That could be really cool! Wish they’d shown it in the trailer…
Medusa’s hair looks ok, but Crystal’s looks stupid–I don’t mind that they painted the design on, but at least paint it on thick enough that it doesn’t look as obviously painted on.
Also, why does Disney/Marvel have the Inhumans as opposed to Fox? Fox (or whoever) has the Fantastic Four. The Inhumans appeared in FF far, far more than say, the Skrulls ever did and the Skrulls are FF’s properties. Crystal dated Human Torch for a decade or so, and he whined about her before that for about 3 or 4 years. Medusa was the first Inhuman to appear around FF 38 and was a regular fill-in character when one of the FF was on vacation (and Crystal was part of that odd period when Englehart was writing the FF but wasn’t allowed to use two or three of the real FF).
So I don’t get the division of property.
Also, Black Bolt (not “Blackkagar Boltagon” or whatever dumbass name he was given a while back) should be tied with Cyclops with rigid self-control. He should be 100% clean shaven/clean cut, not have that scruffy “I forgot to shave today” look.
Also, where did the idea that Black Bolt have telepathy come from? At least from circa 1966-2005 it was never even hinted that he had, except for some cryptic hints that he and Medusa have some method where he can communicate with her directly. Is the telepathy a recent thing? If so, I don’t like it. Harumph.
Sign language would be cool for him though.
That was my reaction the first time someone mentioned telepathy in this thread… but I checked and apparently he does… which is stupid.
It must be pretty recent because I remember a discussion with a writer that said something to the effect that Medusa interprets what she thinks he wants when speaking for him…and what if she’s wrong.
You were right to not bother. It’s a bit of a mess, frankly.
Firstly, the Inhumans made their “cinematic” debut as a concept in the Agents Of Shield TV series. Then Marvel said they were going to make a movie about them, but would ignore what AoS had done, even though they are ostensibly in the same universe. Then the movie was scrapped and a TV series was developed - also officially Marvel, but also going to ignore the AoS series, or at least never cross over.
It’s all a bit weird, really.
I know nothing about any of the Inhumans, so I don’t have any expectations to fight (unlike the last few posters), and I was aware before I watched the trailer that this was a TV show with lower production values, which may have hurt the first couple of posters in the thread. Reading through the thread, it seems like I’d have had about as good a chance at being impressed by the trailer as one could practically manage, but all I got from it was a big ho-hum.
There was nothing specifically bad in there. A few of the moments seemed a bit too overwrought compared to what we could see. If you’re acting like the world’s going to shit but you’re still all dressed to the nines in clothing that doesn’t look like it’s been worn for more than 10 minutes, I’m not too sold on the idea that your life is too hard. But I’m willing to buy that there could still be context that they weren’t able to include and accept, again, that it’s a TV show with lower standards.
My main problem was simply that…no one seemed interesting at all. Even ignoring the plastic quality of the outfits and wigs, there was no charisma given by any actor. It seems to be low-rent Elijah Wood versus low-rent Jim Caviezel, but not even the good ones you bring in who have done second-tier Hollywood films in the originals place, just the ones you get in as the guest-of-the-week for a serial TV show.
It didn’t look all that bad to me. I’m willing to give it a few episodes to an entire season to find its rhythm. I was never really a huge Inhumans fan, but Iron Fist and Iron Man always seemed kinda boring on paper, too.
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Wait, wait, wait…
So Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is part of the MCU and introduced the concept of Inhumans. It’s produced by ABC Studios & Marvel Television and airs on ABC. The finale of the latest season showed Agent Coulson … IN SPAAAACE! The Inhumans show is about Inhumans (natch) … IN SPAAAACE! It’s also produced by ABC Studios & Marvel Television and will air on ABC.
You’re telling me that these two series are going to ignore each other?
OK, so, I’ve watched the trailer now, and… what do these folks do? They live in space and want to come back to Earth; I get that much. And I presume that they’ve got fancier technology than we do, but that’s just an inference from the living in space part. I presume, given that it’s Marvel, that at least some of them have superpowers. But what are they? There are some streaky smudgy things moving quickly across the screen that seem to impress the mundanes-- Are those flying people, or some sort of weapon system? I don’t know.
I’m now picturing Black Bolt texting.
They are mutants with a different name. They all have one superpower in varying degrees of strength. The X-Men equivalent would be the royal family.
I believe the official word is that there will be no crossovers in the first season.
A friend thinks that part of the reason that it looks so tragic is they stupidly spent gobs of to film the first ep in IMAX... but did not spend to build sets that would look good in IMAX. Instead, they look like something location scouted by Doctor Who.
Personally, I can’t get over the fact that Medusa’s hair never moves. Instead, it hangs lank and lifeless, just like she’s wearing a really heavy Crystal Gale wig.
My point is that, for the first trailer introducing these characters who the vast majority of viewers have never heard of before, you really ought to show what those superpowers are. If you’ve got a super-strong guy, show him picking up a truck or something. If you’ve got a guy who can fly, show him hovering, or at least flying slowly enough that we can see him. If you’ve got someone who shoots energy blasts, show him blasting something. Don’t just show us a bunch of people standing on ordinary floors and saying “We were wronged and we’re going to do something about it”: Show us them doing something about it.
I don’t get it either…and I’ll admit (probably again, for I know it’s not the first time I’ve talked about this on here) that it royally irks me how the Fantastic Four are practically getting dumped into the damned dustbin of history, but the Inhumans (who have near always been more intricately tied into the FF mythos than being standalone characters), along with Ego the Living Planet* and the Watchers** among potential others, are getting (an attempt at) the red carpet treatment. In addition to the Four themselves, Dr. Doom, Galactus, the Silver Surfer, the Skrulls, Mole Man, and other medium-minor villains and characters, Kang the Conqueror, who has near-always been an Avengers villain, has been tied up and taken hostage by the Fox red tape too. Why Kang? Because his mythos includes that he happens to be a distant future member of the Richards AND Von Doom bloodlines, complete with being named Nathaniel after Reed’s father/Franklin’s grandfather, and making his debut as Rama-Tut in FF #19. It’s all a freakin’ hot mess, to say the least.
BTW, Medusa made her debut in FF #36, and actually wasn’t a replacement FF member until the mid-70s, when Reed and Sue separated and nearly divorced, but reconciled in the course of thirty issues (FF #130-159). Crystal was the first ever replacement FF member, taking Sue’s place when Sue took maternity leave (FF #72-95, with Crystal’s replacing Sue becoming official in FF #81).
Also, Englehart was allowed to use the Richards family, but chose not to because he wanted to put too much of his own unique twist on the FF AND didn’t care what the fans thought. For the remote few who did like Englehart’s FF run, good for them…but between his stinky attitude (IMO) about the FF and bringing back the Richards and how boring and weird the run was (again IMO), I have never at all cared for it. It ranks right down there with the DeFalco, Claremont, Waid, Millar, and Fraction runs for my absolute least favorite FF creative runs ever.
I wonder how on Earth Ronan the Accuser and Black Panther escaped the Fox malarkey, given they too both debuted in FF…
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- Although Ego did have his start as a Thor character, which more than most likely saved his bacon from Fox’s death grip. But I honestly have always considered Ego more of a FF character, most particularly because, IMO, his best story/issue was and will always be FF #235 (“Four Against Ego!”).
** - Though not officially used yet, there has been word that they want Uatu to eventually make an appearance in a MCU movie…most likely Avengers: Infinity War (Part One and/or Part Two) would be my bet.
Didn’t the Watchers actually show up in GotG2? Wasn’t that who Stan Lee was talking to?
It reminded me of the exciting trailer to the Christian movie Time Changer, where the first half was taken up by showing a bunch of old men sitting in a committee meeting debating on endorsing a book’s publication. (Check it out on YouTube–it must be seen to be believed.)
Blame it on Fox, they own them.
Yikes, this looks like a cheesefest unwisely played straight. There’s a certain level of absurdity—like giant port-a-doggies—that works in the comics, due to them being a medium inherently further removed from reality, but which just takes you out of any immersion on film/TV. You can counterbalance this, to an extend, with humor and irony as GotG showed, but it doesn’t look like this show will feature any awareness of this.
I always get the Inhumans mixed up with the Eternals and Deviants.
The division of property wasn’t based on, “Which character shows up the most in which books?” It was, “Which way can we package all these characters so we can sell the movie rights for the most money?” Kang got packaged with the Fantastic Four because Marvel figured he’d add more value to that franchise, then he would if they bundled him with the Avengers.
There also was probably some degree of horse trading. The Inhumans might originally have been offered as part of the FF package, but was removed during negotiations in exchange for some other consideration.