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Mutant X- Have we talked about this?

Warewullf

20:07 / 13.11.01

We hate this show, right?

Has this been discussed? Is the general Barbelith population aware of just how bad this programme is?

Cat Chant

20:53 / 13.11.01

Yes, yes and yes.

Though I caught the last 10 minutes of an episode last night and thought it looked wicked. Andy Warhol-looking guy threw some bird out of a window and then a teen boy was fed to a machine claiming he was happy about it because he was in love for the first time in his life. What more can you ask for?

(disclaimer: not an x-men fan, liked the x-men movie, and other things which probably disqualify me on this topic...)

e-n

06:14 / 14.11.01

I like the pretty pretty people.

penitentvandal

13:04 / 14.11.01

'Andy Warhol guy' - I am so dense. Sat around for an hour one night watching an episode of this bilge thinking 'y'know, he reminds me of someone'. D'oh!

Other than that, though, it is vile, vile crap, and I wait with baited breath for Warren Ellis to do a column savaging the befuckery out of it.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:26 / 14.11.01

It's the kind of thing where other people's vitriolic criticism of it makes me suspect I'll really like it.

It's also nothing to do with X-Men, except that <ill-informed vague remembrances> Marvel sold some TV company the right to use the name 'Mutant X' and the concept of mutants, I think </ill-informed vague remembrances>. Oh, and some of it's written by Howard Chaykin, who also writes comics. The fact that it's got an X in it yet no X characters is one of the reasons some people have got very annoyed about it, because they were hoping to see Kitty Pryde on telly, or something. Whatever.

Not on terrestrial UK TV yet, as far as I know...

Jack The Bodiless

15:47 / 14.11.01

No. I haven't seen an ep since the first one, which was bad in a 'this could get better' kind of way. Gonna try it again tonight.

Jack The Bodiless

17:00 / 15.11.01

Oh, it really wasn't that bad. Needs a script overhaul, that's all. Bad plots, bad dialogue, but fairly well put together - kind of Power Rangers for the Buffy generation. Nothing special. Nothing heinous. Untwist them knickers.

moriarty

00:15 / 18.11.01

Genius!
You just don't understand. It's obvious everybody is fucking off screen. They keep giving that...look to one another.

Just thought I'd chime in during the commercial break. It's already fascinating. They're getting more overt.

"That bright light...it makes me want to have sex..."

"More than usual?"

CameronStewart

03:21 / 18.11.01

>>>It's also nothing to do with X-Men, except that <ill-informed vague remembrances> Marvel sold some TV company the right to use the name 'Mutant X' and the concept of mutants, I think </ill-informed vague remembrances>.<<<

Not quite - In typical short-sighted fashion, Marvel sold 20th Century Fox the exclusive rights to produce all film and television versions of X-Men. When the film was a hit - from which, due to aforementioned short-sighted deal, Marvel saw no profit - Marvel tried to jump on the bandwagon by producing a cheap and blatant knockoff - of their own property! Fox tried to sue but was unsuccessful.

None of which changes the fact that it's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.

But the blonde's cute.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:51 / 18.11.01

whats with the lightning guy harnessing his Chi to shoot lightning?-----this whole show annoyed me for the month before it came out while i was praying that marvel would wipe the floor with the shows creators, then i found out it was them---ick

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