Raven's Quill

Because I am half-luddite, I still record TV shows on my VCR when there is more than one thing I want to watch and I am disinclined to flip between them.

So I have the 2-hr premiere of Inhumans and its week-2 episode.

I'm only about 20 minutes into the first episode, but I'm having thoughts. So this is a casual livetweet of those episodes, with possible spoilers contained there in.

Episode 1 and 2

• Why does Medusa need to speak out loud to convey what the king (Bolt? Ah, Black Bolt) hand signs? Presumably his closest advisors would have learned to understand the signs, and they could have included subtitles.
• Her hair continues to be terrible. I knew it from the promos, but still.
• For the record, in the first few minutes, the king's brother, Maximus, is called out by one of the "common people" that he should be in the mines too because he has no Inhuman ability, and it's only because his brother is king that he isn't. And he agrees and then says it's because they're in this finite place but on Earth they'd have more freedom. He just seems really skeevy.
• Hey! They actually showed a scene on Oahu that they admitted was Oahu! (Lots of movies and such film here, but it's always meant to be some fantasy island or represent some other part of the world.)
• Lockjaw is the best.
• She just stands there and lets her hair do the fighting (probably an issue of ease of animating), but would look much more interesting and dynamic if she fought in collaboration with her hair
• Diamond Head! Ha! The Downtown Longs!
• They have screens that show them what's going on on Earth (or shows them newsfeeds), but honestly, I need more information on how this isolated society on Attilan knows what cars and traffic sound like and what buses are, but don't know to get out of the middle of the road, and don't recognize cellphones.
• I don't like Crystal's hair. It may be true to the comics (I'm assuming), but it's looks like a sad dye job.
• "You are violent people" he said to the group of chill surfers that saved his butt and then shared a beer and a conversation with him.
• There's Aloha Tower! (I'm kinda hoping they maintain Oahu as a central Earth location, and include a lot of local characters #representationmatters)
• Yup. Had a feeling. Now confirmed. They are using some buildings (like the state capitol, I think it is) for Attilan buildings. At least the exteriors of them.
• Kualoa Sugar Mill. It's a bit of ruins basically, along Kam hwy.
• I would not trust this guy. He's so weasely. Even though his basic idea isn't bad, it feels like his reasons behind it are selfish and he hasn't thought the logistics through of what he's proposing.
• Seriously, some stuff they are totally comfortable with, despite not having something similar in Attilan, and sometimes they are totally confused by stuff. (And some things, like headphones, they had their own version of, which looks almost exactly like ours, so where'd they get the idea from?)

Episode 3

• ATMs are new-to-them
• Also, let's take a moment to acknowledge there are so many damn white people in the main cast. There's Gorgon (black dude) and Karnak (Asian dude who's having a terrible day), and that's about it. Smaller roles have POC--the surfers are local (at least one Hawaiian), and there are plenty local cops, oh and one scientists/supervisor dude, but that's up against the entire Attilan royal family, Maximus' main guard Auran, this young dude with visions, scientist woman, some other scientist/doctor dude, etc.
• Okay, Karnak is having a really terrible, no good, very bad day.
• Oy. She's walking around someone's home with her shoes on. Like, take what you need, but don't get red dirt on everything.
• The pacing of this show is weird. Stuff happens, but it feels slow, and I think it's because they have too many POV people and more stuff is happening to some people than others.
• That is a hugely awkward way to carry a person.
• Every one of the Attilan folks wears black or grey, pretty much. The only exceptions are Medusa with lavender dress and her sister Crystal with her yellow tunic. That's pretty much it.
• I can understand "Inhuman" being the name given to them by humans who are fearful jerks, and those who undergo terrigenesis taking that name on for themselves to take the hurt out of it. But seriously, how much contact have the Attilan Inhumans had with humans on Earth? Why would they call themselves that? Why is it a name Inhumans would create for themselves?
• "I'm keeping my eye on you" said the guy who then left the room, leaving them to their own devices.
• Okay, Blackbolt bewildered by the friendliness of these giant local dudes? Kind of adorable.
• That was an unnecessary scene to end the episode on. The one before the commercial break was stronger.

Okay, final thoughts:

( The more spoilery bits... )