knightnday |
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.
MMCJawa |
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.
JoelF847 RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16 |
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.
JoelF847 RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16 |
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?"
Voss |
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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.
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Set |
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...
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
GM_Beernorg |
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")
Tiny Coffee Golem |
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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.
Set |
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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.
Freehold DM |
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?
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |
Mark Thomas 66 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16 |