I've seen 5 episodes of season 1 now. I thought it would get better... but it doesn't.
The story is practicly non-existant. My boyfriend likes the show, and even he couldn't tell me what it was about. You have good guys, and you have bad guys. And they fight each other... and that seems to be it. No mystery to solve, no continuing plot, nothing.
The characters seem to have zero personality. It seems to be that they are just their powers, they have no feelings, personal live or opinions.
And the effects are cheap and silly.
There was only one redeeming factor, there were some goodlooking guys in it, but even they can't make it bareable to watch this thing.
mutant x was one of the shows that killed one of its production companies (fireworks prod., who also co-produced andromeda with kevin sorbo).
yes, the fx are cheap and silly. yes, the music is cheap and boring. yes, there is little character development (there in fact is, but its very VERY slow in season 2 and 3).
the show 1st always lacked a strong hand that held the threads together and added something like a production style, the way kim manners was enhancing supernatural, for example. if you have too many different writers/directors/producers no show will have that red thread that holds the episodes together.
nevertheless there is such a red thread, even if its very thin.
i guess your boyfriend liked victoria pratt, therefore the show is maybe just a "guilty pleasure" for him, as it is for me due to "some goodlooking guys" (which are forbes march and victor webster) ;-)
still, its surely not the worst show ever. thats probably ... hm ... king of queens? ;-)
The show was so much like an old school superhero comic book and the old hero shows of the 90s. It was a perpetual villain of week show. I think that was the point. Not everything needs an epic plot that ends after five seasons, just heroes sticking it to villains and a bit of interpersonal melodrama.
Thanks for this moronic comment of yours. Makes an awesome screenshot.
If you had half a brain, or bothered to actually digest what you read, the gohmifune was saying that what this show was doing is what made X-Men famous. The "new villain of the week" type of storyline without some grand-scheme that ties wraps up in the end. What he was NOT saying was that this show made X-Men famous, you would have to be mentally challenged to somehow think that. LOLOLOLOLOL
You're right, but he's not. Villain of the week is far from what X-Men comics did and them becoming famous had nothing to do with stories like that. Only thing this show has in common with X-Men from what I've seen is the fact that they both feature a group of superhumans who are referred to as mutants, otherwise they're pretty much as far from each other as you could get. X-Men had ongoing plots and interesting, strong and multilayered characters, both heroes and villains alike while this show had a bunch of good looking guys and chicks who had no personalities and there was very little plot if at all.
Well the show originally seemed to center around them finding other mutants and putting them into a kind of mutant protection program and stopping Ekhart but they moved away from that. Second season they expanded the powers of the four mutant team members a bit. Third season, some of that was trying to find Adam and I forget the rest. They made a mistake in killing off Emma just as her powers getting more interesting.
The mutant characters really grew on me. I couldn't always follow the plots (especially since I did not watch the show from the beginning), but I really liked the characters.