Inhumans ABC's The Inhumans - General Discussion (news, updates, speculation...) - Part 1

[Dark Raven]

Regardless, Scott Buck tarnished the Marvel brand. Marvel Studios became as big as they've gotten by having their logo be a symbol of quality. If you saw a Marvel sticker on something, it meant, "this meets a certain level of quality and meets our company's high standards."

Scott Buck managed to make that logo meaningless. I hope he's happy.

He's just bucking the trend.

 

[Rowsdower!]

This show and everyone involved in its production can go Buck themselves.

 

[Dasher10]

It could be damaging to Perlmutter also since this was his project, it only happened because he kept pushing for it.

There's also the fact that the Inhumans are obscure characters who the general audience aren't as familiar with as they are with any other property in the Marvel U.

And even then, they're a hard sell to audiences today since what they represent is monarchy, isolationism, racial slavery, non-consensual genetic experimentation, etc. And Maximus is the villain who opposes these things while Black Bolt is the hero who reinforces them.

Inhumans was always a hard sell to people.

 

[Dr. Evil]

So when does Agents of SHIELD come back?

 

[Silvermoon]

So when does Agents of SHIELD come back?

Don't think an exact premiere date has been announced yet, but it has been stated that it won't premiere until beginning of next year

 

[Dark Raven]

Delayed by this crap.

 

[Nathan]

Man, just imagine what Agents of Shield could have done with IMAX money. We would have probably gotten a lot more Ghost Rider.

 

[Dark Raven]

That could really have been Marvel Studio's version of a Ghost Rider movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Does Scott Buck know he's a hack?

 

[Zarex]

Please remove the Marvel Studios logo from the opening, or just forget about screening it in IMAX/to the public altogether. This is embarassing.

There will be a Marvel logo, but not Marvel Studios. That's restricted to films in the cinematic MCU. And there have been lots of lots of garbage films over the years (and another Buck TV show!) that have carried the Marvel logo.

 

[Dark Raven]

Does Scott Buck know he's a hack?

If he changes his name to Scott Hack he will.

 

[TheVileOne]

There's also the fact that the Inhumans are obscure characters who the general audience aren't as familiar with as they are with any other property in the Marvel U.

And even then, they're a hard sell to audiences today since what they represent is monarchy, isolationism, racial slavery, non-consensual genetic experimentation, etc. And Maximus is the villain who opposes these things while Black Bolt is the hero who reinforces them.

Inhumans was always a hard sell to people.

I mean was it any different with Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Strange? Now you have a billion dollar franchise and one that's getting very close.

 

[Mike Murdock]

I might agree with GOTG, but I'm not sure I agree with Doctor Strange, who at least had a long-standing counter culture tradition and appeared in the 90s Spider-Man Animated Series. I heard of Doctor Strange before I read a single comic book issue. I don't think I heard of the Inhumans until the rumors that Marvel was interested in developing them first appeared.

 

[psylockolussus]

That sucks if the early reviews are really accurate... I wanted it to be the Mcu's X-Men and have read all Inhumans comics last year, only for it to be demoted to TV and now this. I wonder how many failures will Marvel TV get in the next few years, they are handling too many shows and the quality isn't as consistent as the MCU films.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That sucks if the early reviews are really accurate... I wanted it to be the Mcu's X-Men and have read all Inhumans comics last year, only for it to be demoted to TV and now this. I wonder how many failures will Marvel TV get in the next few years, they are handling too many shows and the quality isn't as consistent as the MCU films.

I mean the connection between Iron Fist and Inhumans beyond Buck is that both concepts require a larger than life approach. The mystical and the sci-fantasy respectively. Dumbing it down to the gritty approach is the exact opposite of what you want.

I mean if they gave Buck a new Blade series, I think it would be more in his wheelhouse. What they gave him with this two would be like giving Nolan Jem and the Holograms.


(I would watch the f--- out of a Nolan Jem and the Holograms)

 

[psylockolussus]

It's not just Buck that should get the blame, its the big bosses at Marvel TV who let him touch this in the first place. The thing is Marvel TV is all over the place. The animated shows look poor. The live action shows... They Look less exciting compare to the MCU movies and not just because of the budget but also the content. How many episodes/seasons of Aos did become watchable? Agent Carter had a major sophomore slump. I always find the Netflix shows as cheap looking web shows and they ate quite dragging most of the time. God knows what's in store for Cloak/Dagger, Runaways and New Warriors. They don't look like/sound like must see TV.

I feel like they are churning more and more shows while the Marvel iron is hot and there's money to be made which are smart business wise. But the quality is quite lacking.

 

[Jesse]

All of the trailers have been pretty underwhelming neither does the casting look all that good but I will be checking this out once it airs. I think the Triton special effects makeup could look better. I like that we are getting to see Medusa use her powers but I can's say the CGI was impressive. Lockjaw does look pretty adorable though.

I read this was originally supposed to be a movie that would have come out sometime after the second Avengers Infinity War film. I was glad to see they decided to go with a TV series seeing as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has already been using both the Inhumans and the Kree quite a bit.

 

[kosh33]

I cant find any of the articles that talked about the spoilertv review of the pilot
Looks like all of them have been removed from the sites that reported them? Was it fake news?

 

[Mike Murdock]

There's apparently a review embargo (which would be standard this far out). There was a TVLine review that was more positive that was removed.

 

[kosh33]

There's apparently a review embargo (which would be standard this far out). There was a TVLine review that was more positive that was removed.

Thanks Mike. Really looking forward to this series.

 

[TheVileOne]

Someone probably jumped the gun on the review embargo and released it too early.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I think demoting this to TV was a misstep by Marvel/Disney. Its not a street level property like Daredevil, Jessica Jones or Punisher where you can do it on the cheap. It has a giant dog! It has a woman who's hair is her superpower. It requires a lot of money in terms of special effects. A TV show on ABC just doesn't cut it.

 

[chamber-music]

As I said before marvel has proven it can make a successful franchise out of obscure properties. The marvel studios brand is almost as big a selling out as the individual properties at this point.

Inhumans could of worked as a movie. Feige obviously isn't that interested in the inhumans and doesn't see a place for them on the film side of things he controls which fine.

 

[chamber-music]

It's not just Buck that should get the blame, its the big bosses at Marvel TV who let him touch this in the first place. The thing is Marvel TV is all over the place. The animated shows look poor. The live action shows... They Look less exciting compare to the MCU movies and not just because of the budget but also the content. How many episodes/seasons of Aos did become watchable? Agent Carter had a major sophomore slump. I always find the Netflix shows as cheap looking web shows and they ate quite dragging most of the time. God knows what's in store for Cloak/Dagger, Runaways and New Warriors. They don't look like/sound like must see TV.

I feel like they are churning more and more shows while the Marvel iron is hot and there's money to be made which are smart business wise. But the quality is quite lacking.

Runaways is actually looking very faithful to the comics from what we saw from the pilot trailer.

 

[metaphysician]

And Cloak and Dagger. . . well, it doesn't look great, but it at least looks like it knows its limits and is playing to them.