The Gifted: eXploited - Dec 12

The fall finale of ‘Gifted’ got aired. And?

And it seems that the show is continuing in the direction, indicated by the mention of the Hellfire Club in ‘outfoX’ – the telepath that got introduced in the episode ‘eXtinction’ is not only a part of triplet team, (identical triplets here, seriously), but she/they are clearly pursuing an agenda that isn’t a part of the Sentinels, or Trask’s, or the Mutant Underground, (Marcus, Lorna and co.). The telepath had manipulated the Strucker parents, as well as Lorna and co. into going to rescue the Strucker twins as well as Blink and Dreamer…who, to make things even worse, was killed in the episode too.

Again, ‘Gifted’ is a straightforward TV series – it is all about conflict between the mutants and the Sentinels; (the latter are aided by Trask’s, but so far Jace still seems to be the most formidable opponent of the mutants, though again, he and his wife are beginning to have doubts about what they are involved in). Now, however, with ‘eviler’ mutants making an appearance, (the triplets have no problem in killing non-mutant humans, and are doing this much better than Marcus, Lorna and others have done so far, too). Now Lorna, Marcos and others are going to have morality problems down the road: already the telepath has played an ‘us vs. them’ card putting the leaders of the Mutant Underground against the Strucker parents. It worked, but only to a point; the Mutant Underground still functioned as a coherent unit…but the evil triplets are even better at this than Marcos and the others are.

That said, this is still straightforward – the ‘good guys’ of ‘Gifted’ will make to have a choice and surpass the temptation of using their powers for evil, and while ‘Gifted’ makes a lot of noise about ‘grey morality’, the right choices and the hard ones, everything tends to be quite clear-cut in the end, even Jace’s angst about which side is right for him. However, as long as the show works, there is no problem either.

What else? Trask’s might have backwards-engineered the ‘cure’ that Mr. Strucker’s father has given his son, (the father of the current twins) to turn him human, so more bad news for the mutants. Again, this isn’t anything that wasn’t there before, just stakes are continuously being raised – but ‘Gifted’ has teased the eventual confrontation between the mutants and the military from the first episode, (the teaser trailers at the end of each), so that is actually no surprise. As it is, though, ‘Gifted’ is done with 2017, and will be back in January 2018.

…That is it for now, see you soon!