Amph X-Men Movies & TV - Discussion

Strange choice. Why break with consistency on the last movie in the series? Are they treating it as a spinoff?

 

Sure, but all of those are spinoffs.

 

To follow up this story, yesterday news broke that Comcast is making an all cash offer to buy Fox's assets, whereas Disney was offering, reportedly, is in stock options. Today, Disney's CEO, Bob Iger, responded to the Comcast bid.

In other X-Men related stuff, the latest episode of Legion was crazy messed up. It shows a twisted side to villain and it isn't mass destruction or killing, but rather more personal. It's very...

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Which of course has been very taboo in comic books since then.

 

X-Men Apocalypse was a terrible movie. But I remain captivated by that opening sequence in ancient Egypt.

 

You're not alone. Even Marvel fans found X-Men Apocalypse a terrible film.

 

I'm one of those nutcases who likes that movie. However, I will agree that the opening is the most impressive part of the movie (save for Quicksilver's saving the students and teachers from the explosion, but those are so different in tone, they're not an even comparison).

 

Agreed. I highly doubt Fox is looking too seriously at Comcast. And even if they were, one reason alone to stop them in their tracks: Infinity War. The fact that the film is racing through the box office and breaking records rapidly has to give them pause. That's just one Marvel film. That says nothing of the three other Disney owned properties coming this summer: Solo, Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, nor does it touch on what's coming soon: Mary Poppins, Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, Toy Story 4, Star Wars 9, etc.

By contrast, what does Comcast really offer? Disney stock is likely to skyrocket in the next few years- especially when completion of the Star Wars theme park is done and more Marvel properties are added. Between that, Disney's own planned streaming service, and the existing properties, Disney stock will hold far more value long term than Comcast's up front cash offer.

 

Legion 2:4

so - if I followed it correctly , Syd was born with an aversion to being touched , she was close to her mum but got a bit bullied in school . Her mum got a new boyfriend , Syd took over her mum's body had sex with the new bf then switched back in the middle of it and he got sent to prison for rape .

have I got that right ?

 

That's right. Messed up, huh? But was the point of Syd's story to which David had to figure out.

 

So was it that she wanted to have sex with her mum's bf , or was it a deliberate ploy to get him arrested ?

 

i just finished season 1, so i should probably get the hell out of this thread until i'm caught up, but she talks about it in season 1 as if it were more curiosity than anything.

 

My interpretation is that she did want to have sex with her mom's boyfriend, but not as some twisted thing or to hurt her mom but rather an opportunity to experience sex because of her powers.

 

It also puts a point on it, and I was talking about this in Season 1, that she actually swaps physical space with the person when it reverts back. So she's in their body for a bit and when it switches off, Syd appears where that person was instantaneously. This is an odd quirk to her powers but there's only so much one can debate about how/why/logical powers work in the X-Men universe so just gotta roll with it.

 

'The Gifted' Moves to New Day and Time for Season 2

I'm so happy that The Gifted has moved away from going head-to-head with Monday Night Football and gets an prime time 8pm slot.

I didn't think I'd like the show going into it, but The Gifted did a great job in developing Polaris and the Stepford Cuckoos. I still didn't care all that much about the family, until the two kids did they "Wonder Twins Powers, ACTIVATE!" thing. And I'm a fan of Blink too. I'm looking forward to season two.

 

During Fox's movie run from 2000-2016, I realized only about 6 X-Men were ever going to get focus in the movies (and two of them, Magneto, Mystique were villains).

Who would have thought we'd end up with a tv show about Magneto's daughter (The Gifted) and Xavier's son (Legion).

 

Yay to see the Stepford Cuckoos getting to series regular. Their big introduction scene, and when they first talk to the mutant club, may be my favourite scene of the entire series.

As for Legion, watched the last 2 eps and they were both so very awesome. The "Where did Lenny come from" is basically a slow-burn horror movie of an episode. I'll admit, it took me a few minutes to remember that was David's sister (I think she drops out in episode 7 of Season 1) but I did in time and what they did with her.... yikes! (I think she was a series regular on S1 and only credited as a guest star on S2) but it made you feel it. And the 2nd ep is the parallel David story, which seems like an odd interlude, but it did let the show go wild with different versions of David and lots of cool little vignettes (also they straight up did Clockwork Orange in one scene!). And the ending where the one David we were following was "Prime" David, which showed us his relationship with his sister, again doubled down on the gut punch twist from the previous episode.

 

Yeah, the last "Sliding Doors" episode of Legion was a bizarre yet wonderful way of story telling and strengthen the brother and sister relation between David and his sister. As such, I feel Legion is better viewed as a "binge watch" to get the narrative of the story as each episode feels fragmented on their own. I really appreciate the amount of time and effort put into the last episode as it covered to many potential story lines and outcomes, but yet tells the "Prime" narrative within it all. So good.

 

Personally, I've found the last 3 eps to be nicely episodic, something that seems to be lost in the bringe/serialization era, but each ep has had it's own distinct theme/central character. But the show does work nicely in chunks and one's own pace. Maybe the entire season in one shot in a single day may be a bit too much, you'd probably be as sideways as David by the end of it.