Anyone else watching this? I guess it’s only been on for about a week, in syndication, filling up the former Xena timeslot. I watched the pilot Sunday night.
Stuff I like: The cute lightning guy. The cute density guy. The fact that a woman kicks ass. The guy with the peel and stick face. Well, the peel and stick face part of it.
Stuff I don’t like: That they saddled another woman with touchy-feely powers. The somewhat incomprehensible plot (although it was late and I was tired so maybe it made perfect sense to the well-rested). That they named the guy who invented the mutant process “Breedlove.” Breed Love? Get it?
Yeah, I have to admit, that it was pretty hard to follow. In fact, after the first few minutes, I was wondering if there had been a 2 hour movie pilot or something. I felt like I was coming in half-way. But it was pretty good mindless entertainment. I noticed at the end that Marval was one of the producing companies. I just wish they had either gone with a live action “X-men” or gone with a totally different story. This one just had too much that seemed similar. The “Mutant protection act” or something instead of the “Mutant registration”…I don’t know…just hope it looks up…either way, it’s at least as entertaining as Xena was, so I’ll keep watching if I remember it’s on.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. Boy that was a dumb show. Worse than Cleopatra 2525. Worse than Jack of All Trades. Worse than Queen of Swords. Worse than Relic Hunter, for cryin’ out loud!
Must they film anything more interesting than a walk in extreme slow-motion? Could the “fighting” be any more staged-looking? Gah. My brain is rebelling. I can’t dwell on it any more.
The series is co-developed by Marvel, but is not related to the Marvel Universe (I think). Twentieth-Century Fox has begun legal action, since the X men contract apparently barred Marvel from creating a X men TV series for 5 years, and Fox thinks this is similar enough to Xavier’s brood to conflict.
The current show has no tie to the Marvel Universe, the X-Men, or the recently cancelled “Mutant X” comic book. (Except of course that it’s about mutants with super powers facing persecution.) It’s syndicated, which means it could be on any station in your area. Check your local listings.
Well, it looks like our little team of mutant freedom fighters is in place. I can’t remember all their names, though. I guess if the show survives I’ll pick them up.
Density Boy: IMHO has the most interesting power. The fact that he can alter the density of the clothes he’s wearing (darn, no nekkid scenes of misting out in the wrong outfit!) leads me to wonder if he can extend his abilities to other objects or people not immediately on his person.
Blonde Ass-kicker: Show she can fly, and I guess she’s super-strong too? They don’t really make her strength level clear. I’m wondering if her sometimes-glowing eyes indicate some other ability we haven’t seen yet.
Lightning Lad: The bad boy. One step above a cliche, but my he does wear a set of chains well. The hand gesture thing he does to generate the lightning is interesting but I have a feeling it will change when someone realizes just how much screen time it eats up.
Emoti-girl: Ick. Counselor Troi with even worse hair, and who knew that was even possible? I hate touchy-feely kinds of powers, and I really hated her ability to locate the missing mutants the way she did (although it did lead to the aforementioned shackle scene so I guess it wasn’t all that bad after all).
This episode served to set up the conflict a little more clearly than the last one, mostly I suppose because the plot made a little more sense. That “esper,” Ruby, was quite the little quisling, wasn’t he? I didn’t see whether he was with the group who was liberated from the compound, so I’m thinking maybe he wasn’t and we’ll see him still in the employ of the evil Eckhard? I wonder if everyone still has a big ol’ plastic disc stuck to the back of their necks?
Bumping this up for a second. Did anyone else notice that the headquarters of the bad guys (whatever they are) is the same building that was the Center in Pretender? They kept wondering where it was, and I kept thinking “Blue Cove, Mass, of course”
I’m trying to decide how long this show would stay on the air if it were on a network rather than in syndication. Since “Wolf Lake” seems ready to go the way of all flesh (pre-empted for “Survivor” last week), I’m thinking not very long. I’m wondering now if it will last the season and be picked up by anyone.
This week’s episode was kind of a wash for me. The stupid Russians were, well, so stupid. Why would you tell someone who’s already proven himself to be untrustworthy how your weapon works and how to reverse its effects? For that matter, why would you bother having a reverse setting on the weapon in the first place?
And speaking of traitor boy, did anyone not suss out immediately that he was a self-hating mutant? Since Marvel is involved and with perhaps only one exception (Quicksilver and Crystal’s daughter Luna) every offspring of a mutant is also a mutant, how could he not be?
OTOH, it did feature extended scenes of Lightning Lad in his bike shorts as well as a scene of Density Boy in bondage (band name?) so it wasn’t all bad.
They seem to be presenting the blonde woman as being cat-like in nature. She hisses and swipes her “claws” and her eyes glow yellow with slit pupils. How exactly this reconciles with her apparent ability to fly is unclear.
I don’t understand why Adam would destroy the mutant detector. He muttered something about how he could never forgive himself if it fell into the wrong hands, but why would he think that the GSA wasn’t developing one already? Eckhard knows it’s possible so it would be safe to assume that he’s got R&D on it. I’d be more worried about them getting ahold of the little subdermal neutralizer deactivator.
Has it been explained why the GSA and Mutant X don’t already have lists of the various mutants? I thought part of the pilot was Eckhard getting a database of the existing mutants and Adam wiping it out. Didn’t either of them keep a backup copy?
Well Otto, I managed to stumble upon this show over the weekend and I thought I’d give it a try. Pretty dull stuff. I myself am convinced never to watch it again.
Actually, it seems that the few good things you’ve said about the show can be boiled down to “so-and-so is cute”. Why aren’t you just watching porn?
I’m willing to give it a chance for a while longer yet, um, mostly because of the cute boys. But also because I can see some kernels of potential in it that I’m hoping will be cultivated.
But I’m about to give up on this thread, as it seems to be about the only SF show on TV that doesn’t get discussed ad nauseum by the SMDB geek patrol.
