So, how is it?
Genuinely asking. I like the concept. Victorian mutants? Sounds interesting. But to be honest, the trailers did nothing for me.
So, How is the first episode at least?
Genuinely asking. I like the concept. Victorian mutants? Sounds interesting. But to be honest, the trailers did nothing for me.
So, How is the first episode at least?
It was pretty interesting.
You should check it out.
One girl invents what they call an AUTO CAR.
And at the OPERA some other girl who has the VOICE of an ANGEL starts singing as a way to STOP some other character from KILLING everyone in the audience.
Then at the end of the episode something that looks like a SPACE SHIP appears and seems to have TOUCHED the daughter of one of the MALES who is in a POWERFUL POSITION and insists upon rounding up anyone who would challenge the STATUS QUO in anyway.
So it will also be interesting to see what he does now that his young daughter may also be a MUTANT (due to whatever the SPACE SHIP was doing to people to make them that way).
Ok, thanks. I'll definitely give it my usual "3 episode test".
But it's good to hear that the first episode was solid
Also found another message posted to the Reddit board where someone points out how the POWERS that a character has seem to be related to them in some way.
3 years before the story begins that one girl (one of the 2 main characters in the show) was trying to commit suicide by drowning herself, for instance, and then she ends up with the ABILITY to see the FUTURE.
And the other young girl who is a GIANT size now may have also wished to be a LARGER size than she is now at the time when she's TOUCHED by whatever the SPACE SHIP distributes over the city as it passes over it.
And the other girl who builds the AUTO CAR may also have wanted to have better mechanical skills.
And the doctor who can MAGIALLY HEAL the GUN SHOT WOUND with his fingers may also have wanted a better ability to heal people.
So that's also interesting that the POWERS the TOUCHED have could also be related to whatever kind of a wish that they had at the time when they're TOUCHED.
I suppose the SERIAL KILLING character that murders the actor on STAGE may also have wished that she had powers to KILL other people??? And the FIRE BALL throwing character and the other one with the hand held machine gun or whatever it is may also have wished for the same kind of a thing at the time when they were TOUCHED???
And that would probably also mean the SPACE SHIP wouldn't be some kind of a BENEVOLENT ENTITY that was there to distribute some kind of GOOD WILL to the inhabitants, but was basically INDIFFERENT to whoever would benefit from being TOUCHED by it???
"Only a blind man measures the length of a blade by how much it is in his belly."
That was a pretty good line.
Very good. I will give it a 9/10.
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I’m in for the duration, if only because Olivia Williams is in this. Everything in which I’ve seen her has been worth my time.
This is not Penny Dreadful meets The X-Men. It’s Penny Dreadful meets Real Speculative Fiction. There is not a jot of the Stan Lee puerile, corny, toilet-paper-thin attempts at alleged humor. If these are mutants, they are significantly more mature, evolved and interesting than the Marvel version.
Best series opening sequence I’ve seen since Game of Thrones. We open with a GREAT (and thought-provoking) scene with an automobile (1 of 8 in the world). We end the ep with a starship. Perhaps “the afflicted” are not mutants at all. Perhaps they are saucer children, babies who were in utero made gifted by space saucers passing over their mothers. This speculation goes back to the Baby Boom of the early 50s.
Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly ARE a Dynamic Duo. Donnelly goes toe-to-toe with Dreadful’s Eva Green in the chutzpah department, not quite so much in the charisma department.
Amy Manson is well-cast as antagonist Maladies. Bravo.
Please tell us more about the connection between SAUCER BABIES and the speculation that goes back to the BABY BOOM of the early 50's.
The problem with that theory is how we see the YOUNG daughter of the man in POWER (she looks like she might be age 8 to 11) exit from a home as she's walking towards her father, and then we see her passing out as if she's also been TOUCHED (as they put it) by whatever that stuff is that the SPACE SHIP distributes around the city. Plus we also see several other people passing out as well including other ADULTS.
So it's not very likely that it's just the BABIES who are being TOUCHED.
And it also appears to have something to do with overcoming those who have and ABUSE POWER (which is probably also the reason why the daughter of that guy who is in POWER was chosen to be TOUCHED).
What's not clear is why the other girl who kills the actor on STAGE is against the other 2 girls. Because she also seemed to have a couple of TOUCHED people on her side as well (the guy with the hand gun machine gun and the other girl with the BALL of FIRE).
So why are there 2 different groups of "TOUCHED" characters in opposition to each other???
Well, too woke and silly for me.
Couldn't finish the episode ...