I'm not even 100% sure the people that got turned into the sentinels, did so willingly/knowingly. The process seems to be "go in a green tank of goo" and ends with "you won't remember you went through that process." That feels ripe for grabbing people and doing it to them. This is one dark fucking story, if that is the case.
Yeah, it was disappointing. It's the pace the writers / showrunner set, though.
Former showrunner said some were turned against their will, like the journalist.
Woof...
Jean says it, basically as fact, when she's telling Scott and Chuck to get their argument out of the way.
I mean that's the metaphor right there. As much as OZT is literally weaponizing bigotry, even so-called allies can end up being indoctrinated into hateful rhetoric/actions without malicious intent. Not every bigot knows they're turning into one.
They mentioned it early in the episode, between each other, but there was no scene of anyone figuring out that was going to happen. It's just a known fact, as presented.
I know they mentioned it to each other but just thought it was weird their was an scene that had Magneto announcing it or something..
That's part of the problem. Magneto goes from fighting for mutants, to being in the process of killing countless mutants. He's doing this purely because the script say the X-Men and Magneto need to fight, not because it's been his arc.
And that's a fair criticism but that's exactly why you can't frame that as the X-Men are only there to save humanity against the only guy who is fighting back.
Dunno if everything is imploding. The majority outside of Era seems to love the episode. It's sitting at a 9.6 on IMDB, just a bit lower than episode 5.
When I said they were trying to save the ones that want them dead, I was referring to the Prime Sentinels and not humanity as a whole. They should be looking for a way to kill them and not restore their free will so the super powered bigots become more unpredictable. That extends to Magneto being the only one currently that's really fighting back, it's just that he's going literal scorched Earth.
We just had Doom in a full speaking role last week so I wouldn't rule them out having the ok to use him. Definitely feels like they're setting up the return of Apocalypse as the A-plot next season and Onslaught as the B plot.
A) Only some of the Prime Sentinels (probably a minority after seeing the numbers) were willingly turned in to them. B) Maybe I misunderstood, but the X-Mens' mission was two-pronged. They needed to get Magneto to fix the electromagnetic fields because otherwise the whole Earth is fucked, but doing so would reactivate the Prime Sentinels. The Gold team's mission was to stop Bastion and thus the Prime Sentinels before the fields were fixed because they know they couldn't handle them if they were all reactivated, which is why Cyclops stopped Prof X when he had control of Magneto.
Nothing in the text suggests a majority of them were turned unwillingly. The one person we see undergoing the procedure is a willing participant, we find out this episode that Bastion's mother was a bigot and likely underwent the procedure willingly, and Trask almost certainly did before getting cold feet after Genosha. Bastion's entire hometown being converted obviously had unwilling participants.
The fact that his whole hometown was turned is proof that he's doing this to a lot of people who are unwilling and at least implies that a non-significant amount of Prime Sentinels outside of OZT members didn't sign up for it. Honestly whether it's the majority or not, your framing of their infiltration of New Genosha to be an attempt to save them doesn't seem fair after what my previous post explained in point B. They're there first and foremost to stop Magneto from making the Earth uninhabitable, not save the Prime Sentinels.
I'm not framing their attack on Magneto as trying to save the Prime Sentinels, I'm framing their attempts to restore the Prime Sentinels humanity as them trying to save the Prime Sentinels. Roberto even points out the issue of giving the super powered bigots their free will back but the show quickly rushes past it without properly responding to the point.
Oh man I love details like thisI knew I recognized that cycle!
I knew I recognized that cycle!
They're not saying it's something he's going to do. They're saying it's already done, the magnetic field is failing, and they have ~12 hours to convince (or force) Magneto to fix it.
