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The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX

Turtletrekker said:
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.
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There are always extreme voices out there, but they're usually a minority, even though they make a disproportionate amount of noise.

Speaking for myself, I think the idea that enjoying the X-Men requires hating the Inhumans or vice-versa is totally ridiculous. Why can't we enjoy both? Having good X-Men stories and good Inhumans stories at the same time would be great. The more good stories we get, the better. There have been both good and bad X-Men stories on film. There have been good Inhumans stories on Agents of SHIELD. But so far, the Inhumans TV series is not shaping up to be a good story -- at best, it may be a mediocre and flawed one.
 
Turtletrekker said:
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.
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Again, enough people to ruin a television show? Does that seem at all even close to likely?
 
Yeah, a bunch of disgruntled X-Men fans did not write all those negative reviews. People who went to the movies and were rightly disappointed did. Given what I've seen, most of that criticism seems well in proportion to the quality of the show.
 
Yeah, I agree. As toxic as some X-fans on CBR are, they're not to blame except in maybe the most marginal sense.
 
CBR has posted an article about how Maximus is really the hero of Inhumans. I was going to post a link but the article seems to have disappeared for some reason.

I keep wondering if this was always the intent, or if it's just an example of bad writing.
 
I'm not that impressed so far. But . . . Rome wasn't built in a day. By the way . . . two Vietnam Era songs in one episode? Jeez.
 
Well, it's not like all the X-men movies are all great or anything. It has to be the most inconsistent superhero franchise out there, half of their movies are so forgettable.

With Hugh Jackman gone, the movies are basically screwed.
 
JD said:
CBR has posted an article about how Maximus is really the hero of Inhumans. I was going to post a link but the article seems to have disappeared for some reason.

I keep wondering if this was always the intent, or if it's just an example of bad writing.
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I think the logic for him being the villain is straightforward. In order for his plan to succeed, they need to leave the moon, which involves an attack on Earth. But I agree that's not well-explained, at best.
 
Not horrible. The cast is good. I love Medusa, and basically the whole slew of good-guy mains.

It would seem that we are supposed to believe that something is interfering with Inhuman abilities in Hawaii, first with Lockjaw's sense of direction and then with Karnak's.

There's some eyebrow-raising wonkiness with the wristbands, like why can't Black Bolt key in signals via teletype or Morse-ish code, and why the wristbands can't be used to track everybody. It doesn't seem like the phase of the Moon got nailed down very well. I don't like the emo rock or whatever that noise is that it seems like some people might think is music.

Will watch.
 
Okay, I'll keep watching for sure. Hope it gets better.

Not horrible overall, but certain elements definitely needed help.

For all the complaints of the costume and the hair and the Crystal and the dialogue, I think the biggest issue is that quite simply the royal family seem to be the "bad guys" who are being treated like the heores on a tv show. And not exactly bad or evil precisely, but as many have pointed out, Maximus's arguments against their positions and policies seem to be correct or at the very least something most of us would cheer for folks to rise up against the 1% for. (Send them to the mines? You serious? That's ALWAYS something that the bad guys do, right?)

Will the show be able to succesfully reconcile their positions over the next 6 episodes? I can't exactly picture Black Bolt and Medusa finding much sympathy for the "lower" Inhumans while they're on vacation down in Hawai'i.

Cubic Centimeter said:
It would seem that we are supposed to believe that something is interfering with Inhuman abilities in Hawaii, first with Lockjaw's sense of direction and then with Karnak's.
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I think Karnak hit his head. I suppose there may be something else there as you speculate, but for now that seems an easy enough explanation. (I was expecting a "rewind" scene where he decided not to descend down the cliff in that manner. Surely I'm not alone.)
 
kitik said:
I was expecting a "rewind" scene where he decided not to descend down the cliff in that manner. Surely I'm not alone.
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Yep. One thought I had was maybe that happens only when he dies, but then again it could be related to the other issue (or not).
 
This is awful. I wanted to like this, but it's easily the worst installment of the MCU. If I were involved in making Iron Fist, Id be relieved that my show has passed that torch to these folks. Relentlessly dull, flat and boring. Black Bolt is stiff as a board. Medusas hair and dress look like they came from the Halloween aisle in Walmart. The dialogue is dreadful. That's one good thing for Black Bolt. He doesn't have to say these lines, only sign them. Maximus is the only reason this doesn't get 0 stars. Make it stop.
 
cylkoth said:
Scott Buck was the exec producer of IF. He has the same title here...:rolleyes:
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Buck just has bad luck more than anything else. Iron Fist was always going to have a tough time for political reasons and for having a lower budget than the other Netflix shows. Inhumans was always going to be a rush job thanks to Ike Perlmutter, no one at Marvel TV really wanting to make the show except Perlmutter, and backlash from comic fans and critics who disliked that the Inhumans were being given any respect because they saw it as a slight against the X-Men.
 
Anwar said:
Buck just has bad luck more than anything else. Iron Fist was always going to have a tough time for political reasons and for having a lower budget than the other Netflix shows.
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My problems with Iron Fist have nothing to do with either of those things. While there were some problematical elements to the concept and the casting, those could have been overcome with good enough writing. They were not.

If anything, both of the Buck-run Marvel shows have a comparable problem: They both center around protagonists who are inheritors of power and privilege seeking to defend or reclaim that privilege for themselves, rather than protagonists who are fighting to help others. Danny Rand did try to do the right thing and stop his corporation from hurting people, but he went about it in a way that felt more like a spoiled brat assuming he was entitled to have his way. And he totally failed to protect K'un Lun because he abandoned his duty to others for the sake of his own personal wishes. Still, at least for him, there was some sense that his heart was in the right place. We have yet to see that established for anyone in the Attilan Royal Family.
 
Anwar said:
...and backlash from comic fans and critics who disliked that the Inhumans were being given any respect because they saw it as a slight against the X-Men.
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So now critics are part of this conspiracy of people that don't like that X-Men have 15 movies and how many TV shows and Inhumans had their first?

Why do people keep this conspiracy alive still?
 
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