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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 16:10:38 GMT -5
I'm as surprised as anyone at how much I enjoyed the first episode.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 10, 2017 15:19:39 GMT -5
Not a bad second episode.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 17, 2017 10:07:32 GMT -5
I like this series, but it still hasn't done anything to surprise me. The latest episode at least did something with stakes and potential consequences, with Dreamer using one of her memories to brainwash Blink into thinking she loved Thunderbird a moment of crisis.
Also learned that guy is Thunderbird, not Rictor as I assumed. I just figured he was using his vibration powers in all the scenes when they'd shown him "tracking" before.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 27, 2017 18:56:09 GMT -5
Episode 4... Wow!!! Pretty bad ass!
The show managed to do something quite impressive over those four episodes: make me care about characters I was very ready to consider uninteresting and clichéd. This is turning into far more than a cash-grab X-Men spinoff: it is turning into what the X-Men at their best were, a parable on surviving being feared and hated just for what you are.
Episode 4 reuses something we’ve seen previously in one of the films, but the way it’s done is both logical... and totally awesome!
This has become a must-see comic book show for me.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 30, 2017 23:14:48 GMT -5
Episode 5 "boXed in" This may be the best episode yet. For the first time the family didn't annoy me and the mutants kidnapping the sentinel agent was kind of exciting. I really liked how they show Lorna's powers. I thought the ending was really messed up how they made the agent forget the death of his daughter. Glad to see this show is improving. |
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Post by Mormel on Nov 9, 2017 12:13:20 GMT -5
I saw two episodes of this show, and think it's really cool. It succeeds somewhere the X-Men movies failed, IMO; having an ensemble cast where the members get a balanced amount of character development. The characters featured are all kind of 'second tier' X-Men characters, Thunderbird, Polaris, Blink, Dreamer, and new guy Eclipse. I like the exposure they get through this show, and I like how they are re-interpreted and updated.
It probably would have resonated more with me if I watched this 10 or 15 years ago and I'm not going to watch it religiously, but catching an episode of this every once in a while is pretty neat.
So far, it catches the spirit of X-Men comics better than the movies do.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 18:31:23 GMT -5
This is probably my favourite 'comic' TV show at the moment, it might only be junior league X-Men, but it is very good with some interesting characters. This show seems to improve every week.
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Post by Jesse on Dec 12, 2017 14:59:21 GMT -5
s1 ep 10 "eXploited" I thought this was a pretty solid mid season finale for this show. The reveal about the Stepford Cuckoos came as a surprise to me although I was expecting her to be apart of the Hellfire club or some similar evil mutant group given the way the one was manipulating events. |
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Post by Jesse on Jan 3, 2018 17:19:03 GMT -5
s1 ep 11 "3 X 1" I thought this was a decent follow up to the last episode's cliffhanger. I actually liked the use of the Stepford Cuckoos and the Hellfire Club as well as the Hounds and the Purifiers even showed up briefly to open the episode. I think there are only two more episodes left this season. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 16, 2018 21:03:38 GMT -5
Boy!!! That season finale two-parter was easily among the top five superhero film or TV show I’ve seen to date!
That’s how to develop characters in a comic-book universe context. That’s how to do drama and loss without pissing off the audience. That’s how to dramatically conclude an arc and build the next one.
I am extremely impressed by how that show turned out. And it just got better and better all the way to the end!
Not bad for a bunch of B-list mutants!
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Post by Jesse on Feb 9, 2018 20:40:49 GMT -5
Finally caught up on this show and thought the finale was decent enough even though I was expecting Polaris and the kid to both join the brotherhood. |
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Post by Jesse on Oct 28, 2018 16:04:33 GMT -5
I didn't realize the second season had already started and binged watched the first couple of episodes. The season 2 premiere is pretty solid. I like that we are seeing more of the Hellfire Club. The stuff with Polaris and her baby was kind of interesting. The way they showed dad's mutant powers emerging looked cool. I was excited to see the Morlock as well. They also named dropped the New Mutants which I assume is a reference to the upcoming film. |
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Post by rberman on Nov 23, 2018 22:04:10 GMT -5
Boy!!! That season finale two-parter was easily among the top five superhero film or TV show I’ve seen to date! That’s how to develop characters in a comic-book universe context. That’s how to do drama and loss without pissing off the audience. That’s how to dramatically conclude an arc and build the next one. I am extremely impressed by how that show turned out. And it just got better and better all the way to the end! Not bad for a bunch of B-list mutants! I just finished binge-watching Season 1 for the first time and agree completely. It was great. Yes, I had had nerdgasms over all the X-Men signifiers (Polaris, Cuckoos, Proudstar, Purifiers, Kick, Hypercortisone-D, Blink, Trask, Hellfire, even Fenris). And I appreciated that they tried to stay plausibly in-continuity with the films without depending on them explicitly. But beyond that, the characters were given compelling motivations that most of them never had in the movies. I have long complained that the X-Men movies are missing the point by focusing on the name-brand actors signed up for multi-season deals to play Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, and Mystique. I did not miss the absence of any of those characters at all. Some of the acting was iffy, and some of the B-plots were filler, but thematically it was a terrific exploration of how an actual Mutant Registration Act would gradually radicalize both humans and mutants, and why we need to focus on what draws us together, not what marks us apart. |
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