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[The Gifted] The X-Men But Not
Sadgasm
Deluded doodlerA cold placeRegistered User regular
Deluded doodlerA cold placeRegistered User regular
I finally had a chance to see Fox's The Gifted, and... it is just all over the place. It's not bad exactly, though frankly the main characters arent the most sympathetic, and there was that really odd choice that neither the X-Men or the Brotherhood are around anymore in the setting, having mysteriously disappeared for some reason. The setting is also unusally bleak even for an X-Men series, it's like, one giant robot away from literally being Days of Future Past. They also didnt do a very good job making the Mutant Underground engaging, it's a bad sign when the friggin Hellfire Club is more appealing because atleast they have a goal beyond hiding and complaining.
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It just felt kind of boring and tired in some areas and I couldn't quite bring myself to care about any of the characters or anything that happened.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
If second season comes back stronger I will be a fan.
Has me excited since that made the least since out of everything.
Though there was definitely a little bit of a gross Hollywoodian whiplash as a watcher of The Goldbergs on ABC -- The actor playing the daughter went from innocent preteen Adam's girlfriend to "can these sweaters be any tighter, Fox?" Kudos to her for getting a series regular job, but damnit, that was awkward!
Who saw that coming?
For those who don't know these characters they're: Illyria (Angel), Kelly Peyton (Alias) and Samantha Groves (Person of Interest).
Whoa! I knew I recognized the mom from somewhere. She was Fred? Mind blown a little bit.
Reed needs to be a bit more careful with the hugs, though, and not pop pills so it explodes later...
I wonder if we'll see him get fully radicalized and murder some mutants or will we see him redeemed/turned ally.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
It's getting real hard to be cool with that second one.
Like he might be a very terrifying example of a charismatic villain.
I will say this whole show is going some places on the subject of radicalization
Huh, just reading wiki now I didn't realize who you were talking about. But yeah, that is totally Bishop.
I also noticed today that all of the episode titles from the first season has capitalized "X"s in them. Season 2 has capitalized "M"s.
So maybe they're got a four season arc plotted out?
We're talking about erg right?
Cause erg, while similar to bishop powers wise, is totally a pre existing character.
That said it seems like they are rolling some bishop aspects into his character.
I really don’t want X-Men (outside of the ones who have already been introduced, but not as “mutants”) as part of the MCU. They just feel too different, plus it’d require a Scarlett Witch retcon.
WRT to the last episode, I don’t want to say I’m enjoying the Jace arc because that feels wrong, but I do find it interesting.
Though of course laser guy then decided the ground was the enemy.
Pretty sure they mentioned a mine field. I assumed that was what he was targeting. Granted, I wasn't paying tremendously close attention, so I could be wrong.
Can you set off mines with hand lasers? I don't know.
But then they should have never been able to tie Jon up either, so I'll just have to go with it.