Tonight, ‘the Gifted’ are back, so yay! ‘calaMity’, this
week’s episode, did its’ best to be overwhelming, and so it was – or rather, it
was just the right amount of ‘whelming’, so let us talk.
First, the bad news – Sage is dead by Reeva and the
Purifiers - whose leader, Benedict Ryan, is revealed Reeva’s partner in her
plan of taking over America - shot Clarice/Blink. At least they made Reeva an
Afro-American, and not a Slavic immigrant of some sort, so kudos for that
ballsy move.
That said, Clarice’s about-turn regarding her attitude on all the
mutants was jarring – one episode she was all about leaving, keeping her head
down and not being a hero, and now she’s sounding exactly like that – exactly
like John, and now she may be dead, (a self-fulfilling prophesy?), and John is
left picking up his own pieces.
…On the other hand, there is still a chance for her to be
alive, while Sage is genuinely dead. Somehow, let us be honest here, the
writers of ‘the Gifted’ never figured out as to how to fit-in Sage into their
world; for being a major character in the regular X-Men comics, in ‘the Gifted’
she was a recurring character at best, and now, she is killed off for dramatic
effect and to demonstrate to the viewers just how ruthless and lethal Reeva can
be. Yay? Lorna’s internal dramatics were interesting to watch, but nothing else
– she is beginning to realize that she and Marcos’ can be over their heads and
need to start drawing more people into their plan, maybe even Andy, because
honestly? His loyalty to the Inner Circle appears to be somewhat thin after
Rebecca/Twist had died…
However, if Sage’s death is somewhat problematic, in a
pointless and unnecessary kind of way, reminiscent of AoS at its’ worst, then
the rest of the episode certainly is not. The entire convoluted chain of
command between Reeva and Benedict Ryan and Jace was certainly better than
anything AoS – or the rest of MCU – showed on such a level, and the dramatic
tension between the Purifiers and the Morlocks was certainly well shot, pardon
the pun. Jace, of course, is beginning to have further doubts about the
rightfulness of his cause, so we’ll have to wait and see as to what it will
amount to, (if it ever will). Certainly, again, ‘the Gifted’ made him into a
better anti-hero/villain than anything that AoS had done with Ward, or AIDA, or
several other characters. As far as the within-universe rules go, Jace is still
a better human being than Reeva is.
As for the Strucker family plotline, so far Reed finally
decided to embrace his own mutation and stop taking the medicine; Lauren
decided to stop running and to start fighting, (maybe even Andy, I don’t know,
but after Sage’s death Andy might be having second thoughts of his own); and
Caitlyn has stopped ‘playing nice’ and is ramming police vehicles these days.
Of course the fact that the local cops seem to have gone to the ‘SW trooper’
school of shooting doesn’t hurt either, but now the Struckers are still fleeing
and the cops are still chasing them, so the episode has ended on a cliffhanger;
yay!
…Yes, certainly so – for all of its minor flaws, ‘calaMity’
was a very impressive, very dramatic episode, with plenty of both plot
progression and character progression too – Jace and John, the Morlocks’ leader
and Lorna and Andy, even Lauren and the elder Struckers have emerged from the
Morlock-Purifier confrontation changed. Now we just have to wait and see as
what will come out of this next week.
Ergo, for now, this is it. See you all soon!
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