The obligatory disclaimer: sometimes real life sucks, and
sometimes it does not. Yay, really. Now onto ‘the Gifted’.
…This week’s episode was called the ‘gaMe changer’, and it
certainly lived up to its’ name. The Inner Circle has destroyed the control
center for the mutants’ control collars, and now many mutants are free. With
the ‘regular’ society already inflamed and divided on the mutant issue, Reeva’s
plan for taking over USA is beginning to take shape and it is a workable one,
too. Whether she will be able to keep the United States once she captures them,
is another story, and, moreover, one that we will get to see later, after the
winter break, (technically speaking). For now, more new mutant characters will
be appearing on the show; whether they will stay, or go, as Rebecca did, is
another story.
…Rebecca got killed off in this week’s episode, incidentally.
Judging by S1, no return from the dead for her; ‘the Gifted’ are not like AoS
in that fashion. (With AC, there is not enough material to make a statement). This
brings us to Daredevil, or rather – to ‘Daredevil’, who got cancelled at the
end of last month.
Is this noteworthy? Well, yes – ‘Reverie’ might have also gotten
cancelled during November 2018, (albeit in the beginning, rather than the end),
but ‘Daredevil’ lasted longer – for 3 seasons rather than 1, and it was much
more exciting, proportionally speaking, than ‘Reverie’ had been. ‘Reverie’ was
not a bad show, but it was very heavily influenced by AoS on one hand, and kind
of… not exactly insipid, but certainly lackluster on the other. ‘Reverie’ got
cancelled with a whimper; the exit of ‘Daredevil’ was more noticeable.
Yes, in part this is because ‘Iron Fist’ and ‘Luke Cage’
were cancelled earlier in November 2018 too; with only JJ still up for grabs on
one hand, and with ‘The Defenders’ proper being the weakest of Marvel/Netflix
shows, things aren’t looking up for the Defenders team. However, that is
acceptable: right now, the most popular theory is that with Disney establishing
its’ own version of Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/etc., and as such, it is no longer too
interested in cooperating with Netflix proper. (And maybe its’ counterparts as
well).
Of course, until Netflix’s copyright for the Defenders’ team
run out, Disney will have to tread carefully here, to prevent any conflicts
back in the real world. It is already in a bad place regarding its’ other takeover,
of SW, so it does not really need to add any of its’ Marvel properties into the
mix. With Sony, (regarding its’ universe of Marvel characters or Earth-TRN688),
making its’ boundaries clear and established, it might be Netflix’s turn next –
or it and Disney might do something completely different, who knows?..
Back to ‘the Gifted’? So far, it is still going strong, with
the ‘gaMe changer’ trying to go for something epic, as the Inner Circle
releases captured and subdued mutants, the rest of the Strucker family
destroying anti-mutant research, and John, from the Mutant Underground, getting
captured by Jace and his Purifiers.
Well, technically, the Purifiers’ are not Jace’s, but are
more of a free-ranging secret society, like the Freemasons or the Illuminati, but
Jace is shown to be taking charge of them lately. Again, it is a question of
just how big the Purifiers are, as a movement, but we’ll probably see more of
them in the future episodes; right now, John got captured by probably no more
than three or four of them, including Jace. Of course, John’s strategy had been
to run at their jeep and hold it in place, until he got exhausted, but John has
been in a bad place lately, as he and Clarice constantly fought lately, and
Marcos was more of a comic relief than anything else.
Pause. This brings us to the fact that by now episodes of ‘the
Gifted’ got somewhat, well, disassembled into separate plotlines; Jace capturing
John at the end of ‘gaMe changer’ is really the first sign that they are coming
together again, and maybe we’ll get something more along the lines of ‘the
Gifted’ S1 in the next episode…
And this is it, for now. See you all soon!
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