eXtraction & X-Roads (Mutants let's be United for once in our x-fan lives) 8pm

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It's not airing here till Thursday. So I have a few questions;

- Did Sage finally shown her powers? So far she just comes across as a PC-nerd and no one (beside the comic fans) know what her powers are.

- Were there any new characters/mutants introduced in the double finale?

- Did Shatter finally use his power?

- Was trader shown in this episode?

- Who did die?

- Who else besides Polaris, Andy and Sage joined the Hellfire Club?

1) No. But she did kind of show them in earlier episodes when her eyes were flipping back and forth super fast when she was scanning some computer screens, I think that was supposed to imply her like computer mind and perfect memory at work

2) Hounds and a mysterious character from the past that helped to set up the Mutant Underground

3) YES! it looked cool too

4) Don't know who that is sorry

5) Apparently Senator Montez and Dr Campbell, and some of those Hound Pairs (massive spoilers telling you this lol)

[Heroine Addict]

DenOfGeek.com, The Gifted Season Finale Review: eXtraction and X-roads

The Gifted episodes 12 and 13 closes season 1 by highlighting all of the X-Men goodness you could want.

... The finale, the two episodes that close out season one, are a strong reminder of what made this show so entertaining and a return to its core X-Menness, for good and for ill.

Early in the show's run, I made a list of everything good X-Men media has: soapy non-mutant backstories, melodramatic romance subplots, and visually interesting applications of powers. The one thing that I missed from that list? Villains with a point, and these two episodes go out of their way to build that into the show's mythos. All but one of the show's villains take center stage: Campbell, Jace, Lorna and Andy. ...

... To its immense credit, The Gifted leaves the characters in a significantly different status quo than when it started. The Struckers are now deep in the battle, and one of them is on a different side. Campbell is dead, but the Brotherhood did nothing to eliminate the Hound program. Jace, having had his nose rubbed in countless indignities, has quit at Sentinel Services and will likely show up as an anti-mutant hitman or something. And the Underground is in Nashville in a new safehouse with no amenities or infrastructure, and they're down five key members, four to a resurgent Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. That's a lot of movement in a short period of time. Combine that with the melodrama, explosions, plot holes, dropped plot lines, and general sense of fun that stuck with the show through even the dull times, and you have the quintessential X-Men TV show. Season one of The Gifted was way better than expected, and is set up really nicely for the next one.

PHOENIX EGGS

- Campbell's lecture at the beginning of the finale is almost an inversion of Cassandra Nova's monologue to Larry Trask at the beginning of Grant Morrison's run, in New X-Men #114. Nova's point to Trask was that neanderthals were wiped out by the new, faster, stronger, better model of human, and they needed sentinels to fight back. Campbell's lecture seemed like a conscious invocation of that, but by inverting it, pointing out that homo sapiens were genetically inferior to neanderthals except for their ability to band together.

- Interesting that in addition to working in tandem, Lauren and Andy's powers work on each other. That's not usually the case in the comics. Siblings usually neutralize the other's power - Havok and Cyclops, Banshee and Black Tom, Multiple Man and the baby Multiple Man he made Siryn have...

- Blink tells Lorna about bad guys in her family's past, a pretty clear reference to Apocalypse, who is her distant grandfather.

- Not to get too political in the easter eggs section of the review of a show explicitly about discrimination that had their racist demagogue character echo a prominent real world politician or anything, but the choice to hold an anti-mutant conference in Charlotte, NC in the show was a pretty clear slap over the anti-trans bathroom legislation that was quite the to-do recently.

- Otto von Strucker's lab partner's name was Madeleine Risman, and while she doesn't have an obvious comics analogue, there was a Matthew Risman who was a prominent Purifier soldier introduced in Craig Kyle and Chris Yost's torture porn bloodbath mid-aughts school book, New X-Men.

- Evangeline is probably Evangeline Whedon, in the comics a mutant rights activist and lawyer who can shapeshift into a dragon. She was introduced by Chris Claremont and Salvador Larocca in 2003 in the pages of X-Treme X-Men.

- I'm not sure if it was unfinished sound effects on my screener or if this is actually in there, but I wasn't kidding about Lauren and Andy going Super Saiyan. The sound effect when they used their power is the same one that they use when Goku is radiating a ton of power when he goes SS1.

- The Nashville HQ has a sign outside that says "J. Kirby's Feed Store." I don't need to tell you who J. Kirby is referencing in this case, right?

- I bet you Sage's departure to the new Brotherhood is a ruse. Sage was a spy for Xavier in the Hellfire Club in the comics, and this show knows it's X-history enough to lampshade this.

- Angry Dave Grohl, the underground driver with invisibility, is named Fade. He was a hitman in the comics, killed by a triggered-sense X-23.

- Thanks so much for sticking with us through season one! Here's hoping season two is as much fun to watch and review. Hope you survived the experience!

4.5/5

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Polaris covering up isn't the only solution for leveling the playing field. Another idea is to have non-"exotic" girls (your words) or the good-guy characters dress equally revealing.

Honestly, Emma Dumont doesn't really have that much to cover up.



She has a ballerina's body...

[Master of Sound]

Evangeline Whedon, really? Wow I loved that character. Though I doubt she will EVER show her powers on The Gifted as it's almost impossible to make it look realistic and good.

[Master of Sound]

4) Don't know who that is sorry

Trader is the guy who helped the team on several field missions. On one he got wounded and was helped by Ma Strucker. So anyone seen him in action on the finals?
Trader.jpg

[numberthirty]

It's not airing here till Thursday. So I have a few questions;

- Did Sage finally shown her powers? So far she just comes across as a PC-nerd and no one (beside the comic fans) know what her powers are.

- Not really.

- Were there any new characters/mutants introduced in the double finale?

- Seemed that way.

- Did Shatter finally use his power?

- Yep

- Was trader shown in this episode?

- Who did die?

- Who else besides Polaris, Andy and Sage joined the Hellfire Club?

- Not sure.

- No one died.

- Fade(from the looks of it).

[numberthirty]

Evangeline Whedon, really? Wow I loved that character. Though I doubt she will EVER show her powers on The Gifted as it's almost impossible to make it look realistic and good.

From a forearm down.

It worked.

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If Trader was there, he was tucked into the back. Way back.

[berserkerclaw]

Loved the ep. Evangeline Whedon for the win. Nice reference. Lorna was amazing in this. Loved the split at the end.

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Jack Kirby Easter egg i saw

I loved that and the Morrison one too

[Heroine Addict]

TVGuide.com, The Gifted Finale Pits the Hellfire Club Against the Mutant Underground

For most of The Gifted Season 1, we've followed the misadventures of the Mutant Underground as they tried to fend off Sentinel Services and stay hidden, but tonight's finale seems to have effectively put that to an end. The Mutant Underground fell, as did their attempts at playing defense. Now, it's time for the Hellfire Club to take the offensive.

After the attempt to kidnap Dr. Campbell (Garret Dillahunt) failed spectacularly, Lorna (Emma Dumont) and two thirds of the Frost triplets took matters into their own hands. Their method of thinking seemed to be "if you can't kidnap 'em, kill 'em!"...

... Back at the airport, Lorna went full-on Magneto, and despite Marcos (Sean Teale) begging her to spare the innocent people on the private jet, she shot that plane right out of the sky. It's hard to be sad about Dr. Campbell and the bigoted Senator meeting a fiery end, but it does mark the beginning of Lorna's devastating descent into villainy. When she showed back up at the new Mutant HQ, she was rocking a deep-v and a lot of leather and chains, which obviously means she's a bad girl now and possibly even the new leader of the Hellfire Club.

She'll have plenty of mutants to lead too. ...

[Heroine Addict]

From that DoG review, REALLY liked these 2 'PhoeniX Egg' bits:

- Blink tells Lorna about bad guys in her family's past, a pretty clear reference to Apocalypse, who is her distant grandfather.

- I bet you Sage's departure to the new Brotherhood is a ruse. Sage was a spy for Xavier in the Hellfire Club in the comics, and this show knows it's X-history enough to lampshade this.

[Heroine Addict]

Trader is the guy who helped the team on several field missions. On one he got wounded and was helped by Ma Strucker. So anyone seen him in action on the finals?
Trader.jpg

He did show up again, fairly recovered, just within the last few eps I think. Sadly tho, he did not appear in either entry, of the 2-part finale. Shame, 'cause I really liked him AND...

... his cool-ass camouflage powers.

[Heroine Addict]

CBR.com, Polaris Becomes The Gifted’s Answer to Magneto in Season 1 Finale

... “There’s nothing noble about struggle, Marcos,” Polaris interrupts, “and sacrifice is just a pretty name for losing. […] The Mutant Underground is dying. That world, where we don’t have to hide — that we’ve always talked about — I want to build that, for all of us, for my baby.” But Lorna and Esme didn’t travel all of that way for speeches; they know precisely who they want: Fade, Sage and a couple of others, including Andy Strucker, who’s long bristled at pleas for peaceful solutions in the growing conflict with humans.

What the split means the Struckers, and the Mutant Underground, will clearly be central to The Gifted‘s second season. However, the finale seems to set the stage for a well-funded, ascendant Hellfire Club — one led by Polaris in her father’s place — taking the fight to Sentinel Services and humanity. Perhaps then we’ll finally learn whether Magneto was right.

[Heroine Addict]

As always, MUCH thanX, Juan!