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New X-men related show. Watched first episode. not bad. Anyone else seen it yet?


I saw the 1st episode. Remind my wife and I of Heroes season 1. Still it has a lot of potential. Putting Lorna/Polaris in the series may be a problem since she has Magneto level power but we will see.


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Bah. Lorna might have her father's power set, but she's never done NEAR the level of bad-ass-ness that he has.

I'm just waiting for Sage and possibly Blindfold. :)


Sage was the young lady talking to Blink at the safe house, at least according to Close Captioning.

Overall it isn't too bad of a show for a pilot. They've downgraded a number of the characters at least in the beginning, as you'd have to otherwise they will run roughshod over the bad guys.

I have high hopes that it will continue to grow.


Yeah I enjoyed it, and generally found it a superior show to the Inhumans (which sort of makes me sad, since recent years have caused me to be super cautious on X-men stuff and more upbeat about Marvel productions)

I really like the take on sentinels here, and hope we get some more different kinds, even if maybe they avoid the big humanoid robot version for awhile.


MMCJawa,

We might get Terminator style if Ahab decides to get an upgrade...from the future!

I'm with everyone that Inhumans didn't sit well with me but clearly, the Gifted does. It's not QUITE Days of Future Past, but it's clearly going in that vein.


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I have to see where I am going or it gets really dangerous!:

::throws plastic dog toy into portal, gets cut in half::

"Uhhh.....NOTED!"


I thought the whole needed to see where (s)hes going was more night crawler thing and blink could just go where she wanted. especially since her's is a portal so you can look first and decide hmm no that looks like a brick wall ill pass.


They might have adjusted Blink's power set. Most of the time she doesn't need to know, you're right. But I guess for the show, they didn't want her "blinking" all over the place just yet.


She is still young so I will giver her a break.


Teleporting is a pretty useful power...I am sure they have this limitation simply so Blink doesn't solve almost every problem on the show (see Polaris and the Dad in prison)


MMC,

That's my thinking as well.

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I enjoyed the show, it certainly is better than Inhumans. As a not huge x-men fan though, I'm not thrilled with the wonky timeline about how the x-men disappear, and mutants are hunted. It seems more like an alternate/possible future than really connected to the x-men movie universe. I get that this is part of the standard "continuity" somehow, but as a non x-pert, it just seems disconnected.


Joel,

It's alternate world with no X-men and probably more like a prelude to Days of Future Past...presently.


"With no X-Men" is misleading. The X-Men and Brotherhood [of Evil Mutants, though they don't explicitly say so] are part of that world's recent history, they're just currently off the radar and "no one knows if they're even around any more."


Damon,

It's not misleading if there's no X-men currently around. Past X-men sure. But right now, there's just mutants and no X-men.

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I get that it's an alternate world, but it makes it feel pretty disconnected from the x-men franchise. Not seeing why it's any different from a non-x-men title therefore. Especially when it's pretty close to Heroes in theme - the tie to X-men would help it stand out.

I'm assuming that at some point the x-men and brotherhood disappeared will become a plot point (for sweeps or season finale) and we'll get some more connections, even if not major characters like wolverine or professor x, but it's an odd choice overall. I can imagine more casual superhero fans being like "wait, where are the x-men?"


Joel,

I'm sure we'll get answers and they probably involve Sentinels, Ahab and possibly Nimrod.


I am enjoying The Gifted more than the movies. It would be nice if some of the minor X-Men showed up but they are doing a great job with the plot as it is.


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Like Thunderbird, Sage or Polaris? Technically speaking, they're already there.

Dreamer is a cleaned-up (much more attractive, well, physically) version of a Morlock, I believe.

Anyway, it's better than Inhumans by a long way (and actually includes powers beyond a CGI dog), but... eh. Bit too hamfisted and clear cut for my taste.

The morals feel like anvils, the '7/15' references are both in bad taste and really questionable, and I'm mildly annoyed by yet another bait and switch with Struckers.


Voss,

It might not be the best Marvel TV show, but it's WAY better than Inhumans.

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Seeing Thunderbird done well is also really enjoyable. Subtle nods to borderline invulnerability without going crazy (SUV back half that get's sheared off actually hits him full on in the back.)

Or my favorite.."Wait...you're bleeding?"
"I'll explain later."

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Seeing Thunderbird done well is also really enjoyable. Subtle nods to borderline invulnerability without going crazy (SUV back half that get's sheared off actually hits him full on in the back.)

Or my favorite.."Wait...you're bleeding?"
"I'll explain later."

I am enjoying their ability to use characters like Thunderbird and Blink and Polaris (and Sage and Dreamer) that aren't as well-developed, and with whom they can go farther afield without banging into continuity conflicts or cries that they are 'getting them wrong.'

Plus, an X-property that has little or nothing to do with Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto (or Mystique, for that matter) is always a good thing.

I suspect that, eventually, it will come out that the central park incident was triggered by Sentinel Services (some snipers in nearby buildings, perhaps, shooting to wound and turn the peaceful demonstration into a public catastrophe) so that they could step in and offer Congress a 'solution' to the 'mutant problem' and get some sweet, sweet federal monies. How Agent Turner will react to discovering that he's been working for the people responsible for the death of his kid should be fun...

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Thogh that blast of red and the scorched earth is enough to make you wonder.


Set wrote:
How Agent Turner will react to discovering that he's been working for the people responsible for the death of his kid should be fun...

I'm assuming similar to how he's been reacting to going after the people he currently believes killed his daughter.


Mark Thomas 66 wrote:
Thogh that blast of red and the scorched earth is enough to make you wonder.

Think it was a specific mutant, possibly under sentinel services control, or do you think it was just a bomb (or something) blamed on mutants?


I suspect our friend Agent Turner is starting to realize he is not the good guy he thought, and his bosses, well...looks like we are learning that you can commit the worst crimes with the best of intentions, or the worst crimes with the absolute worst of intentions (evil sentinel Doc and the "special secure prison for mutant terrorists")


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GM_Beernorg wrote:
I suspect our friend Agent Turner is starting to realize he is not the good guy he thought, and his bosses, well...looks like we are learning that you can commit the worst crimes with the best of intentions, or the worst crimes with the absolute worst of intentions (evil sentinel Doc and the "special secure prison for mutant terrorists")

I wonder if the Doc himself is some sort of mutant. Perhaps mind control or something which he's passing off as science mind control.

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Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
Mark Thomas 66 wrote:
Thogh that blast of red and the scorched earth is enough to make you wonder.
Think it was a specific mutant, possibly under sentinel services control, or do you think it was just a bomb (or something) blamed on mutants?

*I* think it was just a random mutant going out of control during the demonstration-turned-riot, perhaps as a result of having been shot, perhaps as a result of having seen someone close to him being shot, perhaps just freaking out.

That random someone being a plasma-blasting-mutant from the comics, like Havok or Sunfire, could be a neat shout out, though.

But it's all speculation right now. Heck, we could even get a twist and find out that a mutant supremacist stirred up the violence to 'prove' to his more peaceful 'let's all get along' mutant brethren that humans were the enemy.

Hopefully nothing as clichéd as a mutant supremacist working with a human supremacist to heat the conflict up. I've seen that sort of thing in too many Cold War thrillers.


Good one TCG....and would make sense...I could see that being interesting plot wise.

@ Set
I sure hope they don't pull that kinda used up cliche, new story calls for not outdated themes (at least, that is how I feel anyway :) )


Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
GM_Beernorg wrote:
I suspect our friend Agent Turner is starting to realize he is not the good guy he thought, and his bosses, well...looks like we are learning that you can commit the worst crimes with the best of intentions, or the worst crimes with the absolute worst of intentions (evil sentinel Doc and the "special secure prison for mutant terrorists")
I wonder if the Doc himself is some sort of mutant. Perhaps mind control or something which he's passing off as science mind control.

I think there was a guy like that in the comics..some mutant who had superhuman intellect or something like that. I think he was a weird precognative who would have sudden "moments of genius" when he saw the future or something?


Freehold,

That was Ulysses Cain, the Inhuman that started Civil War II. So no...

Right now I'm curious to see how much of the Strucker family history gets into play.

Oh and maybe a nice cameo from Mister Sinister?

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I've always said when Cyclops misses, people die

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And way to make you feel for the "bad guy/Captain Ahab". My wife literally burst into tears at the idea of a parent having to go through losing their child twice.


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Freehold,

That was Ulysses Cain, the Inhuman that started Civil War II. So no...

Right now I'm curious to see how much of the Strucker family history gets into play.

Oh and maybe a nice cameo from Mister Sinister?

no this was before that...several years ago.


Freehold,

Several doesn't help me nail that down... Unless you're talking about Prodigy aka David Alleyne...

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