^ I wasn't trying to suggest that it was the same process but I thought it demonstrated the relative difficulty of the effects. It seemed for years that hair has been one of the hardest things to get right.
The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX
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I just read about a major change the show made to one of the members of the royal family.
Apparently instead of giving him powers, Terregenesis turned Maxiumus human. The article I read on IGN does explain why they did it, but it still seems like kind of an odd choice to me.
Huh? Lots of MCU characters diverge from what they're like in the comics. In the comics, Nick Fury was white and a WWII veteran with an artificially prolonged life. Jasper Sitwell was also white and a loyal SHIELD agent. Lance Hunter was the debonair, upper-class, John Steed-like head of the British equivalent of SHIELD instead of a mercenary with a working-class English accent. Bobbi Morse was Hawkeye's love interest instead of Hunter's, and Hawkeye doesn't have a wife and kids. Peggy Carter was American, played a minor role in Captain America's past, and had nothing to do with SHIELD. Roger Dooley was not Peggy's boss in the SSR in the 1940s but was a modern-day SHIELD agent best known for sexually harassing She-Hulk and having an ignominious death. Jarvis was a human butler instead of a computer program, and the Vision's mind was made from Wonder Man's memory engrams instead of JARVIS's program. The Ancient One was an old Tibetan man instead of a bald Celtic woman. Mordu was never Dr. Strange's friend, but instead was a rival who was expelled for trying to assassinate the Ancient One. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were mutants rather than the creations of an experiment, at least until a recent retcon. Leland Owlsley is a supervillain called the Owl instead of Wilson Fisk's accountant. Luke Cage was never a cop, and Diamondback is not his brother. Danny Rand's attorney is a man named Jeryn Hogarth instead of a woman named Jeri Hogarth. Misty Knight is Danny's love interest instead of Luke's. Killgrave (not Kilgrave) has purple skin. I could go on.
Please show me a Human Inhuman. Or Spiderman with the powers of some other insect <--- That type of thing they HAVEN'T done in the films.
Actually, the first of those is the sort of thing they've done, though the other way around. AoS has retconned several non-Inhuman characters from the comics into Inhumans, including Daisy/Quake (unknown, perhaps mutant), Yo-Yo (inherited powers from her experimentally altered father), J.T. James/Hellfire (empowered by a magic weapon), and Hive (a creation of a modern Hydra experiment).
Also, spiders are arachnids, not insects.
Originally in the comics Daisy simply inherited her father's (Mr. Hyde) altered DNA. However a half-Inhuman heritage has since been ret-conned into her story.
This makes no fucking sense. His power costs nothing to use. I mean, ok, you have to pay the actors technically, but besides that its mind control. Its a core aspect of the character and part of everything he's ever done and every relationship he has with every character. Fuck these assholes.
Fuck the assholes who made this. I'm so disgusted I don't think I'll even give it a hate watch, which so far means that Inhumans is going on the short list with The Gifted as superhero shows I won't even watch a second of. Hell, I even watched about 2 minutes of Legion (which I'm fairly sure caused permanent damage), and that show wasn't such a middle finger to the source material. Fuck everyone involved with this show. Hopefully it bombs and these idiots will never be anywhere near the MCU, or superhero productions in general, ever again. Directors, producers, writers, actors, the person who gets the director coffee, all of them can just fuck off.
In a way, you could argue this is more true to the original intent of the character than the modern comics.
If you read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Fantastic Four stories, there's no indication Maximus has superpowers. There's never an explicit line stating "He has no powers," but he never displays any and none are ever referenced. I think Lee and Kirby's idea was that not every Inhuman necessarily had powers. Think of how Kirby wrote other super-races like the New Gods or Eternals: The power levels are all over the place, including guys like Mr. Miracle and Serafin who seem to have no powers at all.
I'm not sure when the idea that Maximus was telepathic took hold, but it was something a later writer introduced. Personally, I never cared for it. It makes him too one-note, with every story revolving around MIND CONTROL.
I'm not sure when the idea that Maximus was telepathic took hold, but it was something a later writer introduced. Personally, I never cared for it. It makes him too one-note, with every story revolving around MIND CONTROL.
I think it works well in the story and allows them to actually explore Inhuman society while capturing the heart of it (it doesn't have Alpha Primitives, but it doesn't shy away from the messed up society they have).
In the comics, Maximus didn't have powers at first. When he first had his powers, they made a point of saying how it manifested later. Then they retconned it so he had it all the way back when Black Bolt killed his parents.
I was wondering about that, since AoS did a version of the Alpha Primitives as the result of Radcliffe's botched Terrigenesis experiments for Hive. So it would've raised continuity issues if the MCU Attilan had had its own separate version of them.
Partially its that I'm done with FOX's misuse of X-Men characters (its not Polaris unless she has green hair and is Magneto's daughter, just like how X-23 isn't a mute 12 year old from Mexico and Silver Samurai isn't Japanese Iron Man and a hundred other screw ups), plus I think the idea is idiotic and combine that with my loathing of the other X-Men TV show and The Gifted is a show I won't even bother to hate watch.
To be fair, The Gifted will probably be less crap then Inhumans, but as a big fan of the Inhuman's in the comics I'd say this is a bit worse. Plus, I'm more used to FOX giving the source material the middle finger then I am the MCU.
Really, all the upcoming Marvel shows are a clusterfuck. Currently, I'll only be hate watching Cloak & Dagger, maybe hate watching Runaways (although that show pisses me off so badly I might not bother) and complete skipping The Gifted and The Show with Almost No Connection to The Actual Inhumans. Between all of that and Iron Fist, the only good Marvel on TV this year was The Defenders and the first half of Agents of SHIELD Season 4, which sucks, especially since The Defenders was only ok and half of AoS Season 4 was some of the worst of the show.
Plus this is the year where even the MCU put out a movie I don't really want to watch (Spider-Man Cringe-worthy...I mean Homecoming, the very first MCU movie I'll only watch for completions sake and with absolutely no excitement or any feeling outside of slight queasiness). Its a good thing GotG 2 came out this year and was awesome and that Thor 3 looks awesome or this would probably be the weakest year ever for Marvel properties since the MCU began, in my opinion at least.
Overreact much?
Very much. All of the time.
I don't think it would be quite a continuity error if both sides found ways to create Alpha Primitives. That being said, this version draws from the Jenkins/Lee run where the quality of Terrigenesis determines your rank in society.
Depending on how it was done, it could've been. For instance, if they'd both called them the same thing even though Radcliffe would've had no idea that the people on Attilan used the same term. (Like in the Arrowverse, where the Vixen webseries established that Cisco coined that name for Mari because she's hot, but then Legends of Tomorrow established that Mari's grandmother used the name Vixen in the 1940s.)
OK, sounds like maybe it's not so bad then.