And we are back. More or less, certainly limping, but for
now we are back. Yay!
Back on TV, ‘the Gifted’ continue to impress, as the
plotlines finally get moving. In this week’s episode – ‘afterMath’ – we have
Andy make a new friend, whom they have rescued in the previous episode. Her
name is Rebecca, so far, she is not
one of the main cast, and her powers are turning things inside out. Her
approach appears to be similar to Andy and Lauren, but her attitude is quite
different: Andy did hesitate in attacking Lauren and Marcos back then, but
Rebecca manifests a vibe that she would not.
…Some people say that there are two approaches to
everything, a good and a bad one. The two terms aren’t fully interchangeable with
right and wrong, but the fact is that starting with ‘afterMath’, ‘the Gifted’
will begin to show the, well, ‘evil-ness’ of the Inner Circle, as their lofty
goals hide some unsavory means of getting there. Of course, the question of
whether the game is worth the candle and whether the means justify the ends,
will never be answered – at least not in real life – but on TV, as ‘the Gifted’
will continue to develop, maybe we get an answer in that universe at least.
Back to ‘the Gifted’ proper? While Andy was on his date with
Rebecca, and Lauren was recovering from their fight with their father, their
hospital was invaded by the Purifiers and Jace. So far, Jace had done nothing
openly ‘evil’, and in fact is shown to have had more mixed feelings in the
past, before his daughter died, about the mutants, but that was in the past and
in the present, he clearly is not a friend to the mutants at all. How more can
his TV character remain somewhat ambiguous is anyone’s guess, but eventually he
will have to make a choice and after the events in S1, when the Frost sisters
mind-forced his partner to kill himself, the odds are not in pro-mutant favor.
Speaking of mutants, the last main plotline of ‘afterMath’
was about Clarice and Marcos taking their rescued group of mutants to the
Morlocks, into the sewers. The Morlocks’ take on the human-mutant conflict is
to stay out of it, by hiding in the sewers, getting by by all sorts of means,
including thieving, and generally that is it. They are not fighters, they are
hiders. The Inner Circle might be evil, (at least from the P.O.V. of the Mutant
Underground), but at least they are proactive. The Morlocks are not evil, but
they are escapists, and from the P.O.V. of the Mutant Underground, that is just
as bad. The Mutant Underground are good, (well, this is their story and they’re
sticking to it, at least for now, even though at least some of their allies
left them hanging instead), but they are also fighters, not escapists, and so
they and Morlocks are going to clash, especially since the Morlocks don’t like
them very much either. They are not looking for a fight, but their leader is
interested in Clarice/Blink and her mutant portal powers – and John is not
going to swallow that at all, especially since he had spent this episode
recovering from his own injuries and growing increasingly frustrated with
everyone and everything. Given that Clarice herself is feeling short-tempered
lately, this can be very bad, for the entire Mutant Underground – but we will
have to wait and see as to what will happen next.
…This is it for tonight; see you all soon! (Hopefully).
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