X-Men '97 Review Ep 6 Lifedeath Part 2 | Marvel

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Hey, I'm Derek.
And I'm Noah, and you're

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6th nipple of X-Men 97 super
excited.

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Life and life, life and death.
I keep wanting to see life and

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death, Life and death, Life and
death part 2A2 parter of A2

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parter.
Yeah, yeah.

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Interesting.
Very.

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This is a very split in half
episode.

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We're getting another of
another, yes.

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Whoa, please.
It got real.

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Yeah, it got real.
It's it's life, death.

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So a lot to talk about.
Yes.

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OK, spoilers.
Yes, always give that spoiler

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alert.
We're big fans of the spoiler

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alert.
Big fans.

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So before we like start the
episode, I did want to address

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like 3 little tiny things from
the last episode.

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Oh wow that have been brought to
detention.

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Slash didn't mention.
I meant to mention last X-Men 97

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episode was so traumatic that we
were literally processing it on

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air.
Yeah.

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And we took like a day or two to
really process it and we still

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didn't fully process it.
We really did.

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It I think re watching it just
opened all the wounds again and

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we were just completely messed
up so.

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Yes, we did see The Watcher in
that episode.

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Did we mention it?
No, but we did see it.

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One of our lovely listeners,
Rainbow Hair Girl Tommy, can

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turn as flat as paper.
Oh, is that what it is?

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That's yeah.
So now we have our answer.

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Now you have it.
So thank you.

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And then the Sentinel Kaiju
thing that we talked about is

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called a wild.
Sentinel, the big beetle thing.

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Right, like a Sentinel factory.
Thank you listeners for all.

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Your help.
Yeah, Thank you for keeping us

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in check.
Also.

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That's when it's like just do
that.

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We we don't mind that we have so
much to talk about.

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We did like an hour long episode
and we still miss stuff.

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Yeah, it's just fine.
Yeah.

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It's like, you know, when you're
just like, so into something

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that you're talking about, all
the fine details go away.

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And then after the fact, it's
like, oh.

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We yeah, I mean, these episodes
are kind of they're like weekly

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check ins almost.
And we used to be very like

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detail oriented with our
episodes.

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And now we're just like having
fun, you know, we still go deep,

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but we don't go as.
Deep.

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Yeah.
There's a difference I think

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between going deep versus going
line by line of the script,

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which is sort of what we used to
do.

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And also being very traumatized,
it's fine.

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OK, so.
This week, so let's official

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spoilers for this week's episode
of X-Men 97.

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All right, let us officially
take a bite of X-Men 97 Episode

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six, Life, Death Part 2,
directed by Chase Conley and

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written by Charlie Feldman.
Storm faces the Adversary and

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her darkest fears to save Forge
from the demons spreading poison

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and to regain her connection to
the elements.

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Light years away, Professor X is
getting his groove back in

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space, trying to win over
Lalondra's sister Death Bird by

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renouncing his ex men to prove
he is loyal to the Shihar.

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The episode is for the birds.
Bird bird, bird, bird birds are

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well.
We're not doing that.

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I can't.
There's birds in both stories.

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I would have rather viewed done
a bird fact then do that well

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ruin my.
Finale, why don't you?

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Oh.
Spoiler So when we covered

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Falcon and Winter Soldier Derek,
we used to have special segments

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at the end of our episodes and
Derek did a bird fact for every

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episode.
I loved it.

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People to this day still mention
that it's the.

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Song.
It was the song.

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It's another addition of bird
fact.

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Yeah.
And the fact for this episode is

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that they're just birds in both
parts of the story.

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Yeah, well, they are actually.
There's a evolution of birds and

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a demonic bird.
That's what I'm saying, yeah.

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What did you think of this
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General thoughts on both of
them?

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We will then go to the Shiar and
then we'll talk about Storm.

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I think that this episode is not
a stand alone in the sense that

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so like when you read Part 2 of
a book series, we always ask the

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question, does it stand alone in
the sense of did you have to

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read the first one to see the
second one to read the second

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one?
In this case, I think that you

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needed to know an entire lore of
a race in order to truly

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understand what was going on
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Or watch the show 30 years ago
and still remember.

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Right, exactly.
And so no, no will be like, did

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you remember that?
And I'll be like, well, I

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haven't watched it since I'm
eight, so no, I I don't remember

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that.
So I think I was a little

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confused at first.
I'm glad we watched it a second

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time because it sort of
clarified things because the

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first time I was trying to put
those puzzle pieces together.

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So I think it was a good
episode, but I think that you

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really needed the back story to
understand what was going on.

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Yeah, this one does throw a lot
at you, especially with the CR.

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And then it has, I mean, even
just seeing how many different

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types of aliens are there,
witnessing everything is a lot.

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There's a lot of lore that goes
back into it.

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But I when you said that, you
know, I feel like you need to.

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It's not like a stand alone.
I'm like, 'cause it's a Part 2.

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But I got what you meant.
No, I agree.

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I, I liked it.
I do wish one of my criticisms

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with the first life death Part 1
slash Motendo was that I almost

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feel like the life death stuff
should have just been one longer

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episode or a longer first part
and a stand alone second part

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only because like some of the
stuff is like, I'm willing to

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like put it aside but like their
love is just like so quick and

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they're like soul mates.
I'm like, I love them.

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And I believe it 'cause I know
it.

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And I'm curious what general
audiences feel about it.

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But I loved this episode.
I think it's I didn't realize

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how much I missed the
intergalactic side of the X-Men

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stuff until we got this.
I love the kookiness.

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Yeah, One of the things that I
appreciated in looking at this

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is that we we were kind of
questioning like, why did life

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death one happen?
And then we had remember it and

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then we had this.
But it's all about the timing of

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what's going on in these worlds,
right?

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So it wouldn't have made sense
for it to be life death, one

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life death to have them have
their powers back and then have

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everyone die, right?
So it's like this had to all be

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happening at the same time.
So that's why they kind of

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brought life death to after
remember it.

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Yeah.
And I also like that episode 5,

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how traumatic it was and we're
still recovering from it is like

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a mid season finale and I like
that it took a step back from it

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for a minute.
That way we could still kind of

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like feel those emotions and we
do get that part at the end,

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both parts at the end where it
all comes back together.

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So thank you for that.
Let us go to space for a minute

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and forget all our troubles.
Yeah, let's just watch some

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other war.
We don't know that.

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Like this is fine.
So Speaking of space, we got the

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Shiar, we got the Cree, we got
Professor X.

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There's a war Shiar Cree.
I loved every second of anything

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with the Shiar from the opening
battle sequence, which looked

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amazing from Death Bird.
Zooming into that ship and

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making all those people fly out
of it, finding Ronan, the

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Imperial Guard, Gladiator, I
just all of it.

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I loved every second of it.
I mean, she really does sort of

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cement herself as a foe.
When she blasts through there.

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It's just like grabbing people
by the throat, putting her heel

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through people's faces.
I mean, she's just a bad ass.

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Yeah I questioned at first why
she wore 6 inch heels but then

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when she stabbed Bronan's cheek
I was like yeah makes makes

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sense.
Also if she can wear what she

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wants it's for death.
Seeing Gladiator fully in his

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like overpowered amazing form is
awesome to see.

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He is just like that in the
comics.

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I love seeing him in this light.
I geeked out.

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Also of note of the people in
the Empiro regard, there's quite

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a few people, but just wanted to
point out Cyclops's brother is

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there.
Vulcan, his daddy on the Star

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Jammers goes into space.
He has siblings out there.

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So I just wanted to point that
little tiny Easter egg out.

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They have those glowing eyes in
common, those two, you know,

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young men.
So the I like actually like

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these two episodes together.
Do I wish life death was a

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little longer?
Yes, but I like both of them

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together because they almost
mirror each other in certain

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ways because the she are are
like imperialistic, they're

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conquerors and everything like
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The stuff that Forge and Storm
talk about a lot of the stuff,

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especially his land and his
people were from conquerors and

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colonizers.
So it's an interesting viewpoint

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to see from both sides.
You have the conquerors over

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here and you have the people
that had to deal with people

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like that and the white lie of
it all.

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Fantastic writing in this, by
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Amazing.
Yeah, I think that these two

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stories, although they seem very
disparate, they actually do go

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along with each other quite
well.

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And I think that there's
something to be said about Storm

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needing to really face her, feel
fears and demons to be regain

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her powers and Professor X kind
of ignoring all of his

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responsibilities, you know,
because he was gone.

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We all thought he was dead.
We saw his leather bound last

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will and Testament.
Yeah, I mean, that's a good

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point.
So, well, OK, so it's it's one

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of those things where it's like,
I mean, they have to have known

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he was alive, right?
Because I don't think Professor

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X would necessarily abandoned
everybody without telling them.

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Like, was there some type of
conversation where it's like,

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this has to happen?
But we finally get that answer.

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The last episode of the original
animated series, we now know

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that Professor X is not dead.
And they did take him.

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Laundra took him, nursed him
back to health.

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And she's like, I love you.
You love me.

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We're getting married.
Again, another very whirlwind

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romance that we didn't see the
beginning of.

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We just have to trust that it's
real.

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I do think it's interesting that
he has, you know, in some ways

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really given himself over to
these people.

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He's wearing their armor.
He's dressing like them.

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He is a part of this sort of,
you know, grand gesture to prove

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that he is going to be thinking
of their best, you know, efforts

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and everything.
So it's really interesting to

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see Professor X in this way and
having been gone from the X-Men

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for a year and not even knowing
what's going on with them.

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Yeah, well, until he does know,
I I liked it in this light

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because being an X-Men fan and
reader, do I think this is out

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of character for him?
No.

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Like.
I mean, he does very

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questionable things all the
time.

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Like leaving everything to
Magneto.

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Right, yes, and I like that I'm
I'm very curious to see what's

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going to happen when he does go
back to the X-Men, especially

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with what happened in Genosha
and if there was some type of

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conversation at some point when
he was taken or whatever that

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may be.
So but I liked I didn't like,

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but I liked that even though he
was with these other people, the

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she are, they still didn't
accept him.

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He's a Terran and even worse
than that, he's like.

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Mutant.
Mutant, he's underneath the

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Terran, so you have these like
imperialistic people even

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looking down on him.
And it's like, you can't be with

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our bird DNA.
You need, you can't be here.

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You're not going to do it.
You see this hair?

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You will never have this baldy.
That's.

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What I'm saying I I was sorry
not to get too silly about this,

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but I was really enamoured by
their hair.

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Slash amazing.
Feathers, I couldn't figure out

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what it is.
And the fact that she took her

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metal, you know, headdress off
and it was still that bizarre

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like arrow shaped Flathead
thing.

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I'm like who?
What is this group of people?

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Who are they?
She are.

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They are she rock.
They are evolved from birds.

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But like, yeah, and and like no,
because it's like some of them

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are.
But then we have, we remember

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that they're, you know, they're
imperialistic.

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They've taken over other
planets.

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So they're.
Well, gladiators from a planet

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that has been conquered by them.
He's not.

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She are, but he's from a product
of them.

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Yeah.
So it's, you know, but they're

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the people with the hair.
Yeah, they're very fancy birds.

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I don't know what your question
is, Yeah.

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But it's, it's, I guess you know
what, it's not a question.

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It's more of a conversation
about how they present

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themselves and the customs to
which they style their hair.

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I love it.
I absolutely.

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Love it.
I'm not saying that I don't love

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it.
It's just I I was enamoured by

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it sometimes.
I wasn't paying attention to

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anything that they were saying
because I was trying to figure

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out what was going on with their
hair.

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So silly.
And the eye makeup, it's very

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like Thundercats desk, you know
what I mean?

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It's around the same time, yeah.
It's like like that 80s nineties

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feel to the cartoon.
Yeah, I love them.

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I'm there was a cartoon in the
late 80s, early 90s.

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I'm blanking on the name now.
I'm going to say Silverhawks,

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but I don't think that's right.
But they look very much like

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them.
And my brother and I got a pair

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of their pajamas for Christmas,
and when you put your arms out,

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you had wings.
Oh cool, so that's unpractical

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but cool for a kid.
But I looked amazing.

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Yeah, my brother and I, there's
a picture of us at Christmas

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like this.
I want to find it.

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It was so good.
You where she are.

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I was even back then.
I did have air.

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So imagine if you styled it
right.

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OK, anyway, away from the hair
of this year, I knew you were

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going to be like so fixated on
the hair.

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Listen.
I do.

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There's a deep story here, I
completely get it.

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But sometimes we have to just
look at the trivial and talk

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about these things because
they're important to me.

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Speaking of trivial, did you
catch when Ronan called Death

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Bird a pigeon?
I sure did.

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Amazing.
I know it's like an insult, but

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it's really funny.
Meanwhile, Death Bird, she's,

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she's got a sharp tongue.
Oh yeah, that one.

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Milky Way ghetto.
Milky Way ghetto.

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One of the best lines.
Ever.

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You know what?
I know she's the villain, but

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she was the entertainment.
Baby, she's really interesting.

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I again, I love villains that
are like this.

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And she has like a tried and
terrible like history with the

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X-Men.
And, you know, she's worked with

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Apocalypse and in Apocalypse as
promise.

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I actually think that's what the
episode was called.

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So she's tried her way.
I liken this one that she's

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trying her, like, hand at being
really good with the Imperial

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Guard and then trying to start a
coup.

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Yeah, I love it.
Yeah, I like to think about in

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my mind, her legal name is Death
Bird.

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They named her sister Lalandra.
And then they said beautiful

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little death.
Bird.

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Well, I I she has another name,
but they call her Death Bird I

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also I can never remember
Lalandre's full name.

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It's like Lalandre Malala is
like.

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Yeah, Empress.
The Empress.

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She's very maiden, you know what
I mean?

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She's always like.
But Charles, you must show your

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love for me.
You know, she's not that much,

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well, she's, she's performative,
right?

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And I think the conversation
that they had, I do like that,

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she said.
It's all a performance.

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Like it's what you put on that's
leading, especially as an

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emperor.
And that was the point of her

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sort of making that big
pronouncement that she and

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Charles were going to get
married.

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In the middle of a battle.
Right, I know.

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And, and I love that, you know,
Death bird's like, OK, but I'll

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put this on haws.
Also, did you see when like the

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hologram showed in the fields of
all of those like horse people

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working?
It's like.

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Like they're slaves.
This is not great, no.

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It's not great, it's not a good
place.

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No, we don't like it, but
Charles wanted to marry into it,

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so I don't know that's.
What I'm saying, I don't, you

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know, I think when we think of
Charles, I, you know, the, the

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common person like myself, when
we think of Charles Xavier, we

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think of like the leader, the,
the correct, the righteous, you

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know, and then when you see him
doing these things, you're like,

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what is this guy's deal?
He's one of those complicated

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characters where he thinks that
certain ways are the best ways

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for all people or mutant kind,
and it's not necessarily the

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best way.
And sometimes he does have his

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own motives.
So, you know, he is a person and

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he makes mistakes, a lot of
mistakes.

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Yeah, it's interesting.
It's interesting.

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His greatest ability is being a
teacher and that was one of my

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favorite things that they
showcased in this cause.

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Yeah, he's a very well adapt
telepath, but he's a teacher and

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he schooled them in this.
Literally.

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Literally.
That scene was so cool when he

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said class is in session and it
showed his face on different

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groups of people when they did
it.

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Amazing, he said.
The animation in this is just so

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good.
Yeah, so.

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Good.
I like the apples.

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I like him giving out demerits.
He's like, shut your face,

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Stepford.
Eat this apple.

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Raise your.
Hand you know the white lies in

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the colonists, Derek the hair.
This is who I am.

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No, I love it because I wanted
to have thought about that at

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all.
Yeah, This is why we do this.

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He was doing cool teacher
leaning on the desk eating an

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apple during class.
And also to think too, that he's

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the one that made the astral
plane, right?

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He's he's materializing
everything in it.

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And he's like, you know what
would be great?

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So if I'm eating an apple and
also not just holding it, eating

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it, and you hear him gulp, I'm
like, you just ate a mind apple.

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You said you ate.
Yeah, he ate in that green suit.

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Oh, Chris.
I like that he had a chalkboard,

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but it was also sort of a smart
board because he can make

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animations happen on it when he
was explaining to them why

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they're horrible.
Yeah.

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It was a good explanation
though, I think.

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So this, you know, the the sheer
people are like education is

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indoctrination.
No, I mean, it's not really how

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it is.
And you should foster critical

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thinking.
It's very clear education is a

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good thing, right?
Instead of cutting off these

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people at the knee, they could
have sprouted into very

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successful civilizations.
A lot of people need to hear

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that education and melding of
coexistence is good.

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Messy but good.
Knowledge is power and that's

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The thing is that even when he's
explaining this Lord Araki, he

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goes well, they'll just get
confused.

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They won't understand thinking
that they're all morons.

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Yeah, Might is right white lie.
I can't with these people.

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It's it's I love.
Calling them people.

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I I don't know what they're
called.

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They're humanoid dish with.
Feathers the She Roz, yeah.

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She are.
The glops no.

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Stop.
No.

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But the yeah, I, I think it's
really important that the these

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kind of conversations and themes
are in an X-Men show because

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this is what the X-Men are
about, the people about treating

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them.
And before I lose track of this,

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I loved that in the classroom
setting how he was like who

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made-up these rules, like why do
we need to do this?

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And Alondra was like what we did
playing make believe.

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He just put into perspective
everything like who?

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Who gave you this power?
You think you have this right?

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You don't have this power.
It's so good.

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Fantastic.
And then the world goes topsy

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turvy and we see.
Basically a field of death and

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the messenger of death is
Gambit.

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Makes it interesting though that
he didn't see Magnus, he didn't

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see Eric Magneto.
So is he alive?

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00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,960
I guess we'll find out.
But you know, Magneto and Eric

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have Eric Magneto and Charles
have such a strong connection.

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I'm not saying he doesn't with
Gambit, but you you would think

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that either both of them would
be there or he would see Magneto

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over Gambit.
I mean, maybe it's something to

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be said of him being the teacher
and this being the people that

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he is, you know, his students.
And there is one of his students

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who is dead.
Yeah.

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Whereas, you know, Magnita was
kind of a colleague.

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He's like a brother though.
Brother, colleague, colleague,

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brother.
It is really cool though that

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his telepathic abilities just
like subconsciously warned him

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about what happened in Genosha.
That's really cool.

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Yeah.
I mean, I like, and again, I

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think it's the timing of these
episodes.

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I think that we have to,
although we are watching them,

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you know, kind of linearly or or
in the chronological order,

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these last two episodes are
happening at the same time,

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right.
So we almost have to wonder of

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when those Sentinels landed and
when Gambit died.

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That's when it came through you.
Don't have to say it again.

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Well, he did.
They they murdered.

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Him.
Were you going to whisper?

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I was going to scream it, but
then I didn't want the levels to

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go crazy.
They murdered Gambit, OK?

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00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,200
They did.
They said remember it.

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We murdered him.
We we won't forget it, trust us.

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Never.
Anything you want to say about

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the trials stuff before we go on
to storm and forge in the

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desert?
I just think that if he arrives

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back and some people don't have
some cold shoulders towards him,

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I'm going to be annoyed.
I mean, they're, yeah.

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I mean, I, I am very curious to
see this reunion, to see what

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00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,080
happens.
Yeah.

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00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,560
And also they're just going to
like send them by himself or

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people going to go with him.
I'm also interested to see if

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you know, again, so one of the
things that we talked about last

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episode is seeing how Mr.
Sinister is is going to come

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00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:17,720
back and we do get that answer.
I'm interested to see if the she

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are going to come back, you
know, is Lalondra and Gladiator.

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Are they going to come and help
the X-Men?

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00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,920
Maybe that's a hard ask.
At least Gladiator.

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Maybe.
I like that guy.

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00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,720
He's really cool.
He was on he's been in the

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Guardians of the Galaxy before.
Pretty cool guy.

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00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:40,160
OK, so on to Storm and forge the
life death Part 2 part of this

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episode.
I loved it.

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I think, you know, even though
we got a very shortened down

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condensed version of her journey
to get her powers back, what we

452
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:55,000
got was fantastic.
Playing on her fears of also

453
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,440
fear she can't control like
phobias and also fears of what

454
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,400
society has put onto her is
genius work.

455
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,160
And it's all in the form of the
adversary, which was forges

456
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,560
demon to begin with that latched
onto her.

457
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,840
It's so good.
Yeah, I think there's something

458
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,960
to be said here of trying to
convince yourself that a lie is

459
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,560
true, you know, and, and the
adversary brings that

460
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:26,400
conversation that Storm had with
Jean up a lot and saying that,

461
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,200
you know, you wish that you
could be human.

462
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,800
What would it be like?
It would be OK.

463
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,280
Maybe that's what you would
want.

464
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,120
And.
She's tired.

465
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,160
And she's tired because she's
been defending.

466
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,240
Her existence.
Her.

467
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,720
Existence her entire life.
And so she's just tired.

468
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,720
And sometimes we say things to
try and give ourselves ease.

469
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,560
But it's a fantasy, right?
It's not something that you

470
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,800
really want to come true.
But I think there's that thing

471
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,080
of, OK, the I will say the lens
that I see the world in is as a

472
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,400
gay man, right?
But when you're younger, maybe

473
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,720
not out of the closet yet,
you're going, no, I'm straight,

474
00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,160
it's OK, I'm straight.
I believe it.

475
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:00,800
It's going to be OK.
That's who I am.

476
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,800
And so it's fighting those lies
that you tell yourself in order

477
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,000
to protect yourself, right?
And I think Storm is caught in

478
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,680
that.
And unfortunately she has a

479
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,560
demon that is playing on that as
well.

480
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,920
Yeah, it's like the
executioner's bullet was the

481
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,160
catalyst for her to lose her
powers.

482
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,920
And then it was just her keeping
herself from that this whole

483
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,440
time, which is awful.
Great storytelling, yeah, but

484
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,120
awful for somebody to feel that
way about themselves.

485
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,960
Thank God she has forged with
her.

486
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:37,240
You know, I I loved him showing
his shamanistic abilities that I

487
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,800
like that it was kind of MCU
ified.

488
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,120
Yeah, almost to tie it together.
It's very Doctor Strange.

489
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:47,600
Even though this is like not in
the MCU and it is like but is

490
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,120
and isn't but having his powers
kind of mimic what sorcery looks

491
00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,440
like.
Pretty cool.

492
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,680
Absolutely.
Let's talk about Forge for a

493
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,000
second, OK?
He is a mechanical genius.

494
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,680
He has ABS for days.
Oh yeah, He wears short shorts.

495
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,000
Oh yeah, He's a good cook.
And he's a shaman.

496
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,120
Yeah, how about that?
Amazing.

497
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,040
He's a total package TP, yeah.
He's fantastic.

498
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,000
I mean, he and Storm, yeah.
Power couple, I love them

499
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,200
together and I think that them
together, seeing them in this

500
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,840
adversity is really cool to see
how they work together, right?

501
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,760
And I think the strengths of a
couple is what happens when

502
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,240
you're put into dire things like
this or hard things, right?

503
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,160
Even though he was infected with
that demonic bite, he still

504
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,960
helped.
He still wanted to show her

505
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,200
where the stuff was to help
himself.

506
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,720
Right?
Her fear of claustrophobia being

507
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,680
showed multiple times in this
episode.

508
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,760
So good.
It made me feel claustrophobic.

509
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,320
Especially when she was in that
coffin, which was one of the

510
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,360
most intense scenes I think
we've had in this show.

511
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,880
Her saying like I can't breathe,
showing the faces of her family

512
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,720
members, talking to her, it's
really good.

513
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,920
Sad, terrible, but good.
And I, and you know, again, I

514
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,120
think we're playing on the idea
of she is the one that is

515
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,160
putting herself in this box.
She is the one that is trapping

516
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,680
herself because the adversary is
just a manifestation of her own

517
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,480
fears and her own block.
And so she's torturing herself

518
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,880
in a way this entire time.
It's also voiced by the same

519
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,520
person, which is another added
layer of genius for this.

520
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,920
Yeah, great.
I mean, a lot of times we are

521
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,280
our own worst enemies, right?
The voice inside our head is the

522
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,960
one that is always beating us
down.

523
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,680
And so it's just being depicted
as the adversary.

524
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,920
But we are our own adversaries.
Yeah, I like that Mama.

525
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,000
Or what are demons if not
reflections of our worst parts

526
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:59,760
Quote.
OK, but to get to the big part

527
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,680
of this episode, I think the
episode that made all of us very

528
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:09,440
happy was her getting her powers
back, her deciding to overcome

529
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,840
her adversary, overcome her
demons, using that demon to then

530
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:19,480
create a costume that is not
only classic and like OG Storm,

531
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,880
but glorious in this animation.
Seeing her fly through the air,

532
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,400
fly with the horses, create
cyclones using the same music

533
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,840
when she first came out after
Cyclops said show me the

534
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520
forecast and she came out and
her Omega level threat.

535
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,840
They used the same music when
she got her powers back.

536
00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:42,640
Genius.
OK so good.

537
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:50,280
So I kept playing in my head the
theme song the So for the first

538
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,760
Four Seasons of Sailor Moon,
they used the same song, but in

539
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,920
the 5th season, the final
season, Sailor Stars, they used

540
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,360
this song that is so good.
And it goes like Maki Nai and

541
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,320
they like fly through the air
and she has wings.

542
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,840
I I just was hearing that as she
was blasting through the air.

543
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,320
It's transforming.
Oh my gosh, it's such a moment.

544
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,160
And you know, seeing her be free
again, right?

545
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,760
She in that moment, right before
it, she's locked in that type

546
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:22,360
space in the darkness and then
she bursts free and she is one

547
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,960
with the elements again.
She's even with the thundering

548
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,240
hooves of of the horses.
It's just such a beautiful

549
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,400
depiction of her coming into
herself again.

550
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,680
She can feel the wind storm got.
Her groove back, baby.

551
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,240
Yeah.
It's amazing.

552
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,760
She looks phenomenal.
I love that.

553
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,600
You know, there's a moment and
when she gets her powers back

554
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,920
and she kind of is like, she
kind of stops a little bit and

555
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,840
like kind of like turns and
looks, but she's like kind of

556
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,440
walking.
It's like a pose killed it.

557
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,080
Yeah, Queen.
I'm sorry, it's just giving me

558
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,000
so many magical girl vibes, you
know what I mean?

559
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,440
It's like when Sailor Moon gets
a new costume you want to like,

560
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,440
you just can't stop.
It's just too exciting when your

561
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,320
characters get new costumes
because they are now powered up.

562
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,960
You're like, yes.
Yeah, I, I implore everybody to

563
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,120
go on TikTok if you have it or
reels and look at edits of it.

564
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,120
And these people have put
phenomenal music to her getting

565
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,160
our powers in her flight.
See, I mean, I know a lot of

566
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,920
people have said like, oh, this
is like Man of Steel.

567
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,560
I know.
I mean, I think that's the

568
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,000
easiest thing to attribute it to
because that's like Superman

569
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,720
becoming Superman.
That's like him taking his first

570
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,000
flight and stuff like that.
It's like the same thing, right?

571
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,760
It's like, this is her freedom
flight.

572
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,600
Like this is her accepting
herself, knowing her doubts and

573
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,320
knowing her fears and knowing
her adversary and being OK with

574
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,960
that and overcoming it.
Yes.

575
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,400
And I think there's something
interesting to.

576
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:46,840
Be better than Man of Steel,
just saying.

577
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,120
Hello.
I think there's something to be

578
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:55,360
said about someone who has
always been so self assured, who

579
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,160
has always been so confident in
knowing who she is.

580
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:03,520
To see her play through this
doubt and and this fear to come

581
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,000
out on the other side as an even
better version of herself, a

582
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,600
stronger, newer version of
herself.

583
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,360
You know, to see Storm go
through that.

584
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:16,280
I think she is really, I don't
know, she's really solidifying

585
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,800
herself as a leader right in
this and I think it's really

586
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,000
exciting to see.
To me, she's probably one of the

587
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,360
best people to lead.
I mean, there, there's been

588
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,400
times where she has lead and I
agree with that 100%.

589
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,840
Yeah, it just like, I don't know
when, when you look at someone

590
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,000
like Cyclops versus Storm,
you're like, well, Storm should

591
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,640
probably be the leader.
Well, the thing that I do like

592
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,600
about what the show is doing is
that it's showing our characters

593
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,920
in the best light, the light
that we know them as, the light

594
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,120
that we want to see them in the
best of themselves.

595
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,200
But it's also showing the truer
side of them or the things that

596
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,000
they go through.
Storm and Cyclops are going

597
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,320
through huge things in the show
so far, and I love that we're

598
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,840
getting that because they also
get these moments where they can

599
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,520
teach us or show us.
Like this is how you can

600
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,520
overcome it.
This is how I overcame it.

601
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,800
So good.
The ethics men are amazing.

602
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,120
They really are.
And, you know, again, thinking

603
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,000
about how both of these
storylines in this episode end,

604
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,840
right?
But also the thought of these

605
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,440
two characters who were just
looking to escape for a second,

606
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,200
right?
And they can't, right?

607
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,080
We have that conversation
between Charles and Lalondra.

608
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,280
And he's like, you know, when
most people get married, they go

609
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,280
off to an island.
And then once she is back to her

610
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,240
power and Forge is feeling
better, he says, what do you

611
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,520
want to do?
Do you want to go off to a sandy

612
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,760
island?
And you have to wonder if the

613
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,760
island that they're thinking
about is Jenosha.

614
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,720
Yep, for them to only learn that
it has been destroyed.

615
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,600
Yep, but they like the same time
same kind of way.

616
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,520
Whenever Forge turned on the TVI
was like fantasy done.

617
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,320
Just when they wanted to relax.
Paradise no more.

618
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,960
No, these poor people, they've
just been through hell.

619
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,280
Just for existing.
Yeah, and now they have to face

620
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,480
this.
There is no moment to rest.

621
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:13,480
There is no moment to enjoy.
Oh, I'm very curious to see what

622
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,560
happens in the next episode.
So not to forget to mention

623
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,600
this, we do see who is behind
the attack in Genosha, which I

624
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,120
like had an inkling, but I was
very surprised we got a little

625
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,640
bit of Sinister in episode
three.

626
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,520
Turns out Sinister was behind
the attacks on Genosha, which

627
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,080
are awful.
He used Trask to get access to

628
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,640
Master Mold to activate it to
then do this.

629
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,680
But the scariest thing is he
says this is but a prologue and

630
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,840
what's to come.
I don't like that.

631
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,320
So to rewind a little bit, and
the reason why I didn't mention

632
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,800
this, so every time in the intro
changes a little bit depending

633
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,320
on what's happening.
Nightcrawler getting a title

634
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,840
card.
I'm happy he banffs right there.

635
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,600
So happy he's finally on the
team.

636
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,520
At what cost?
A lot, and I'm not going to say

637
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,920
worth it, but I'm so happy he
has a title card.

638
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,200
But in the in the opening
sequence we do see some things.

639
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,240
Apocalypse has been kind of
shown in multiple of them, which

640
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,720
I think is really interesting.
So I'm thinking there might be

641
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,040
some type of conspiracy or a
bigger thing or more people at

642
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,640
play.
Because while Sinister is very

643
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,440
conniving and has lots of
resources and can do a lot of

644
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,560
things, I don't think he's
working alone and I or I don't

645
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,840
think that he's going to be the
only one working to destroy or

646
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,520
whatever or gain something from
this apocalypse could be

647
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,480
involved.
Nimrod could definitely probably

648
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,840
be involved.
Master Mold Bastion, like I, I

649
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,880
feel like there's going to be a
lot of people involved by the

650
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,480
end of this and it's not going
to be good because you have to

651
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,160
remember too, it's like we have
multiple seasons that are kind

652
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,920
of in the can for this already.
So for it can't be sinister the

653
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,040
whole time, right?
So.

654
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,719
Yeah, I'm, I'm really thinking
just about the minutiae of

655
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,040
Sinister's plan in the sense
that.

656
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,639
What's next?
Right.

657
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,440
So.
So is was the plan to take down

658
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,920
most of mutant kind so that they
can no longer defend the earth

659
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,600
and he can take it over who?
Knows right I.

660
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:25,679
Don't know what's the dealio?
Oh, he.

661
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:27,600
Likes to experiment, He likes to
do things he likes.

662
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,880
He wants to be the best.
I have not like at this point

663
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,600
like Sinister could get.
Depending on which sinister you

664
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,360
get could be any type of way.
Like is this the one that just

665
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,960
wants to watch the world burn
and he hates the X-Men?

666
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,960
Possibly I'm I'm concerned.
I think we, we should all be

667
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,920
concerned.
And I'm so I, I, you know, I can

668
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,280
only think that in the next
episode we're going to have both

669
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,440
Professor X and Storm returning
to the X-Men that are still at

670
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,400
the mansion and then going from
there.

671
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,760
But what is from there?
Yeah, I think the whenever we

672
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,760
get like some more Genosha stuff
is going to be interesting.

673
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,800
There's going to be a lot more
politics and worldly politics

674
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,360
involved, because that's always
going to be in the background,

675
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,400
right?
When Forge turned on the TV,

676
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:16,520
freaking Trish was like.
Frick and Trish.

677
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:21,120
Frick and Trish was like nations
that those mutants came from.

678
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,520
They're not letting them in.
So anyway, back to you in

679
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,760
sports.
Where does that leave these

680
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,280
mutants?
Are they all just going to be at

681
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,840
the mansion?
Which is it's so fucked up to

682
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,680
think like I, I feel like
obviously this could happen, has

683
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,320
happened, but it's like these
people went somewhere where

684
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,600
they're going to be accepted and
to finally have a nation of

685
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,680
their own.
It gets obliterated within a

686
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,600
week of it opening.
And then when they tried to be

687
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,000
like we, I can't live here
because it's destroyed, those

688
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:58,960
people like you went, you left.
I mean, that's humanity, I mean.

689
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,040
It's awful.
It it the X-Men is just a

690
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,480
supercharged version of our real
world.

691
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,040
I mean, let's be honest, That's
that's it.

692
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,960
I don't like it.
I mean, I love it, but I don't

693
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,280
like it.
I like the powers.

694
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,800
Well, I wish.
I think our world might be a

695
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,160
little easier if we had powers.
It was this episode was really

696
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,240
interesting to think about.
Like most of the soap that we

697
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,040
got was with Lalondra and
Xavier.

698
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,760
Space soap.
Yeah, we got space soap.

699
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,320
But like Storm and Forge, it
wasn't really just like super

700
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,000
soapy.
No, not at all.

701
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,440
It was very intense.
So it was a it was an

702
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,560
interesting mix.
I think, and I think we needed

703
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,480
that, right.
It was like the space stuff was

704
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,400
too sweet and we needed the
salty, you know, to balance it

705
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,680
out.
And we got it, Storm.

706
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,120
Brought it.
I do want to point out that

707
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,400
Derek looks very much like he's
wearing Storm's colors.

708
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,320
Looks like it is like it.
I also want to point out that

709
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,600
you can't see it, but Noah's
wearing short shorts like Ford.

710
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:05,240
I am wow.
You planned, not planned.

711
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,160
Not planned at all, but I got
these puppies and I said I know

712
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,040
exactly what I'm wearing them.
All right.

713
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,000
So final thoughts, final
thoughts.

714
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,920
Do you have anything that you
want to mention that we haven't?

715
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,200
No, I just am very curious to
see where we go from here.

716
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:27,200
We have we, we have an A, a team
that is devastated in one sense,

717
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,200
but then is going to get two of
its members back.

718
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,400
It's going to be very.
Confusing.

719
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,480
Yeah, I I liked it.
I some people are calling it a

720
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,360
filler episode.
I don't think so because these

721
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,160
characters had development and
to push the story in a certain

722
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,000
direction that I feel like is
going to play out through the

723
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,840
rest of the the series probably.
I like that we got a step away

724
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:53,320
from what happened to Jenosha to
really see how we feel about it

725
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,880
and just like just get a
breather for a second because it

726
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,320
was so intense.
I mean, this show keeps getting

727
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,880
better and better.
And again, no notes.

728
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,360
This episode wasn't as funny as
some of the other episodes, but

729
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,840
I'll take it.
Yeah, I think that this episode

730
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,360
did what it had to do and
bringing these characters back

731
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,920
and.
Seeing Xavier in that whole

732
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,120
armour, pretty cool.
I got a little nervous.

733
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,880
I thought they changed his face.
I thought he got plastic

734
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,360
surgery.
At first I didn't know that it

735
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,000
was a a mask.
You will be a Birdman now, yeah.

736
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,760
She said.
OK, Moira.

737
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,840
All right, so next week we have
Dead Boy Detectives.

738
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,160
We have a review of season one
coming out.

739
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,120
So listen to that before you
watch it.

740
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,160
After you watch it, however you
feel about spoilers, we will be

741
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,840
spoiling that.
Absolutely.

742
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,960
I will say watch it.
Yeah, not breaking any

743
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,680
embargoes.
Watch it.

744
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,920
Watch it.
All right, so till next.

745
00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:07,920
Week bye bye
None.