Yeah, I'm sort of on Maximus' side after watching. Perhaps Iwan Rheon doesn't want to channel his inner Ramsey too early on so there appears to be some conflict/hesitancy in him as opposed to being outright evil. Bad guys who think they're good guys are usually interesting so I'll probably just watch for him.
Originally posted by Mindset
Legends is terrible, at least the first season. This is definitely on par with that, and Maximus is the best character in either show after only 2 eps.
Eh I think Legends has always been tolerable. This show seems to have no redeemable qualities.
Plus how does one f*ck up shenanigans on the moon and a teleporting dog? But they did it, oh they did it.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Let's face it, a lot of people enjoy Legends and Flash. No one is enjoying Inhumans so far.But gotta love the pointless Marvel Bashing vs DC Bashing
I want both to have good shows. The Gifted series looks more promising than this. But damn this is just like if a production crew time traveled here from 2007 and made a tv series lol.
Originally posted by Surtur
I want both to have good shows. The Gifted series looks more promising than this. But damn this is just like if a production crew time traveled here from 2007 and made a tv series lol.
Yeah I cam agree with this. It does seem dated to a fault. That why I was upset that Marvel decided to go with a TV series instead of a motion picture, I still think they could have had another GotG with a big budget Inhumans film. Missed opportunity.
Originally posted by tkitna
Yeah I cam agree with this. It does seem dated to a fault. That why I was upset that Marvel decided to go with a TV series instead of a motion picture, I still think they could have had another GotG with a big budget Inhumans film. Missed opportunity.
Speaking of, that's one way to make the bad moments in this show seem more bearable. Every time something dumb happens onscreen, just remember that, somewhere in that same galaxy, a raccoon is likely arguing with a tree.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Yeah Inhumans could have been awesome as a big budget film.
Honestly, I would like to see a lot of their TV properties be converted into films. Fact is the overall consistency in quality of things like the Netflix shows have taken a dip as time has passed, and a lot of people (myself included) feel like 13 episode seasons are actually a bit too long. Hell, you don't even really need a very big budget to do something like a Daredevil film. The first John Wick movie had a budget of like $29 million, IIRC.
There are some obvious hiccups though. They'd need to make the Netflix properties a lot more family friendly if they want market them to the masses. Or, alternatively, keep it to online/DVD releases, and maintain the current tone. And I am pretty sure that all the Netflix people have it in their contracts that potential film appearances are still open to discussion. I know for a fact that this is the case for Daredevil. And I know the one Marvel executive said, way back before even s1 of Daredevil had aired, that the shows had the potential to cross the bridge to films depending on how successful they were down the line.
But, obviously, if anything will ever come from it remains to be see. I can still dream though.
I think I've figured out where this show failed for me. Before that, though, let me emphasize that I still prefer this to pretty much every DC show, apart from Gotham. I really like Black Bolt and I think Anson Mount is doing a great job within the role's obvious limitations. I like Ken Leung as Karnak and I like the way they do his powers (though I wish somebody would do a "cognitive recalibration" on him). I also like the tough guy Hawaiian ex-soldiers.
Where the show made a mistake is in the TV-14 rating. Inhumans should have been made for mature audiences. It should have been aimed at an adult audience, in the same line as Banshee or Vikings. Instead they compromised, hoping to capitalise on the teen audience. So you have a show about serious adults battling about adult matters, but you have to tone it down to make it more palatable for family viewing. So you have to compromise on everything: Story, violence, actions and consequences, language...
^^^show preference is a matter of personal taste, and i respect that.
That said, i've never been an Inhumans fan, and them stepping in as X Men/mutant surrogates has just not worked for me.
Recently, a poster (Uhtceare) on a different site put a finger on it for me when he wrote the following:
That's the whole problem with using the Inhumans as an X-Men substitute: at their core they are polar opposites. The X-Men use freakishness as a metaphor for every sort of outcast, racial, sexual, religious, whatever.
The Inhumans uses freakishness as metaphor for how ****ed up social darwinism really is as a philosophy, and for how pathetic elitist monarchies ultimately are. In other words, their freakishness is, in part, an exaggerated version of the various inbred flaws aristocrats developed. And in part, you are supposed to go, "look at how ****ed up these guys are; that's where eugenics leads you."
So trying to use the Inhumans as X-Men stand-ins is a huge square peg in a round hole thing. Even so, you can probably make it work if you stick to the new ones like Kamala Khan and Quake. But the Royal Family? The ****ing Royal Family? No ****ing way! You can not make those ****ers empathetic.
I found i really agreed with that. At the end of the day i just cant relate to what these characters represent, and dont think they fit the role they've been shoehorned into (through no fault of their own obviously).
It was fine when they were niche characters that existed outside the main MU, but as an integral part of it?
Not for me.
Originally posted by riv6672
Saying he prefers one thing over another (i prefer Coke over Pepsi, Pepsi is too sweet for my taste) isn't bashing.
It is because there's only been a couple of sucky episode of this show, yet he feels the need to point out it's better than all DC shows. Lol, how is that not pointless DC Bashing.
Originally posted by riv6672
Because it isnt.
Oh come on. My point was fanboys always have to bring it back down to Marvel vs DC.
"I won't criticise a Marvel show before making it perfectly clear that all DC shows are inferior"
His assessment of this show should have absolutely nothing to do with DC shows, be they sucky or not.
Originally posted by riv6672
Saying he prefers one thing over another (i prefer Coke over Pepsi, Pepsi is too sweet for my taste) isn't bashing.
I may have missed the actual bashing (Pepsi ****ing sucks ASS), the thread's 5 pages.
Just ignore him. Either he's functionally illiterate or he's a troll. Either way there's no point in getting into a debate with him. My posts speak for themselves on the TV Talk forum, since I was the one with the highest hopes for Powerless, I am one of the few who always preferred Gotham to the rest of the emo-tweeny DC shows and I'm also one of the most excited about the new Titans series.
The fact that he perceives personal preference as bashing speaks volumes.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Karnak is a dumbass. Cries aboutSpoiler:
how his abilities don't work after the bump on his head, but should have used said abilities before trying to traverse the clearly unstable and dangerous cliff face that resulted in said bump.
Ha - that's exactly what my brother and I said when that happened! I can only suppose they had to nerf him somehow as he would have been too OP, especially here on Earth against humans.