Spoilers The Gifted - Season 2

[Christopher]

It was cancelled due to poor ratings. Simple as that.

Right. The article makes that clear -- it was the lowest-rated FOX drama of the season, so it would've been doomed regardless of any corporate buyouts.

 

[Kirk Prime]

I felt the show was too slow moving and wasn't that compelling for me. I stopped watching about 3 episodes into the second season.

 

[stj]

Killing Reeva Payge as happy ending? That's very much like a movie which sees the hanging of John Brown as the happy ending because it keeps the nation from being divided.

A much better choice for a happy ending would have been the death of Jace Turner.

The show did not lose its way in the second season.It was very deliberate in the wrong choices it made, particularly with its crazed insistence that Jace Turner was a good man just led astray by an unfortunate series of woes and tragic coincidences. If anything the family drama lost the plot in the first season, when they introduced the incest motif then couldn't handle it. And if anything turning Amy Acker into a pale copy of Root was finding their way to a more commercial path.

 

[KimMH]

Disappointing but not surprising. I’m sorry to see it end.

 

[Aragorn]

Low ratings and no creative ambition. Of course it had to go.

 

[crookeddy]

Ryan "just a tool...just a loose end..." is bad writing. Much of the action is initiated by Ryan. If he does this without a reason, with no goal of his own, he's a phony character. Ryan as puppet is the show insisting that an oppressed group is not oppressed by the government, by the powerful or even by the majority. Ryan as Reeva's mask means all the trouble is caused by the evil Other, agitating the otherwise decent minorities so they bring troubles on themselves. The show already insists Jace is a good man. Insisting that a shameless villain is not even one of "us," but one of *them* is not really acceptable in my opinion.

And, again, confessions do not change anything. Previous episodes showed us no one blinked an eye about the torture of mutants in mental hospitals. That doctor was going merrily about her business. No one blinked an eye about the revelations of Creed's past dealing. Employees of a bank that profited from forced labor and financed addictive drugs were universally regarded as innocents, especially by the Mutant Underground. No one blinked an eye about the torture of mutants by the collars. Everyone thought the release of mutant prisoners was a horrible crime, especially the Mutant Underground, which only favors the escape of their personal friends. This is all on screen, even if one chooses to ignore comments about it.

How many bankers have you murdered in cold blood today, mr. terrorist supporter? You know what, your breed of baiting has grown old. I will not be addressing your bait any longer.

 

[crookeddy]

I wonder if anyone will start one of those silly petitions to bring The Gifted back... The cancelation has been greeted with extreme apathy so much... kind of like the show itself I suppose.

 

[theenglish]

I'm not really sorry to see the show go. I enjoyed it for what it was but as was posted here nearly every week The Gifted was a concept with a lot of real potential but poor execution, mistakes in characterization, and plot points that happened for the sake of plot needs. It is a shame because I loved a lot of the characters and really wanted to see where the story was going.

 

[jmc247]

Well, that was a clumsy finale. They made Polaris, their most powerful member, practically useless in the final fight for no apparent reason, all so they could justify having the bland white male lead save the day all by himself. Okay, they did so in a way that permanently resolved the problem of having such a bland lead character, but that's probably a moot point given the show's iffy chances of renewal.

I also can't believe they actually went ahead and had the Frosts succeed in forcing Fenris to destroy Sentinel Services -- and that they rushed through the scene in such a cursory way and barely touched on its impact. Sure, they had newscasters talking about its aftermath, but there was hardly anything about its personal impact on the kids that they were made to do that.

I really liked The Gifted in its first season, but the second season has been a mess, and I won't mind at all if this was the end.

Agreed, the first season was really good, the second was a disaster. Polaris was a mess as they turned her into the Inner Circle's Catalin Strucker for the first half of the season, then had her have a nervous breakdown over Reeva hiring some mercenaries and then she spent the entire second half the season the worlds worst double agent, crying and apologizing, or being completely worthless. The actress came out and said interviews she didn't recognize the character she was playing and I didn't recognize the character I was watching.

What it feels like happened was a lot of wrong decisions by the creative staff starting with turning the Hellfire Club into some new character's Brotherhood instead of using the Hellfire Club format of multiple leaders. Then they screwed up by giving too much time to the Stuckers and not having the MU focus on saving a new mutant each episode instead of complaining.
They had great stuff to work with, but they got very lazy and didn't stay true to their own creations I felt in season 2.