The Mutant Underground hasn't got the muscle to attack the Inner Circle's headquarters yet. Since it's not releveant now, they're not thinking about it. The show logic suggests that in the end they ally with Jace Turner.
Reeva Payge seems to be operating a House of Cards plot, ensnaring some big shot as a path to power. That said, it's still true that politically committed people talk politics. The producers seem to think talking about politics is either boring or something that should be done by the right people, all others silent. Another thing about the mutant homeland is of course the place of family, especially children and friends, and the work involved in making a life. Even if the Inner Circle was content to simply follow Reeva's orders, they'd talk about these things. The Mutant Underground won't because they don't even think about the future.
The Frost story reminds us that good or bad, there are reasons why people are the way they are, and it's not just choice. But at the same time, it doesn't admit this for Reeva or Rebecca.
In the cold open, I wondered immediately why they took the collars off the young Frosts, instead of just turning them off.
Andy's had several hairstyles now, switching in one day apparently to a middle part, then switching back. Reminds me of first season Janeway.
I'm pretty sure the pancake breakfast was not meant to tell us Andy and Rebecca were post-night together, but foreshadowing how Rebecca makes Andy a monster. I'm not sure of the actress' age, but they seem to be leaving her very, very light on make up to make her look younger. My experience is that younger girls like makeup, to the point of trying out for Raccoon Girl. Looks off.
The scenes about Reed's powers feel arbitrary because their return is so arbitrary. I wish they had Caitlin give him immunosupressants in a crisis to deliberately break down Otto's treatment.
Marcos' comment about the Inner Circle's mess, the hospital raid, confirms that a hospital confining and abusing mutants was not an issue for the Mutant Underground, but right and proper, and changing it made a mess, instead of cleaning one up.
Esme commenting on how their action has inspired mutants is paralleled by Officer Ted talking about Horst Wessel inspiring the Purifiers, which equates the Inner Circle and the Purifiers.
When Caitlin and Lauren talk about getting Andy back, I have to wonder why Lauren wants him back. It's clear she's too perfect to be tempted by the power of Fenris, and she doesn't like him either. It is curious that she never says something simple like Andy's bleaching his hair, or Caitlin and Reed didn't tell her they saw him in the security cameras either. Struckers really do not talk, do they? If they did get him back, wouldn't Lauren want to leave the family as per normal life schedule anyhow?
Speaking of graduating and going off to college, how many of these people finished high school? The Inner Circle seems in many ways to be the island of misfit toys, viewed with the normal understanding misfits are creepy and deserve what they get.
Where do these people get their money? Lauren has jewelry again, which you'd think isn't high priority.
Taylor referred to the tragedy at the hospital. Did she mean most of the mutants escaping, or did she mean the death of a jailer? If she left on principle, why did the hospital leave her with patient information, presumably including records of abuse?
Skyler Samuels is signalling Phoebe with a hand on hip, I think. Any other identifiers for Esme and Sophie?
Esme's second appeal preempted the brain fix Reeva approved.
In Baltimore it's good to see old friends, however briefly. But that reminds me, what did they do with Graph? I'm imagining them chopping him up and dropping the pieces in dumpsters.
The observation Jace is almost as good as John, his slapping down .50 cal Kyle, "the terrorists are in there," etc. are the continued Jace is good theme. Shatter kills first, so his death is just retribution, by the show's standards.
Anger makes people show their ass. Lorna seems to think having a mere aunt to sing your mother's lullaby to you is just like being a guinea pig with torture. The notion there's just no excuse because it's all just weak will and badness is kind of reactionary, judgmental and morally obtuse.
Lauren's decision to fight Andy should imply she'll squeeze his carotid artery to knock him out. Andy doesn't rip people up like Rebecca. People have never paid enough attention to Andy to notice, but the contrast with Rebecca really is hard to overlook. Reeva should know it means something about Andy. (And since Andy first manifested at fourteen, but repressed for another year does too.)
Fenris and Frost are characters that are not really human on the inside, with feelings and experiences not really like people. In a way this is kind of intriguing, but the show doesn't want to do anything with it.
The music video lyrics, High and Low by Eza, were remarkably apt to the story. Too on the nose?
