The Gifted

[meganbmoore]

So, the last name of the main family in The Gifted is named Strucker, there are 2 blond mutant teens close in age with complementary powers (they both appear to have a form of telekinesis) and one is named Andy. I have no idea if this is foreshadowing, comic nerd trolling, or pure coincidence.



Anyway, I liked the pilot. It’s set in the present or near present and is in one of the early-ish stages of one of the many Very Bad Terrible Futures from the X-Men comics, but scaled down for a TV budget. They seem to have a pretty good idea of what they’re doing. I suspect if there are narrative problems, they’ll stem from the “what can we and what can’t we do because of movies and licensing” that plagued Supergirl’s first season.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Omg, I missed that about Andy! They're not twins, though? But I like your theory. There were plenty of easter eggs in the pilot though -I liked the bar with the glowing X and a painting of a wolverine.

I liked the pilot too - I'm a sucker for anything mutant, but it rolled along competently, and I liked Lauren's calm togetherness. And the dark haired woman that talked to Blink at their HQ was apparently Sage, so yay.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, Lauren is a year or two older, I think (they don't say, but she seems older, but not that much older) but otherwise, there do seem to be similarities. I don't think they're headed the Fenris route with them at all, but they could make Reed or one of his parents be an estranged von Strucker. Aside from Lorna, who's there for the Magneto connection, I suspect they're going to avoid the major or iconic characters and stick to "recognizable but not considered core" characters and new ones, and Fenris-one or both-could be a good way to to bring the Brotherhood in.

(I do hope I'm wrong about the iconic characters, though, as I would love to see Jubilee show up as a surviving member of the X-Men, since her Thing is to usually be one of the last X-Men if not the last one, and I really want her to actually get to use her powers in a live action version without being played by a white girl.)

I did not realize that about Sage. I had started to drift a bit from comics by the time her thing as Xavier's spy was a big plot, so I never read any of that, but what I've heard sounds like an interesting character.