Inhumans - Is A Good Show!

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, today we wanted to talk about the TV show The Inhumans and how the show's been so far. And by the title I posted, my opinion is the show has been great, and I'm kind of surprised hearing a lot of people slamming the Inhumans show. They think it's horrible, they think it's terrible, and I have a different, different opinion. And I'm trying to figure out why my opinion is so far different from a lot of people, but it's got to be someone out there who likes the Inhumans so far, and I am one of them. So let's talk a little bit about, you know, first some of the reasons I believe that Inhumans hasn't been well received. And I think that has a lot to do with, you know, the great expectation of the Inhumans, first being that a lot of people wanted them to make a motion picture out of the Inhumans. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with their long schedule of movies to do over about the next decade, At some point just went, you know what, it's not enough room for the Inhumans, but maybe it'll make a good TV show. And it also tied in quite well with Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., you know, so in that respect kind of made sense to do this TV show about the Inhumans. That way we still get to see the Inhumans And I was glad about that because I'd rather see the Inhumans in some form than not see it at all. Even if they would have made it into a movie, we would have not seen Inhumans probably for another 10 years or so. But anyway, I think that had a lot to do with maybe why it wasn't well received, because the scale of what we expected from the Inhumans can't— the TV show budget was going to be limited, of course. And so I think one mistake a lot of people have made is that they are expecting the Inhumans, you know, to be this very expensive, high-budget show, and it's limited by TV, understandably so. But what isn't limited is the story, and I thought the story was well done. I thought the story— it was, as I had said in an earlier review concerning the Inhumans, you know, when it— before it came out, you know, I spoke about that the Inhumans was such a great story. And because it was such a great story from the beginning, it was one that I want to see told. And, you know, I've always said that believe that a good story can make up, and good acting can make up for shortcomings on budget. You know, you can, if you got a really good storyline, that can kind of, you know, take my attention away from the budget and cinematography. And, you know, one great thing we've got that a lot of people are in agreement with is And that's the character of Black Bolt. And the actor who plays him, who I believe the name is Anson Mount, I believe he was a star on the show Sons of Anarchy, a show, uh, regretfully I never really got to get into. Um, but, uh, I understand he may have been on that show. But, uh, you know, obviously, uh, in the show Black Bolt can't speak, but we get to see a lot of his mannerisms and gestures and reactions, and he nails it. Anson Mount nails it really well. And watching some interviews with him, I understood that some of his training preparation for the role came from working a lot with the the deaf, the mute, and learning various sign languages. And his reaction is just, you know, there was this real funny scene, uh, you know, in it when he was, uh, he went to get clothes. And, uh, I, it just had me dying laughing as he went in. He made his silent, you know, his gestures of a person who, you know, would probably act who couldn't speak and put the clothes on and headed out the door through his hand. And I just thought that was a hilarious scene. And that's of course when the cops pursued him, you know, they called the cops on him because they were saying he stole the clothes. But, uh, anyway, uh, you know, really like that scene. But, uh, the storyline is great, you know. This, this isn't an, um, a story that we're unfamiliar with. It's the story about the, the brother who is king, who doesn't really want the burden but matures to the point where he understands that he has to take the burden to lead his people. And it's always the second brother who's never chosen who really wanted to be, you know, king. So kind of reminiscing a little bit of what we got in Thor. And, you know, this story has resonated a lot through storytelling, and I've always liked that story. And I think they do it quite well. You know, as Black Bolt reflects back, you know, a lot on his trials growing up, bearing the responsibility of king of the Inhumans. And we get some very, very— what I thought was awesome information about Black Bolt his parents, how he accidentally killed his parents, you know, how Maximus the Mad, his brother, kind of holds that over his head and lets him, you know, reminds him, you know, I'm your only brother, I'm the only immediate family you have left. And, uh, you know, you can tell that Black Bolt has carried this with him, has carried this guilt of, uh, you know, killing his, you know, killing his father and becoming king. So I really like that part. You know, we got Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones. I like Ramsay Bolton, and you know, you kind of see some of the Ramsay Bolton coming out of him in some of the scenes. And Ramsay Bolton does a good job. You know, he brings something to the show in the villainous you know, villainous way that, and it's, you know, it's not, he's not gone full-blown Ramsay Bolton yet, but some elements are there, and you know, he has a kind of a, and that's another thing I liked about the Inhumans, it wasn't a very, it's even with Ramsay Bolton's character, he's a kind of complex character, you know, yeah, he seeks power, he wants to be king, he's willing to, at this point kill his family to get it. But there are some interesting, you know, things that resonate with the Inhumans being inside a caste system, him wanting the freedom from this caste system, and under Black Bolt, you know, who's seen as the good, you know, obviously our hero of the story, you know, and a good king. You know, in many respects. You know, he still is dealing, you know, with keeping the Inhumans in a caste system. Apparently it's been this way for thousands and thousands of years, and no one seems to be— it's almost like the royal family is, you know, this isn't something that they are in conflict with, it seems, you know. Crystals, calling Maximus, "You're just a human," almost as if they see humans as a lower species, which obviously in their species, human would be below Inhuman, and we get that throughout the show quite a bit. But what I found a little bit troubling about just the ideology of how they run this caste system is that The humans, whereas seemingly they come off as this more advanced race and species, doesn't seem like they understand the basic problems that come with, you know, having the caste system. Looks like they would have watched Earth and seen some issues with having this caste system. People don't seem to like the caste system. They're overcrowded on this planet, but Black Bolt seems to be more concerned about not having a war, which on one hand, yeah, I can respect that. That does make him a good character, but he doesn't address this caste system issue because of the Overcrowd and things like that is there in the city. And obviously Maximus, he has this revolutionary approach approach to it where he wants to help the downtrodden and the poor. But of course, obviously he's doing it by not the right way. Uh, and apparently, I'm assuming he's come to, uh, Black Bolt, uh, in the royal family at some point about this, and maybe they weren't able to come to an answer to the problem at the time. But I, you know, but at this point in time, Maximus has decided to take things into to his own hands. So I like the story, guys. Um, you know, I, I think again the, the issue is going to be the budget and what we're expecting. And, uh, I, I think I, I would say to a lot of audiences that, you know, this is a weekly TV show, uh, and, uh, we have to, uh you understand that and have a certain amount of give, or give a certain amount of leeway, you know, to a weekly budget show with just a few million dollars. Uh, one thing I thought I was gonna really hate about the Inhumans was, uh, Lockjaw, you know, of course, a teleporting dog. And I still have a problem with that. It was— I just wish they could have did that a little bit better. But I have a, a, a big problem too with, uh, just how they teleport from the moon to Earth. I didn't like that. I wish they could have did something a little bit cooler with that, some a little bit better, uh, you know, with that. But at the same time, I could see that makes a lot easy— a lot easier for people to show up on Earth. It's less expensive to the budget to have all these people do some kind of, uh, fantastic teleportation CGI type thing. But I would have preferred— and this is kind of my rule about it— because I think the show has a great story, it's entertaining to me, it moves along at a pace where I don't feel like it's dragging on. And I really appreciate that because a lot of times shows can't seem to get around that dragging on with a lot of information in between, like just filler that we don't have to see. And it's just a lot of them do that, and it's just irritating to me. But I would prefer if you got a good story like this, keep focusing on good acting, a good story. And if we only get to see 5 minutes of half-decent CGI, or even a minute of it, I'm fine with that. So In a situation like that, I would have preferred had they spent a lot on one good teleportation CGI scene and just kind of have everybody else show up on the planet and just kind of reference that they teleported over. I'd much rather see that than just a bunch of cheap teleportation stuff happening all through the season. And, uh, you know, obviously, you know, of course, you know, between, um, Anson Mount, who plays Black Bolt, and I call him Ramsey Bolton, I can't— Ian something, I can't remember his, his real name, who plays, uh, uh, Maximus the Mad here, or, you know, Maximus, uh, you know, I love these two characters acting in dynamic, dynamic together. I like that. I think they're both good actors, and I think that's really helping this show. I don't care much for the other characters though, but I would prefer, you know, that they, that they are together and not alone on their own a lot, like how they got them, you know, at least in the first 3 episodes I've seen so far, they have them, you know, separated in they're trying their best to get back together. But I don't like these characters alone. I'd rather see them either with Black Bolt or not at all. So I kind of wish they kind of would have did a thing which I thought at first which was gonna happen. I thought they were gonna do a similar story like what they did with Thor, and I think they would have did a lot better going this route where Thor gets sent to Earth and the elements of Asgard, you know, they they aren't there on Earth with Thor, except in the beginning when he's in Asgard and at the end. And I thought that's how Black Bolt's character was going to be. I thought he was going to be the one running during the coup, you know, the king running. But instead, it's the whole royal family. But I think it would have worked a little bit better then, and we just kind of revolved around Black Bolt's story with the royal family trying to get to him, and they just kind of show up at the end, kind of like how they showed up with Thor, you know, in a sense. And, but anyway, so far, guys, I don't think it's a terrible show. I think it's doing quite well, you know, all things considered, you know, it being a, you know, a weekly TV show with a limited budget. Guys, tell me what you think. Do you like Inhumans so far? Tell me what you don't like about it. Tell me what you'd like to see see it do better. If you don't like it, and if you do like it, tell me what you like about it. Uh, guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.