REVIEW: The Gifted, Episode 105
The Gifted is back in this Halloween week with its fifth episode of this first season entitled “boXed in”, and in it we finally saw the Strucker reunion we were waiting for (or at least I was).
In a glimpse to Jace’s earlier life, we saw the reason why he hates mutants so much: his daughter was killed in the result of a mutant protest gone wrong. In a show, it is usually easy to make the audience love the good guys and make us feel for them, but it isn’t always easy to make us feel bad for the bad guys as well, and that was a little bit of this episode’s focus. I don’t think I have to say that it was horrible what happened to his child, but of course that it doesn’t make sense to blame all mutants. If people consider them a race, they should know that not everyone is good and not everyone is bad. That is like saying because a white guy killed many innocent people (in a bombing for example) we should hate and hunt down all white people.
In present day, Jace made good in his promise from the previous episode and started doing everything he could to hunt down everyone who helped Reed and Lorna escape. This caused the team to split up, making Marcos and Lorna go distract the sentinel services. Now that they are together, we could see their relationship is really sweet, especially when they touch each other and create an aurora borealis. They went a little bit over the line, and kidnapped Jace, in an attempt to find out what they did to Pulse. As usual, things got a little out of hand when Dreamer messed with his head, making a few things confusing, like the fact his daughter died years back.
Meanwhile, in the Mutant Headquarters, and as I said before, the Strucker family was reunited at last. It took some time, but they are all together now. I really liked the scenes they all shared together, like the best horrible dinner. But of course not everything can be perfect for a long time, and we also saw most of this family work together to save Harry (the mutant who got shot on episode 4). They combined each of their ability and were able to impress the mutants, hopefully making them realize they are there to help, and not to sell them all out.
At the same time, in order to try to give the Sentinel services another job to do, trying to take their eyes of the Jace kidnappers, Reed risked his freedom by putting himself on the streets and making sure he was noticed. When I found out his ride was that guy who was very mad at him (he is right to be actually), I thought he was just going to abandon Reed and let him get arrested again. Turns out he was just testing his loyalty, and this is of course, understandable, after all, his job was to put mutants behind bars for the rest of their lives.
After seeing Dreamer in action, Clarice realized that her memories had also been changed, and the moment she remembered between her and John wasn’t real. There really seems like more trouble is coming, and this time it can be between the mutants. So much for a united front.
Overall, this was another good episode, with intense moments, a few twists, and even scenes watched from the bad guy’s perspective. This show is really looking good, and I hope it continues this way. I am giving this episode an 8.3/10.
Episode 6 is entitled “got your siX”, and in it, the people in the Mutant Underground will continue to investigate and try to find out what happened to Pulse, and if that can be repeated with other mutants.