After being torn over whether to embrace her father's legacy for several episodes, Lorna finally decides to become a mutant terrorist just like Magneto and uses her baby-enhanced powers to pull the engines off Campbell and Senator Rodriguez's plane and send it crashing to the ground in a fiery explosion. Nix explains how Lorna came to make that jaw-dropping, game-changing decision.
Nix: The thing that I talked a lot about with Emma Dumont, who plays Polaris, is the idea that, basically, the reality is, looking at the Frosts and their way of doing things. As hardcore as they are, they haven’t really been wrong. They were the ones who stopped the Hound program. They were the ones who rescued the Strucker children from the lab. And while the mutant underground may not agree with how they did it, they were the ones that got it done. And so, I think Polaris looks at that and she’s thinking about the people that she loves, she’s thinking about Eclipse, she’s thinking about her baby that’s growing inside of her. And I think the big thing is, in her mind, this is something that has to happen.
She knows that Eclipse will never do it, because Eclipse came from this violent past which he’s spent years trying to get away from. And it’s not a line that he’d be willing to cross. Thunderbird would never do it, because he feels the weight of the X-Men on his shoulders. Blink would never do it, because she already flirted with that side of things and rejected it. And so, I think in her mind, she’s doing this because they can’t. She’s doing this to spare them the pain of having to take this step.
The other side of it is her acceptance that her father is who her father is. And having accepted that, I think there’s also a part of her that’s kind of like, well, maybe this is who I am, maybe this is who my family is, maybe I should stop fighting the tide and just accept that this is who I am, and be that person.
Nix: In the wake of killing a senator and bringing down a plane in the events at the end of the season, and the destruction of the mutant underground headquarters, the mutant underground still have the same struggle to carry on, but it’s not like they can just go find another abandoned bank in a toxic waste site and take up residence and start up again the way they were. And so one thing I think you’ll see a lot more of in Season 2, which I really like because it’s more thematically resonant and it’s fun, is just seeing mutants in the world more. Mutants interacting with humans in everyday circumstances, rather than just mutants in a mutant headquarters interacting with mutants. And the mutant underground, under the pressure of what happens in the wake of Senator Montez dying, the mutant underground being in a position where it has to become less of a place, and more of a network. It was always a network, but maybe a much more underground, spread out kind of thing. That’s one thing.
On the other side, really getting a chance to introduce the beginnings of the Hellfire Club, as they’re trying to rebuild this organization. We’ve already seen a little bit of that, with Esme infiltrating Senator Montez’s campaign. How do they infiltrate the halls of power, and how do they manipulate events to their advantage? And so that’s another piece.
And then the third piece would definitely be Jace, who feels like everything has been taken from him by the mutants finding a new way to carry on their struggle, now that he’s no longer with the Sentinel Services. And of course the Sentinel Services hasn’t gone away. That’s another angle on that, although we don’t want the show to be an endless battle between the mutants and the Sentinel Services, so I don’t think they’ll be front and center in Season 2, but they’re certainly not gone.
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