The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX
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No. Just, no
First Triton, now Gorgan? What? Apparently prehensile hair, a green scaly guy who breathes water and a guy with hooves weren't grounded enough for Scott Buck?
Honestly, I can't wait for this f****** show to just be over. At this point, it's just a placeholder while waiting for Agents of Shield to begin. I honestly can't believe how disappointing the show has turned out to be.
I found the hype against Iron Fist to be extremely overblown. It certainly was nowhere near the level of the other Netflix shows, but it wasn't as bad as some people made it out to be. So after the pilot of Inhumans, which I didn't think was great, but I didn't think it was bad as the internet said it was going to be, I held out hope. But Inhumans has been a bitter disappointment.
In other news, IMAX lost over 11 million dollars on this train wreck.
https://mcuexchange.com/imax-lost-money-inhumans/
First Triton, now Gorgan? What? Apparently prehensile hair, a green scaly guy who breathes water and a guy with hooves weren't grounded enough for Scott Buck?
Honestly, I can't wait for this f****** show to just be over. At this point, it's just a placeholder while waiting for Agents of Shield to begin. I honestly can't believe how disappointing the show has turned out to be.
I found the hype against Iron Fist to be extremely overblown. It certainly was nowhere near the level of the other Netflix shows, but it wasn't as bad as some people made it out to be. So after the pilot of Inhumans, which I didn't think was great, but I didn't think it was bad as the internet said it was going to be, I held out hope. But Inhumans has been a bitter disappointment.
In other news, IMAX lost over 11 million dollars on this train wreck.
https://mcuexchange.com/imax-lost-money-inhumans/
I'm more bothered that two of the three Royals played by nonwhite actors have been killed off. Bad enough they perpetuated the cliche of the black guy being the muscleman/warrior, they've also perpetuated the cliche of the black guy dying first (well, second, but Triton was barely there.)
Also, I hadn't noticed before that Gorgon was wearing boots in the Earthbound scenes. How is that even possible? It's weird that they wouldn't commit to the hooves. I mean, Doug Jones wears similar hoof prosthetics as Saru on Star Trek: Discovery, and he's able to pull it off. Granted, creature acting is his specialty, so maybe he can handle it better, but still...
You do have a point about the characters' powers and special traits being downplayed. Even Crystal has been wearing her hair in a style that mostly hides the black stripe.
Gorgon's hooves left the actor a bit unsteady on his feet. The implication seemed to be that the boots were a disguise he wore over the hooves. I didn't have a problem with them if they kept the actor in the scenes and not dying early.
I still find it hard to believe Triton is actually dead, but who knows at this point.
I still find it hard to believe Triton is actually dead, but who knows at this point.
They killed off the most likable of the Inhumans...Mordis.
To be fair, we haven't seen Saru in action scenes outdoors.
Then they should've designed the prosthetics better. From what I saw in the flashbacks, they didn't seem to be angled right -- they didn't look convincing as hooves or steady for the actor's stance. Saru's hooves are a lot more vertical, which seems better in both respects.
Yes, of course, but the point is, how is that physically possible? Hooves shouldn't be able to fit in normal boots.
He was killed in the first minutes of the first episode and hasn't been glimpsed since. I don't think they have any intention of bringing him back.
I've watched two episodes and don't have any inclination to see more. This is surprisingly bad, in many ways. I'm out.
Presumably, they're not normal boots.
Everything about that scene screamed that it was a fakeout. He jumped into the water for crying out loud. That being said, with two episodes left and the plot not even hinting at that direction, it does seem less likely.
Oh, I see. I thought he'd found those boots after he arrived. I forgot he'd been sent down on purpose to find Triton, and apparently he had those boots on at the time. I guess they're something designed on Attilan to hide his hooves. But I don't recall them establishing that, and I just don't find it credible that the anatomy can be disguised in that way.
Yes, that's my thinking exactly. At first, I'd been expecting Triton to turn up alive too, but by this point I doubt it, both because it probably would've happened by now and because of the great efforts the show has made to marginalize the less humanlike Inhumans.
Yeah, I had also been expecting Triton to come back, but now it's dawning on me that he probably won't.
So it seems like just about all the earth-bound storylines are wrapped up, except for Dr Declan. He's got some sort of magic potion in his briefcase, right?
"I brought the police out here to investigate an alien girl and her giant dog." Really? Really?!!??
As for the boots, yeah the 2-part premiere did establish that they'd make it easier for Gorgon to pass as human.
Attilan has a very limited population, right? (What'd they say, 1400, 1600?) And now we've seen over a dozen of them die, right? They've lost like 1% of the population in just a week.
So it seems like just about all the earth-bound storylines are wrapped up, except for Dr Declan. He's got some sort of magic potion in his briefcase, right?
"I brought the police out here to investigate an alien girl and her giant dog." Really? Really?!!??
As for the boots, yeah the 2-part premiere did establish that they'd make it easier for Gorgon to pass as human.
Attilan has a very limited population, right? (What'd they say, 1400, 1600?) And now we've seen over a dozen of them die, right? They've lost like 1% of the population in just a week.
You guys pretty much covered my thinking on the matter as well. Between no body and the fact that he's a water-breather who escaped into the ocean, I thought he wasn't really dead...but there's been no hint of set-up for his return.
We know from Agents of SHIELD that Inhumans have to register under the Sokovia Accords. That's what the vet was talking about when she tried to take Crystal's picture to see if she was in the registry. So it's not like the police would immediately dismiss a claim of Inhuman presence, even if it did include a giant dog. People in the MCU have seen stranger things by now.
Which I still find anatomically improbable. And it's not like it's served any plot purpose. Gorgon has made no attempt to pass for human. He's barely interacted with any humans other than those mercenary surfer dude whatever they were, and he was open with them about who and what he was. So the boots are just one more example of the producers' laziness, their reluctance to embrace the Inhumans' powers and physical attributes. Just one more bad idea. At least Discovery really commits to the hoof-prosthetic thing with Saru.
The boots and the hooves themselves were both pretty badly thought out. The hooves just look bad, and like you said, there is no way they'd fit in the boots.
I think they might have been better off if they'd just put him in long pants that went down over his feet, and then when they want to show the hooves, either do it with CGI, puppet legs, or even just do Xena and Hercules did for the centaurs and just show close ups of a real horse or goat or whatever's legs.
It did aggravate me that once again the black guy is the first major character to die. Other than that I thought the episode was pretty good. The show still isn't great, but has at least improved a bit since the first couple episodes.
I think they might have been better off if they'd just put him in long pants that went down over his feet, and then when they want to show the hooves, either do it with CGI, puppet legs, or even just do Xena and Hercules did for the centaurs and just show close ups of a real horse or goat or whatever's legs.
It did aggravate me that once again the black guy is the first major character to die. Other than that I thought the episode was pretty good. The show still isn't great, but has at least improved a bit since the first couple episodes.
This should really never have been made. Mavel Studios used to decry half-assed interpretations of their characters in TV/Film, but that's EXCACTLY what they did with this train wreck.
I can see the production meeting now: "Medusa's going to be an expensive character with her "Living Hair..."
"hey lets shave it off in the first 20 minutes...that way it's one or two CGI scenes and done. I'm also not a fan of 'constantly concussed Karnak (a character I liked in the comics in years past); who now seems only able to injure himself or others around him.
And it would be nice if they even attempted a small homage to the original and distinctive outfits at some point; but no, it's all 'Black leather' because hey, what is this supposed to be? A comic book? One wonders why they didn't kill this thing in pre-production.
I can see the production meeting now: "Medusa's going to be an expensive character with her "Living Hair..."
"hey lets shave it off in the first 20 minutes...that way it's one or two CGI scenes and done. I'm also not a fan of 'constantly concussed Karnak (a character I liked in the comics in years past); who now seems only able to injure himself or others around him.
And it would be nice if they even attempted a small homage to the original and distinctive outfits at some point; but no, it's all 'Black leather' because hey, what is this supposed to be? A comic book? One wonders why they didn't kill this thing in pre-production.
Researching the characters I saw that some of them actually have names other than Medusa, Black Bolt, Crystal, ect., but apparently those actually are there names here. I find it a little ironic that they seem to be downplaying a lot of other more fantastic elements, but then just left them with their superhero names.
In case anyone is curious here are the names from the comics:
Black Bolt = Blackagar Boltagon
Medusa = Medusalith Amaquelin
Crystal = Crystalia Amaquelin
Others just have last names added onto their superhero name.
Maximus is Maximus Boltagon, Gorgon is Gorgon Pentragon, and Karnak is Karnak Mander Azur. Triton is just Triton.
In case anyone is curious here are the names from the comics:
Black Bolt = Blackagar Boltagon
Medusa = Medusalith Amaquelin
Crystal = Crystalia Amaquelin
Others just have last names added onto their superhero name.
Maximus is Maximus Boltagon, Gorgon is Gorgon Pentragon, and Karnak is Karnak Mander Azur. Triton is just Triton.
Yeah, those names are much less ridiculous than their superhero names!
I don't know if it's presented that way in the series, I suspect not, but it would make sense after Terrigenesis that they would take on a new name reflecting their transformation.
I don't know if it's presented that way in the series, I suspect not, but it would make sense after Terrigenesis that they would take on a new name reflecting their transformation.
Or maybe someone decided that every Inhuman having a one word superhero name as their actual names was stupid. It makes sense that they have longer "real"/"legal" names, and that the names would be weirder then average human names. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving the characters names, and it would have been much sillier to assume that Black Bolt's parents randomly named their kid Black Bolt or that Medusa presumably was named Medusa long before she had hair powers.
Like I said overthinking.
The real names are much sillier than the "superhero" names
