This sums up the whole series for me. There are some really great elements here that just aren't being utilized.
"Lifeless" is the best adjective I can find. There are really interesting things happening, but the viewer doesn't care because the people making the show didn't seem to care.
It's as if someone gave a copy of Moby Dick to a 10 year old and had him rewrite it.
"There's this guy named Ishmael, and he meets this guy named Queequeg who has tattoos and stuff. They both get on a boat called the Pequod. The captain is named Ahab and he doesn't like a white whale named Moby Dick.
So they go out on the ship and they're looking for whales but Ahab is more interested in Moby Dick..."
That's how I feel watching Inhumans. It's like everybody is just sleep-walking through their parts. There's no emotion or passion or anything to draw the viewer in and make them care about a war that has implications for the entire human race.
Black-Bolt as a character has so much potential. The brother-vs-brother conflict has so much potential. Medusa's intense love for Black-Bolt has so much potential. Gorgon, Karnak, Triton, Crystal, Lockjaw - those are amazing characters with incredible potential. But it's all just lying there limply in the hands of people who don't seem to have a clue how to bring the story to life.