So far, nobody wrote a convincing "human race vs super-human race" story.
I have to disagree with this, I'm afraid. The X-Men comics have been doing this for years (from the 1960s actually). This whole storyline seems very derivative to me, though of course it's possible that the only reason why Joss is going with it is because he's not satisfied with any of the myriad scenarios exploring this theme that the X-Men has come up with in the last 40 years.
The X-Men stories look very unrealistic for me. I'm convinved that if mutabnts existed in reality the government would either had put them under the strictest control or destroyed completely.
Maybe I see them differently because I read many sci-fi before I even found out about The X-Men. I read many amazing stories by Clark, Azimov, Sheckley, as well as European and Russian writers. Many bright minds of XX century struggled to figure out what could happen if a relatively small group of humans will pass to the next evolutionary step. But I don't think anybody did it convincingly and comprehensively.
I think that Joss was also interested in this matter and intented to explore it on River.
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I have to disagree with this, I'm afraid. The X-Men comics have been doing this for years (from the 1960s actually). This whole storyline seems very derivative to me, though of course it's possible that the only reason why Joss is going with it is because he's not satisfied with any of the myriad scenarios exploring this theme that the X-Men has come up with in the last 40 years.
The X-Men stories look very unrealistic for me. I'm convinved that if mutabnts existed in reality the government would either had put them under the strictest control or destroyed completely.
Maybe I see them differently because I read many sci-fi before I even found out about The X-Men. I read many amazing stories by Clark, Azimov, Sheckley, as well as European and Russian writers. Many bright minds of XX century struggled to figure out what could happen if a relatively small group of humans will pass to the next evolutionary step. But I don't think anybody did it convincingly and comprehensively.
I think that Joss was also interested in this matter and intented to explore it on River.