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| PsiGen |
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When exactly did MX go to pot during the Seasons.
Some argue it was S2, some think S3.... whats your take?
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| Blackpanther |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:17 pm |
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| Definetly S3. I mean killing of Emma?!?! That was a major mistake. S2 was pretty good, but it semed lik a totaly diferent show from what we've seen in s1. It's like a huge gap there! |
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| MarisolEckhart |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:31 pm |
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S2 was okay. But I'd have to agree with Blackpanther & say S3 because of killing off not only Emma, but my Mason.
Emma could have been used in a lot of ways during S3. She was definitely on to something. She was beginning to learn a lot of things about Adam no doubt. Things she could have said & done during S3. Her powers were growing too. She was becoming possibly dangerous. But I guess the writers didn't see that or had a memory lapse by the time Lauren left the series.
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| Blackpanther |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:43 pm |
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| Yep. I for one would hav had Emma wityha memeory lapse and bring he back mid s3. It would eb cool to see Emma and Lexa interact bacuse mma would feel she has ben replaced in teh team, and Lexa will feel taht she is loosing a spot in the team, a spot she worked for. |
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| Keira Kane |
| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:36 pm |
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| I think Season 2 was okay but Season three was a lot better. But the death of Emma..That was a no-no from the beginning. even my friends agree with me.. |
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| ohdear |
| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:08 am |
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I think it started to go wrong in Season 2 and went downhill from there.
One of the main things that bothered me from the beginning was the lack of story arcs, and sure there was their powers mutating, Eckhart and Ashlocke but for most part supporting characters were in one episode and you never heard them mentioned again, let alone seen!
Then while I love Brennan and Shalimar, I didn't understand the need for them to be pushed towards the front in terms of storylines. Even the credits changed so they Victoria and Victor were ahead of others. Even though a big apart of season two for the writers was to show, was Shalimar's and Brennan's growing attraction, it didn't need to come at the cost of the other characters. That said, I did enjoy the season, in particular Emma's character development.
Finally, Emma's death. If the writers really felt they needed to kill here off, to "mix things up", there were so many possible, more interesting ways of doing it instead of covered up dead body (that wasn't even Lauren) that we got. Personally if she had to die, as evil as it sounds I would have had Mutant X kill her, preferably Jesse because it would have irreversibly changed all of them, the team, everything. Although, knowing Mutant X’s continuity everyone would be fine in the next episode! And what was the point of bring Eckhart back for one episode just to kill him?
In a way I’m glad Emma and Jesse never got together on the show because who knows what might have happened! But all in all, a great show that showed a lot of potential. |
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| DEMIAN |
| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:54 pm |
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Quote: and Lexa will feel taht she is loosing a spot in the team, a spot she worked for.
if she worked or not, it doesn't matter.
she have to go when emm will be back.
there is no place for her...
go away lexa, bye bye...  |
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| Ryan Watson |
| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:00 pm |
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| mutant x never whent 2 pot it is still brileant. and if anything emma just made everything more "doom and gloom". |
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| DEMIAN |
| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:59 pm |
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| you're jelous because emma is much better |
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| MarisolEckhart |
| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:10 am |
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Emma wasn't making anything "doom & gloom". She was growing as a character & her powers were growing & she was getting more darker. She seemed to even be cruel at times such as when she wiped Jesse of remembering what she did in No Man Left Behind or when she told Adam in Reawakening to next time listen to her if she told him they were in danger or in Reality Check when she also told Adam Shalimar would have to deal with what had happened to her & that it was never going away.
And also in Reality Check she told the Russian guy that she had powers her partners didn't even know about yet. Emma could do more than Shalimar, Brennan & Jesse & even Lexa could do combined. Her weapon was her mind. She could make people go crazy or see or do things they wouldn't normally see or do. She could mess with peoples' minds. She could even destroy minds if she wanted to. Emma no doubt knew what she could do & who knows for how long. She knew she could be more powerful if she wanted to be.
Also, she might have been getting tired of MX. In Lest He Become, she must have known about Adam & his secrets. Maybe she was doing her own investigating on the side & she was even willing to blast Adam with one of her psi-blasts if he didn't tell the others what he was holding back.
Emma could do anything with her mind & no one would be the wiser. 
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| CamiGirl84 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:29 pm |
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| MarisolEckhart this is why I think that Emma should have come back and been the enemy. She would make a great enemy...well, a 'mind'-on kinda enemy. Plus she knew the team so well. In any of the fics I've written that I've brought Emma back, she's been bad. I think it's just a good story. She was getting so dark, that just seemed to be where she would go next. She'd drift from the team and start doing her own thing. I think that's the reason the writters might have killed her off. not sure if they knew what else they should do with her. With her attitude going so far south. Plus, if she let loose all of Adam's secrets...what fun would that be? |
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| imjuzakyd |
| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:56 am |
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Well technically they killed her off to save some money, lol, kiddding, but seriously, the Emma-turning-evil angle has been a very popular possibility that I've encountered in so many fanfics and board discussions. And in a way it is disturbingly possible, given the huge amount of powers she had developed and kept hidden from the team. She had indeed become darker as S2 progressed, but I still believe we should give her due credit for not betraying the team until the day she died. She knew she was powerful, she knew she could control them if she wanted to, she knew Adam had his secrets, and may already have an idea of the existence of Dominion, but until the last episode she remained faihtful to the team. Of course after killing her off we weren't given the chance to actually know if she would go to the dark side completely, but then I always believed that although she became darker, there's still that sweet, innocent Emma hidden somewhere inside of her that prevents her from turning her back against the people she considered family.
And no, she didn't make the team all "doom and gloom," she was actually the voice of reason most of the time, and she still had that fun-loving aura around her. Granted she's not as hyper or adventure-loving as Shalimar, or as impulsive as Brennan, or as funny as Jesse, but she wasn't all "let's get down to business" either. She even had her rebellious moments, like when she left to look for Tyler, or when she went searching for the brother of the fireman who possessed her (Inferno, granted that he was doing most of the work, lol) and ended up being stuck in the middle of a burning bar.
As for the show going downhill, I'd also say mid-S2. With the lack of a constant threat from Eckart or even Ashlocke (although I didn't really feel Ashlocke as much of a threat as Eckart was), the team ended up running in circles, chasing genetically-mutated people hiding up in the mountains or eco-terrorists who want to "save the environment." Not to mention a boy who can move from one body to another, and a dead fireman who wanted to know the serial arsonist. And who could forget the creature in Reawakening? *shudder* There just isn't that much of... content, I think. They'd defeat one bad guy and move to another bad guy the next episode, obtaining episodic amnesia in the process. Sheesh.
And then there's the disturbing Brennan and Shalimar in the frontlines. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against them, I believe both Vicky and Victor are great actors, but I felt that it was wrong to put them in the spotlight while Lauren and Forbes got pushed to the sidelines. They could have highlighted them, but not at the expense of the other characters. I read somewhere before that as S2 progressed, it was like Vicky got 25 minutes of the show, Victor 20, John Shea 10, and the remaining 5 minutes to be shared by Lauren and Forbes. Well of course it's an exagerration, but you get the point. It just wasn't fair. Not when Emma and Jesse's characters were equally interesting as well. Of course we have, like, what, two to four episodes where the two actually got some quality airtime, but overall, the distribution of work got really bad. |
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| CamiGirl84 |
| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:44 pm |
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| You know, I never did notice that Vicky and Victor got more of the spotlight...of course, that's probably because Vicky was my favorite until Karen came along. So I was happy about seeing Vicky lots. |
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| darkanger4u |
| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:22 pm |
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| Well i like Mx,i am curious if Emma came back... |
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| bohemianbabe |
| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:45 am |
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I really hate to say it, but after analyzing the show with a friend of mine he and i both agree that hte show was kind of doomed from the beginning.
now dont get me wrong because i loved the show, it is just the fact that there were several little mistakes made that messed it up from the start! and i do hate to have to admit it!
but i think that the show started to go down hill right after they killed eckhart off......i had always liked the conflict with eckhart and ashlocke...i mean yeah it was nice to once in a while have a new enemey...but season 3 they had a new enemy every single ep and that kind of drove me crazy. it was like, new guy have to hate them!
so that is what i think right now. though some of it may change as i review the season 1 and season 3 eps......and season 2 as soon as i buy that one!
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