We’ll probably see soon."At the beginning of Season Two, Lorna is very different from the end of Season One," Dumont said. Just like the gravity manipulator likely isn’t Gravity or (god help us) Xorn. I’m not sure who they are exactly – the inertia manipulator probably isn’t Vice Versa from the New Universe, nor is she Inertia from the Squadron Supreme. – The two mutants with complementary powers in the Hound Program can manipulate inertia and gravity.
Please try and pick up all the pieces of your shattered, fallen monocle when you can. – Speaking of the Hellfire Club, a Cuckoo tells Polaris that “Your father was a king in the Hellfire Club.” You know who was a king in the Hellfire Club who’s also Polaris’s dad in the comics? Magneto.
They’re named as Sophie, Esme and Phoebe Frost later in the episode, and Emma Frost’s secondary mutation is to turn her body to “organic diamond.” – I don’t know who the guy running the Hellfire Club is, but I am pretty sure the diamond was not a reference to his power, but to the Cuckoos’ true origin. They first showed up in God Loves, Man Kills, the maybe best X-Men story of all time. In the comics, they’re Reverend Stryker’s paramilitary group that runs around terrorizing mutants. – Those guys in the black hoodies with the white crosses on them are Purifiers. She missed out on Michael Fassbender playing with his own flute. – Busy week on the references front! The theater that Blink and her date are walking out of can apparently show Hitman: Agent 47, Maze Runnerand Peanuts, but can’t get the rights to Alien: Covenantand had to settle for Xenomorph. The show is trying to make him everything to everyone, and all they’re doing is larding up a decent villain with a bunch of nonsensical, contradictory positions. He’s supposed to be the wronged Dad, the villain with a point, but he’s willingly participating in a program that enslaves mutants, but he also tried to help them last time, but then it backfired and he got mad, but then this week he made a couple of comments that showed that he’s not all the way in, but you see where this run on sentence is going. But that’s just what I think the show wants us to believe as they try and have it every way with him. I said above that he’s struggling with Campbell. Speaking of giant fists mashing buttons and hoping something good comes out, Jace is a character disaster at this point. If it was meant to highlight the point of the season, it was also extremely bad and ham fisted. If this was meant to be a revelation, it was extremely bad. But we the audience also know this is stupid because teamwork has been the foundation of the show – Clarice sucks on her own, the Struckers are super powerful together, and we’ve had multiple awesome action sequences that involved creative combinations of powers throughout the show. We the audience know this is stupid because we have functioning cognition centers in our brains. That’s what studying the Struckers showed him. And Campbell’s plan is to have mutants…USE THEIR POWERS TOGETHER dun dun duuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnn. The Strucker’s cut and run plan is silly, but the show lampshades it well enough. It’s heightened by the massive body count the Cuckoos have racked up in two episodes, but it’s still very thin to base an entire episode on. The internal debate about methods is a very X-Men conflict to be having, but it’s one we’ve been dealing with going back to the start of the series, and one that’s been in the foreground since Thunderbird revealed that the X-Men picked people to lead the Resistance.
Of these conflicts, maybe one isn’t silly, and one is definitely downright idiotic. Meanwhile, Campbell has, from his examination of the Strucker kids last episode, figured out a way to make his Hounds even more powerful. Jace is struggling with trusting Campbell and expanding his use of the Hound program. The Morlocks are busy arguing about whether they should go on offense against Sentinel Services or not. This week, the Clan Strucker decides to decamp for Mexico because it’s too dangerous to stick around HQ in Atlanta what with a bunch of pissed off Sentinel Services folks and three Cuckoos all hanging around. This strips our protagonists of any responsibility for the outcome of the show, and far worse, it requires them to periodically act like idiots in order to make the finale work.
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