Yet, despite her reduced screentime, Lorna’s story remains the most emotionally complex and thematically relevant to The Gifted’s overall narrative - and it is also the one that will most likely determine the future of the show. Though her presence was a driving force behind The Gifted’s first season, Polaris has had a more secondary role in Season 2, as the show has pivoted to focus on the deepening rift between siblings Lauren and Andy Strucker. But what’s different about Lorna is that she’s one of the few people who seems capable of seeing, understanding – and, yes, even possessing empathy for – all sides of this debate. To be fair, Polaris is far from the only character that must make difficult compromises about what living in society as a mutant means.
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Lorna has tirelessly worked to save mutants from persecution since the series began, but she has frequently wrestled with her own beliefs along the way. No character is more representative of this ideological turmoil than Lorna Dane ( Emma Dumont), the mutant known as Polaris who is a former member of the Mutant Underground, a current leader of the Inner Circle, a new mother, and the daughter of one of the most famous supervillains in the X-Men universe. (Not for nothing, but this is why The Gifted is probably the most realistic superhero show on the air today. But all of that changes in the closing moments of the episode, as Lorna uses her mutant power to reshape the little red medallion Magneto left for her on her 13th birthday into a headpiece that will be familiar to readers of X-Men comics.The messy nature of this conflict has set friends and relations against one another throughout the world of the show, as families have divided and relationships ended over conflicting views regarding mutant rights, government power, political revolution and even medical ethics. While Magento is never named on The Gifted, he's spoken of in awe, by the Frost sisters, by Andy Strucker - by virtually everyone except Lorna. With that, Polaris comes to terms with not only her feelings for her estranged father, but also for his legacy. It's then that Lorna realizes her aunt wasn't hiding her from her father, but rather for him (which certainly clarifies why a rebellious young Lorna was released from jail, with an apology, after a mysterious phone call). Returning to Missouri, Lorna leaves Dawn with the aunt who raised her (guest star Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order: Criminal Intent). RELATED: Frost Sisters' Tragic Origin Takes Cues From the X-Men Comics But as we're shown glimpses of Lorna's past as a bipolar teen with green hair and extraordinary powers, it becomes clear that her anger at He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been misplaced. There, she'll be out of the reach of Rebecca, Reeva Payge, and anyone else who might do her harm. Ready to take drastic measures to protect her child, Lorna seems as if she'll send Dawn off to a school for gifted youngsters in the Swiss Alps, as suggested by Esme Frost (Skyler Samuels). It's distracting, and unintentionally comical, and undercuts the emotional impact of what's easily the most genuine, and relatable, storyline of the second season. He's referred to as "Him," "Your Real Dad," "You Know Who I Mean," "The Guy They Say Is My Dad" and, perhaps most awkwardly, "The Mutant From the News," but never Magneto, or simply Erik. Through a series of flashbacks, to early in her pregnancy and to her unhappy youth in rural Missouri, "the dreaM" explores Lorna's complicated relationship with a father she never knew, and whom she - nor anyone else - ever actually names. RELATED: The Gifted's Polaris Teases the Origin of Her Headpiece & Her Troubled Pastīut the heart of the episode is the realization by Lorna (Emma Dumont) that her infant daughter isn't safe around Rebecca, the Inner Circle and what they've unleashed. The city is thrown into chaos as groups like the Purifiers seek revenge against mutants, and both the Inner Circle and the Mutant Underground search for Rebecca. "The dreaM" is, on the surface, concerned with the fallout from the Inner Circle's big bank heist, which was pulled off flawlessly, at least until Rebecca, the unstable mutant with oddly specific powers (she can turn objects, and people, inside out) decided to go off-script and murder 37 people.
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