The Gifted 2017

Warning: possible spoilers

After shows like Heroes and Alphas have already come and gone, how are we going to be entertained by The Gifted? Legion has been the first live-action show exploring mutants in the Marvel Universe. It's a shame that the X-men title is reserved for movies when the X-men cartoons were one of my memorable childhood pastimes. But the series tries to explore some of the mutant B-listers like Polaris, Sunspot (called Eclipse in this series), Thunderbird, and Blink. I'm not sure if the two mutant kids are new characters or known characters. I thought that the boy was like Legion while his sister was like Invisible Girl.

The huge robot Sentinels have been replaced by spider like ones which reminds me of a Metal Gear enemy.

The plot is similar to any mutant being rescued by the X-men when his/her powers manifest. But with the X-men incognito in this show, it's up to Thunderbird and his team to try and help out the newbie mutants and their parents. The first season of Heroes was actually cool in that you could not really predict where the story would go. I hope they can do the same in this series instead of the typical - kids gain mastery of their powers and become part of the team - team brings down the sentinel program (temporarily - cause we all know they'll be back in X-men Days of Future Past) and mutants live in peace.

I've always thought that a TV series involving mutants was an opportunity to explore the individual back stories behind our beloved characters - something that can't really be done in movies unless you're Logan, Professor X, or Jean Grey. Maybe we'll gain more insight into the lives of the mutants showing up in this series, whether hero or villian.  I think Smallville was successful because, although the characters were familiar, they either reinvented the origins and made the stories current. And I hope this ends up better than Defenders, cause fighting the Hand for the upteenth time becomes boring.