‘The Gifted’ continue to deliver. Yay?
Well, yes. This week’s episode, ‘unMoored’, has delivered to
us, its’ viewers, several interwoven plotlines: the Struckers’ quest to redefine
themselves with Andy gone, (but still sharing Lauren’s dreams), the Underground’s
continued search for Lorna, (and now the baby), as well as for Christine’s
sister, the Inner Circle’s own plans, (regarding Andy in this episode), and now
– we also got Jace. Applause – pause?
Jace went through just as much as the mutants did in the six
months’ hiatus between the events in S1 and now. He put the Sentinel Services
behind and did his best to embrace civil life – in his case, he is working in
some office now. Not unlike Andy, he tried to go cold turkey on his old life –
and it works just as well for him as it does for Andy. Spoiler alert – it does
not, and they do not. Until tonight’s episode at least, Andy has been in touch
with his mother, sort of, while Jace has kept his old fact files in the attic
or wherever. They were unable to move forwards, but after the events in ‘unMoored’,
they can. Sort of. At least Andy does, with Reeva’s help. Reeva, of course, has
her own agenda, but so far one can get a feeling that for the last 6 months or
so it had been put on hold until Lorna’s baby was born…and now she is sick. The
baby, that is, not Lorna, though it is anyone’s guess if what the baby Dawn has
is contagious. Judging by the next week’s spoilers, it is not.
…In an off-note, apparently both the Inner Circle/Hellfire Club and the Mutant Underground are
in D.C. now, technically within the sight of each other, kind of how Aladdin’s
regular hovel and Jasmine’s/the sultan’s royal palace were also within the
sight of each other in ‘Aladdin’ the movie. Moreover, yes, now the mutants,
(and FOX?) are also a part of Disney, just as ‘Aladdin’ is, but still. Weird.
Marcos’ version of the bat-signal, shown in the end of ‘unMoored’ is kind of
bizarre-looking too, but if it works for him and Lorna, got for it, you
magnificent bastard! …The only odd man out so far is Jace, again, who is down
in the state of Georgia, (the devil went down to Georgia?), but again, this
will probably change – the reason as to why Jace had been such an effective
Sentinel Services agent, is that he honestly believed that he was on ‘the right
side’, doing the right thing, and the mutants here were the villains. Regarding
the Hellfire Club/Inner Circle, he was not wrong, actually, but those people
appeared only in the second half of S1, and cannot fully justify everything
else that Jace and his team, his people did to the mutants.
…These days, Jace does not have his own team or people
anymore. However, this will likely change, because without them opposing the
mutants, (and especially the Mutant Underground, but in a pinch, any mutants
will do), ‘The Gifted’ don’t work as well anymore; yes, the old black-and-white
dichotomy of S1 seems to be vanishing, replaced by the new Mutant Underground
vs. Inner Circle rivalry, but with the Sentinel Services, (or something
similar) thrown into the mix, the series might come back to their old S1 glory,
or be even better, because right now? ‘The Gifted’ feel lost instead. In part,
this is intentional – the old mentor of Johnny, (and Lorna, and maybe the
others), who got them into the Underground in the first place, has admitted
that she (and maybe her own cohorts?) have messed-up, there’s no hope, and the
Mutant Underground is going nowhere fast, so what now?
Johnny has no idea, and the show helpfully shares with us
his flashbacks of Gus, and Sonya, and Lorna & Andy leaving the Underground,
so he is in just as dark a place as the Struckers are, (and maybe Jace –
somehow he does not come across as a sincerely happy man in this episode). What
will happen next, now that baby Dawn is sick and according to the spoilers, the
Inner Circle needs Marcos’ help to cure her? Anyone can guess.
Oh, and one more thing. Apparently, the lawyer’s mutant
powers is the ability to turn into a dragon-human hybrid of some sort, both in
the comics and here. There is really no rhyme or reason to mutant powers, is
there?
…This is it for ‘unMoored’; see you all soon!
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