It is 2018, and I, as an aside, will begin by saying that
real life sucks. For non-disclosure reasons, but it still sucks. Sometimes I
really hate it – like, say, now. More on that later, probably much later, but
there you have it, out in the open. And as for the ‘Gifted’?
Their lives are not doing much better: the Hellfire Club and
the Frost triplets have manipulated the Mutant Underground, (currently the good
guys of the show) as well as Trask’s and Sentinels into a confrontation, and so
far, the mutants are losing – badly. They are divided in which direction they
want to go… no. All of them generally want to fight Trask’s and allies, it’s
just that some of them – like Eclipse – want to take a higher road than the one
offered by the Frost triplets.
Yes, the triplets are Frosts, as in Emma Frost; in the
comics, there was more of them, but it doesn’t matter – they are still
wonderfully depicted in the show, so there’s that breakthrough, alongside their
mentor in the Hellfire Club, (whoever that was), and the direct mention of the
X-Men by Eclipse, whose blood apparently, also glows with light, whenever he
gets hurt. (What is with that, anyhow)? That part with the blood ranks right
there among the weird with Clarice’s/Blink’s new outfits – they just don’t
quite fit with the feel of the show.
The feels should bring us over to Wes, who is back, and is
about to restart his relationship with Lauren Strucker, and Andy Strucker, who
is being tempted into evil by one of the Frost triplets – or rather, it is
already there, if his drawing of the Fenris-wolf is any indication.
Here it might be a right place to discuss the Aryan imagery
that has appeared in ‘3 X 1’ (this episode), but you might just as well discuss
the SW imagery that has appeared here
instead – and yes, we’re talking Rey X Kylo Ren here, light vs. dark. It is
unknown just how much revision went into the SW 8 movie, but for all of its’
better qualities, it is more similar to the SW 7 movie than it is good for it.
One of the characters that gone off for the worse here is
poor Finn, who flips back and forth from a nearly spineless and naïve a-la
early Sansa Stark character, to a rebel and a Jedi in training. Last movie he
got spent being kicked around by everyone, from his former cohorts in the First
Order down to Kylo Ren himself, and this time he got dominated by Rose Tico…in
their relationship. One of Rose’s final lines in the movie, (hopefully, she
didn’t die), is that the Resistance will defeat the First Order with love, not
hate – and it resonates, sort of, with one of the lines in the ‘Gifted’ about
how fear leads to hate, in relation to the Frost triplets. Darth Maul nudges
Kylo Ren and points out, that just because one of the triplets tries to play up
to Andrew Strucker in a feminine way, does not mean that there are two more left.
Yes, as far as SW villains go, Ren is more like Darth Maul
than anyone else, especially the Maul version in the cartoon series: an
anarchist that would destroy everyone and everything – Jedi, Sith, everything
else, just to ease his pain. (Then again, after Obi-Wan had sliced him in two
in ‘The Phantom Menace’, Darth Maul had lost his genitals so it is not
surprising to see where he is coming from either). That is what Ren wants as
well, in ‘The Last Jedi’ – to finish everyone and everything, starting with the
Resistance, of course. …Mind you, Rey could have pointed out that if Kylo wants
to end everything, then how about working with the Resistance instead, starting
to end the First Order, well, first? But no – instead, they have their second
big showdown; the first took place in SW 7 – and there you are. Another
relationship sunk. Probably.
Yes, fans of AoS, especially of the first two seasons, will
be reminded of the Grant’s relationship with Skye/Daisy there; only because
real life is what it is, that plotline kind of got removed, the roles of the
AoS characters got reassigned, so whatever closure Grant and Daisy did was in
S4, with Grant being the framework copy there…supposedly. Who knows what AoS
will do next, when it returns later this week. In addition, as for SW,…it is
still anyone’s game if Kylo and Rey get together; people are beginning to
figure out that the current SW trilogy is a fans’ service as much as anything,
so we will have to wait and see as to what the SW 9 movie will have. Period.
Back to the ‘Gifted’? Not much left to discuss. The mutants
of the Mutant Underground are ready to fight Trask’s and allies and vice versa,
while Hellfire Club is ready to cash in, and Trask’s is about to unveil their
new master plan. What will happen next? The conclusion of the S1 will reveal!
…That’s it for this time. See you all soon!
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