the cabbie counting change after taking them to the same place.
Like Sentinel Services wouldn't be watching her family.
Give me a break.
Too bad.
I think Reed changed his mind about the deal a little too easily. I mean, sure, adorable kid, good incentive, but she's not his kid. The idea of a good father doing something terrible to other people in order to protect his family is a dramatically interesting one, and it could've been more compelling if Reed had met the mutant mother and her adorable kid, empathized with them, and still gritted his teeth and gone through with the deal because his own family had to come first no matter what. His choice here may have been more conventionally TV-heroic, but it feels like it glosses over the complexity of the situation. For all he knew, protecting these strangers would mean condemning his family to prison or worse. How many people, even generally decent people, would be able or willing to make that kind of sacrifice?
Also, I guess I like the idea of Reed going (however reluctantly) down a darker path because that would mean Amy Acker would get to continue in the role of the heroic lead, and I would find that a lot more interesting than seeing Reed in that role. Plus seeing two parents, both trying to protect their kids, ending up ensconced on opposite sides of the fight would be an intriguing dynamic. It feels like they've passed up that opportunity in favor of something simpler.
Also, I guess I like the idea of Reed going (however reluctantly) down a darker path because that would mean Amy Acker would get to continue in the role of the heroic lead, and I would find that a lot more interesting than seeing Reed in that role. Plus seeing two parents, both trying to protect their kids, ending up ensconced on opposite sides of the fight would be an intriguing dynamic. It feels like they've passed up that opportunity in favor of something simpler.
I want to like this show, but the writing for this episode was awful. Characters acting stupid for the sake of the plot, atrocious and predictable dialogue, and far too many eye-rolling moments. Oh, and look, Lorna's make-up continues to be perfect (I'm trying not to harp on that one too much but that kind of thing really bugs the hell out of me). Stephen Moyer's overacting doesn't help any. Maybe the show was like this from the get go, but it seemed really bad this time around.
Ah, it's not just me then.
Plot-tonium sets in hard this week...
Adding to the list, Cousin Oliver posting a pic of the twisted statue. Yes, kids are kids, and aren't adults, so getting mad at an adolescent for doing something stupid may seem harsh. But this show-unlike the first movie, takes place in a world where mutants are not a new thing the public isn't aware of. People have been taken away and disappeared. Your aunt and cousins show up with your uncle's whereabouts unknown, and you think sending a picture to a buddy-no matter how trustworthy you think he is, is a smart move?
But we needed the angry mob to threaten the heroes, so activate plot-tonium amplifier! Wouldn't it have been wonderful if the neighbors that showed up wanted to help by alerting them to the danger of the picture getting posted online, rather than wave pitchforks and rifles?I want the show to succeed, so let's hope that as it progresses, they will avoid groan inducing bouts of characters behaving stupidly.
I guess I'm the only one who actually enjoyed this one.
I actually like the fact that Reed couldn't go through with his plan with Turner. Sure it might have been more dramatic if he had gone through with it and betrayed the Underground, but I get tired of shows like this where people keep those kinds of secrets from each other.
The stuff with Caitlin's brother and his son was a nice way to show just how badly average are looking at mutants in this world.
They seem to be setting Andy up to head in a rather dark direction.
It will be interesting to see what kind of effects Dreamer giving Clarice her memories will have.
I actually like the fact that Reed couldn't go through with his plan with Turner. Sure it might have been more dramatic if he had gone through with it and betrayed the Underground, but I get tired of shows like this where people keep those kinds of secrets from each other.
The stuff with Caitlin's brother and his son was a nice way to show just how badly average are looking at mutants in this world.
They seem to be setting Andy up to head in a rather dark direction.
It will be interesting to see what kind of effects Dreamer giving Clarice her memories will have.
Adding to the list, Cousin Oliver posting a pic of the twisted statue. Yes, kids are kids, and aren't adults, so getting mad at an adolescent for doing something stupid may seem harsh. But this show-unlike the first movie, takes place in a world where mutants are not a new thing the public isn't aware of. People have been taken away and disappeared. Your aunt and cousins show up with your uncle's whereabouts unknown, and you think sending a picture to a buddy-no matter how trustworthy you think he is, is a smart move?
Sadly, that's all too realistic. There are plenty of real-world atrocities that are well-known to those willing to admit to them, but that don't get covered on the nightly news or that people just try to rationalize away and ignore, like the systematic murder and brutalization of black Americans by the police, or the ongoing abuses against Native Americans. There's a difference between what's known and what people are willing to face. People don't want to admit they live in a police state or that their own comfortable lives come at the expense of someone else's. So they hide from the truth.
The Gifted is set in a world where persecution of mutants is institutionalized, taught by the government as a good thing to protect good people against terrorists. So the media probably go along with that narrative and paint mutants as a threat rather than as innocent victims. And Caitlin's brother clearly had his own unthinking prejudices about mutants. So the kid probably never learned about how mutants are persecuted, because the news and his parents and his school wouldn't have been inclined to teach him about that side of the story. He wasn't "woke" enough to understand the danger of what he did.
Oh, I did like it for the most part. The opening scene was wonderful. I just think there could be a more interesting direction to take Reed's arc than the one they seem to be taking.
It just seemed a bit too TV-simplified to me. Yes, helping the mother and daughter was the Right Thing to Do, but if it means condemning his own wife and children to prison or worse, is it still right from a father's perspective? What made his position horrible was that he was trapped. Sentinel Services had put him in a position where any choice he made would hurt somebody, where there was no unambiguously good option. And while we in the audience have the luxury to sit back and say that he should help the people right in front of him, I question whether it would be so easy for any of us to make the choice to sacrifice our own families for the sake of strangers, even nice strangers with adorable kids.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An OT tangent-- If you're on Facebook, look up a cosplayer who goes by the name of "The Lady Nerd" (real name Brianna Lamb). She also works on The Gifted as Emma Dumont's body double, and she tends to post a lot of BTS pics and such.
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