The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX

[Enterprise is Great]

After the bad reviews I was expecting a total train wreck but it wasn't that bad. But it wasn't that great either. Some of the acting was bad especially from the actress playing Crystal and Maximus' hench woman was that great either. How come Lockjaw took everyone to different places when he was told to put them together? Did he get confused? Did something cause his powers to malfunction?

 

[Beagleman]

That was surprisingly decent, why did the marketing make it look like bland crap? I'll be back for more.

 

[Reverend]

I know it's a stupid thing to fixate on given what else is going on, but are we really supposed to believe that nobody got in their car before sundown and noticed a pair of legs sticking out from that skip?

It's things like that that actually bothers me more about this show than almost anything else: stupid details that betray a lack of thought and/or laziness. It shows they either don't care or think the audience is too stupid to notice. In either case it makes it impossible to really invest in the narrative.

 

[Christopher]

Come on! It's the moon! How is it this hard to know how it works on the most basic level?

I'm amazed at how many people don't even know it's possible for the Moon to be in the daytime sky, assuming it only comes out at night. I mean, you can just look up and see it in the daytime sky for two weeks out of every four (even if it wouldn't be full then). But I guess people just don't look at the sky much. I remember a day back in college, even before everyone had cell phones to obsess over, when I was on the bus admiring the beautiful clouds in the sky, and I realized nobody else on the entire bus was looking at them.

How come Lockjaw took everyone to different places when he was told to put them together? Did he get confused? Did something cause his powers to malfunction?

It seemed odd to me, but then I realized that he and the other Attilan inhabitants have lived pretty much their entire lives within the confines of the city. So Lockjaw probably doesn't have a lot of practice at teleporting more than a few kilometers, let alone nearly 400,000 km in one go. So over that range, his margin of error would be amplified. Particularly since the Earth's surface would be rotating at over 1550 km/h at Oahu's latitude. (Yes, I found an online app to calculate that.) So even if he aimed at the same point relative to where he started, he'd have to correct for the Earth's rotation, and he's not used to doing that. Really, considering all that, they're lucky he didn't dump them in the ocean.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

All of these "It wasn't a train wreck like the early reviews suggest, but it was just okay" isn't much of a ringing endorsement. I'm not going to bother, especially when there are plenty of great shows to watch instead. I'll probably tune in for the Agents of SHIELD crossover episode, but otherwise meh.

 

[Christopher]

I'm kinda thinking that this would've been better done as a season arc on Agents of SHIELD. Coulson's team encounters a mute guy who can destroy things with his voice, they take him into custody and try to get him to explain himself, then other unregistered Inhumans start to show up and get into fights with each other, and the whole larger Royal Family saga is gradually unfolded.

 

[Reverend]

The problem is the whole concept of the Royal Family is just too big and too expensive to really do justice to on a TV budget. Whether it be a show all to their own or as the A-story arc of an AoS half-season. It's always going to come off as cheep and "Smallvilleified" (yes I just made that up!)

As I've said elsewhere, once the possibility of an actual movie was off the table, they would have been better off just dropping the whole thing and kept Inhumans as the stand-ins for mutants, nothing more.

 

[JD]

I actually kind of hope this can get another season. It has the potential to be a great show, it just needs time to work out some pretty big bugs.

I'm kinda thinking that this would've been better done as a season arc on Agents of SHIELD. Coulson's team encounters a mute guy who can destroy things with his voice, they take him into custody and try to get him to explain himself, then other unregistered Inhumans start to show up and get into fights with each other, and the whole larger Royal Family saga is gradually unfolded.

When they first introduced the whole Inhumans concept of AoS, I had assumed this was more or less what they were building up to.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I actually kind of hope this can get another season. It has the potential to be a great show, it just needs time to work out some pretty big bugs.

And keep the big dog.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I was really rather hoping that they would make some sort of connection between those armed nitwits at the beginning of the episode and the Watchdogs. That would be an amazing twist if it were Maximus that was ultimately responsible for the group that is trying to wipe out Inhumans on AoS.

 

[Ethros]

Just watched it, yeah wasn't that bad. Yeah it was cheap & cheesy in parts, but no more than as others have said AoS s1, or say something like Arrow or Supergirl. Were people on the "internet hate machine" genuinely expecting something like Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy style budget?
I agree though the decision to market it as some "Imax" event was laughable; I would definitely not have paid the price of an Imax ticket to go watch that.
But I'll watch it next week, and it somehow if it does get a second season hopefully they'll learn a lot from their mistakes.

 

[Christopher]

I was really rather hoping that they would make some sort of connection between those arms nitwits at the beginning of the episode and the Watchdogs. That would be an amazing twist if it were Maximus that was ultimately responsible for the group that is trying to wipe out Inhumans on AoS.

That doesn't seem like it would fit his goals, though. He was targeting the Royal Family; this was a hit on Triton. I'd assume Maximus just wanted it to look like they were after the Earth Inhuman woman instead.

 

[Turtletrekker]

That doesn't seem like it would fit his goals, though. He was targeting the Royal Family; this was a hit on Triton. I'd assume Maximus just wanted it to look like they were after the Earth Inhuman woman instead.

Well, we did see that Maximus didn't really seem to care much about Earth Inhumans both by the way his people mowed down the one with Triton and with his attitude towards bringing them to Attilan.

Of course, his long-range goal seems to be to come to Earth, where he could have a ready-made faction there already in place to help him unite the Earth Inhumans against a perceived threat from the humans that he created. It would be very Palpatine-esque

 

[Anwar]

I'm starting to think the negative reaction was partly a response to X-Fans who are upset that their prominence in Marvel has been getting further and further reduced over the years.

 

[Christopher]

Well, we did see that Maximus didn't really seem to care much about Earth Inhumans both by the way his people mowed down the one with Triton and with his attitude towards bringing them to Attilan.

His objection to bringing them to Attilan was that Attilan barely had the resources to support the people it already had. It's not the Earth Inhumans he has an issue with, it's Attilan itself.

Of course, his long-range goal seems to be to come to Earth, where he could have a ready-made faction there already in place to help him unite the Earth Inhumans against a perceived threat from the humans that he created. It would be very Palpatine-esque

Sure -- he'd want the Earth Inhumans on his side. Not to mention that backing a group of humans who want to wipe out all Inhumans on Earth would be a terrible idea if his goal is to relocate to Earth.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The problem is the whole concept of the Royal Family is just too big and too expensive to really do justice to on a TV budget.

It's tricky since I do think long-form storytelling is better than a movie for something like this. Even this story feels like it moved too fast, imo.

 

[Reverend]

It's tricky since I do think long-form storytelling is better than a movie for something like this. Even this story feels like it moved too fast, imo.

I don't necessarily disagree, but the production costs would require something much more lavish than network TV is willing to fork out and let's be honest, the material doesn't exactly warrant the 'Game of Thrones' treatment. Even at that level it might struggle and I doubt the audience is there to justify it either.

Bottom line: not everything really deserves an adaptation.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

I'm starting to think the negative reaction was partly a response to X-Fans who are upset that their prominence in Marvel has been getting further and further reduced over the years.

Even they've probably seen by now that their books aren't getting cancelled and they're still part of the universe. It's been almost a decade! Sure, Marvel is pushing Inhumans in the books but you can't say they aren't putting top talent on the X-books, liking the stories they produce or not.
Right? Hopefully?

And are there really that many out there that they can sway the ratings of a whole tv show, anyways?

 

[Anwar]

Even they've probably seen by now that their books aren't getting cancelled and they're still part of the universe. It's been almost a decade! Sure, Marvel is pushing Inhumans in the books but you can't say they aren't putting top talent on the X-books, liking the stories they produce or not.
Right? Hopefully?

And are there really that many out there that they can sway the ratings of a whole tv show, anyways?

Yes, but they're PO'ed that the X-Men are no longer basically treated like the Golden Children of Marvel and other heroes are being treated with more respect now. It's not enough for the X-Men to be a major book, all others must be treated lesser.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I'm with @Anwar . It's been some years since I've frequented the CBR message boards, but some of the X-Men fans there represent the "very finest" the internet has to offer if you know what I mean. Lunatics, trolls, you name it.