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Gifted is a car crash, but Inhumans is a train crash.
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Everything about inhumans is so terrible except Eldrac. Poor dude. I'm going to keep watching it, but it's so so bad I love it. Did they get rid of Medusa's telepathy or is it actually her hair that is telepathic and I just missed that bit?
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Oct 11, 2017 16:20
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Nevvy Z posted:Everything about inhumans is so terrible except Eldrac. Poor dude. When was she telepathic? Edit: and the name of the new guy is probably spelled Mortis as that related to death and he's basically a living death ray (who is surprisingly chill about his lot in life).
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Oct 11, 2017 17:17
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My dude Mortis just needs a helmet built out of Cyclops' glasses and he'll be good to go.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:33
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Aleph Null posted:When was she telepathic? She's always reading his mind in the books and telling everyone what he is thinking. Maybe I misunderstood something about their relationship. edit- googling a bit, that's actually Blackbolts power, not hers. Weird. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Oct 11, 2017 19:40
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Nevvy Z posted:She's always reading his mind in the books and telling everyone what he is thinking. Maybe I misunderstood something about their relationship. edit- googling a bit, that's actually Blackbolts power, not hers. Weird. I thought she was just really good at reading Blackbolt since they were married. Plus, he can't talk, so she has to be really good at it just to have a successful relationship.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:46
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try the new taco place posted:My dude Mortis just needs a helmet built out of Cyclops' glasses and he'll be good to go. you don't dig the dollar store s.t.a.l.k.e.r cosplay asthetic?
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Oct 11, 2017 20:15
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Phenotype posted:I also don't know why everyone seemed to like Mordis, unless that's just holdover feelings from the comics that I haven't read. They introduced him as this super scary guy, powerful, kept under lock and key, forbidding face mask, voice modulator... and then he turns out to be this regular ol' sarcastic douche. I expected him to be a lot more, I dunno, reserved and arrogant, I guess. More Darth Vadery. Hearing him wisecrack "keeping people safe... not really my best quality" just seemed so dissonant from the way he was introduced that it's hard to take him seriously. He's basically what Maximus is in the comics and what I wish Maximus was in this show.
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Oct 11, 2017 20:50
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Sarcastic douche Moredust feels like a worn out trope. I guess he's better than all the other characters technically, but that's hardly saying anything. Everyone on this show is so monumentally stupid that I don't have the energy or will to talk about it. Will probably continue to hatewatch out of utter fascination to see just how awful they get. Was that the idea in the first place?
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Oct 11, 2017 21:32
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I think the thing I'm looking forward to the most out of this show is the final shot, where after the Royals decide they're gonna help the Inhumans on Earth, someone hands them a piece of paper for their first person to help and Medusa looks at the camera "dramatically" and says "Kamala Khan, what a peculiar name..." and Marvel ties possibly their most marketable female character to this anchor.
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Oct 11, 2017 22:43
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I know it's on a different channel and playing to a totally different audience, but to have something like this and Legion coming out the same year under the same corporate umbrella is a little bit insane. One is a genuinely unique and original take on a licensed property, and the other has Scott Buck as a showrunner. I would be fascinated to see the chain of decisions that led to Inhumans coming to the screen in the way that it did. Surely, someone at some stage during production must've realised they had a huge turd on their hands, but I guess they spunked away so much money on it they couldn't really afford to stop.
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Oct 12, 2017 23:17
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Edmund Lava posted:Kirby had nothing to do with the names. John Byrne was credited as the writer for that one but he blames Mark Gruenwald  I grew up a fan of John Byrne's artwork but I've learned that virtually every he does to characters as a writer is terrible and wrong. He was the one that decided that Lockjaw wasn't really a dog.
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Oct 12, 2017 23:52
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I would like one of these snobby dorks to try and talk Daisy into coming back to the Moon, because you know she can sass them as they've never been sassed before and then back it up.
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Oct 12, 2017 23:57
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Chokes McGee posted:I would like one of these snobby dorks to try and talk Daisy into coming back to the Moon, because you know she can sass them as they've never been sassed before and then back it up. Gorgon: I CAN SHAKE THE GROUND DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE ME WOMAN Daisy: Oh that is just so cute
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Oct 13, 2017 14:43
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I do kinda wish that Max had Mrts' personality, and that Mrts was some cheerful, happy-go-lucky dude with a deathray face. I can't imagine how these people meeting Daisy would go at this point. "So this Maximus guy freed all the inhuman slaves, and you want to stop him?" would come up. Karnak and Fitz comparing notes on brain damage.
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Oct 13, 2017 15:02
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Not being a reader of the comics, I thought that SHIELD did an excellent job introducing the inhumans and has had a few good story arcs with them. Why was this (largely) separate installment needed? Especially since it looks so cheap and the main story feels all kinds of warped and wrong.
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Oct 14, 2017 00:07
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AbstractNapper posted:Not being a reader of the comics, I thought that SHIELD did an excellent job introducing the inhumans and has had a few good story arcs with them. because disney wants to shove the marvel brand into every available orifice
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Oct 14, 2017 01:03
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Somebody has a massive hardon for this garbage x-men knockoff brand. First it was gonna get a movie and when that fell through it got this. I can't find any appeal in Inhumans and quite possibly the dumbest names ever made up. Seriously, next time let your 5 year old with a speech impediment name your characters you hacks.
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Oct 14, 2017 01:09
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Dammit, 5 seconds of Mortis isn't nearly enough of his snark to get me through this...
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Oct 14, 2017 02:19
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I submit that he be forever referred to as Moredust.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:51
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Who named him Mortis and not Laserface?
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Oct 14, 2017 02:55
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counterfeitsaint posted:Somebody has a massive hardon for this garbage x-men knockoff brand. First it was gonna get a movie and when that fell through it got this. I can't find any appeal in Inhumans and quite possibly the dumbest names ever made up. Seriously, next time let your 5 year old with a speech impediment name your characters you hacks. In the comics the Inhumans were this separate society with their own culture and heritage. What happened was that Ike Perlmutter who is one of the head honchos at Marvel and a massive piece of poo poo got sick of what he saw as Fox getting free advertising for their movies and basically their movies tried to downplay the X-men and started trying to push The Inhumans in their place. It was largely awful and felt terribly inorganic, there was also a push to include them on AoS that fared a bit better but it is still pretty obvious that they are using them because they don't have the rights to any of their mutant characters.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:08
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This is the worst show in the universe and the best scam for an all expense paid Disney vacation to Hawaii. I don’t know which is more impressive.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:47
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The only way this poo poo could offend me more, would be if I had paid for it.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:50
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David D. Davidson posted:In the comics the Inhumans were this separate society with their own culture and heritage. What happened was that Ike Perlmutter who is one of the head honchos at Marvel and a massive piece of poo poo got sick of what he saw as Fox getting free advertising for their movies and basically their movies tried to downplay the X-men and started trying to push The Inhumans in their place. It was largely awful and felt terribly inorganic, there was also a push to include them on AoS that fared a bit better but it is still pretty obvious that they are using them because they don't have the rights to any of their mutant characters.
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Oct 14, 2017 05:11
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There is definitely some pettiness over licensing rights going on. Marvel released some shirt and posters for Secret Wars' 30th anniversary a few years ago and photoshopped the Fantastic Four out of all the artwork.
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Oct 14, 2017 06:14
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They sure made Not Kara Danvers look a lot like Kara Danvers.
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Oct 14, 2017 07:03
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So did Lockjaw use to be a human and turning into a dog is what teregenesis did to him, or...?
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Oct 14, 2017 09:01
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so this episode was actually not quite as awful as the first 3 but holy gently caress that ending part rofl
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Oct 14, 2017 10:52
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AbstractNapper posted:Not being a reader of the comics, I thought that SHIELD did an excellent job introducing the inhumans and has had a few good story arcs with them. So that literally just leaves Lash as the one single Inhuman who was actually based on an Inhuman from the comics. Which is, obviously, not a great way to build franchise synergy. You can try to put Daisy and Yo-Yo on T-shirts and lunchboxes, but the two of them aren't going to be building your actual Inhumans brand. If you want to hype the Inhumans concept into something as ubiquitous as the X-Men, then you're going to need to bring out the actual long-running characters who've been appearing in comics alongside Iron Man and Captain America and all the rest. Now, I personally have said before and will say again that these actual "iconic" Inhumans characters -- aka Black Bolt and Medusa and Crystal and the rest of the Royal Family -- do not lend themselves to adaptation very well. In my opinion it's pretty obvious why Kevin Feige wasn't tripping all over himself to fast-track the Inhumans film back when it was actually a film, and it wasn't just because he hated Perlmutter, and it also isn't because the comics were bad or anything like that. It's just that the Inhumans are super weird and don't really adhere to the usual storytelling conventions that most Marvel films have honed pretty much down to an art. There's no real protagonist. The central conflict is difficult to pin down. The setting itself is unusual. They don't fight crime or injustice or other alien invaders or...anything like that. Still, the fact remains that if you really want to make the Inhumans a thing and not just a recurring plot point on AoS, then you're gonna have to find a way to make the actual bona fide comic book Royal Family work despite all that the concept has going against it. Which, to be clear, isn't to say that it's impossible. But you would've had to lean really hard on the parts of the franchise that actually do work. Make it a space opera. Make it high fantasy. Make it introspective and regal, Ridley-Scott-style. Slap Vin Diesel on the cover and call it a day. There's something to be said for being really experimental and avant-garde with a property like this. But the thing is that...well, if you do that, then they're not going to be the X-Men expys that you want so badly. If you make them Prometheus, then they're not gonna replace the cool snarky gang of superpowered underdogs fighting for their rights that you wanted to have. Now, some might propose the offbeat radical notion that you should probably just let the Inhumans be themselves instead of trying to force them into being another group that they're not and have never been. But I'm sure we can all agree that this is crazy talk by dumb people and that the product we ended up with here is vastly preferable!
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Oct 14, 2017 11:36
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:The only way this poo poo could offend me more, would be if I had paid for it. I love that all the ex Lost guys are still on probation in Hawaii.
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Oct 14, 2017 11:56
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Avalerion posted:So did Lockjaw use to be a human and turning into a dog is what teregenesis did to him, or...? It depends on who you ask. He talked one time about it with The Thing from The Fantastic Four, but everyone says that was just someone messing with him... On the other hand... I don't see any other Moon dogs around, and the Royal Inhumans are all kind of assholes.
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Oct 14, 2017 12:17
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I'm really trying to get through this show since I have a thing with not wanting to miss any of the mcu stuff, but boy does this show suck so far.
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Oct 14, 2017 13:39
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Of all the directions to take Karnak, having him be a clueless dude who needs a woman to show him the ways of the world (and love  ) is almost certainly the worst.A sociopathic marijuana farmer was not who I was expecting to be a main villain either. Should have used Plantman, at least.
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Oct 14, 2017 14:25
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There is definitely some pettiness over licensing rights going on. Marvel released some shirt and posters for Secret Wars' 30th anniversary a few years ago and photoshopped the Fantastic Four out of all the artwork.  that they can hold onto it forever because they would never want Disney to get all the really good Marvel villains that are locked up with the FF rights.
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Oct 14, 2017 14:27
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MARVEL EXEC: Karnak can find the flaw in everything.. but can he find the flaw in a beautiful weed farmer who teaches him about love?
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Oct 14, 2017 14:47
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Yes, as soon as his power's are back in full.
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Oct 14, 2017 15:09
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BrianWilly posted:
Man, having them swoop into earth in more dramatic fashion in order to try and help all the persecuted new inhumans while eventually finding a way towards a mostly peaceful but slightly unstable coexistence with mankind would have been too hard? I mean we already had hive saving the inhumans by trying to kill all the people, we couldn't just get the Xavier version now? Maybe it's building towards that, but starting off from the place of "root for this guy to get his moonslaves back" is not exactly the way into a wide audiences heart. Nor is "YOUR DAD WAS DUMB FOR HAVING GOALS HUMAN, gently caress YOUR TOY ROCKET"
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Oct 14, 2017 16:07
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timrenzi574 posted:Man, having them swoop into earth in more dramatic fashion in order to try and help all the persecuted new inhumans while eventually finding a way towards a mostly peaceful but slightly unstable coexistence with mankind would have been too hard? I mean we already had hive saving the inhumans by trying to kill all the people, we couldn't just get the Xavier version now? I think that could work, but I don't think you can build a show with them as protagonists. Not saying they'd be the "villains" but them invading Earth having long been away from it certainly at least makes them antagonists.
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Can I just say how terrible I think this show’s intro is? With the terrible, zero effort, mid-90s CG logos floating around and then a cartoon dog head tilt? It’s just distractingly bad at the start of every episode. Puts me in a bad frame of mind right off the bat.
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