That interview went on and on, but in a good way. I love reading all of the details of how decisions are made behind the scenes and what the thought process is behind the writing.

I assume that The New Mutants won’t just be playing in conventional movie houses, I assume it will be hitting some drive-ins as well? That’s where I’m hoping to safely see it.   

All snark aside, this is the right call from both an ethical and scientific perspective. I knew Disney was greedy and soulless, but I didn’t think they were dumb enough to think enough people would choose the 800th different X-Men over risking their lives to make a profit. 

I inwardly groaned at the “who’s the father” addition. There’s enough family drama going on without throwing a love triangle into the mix.

I have no idea why you would think there’s any concordance between Christina and Tic. There’s absolutely nothing in that scene that would suggest Tic had any idea why Christina gave him the ring. Tic had no clue what it would do and was just a passive bystander.

I felt like this could easily have been four or five episodes. We sort of whizz by everything, which each major plot point given about one line of dialogue and a significant glance. Dreadful.

Samuel, I think, is not Titus’s “son,”

George is probably, certainly, absolutely dead, but I wouldn’t bet that this is the last time we see him.

I really didn’t like the choice of making Tic basically a bystander in his own story and having George be given all his revelations and best scenes. The way the ritual resolved is especially bad. 

The one thing that bugs me is how George was able to find the secret library by... simply touching a book he liked on a bookshelf that was filled with books he likes. Was that intentional? Did someone know he’d find that secret library? Because if not, wow, that’s like locking James Bond in a room with keys to his…

Samuel, I think, is not Titus’s “son,” nor his direct descendant, because it’s made clear that Atticus is Titus’s only living heir. (And otherwise he could have competed with Atticus giving orders to the dinner guests.) I imagine he’s the descendant of a brother of Titus’s, or something like that.

Oh and also,

Yeah, this episode was a big step down for me. Even when I wasn’t struggling to tell what was going on because of the machine-gun exposition, the poor lighting and sound mixing filled in the gaps.

Samuel Braithwhite (Tony Goldwyn)—son of Titus, father of Christina

It’s the difference between cool-looking nonsense like Legion and a surrealist masterpiece like Twin Peaks or The Leftovers. Guess we’ll have to see which is which.

I don’t know about this episode. The acting was still incredible, as was the writing, and the “Whitey’s on the Moon” sequence was stunning, but the music and the editing felt really strange to me, and it kind of took me out of it. Maybe I’m just dumb, but the edits (along with some odd music choices) made me struggle…

Wondering what the hell is going on is an integral part of the oeuvre.

I wasn’t as wild about this episode compared to the premiere. The climax makes a confusing muddle out of what in the book was a fairly straightforward event.

Whitey On The Moon

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