The Gifted, siX - Nov 7

‘got your siX’ was aired this week. What can be said about it?

It is a filler episode, so to speak. The plot is progressing, of course – the mutants are getting valuable info at the Sentinels’, and the government’s expense while getting away with it – successfully – while the Sentinels are doing their best to step up their game with the help of the government. Okay, this works, though has anyone figured out yet that Sage – one of the more mainstream X-men characters – is one of ‘the Gifted’s’ secondary characters as well? No, well there you have it – and ‘the Gifted’ are still a better show than AoS is at this stage. (More about this later, maybe).

Why AoS got mentioned? Because one of its trademark plotlines is teamwork, how important and essential it is… Because of issues, (and not just RL), this is not always apparent, and does not always work on AoS, as opposed to ‘Blindspot’, (especially the first two seasons), and now – ‘the Gifted’ as well: ‘siX’ was all about teamwork, which is important because Clarice/Blink left because of what Dreamer did to her – i.e. used her own memories to make a bond between Clarice and Johnny…and now Clarice is angry and wants to be on her own for a while.

This makes perfect sense – between their mutual competency as a team and Clarice’s own powers, mutants could run rings about Sentinels (within the show’s parameters, anyhow), and this could get boring in a while – ‘the Gifted’ is about suspense, after all. ‘got your siX’ shows it perfectly, mutants and Sentinels are equally matched, what mutants have in powers, Sentinels make in everything else…although the robots haven’t made much of an appearance yet, aside from the spiders in the first episode ever, and the drones that appeared in a couple of episodes by now…

Back to AoS? The two shows don’t have anything in common so far, though in RL, 21^st Century Fox (which owns the mutant portion of MCU right now), may be selling some of their property to Disney, (which currently owns the bulk of Marvel MCU), so some things might be changing soon. On its own, ‘the Gifted’ continues to deliver, it may not be the most intellectual TV show, but it has plenty of feels and human touches and perfect actors’ performances, so it works, and it works very well. It delivers via the ‘human factor’, as do ‘InHumans’, only ‘the Gifted’ do it better.

…Well, this is it for ‘siX’ – it was a good filler/bridge episode but nothing more. Lauren has made a new friend, his name is Wes, and apparently, in the next episode, we will learn something bad about him – and the drama continues. See you then!