Posted on 01/10/2019 10:29:54 AM PST by rktman
It unfortunately didn’t take long for Fox’s X-Men series The Gifted to come back with another liberal pet issue. Last week's new year premiere gave us a Fox News-esque bad guy after the fall season's premiere provided a scene it thinks resembles an ICE raid. Now we’ve opened the “cop shooting an unarmed citizen” narrative with a bonus slam at “stand your ground” laws.
The January 8 episode “meMento” follows two members of the vigilante anti-mutant hate group The Purifiers searching for loose mutant criminals. Following the mass prisonbreak of incarcerated mutants from the midseason finale, the group is more determined than ever to find, arrest, and kill mutants that they believe threaten the country. This leads Purifiers Jace Turner (Coby Bell) and Officer Ted Wilson (Tom O’Keefe) to a children’s home as a potential refuge site.
Predictably, their arrival goes badly as two teenage boys immediately run at the sight of two Purifiers. After the boys are cornered, Jace manages to speak calmly to one, trying to explain their cause. However, the talk goes from bad to worse when Jace hears Officer Wilson fire a shot in the house. The next thing he sees is Wilson standing over the body of a dead teenage boy. Although the scene looks bad with Wilson shooting an unarmed minor without provocation, Jace ultimately covers for him when authorities arrive, claiming the man “stood his ground.” That’s an interesting choice of words.
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Most TV shows are made for the express purpose of promoting an agenda, not to entertain.
It’s worth watching with the sound off, for the hotties. Otherwise, it’s a soap opera with magic tricks.
;-)
That’s because if a writer would ever deviate from the narrative, his script would never get through the producer review.
The echo chamber trumps all.
That's the only reason I watch it. That and all the blowing up stuff. The dialog is boooring. I just fast forward to get to the action.
And this is why I dropped X-men a looooooong time ago.
I watched the first season of the show, but stopped after a few episodes of the second season. I’ve watched Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D since the beginning, and like the Marvel movies, but am not that big of a fan to watch all the Marvel TV series. I also stopped watching DC’s Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and only got through one episode of Black Lightning on the CW network. Reading the comic books as a kid was one thing, but actually regularly viewing this stuff on TV isn’t my cup of tea.
Bryan Singer’s X-Men movies were always tripping over themselves to show, “Tolerance,” and, “Diversity.”
While having no problem depicting how wonderful and okay it was to have hatred and contempt for gun users and smokers. To the point of even murdering them horribly.
The accused little boy molester probably doesn’t even see the hypocrisy.
The (New) New X-Men: against registering muties, for registering guns.
But super-powered vigilantes who are not answerable to the mere humans who want to protect themselves and their homes is a super-cool thing.
Yep.
Bryan Singer has some talent, but he was utterly lacking in subtlety from X-Men 1 onward that to him the homoerotics are the ultimate victimized and righteous persons - he uses his other personal group identification as a proxy.
Do they have walls?
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