WEBVTT - X-Men '97 Surprise Drop! 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:16.280 Hello. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.600 My name is Jason Concepcion and I'm Rosy Night and 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.240 to me my X ray Vision, our x ray Vision. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.520 This is the podcast where we dive deep into your 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.720 favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. We're turning to 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.400 your feeds on a regular cadence in May, but X 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.800 MEN ninety seven is on. We just could not wait 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.400 to share our thoughts with you. In today's special preview episode, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.520 we'll be talking about some ongoing nerd stuff news, including 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.640 a silver Surfer casting question mark. Rosie has some thoughts 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:55.680 about whether that is entirely accurate. Disney defends itself from 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:01.120 a investor uprising, and in the airline Volks, we talk 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:07.839 about x N ninety seven. Let's go. First up in news, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:15.920 Disney fens off their activist investor uprising, Nelson Peltz again 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.440 campaigning for a board seat, has been rebuffed in a 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.800 voter campaign that saw Disney spending some forty dollars on 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.000 marketing to let their investor base, which includes a lot 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.160 of just regular folks who have Disney stock. We saw 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.600 a pr campaign to let them know, hey, you got 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.319 a vote on this, and Bob Eiger and the board 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.160 emerge victorious. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.880 Your thoughts, Rosie, Well, this is the reason that this 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.200 is interesting is not just because oh it's business news. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.160 And we love to talk about it. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:55.240 But the uprising is being puppet masted by everyone favorite 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:04.880 novel Disney villain, Ike Palma. So he and Pelts have 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.840 been trying to do this for a long time. Get 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.600 rid of Eiger. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.200 Yeah, talk about they don't want any women in movies. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.400 They hate the woe kagenda. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.079 Why why did black Panther have to be or we 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.200 don't need it? Yeah, why does that have to happen? 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.520 So honestly, always happy to see these guys taken out. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.960 Anything that makes Ike Palma are upset makes me happy. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:28.920 Get about it here. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.880 I was actually surprised because I did think with the 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.920 issues that Iers had in recent kind of years, it 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.480 might have been more of a problem during his little 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.040 kind of comeback. It hasn't gone necessarily the way he wanted. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.720 But Disney had that big they'd actually made a ton 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.919 of money off Marvel and Star Wars in that time, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:50.320 No surprises, So yeah, suck at Pelma. Get out it, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.040 get out of it, Get out of it. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.639 In more news, the silver Surfer has been catching for 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:05.000 the upcoming Fantastic Stick for movie. Deadline reports that Julia Garner, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.720 who you might remember from Ozark, has been cast as 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:15.240 shar La Ball, But Rosie asks, does that mean that 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.120 the story that she's cast as a Silver Surfer is 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.600 necessarily accurate? Your thoughts? 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.639 So this is my theory? Would I love a female 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.239 Silver Surfa? 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:23.519 Yes? 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:24.160 Have we heard? 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:24.760 We love it? 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.240 Have we heard that this was a rumor they've been 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.840 trying to do for a long time. I was actually 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.920 if I was trying to cast a non binary person 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.880 as a silver Surfer in my very beloved fan cast 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.840 from a few years ago. But we've heard about this 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.720 rumor of the female silver Surfer? Is it going to 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.800 be Annya Taylor Joy? Julia Ganna fits that same mold. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.160 But the reality is I'm not gonna get too excited 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.280 yet because I do believe there is a chance that 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.320 Deadline just were told she's been cast as Charla Ball 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.560 in the Silver SFA movie, and then someone there was like, oh, well, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.120 she played you know, Charlah Ball was the Silver Surfer 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.120 one time, one time in Earth Facts, you know. So 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.560 I'm not gonna fully believe that she is the Silver 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.880 Surfer because that is not necessarily a big part of 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.680 Charla Ball's character. Scharla Ball is a Noorin rad aka 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.800 the Silver Surfer's lover, and she's you know, she's very 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.320 famously in the Silver Surfer animated series, which is fantastic 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.160 and you should definitely check it out. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:16.800 And I hope that she is going to get to 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:17.480 be the Silver Surfer. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.800 And actually, Jason, you made a great point, which is 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.080 look at Victor timely. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.000 Look at these characters. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.000 That they're bringing in who've been in like four issues. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.800 So actually them taking the fact that Charli Ball was 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.080 Silver Surfer in like a couple of issues actually makes 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.200 quite a lot of sense. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.039 What I'm most interested in is with Charla Ball. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.000 Does this mean that we're going to get to see 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.360 zen Law and all of Nora and Rad's home and 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.360 that would be really cool because I love that stuff 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.600 and the power cosmic and kind of Galactus. Okay, and 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.880 you asked one of my favorite questions, which is, now 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.360 we have female Silver Surfer. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.839 Pot we get who we get Lady Galactus? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.160 Well, we get galactis I hope? So I want to 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.440 see Galactus. Let's let's noy Bob Iger and now some 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.760 Poults and make it all women. So bob By yours 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:11.400 for it. Sorry, sorry Poults, now some pounds and at 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.600 it He's like, oh, I'm a Selvasafa superstart. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.839 I can't imagine that she could ever be a woman. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:19.839 Uh. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.599 And then finally new X Men line coming the days 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:29.039 of Krakoa or are have sadly sadly and I mean this, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:36.160 I'm very sad. I'm I'm so sad that the Kracoa 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.880 peak is done. It needed to happen, but this was 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:47.040 the highest the X Men have ever road in mar Yeah, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.880 it's the most relevant they've ever been in a in 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:54.000 twenty years. It's the most powerful they've been ever in 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.280 the history of them as characters within the universe. And 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.120 it's over at south By Southwest. The ex Office announced 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.159 a bunch of new projects, and the one that we're 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:11.080 really interested in is Exceptional x Men, written by show 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.640 pal eve L euing with art Wow. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.359 Ex Rason Bestie writing the X Men, I can't believe it. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.080 Let's go tell us what it's about. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.520 Official solicit mutant Kind's two greatest teachers Mold the next 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.680 generation of X Men. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.120 Kate Pride has returned home to Chicago, Eve, you just 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.760 can't help yourself. Following the war with Orcis, having stepped 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.840 away from the world of mutantdom, she is nevertheless called 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.360 back into action as she crosses paths with a trio 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.320 of new young mutants, Bronze, Axo and Melee, who clearly 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.640 need training and guidance. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.480 Unfortunately for Kate, Emma Frost thinks, so as well, this 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:51.839 is going to be a gay book. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.720 Man, So let me just mutant Kind's two greatest teachers. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.520 I had never thought about, like a power ranking of 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.240 Mutant Kine's greatest teachers. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:02.919 Mm hmmm. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.440 I think that Listen Wolverine ran the school for a while, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.160 and I think he did a pretty good job. Storm 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.680 is up there. For me, Storm has got to be 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.760 up there. But I gotta say I kind of don't 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.360 disagree that Cad and Emma are the two greatest teachers. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.800 It is huge everywhere. She's been teaching them in Upstate 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.280 New York. She's been teaching him in Genosha, She's been 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.160 teaching him on Krakoa. Emma Frost is a real one. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.880 I love her so much. I think this is really great. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.280 I love that this has three new mutants like who 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:40.200 we haven't met before. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.640 Also, Eve said, I hope that for some thirteen or 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.840 fourteen year old readers, this might be the first comic 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.200 book they pick up. And I love that mindset because 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.560 that's definitely why I was thinking of with Godzilla, Monster Island, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.920 Summer Camp, and I think Eva is the person to 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.960 do it. Also, the other teams, obviously Jed McKay, who's 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.120 like the Marvel stalwart right now, he's doing a book 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.760 with Ryan Stegman if you're an Invincible fan, which is 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.280 just adjectiveless X Men, so just X Men, and then 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:12.880 Gail Simone on ther Yeah, and I believe that will 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.160 make her like if this is an ongoing Uncanny book, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.680 she could really be breaking some new ground here. And 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.680 that's going to be your more classic Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.360 Jubilee and Wolverine team. And what was really cool is 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.680 they released these with an interlocking cover, you know, kind 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.200 of like what they did with X Men ninety one, 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.960 where you could see each of the different teams and 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.480 each of those covers will join together. If you want 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.760 to know who's going to be on the main X 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:41.920 Men team, Cyclops, Beast, Magneto, Silock, Kid, Omega and Temper 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.880 formerly known as Oyer, as well as Magic Illiana Everybody 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.400 Loves Her and shocking addition Juggernaut. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:49.120 Wow. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.800 So I think these are going to be some really exciting, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.240 really exciting books. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.640 I'm excited because the X Men listen, I weep for 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.200 the Krakoa era. At the same time, my introduction to 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.840 the X Men is like a week to week reader 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.280 was really this outlaw period when they were running around 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.960 in the outback of Australia. So a return to that 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.480 kind of vibe is very very exciting to me. Next 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.560 up more X Men with the X Men ninety seven. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:31.720 Yeah. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.600 Then when the first two episodes dropped and I hit 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.040 play and that music hit, I was like, I can't 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.520 believe this is back. I can't do this. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.960 And not just that, like something that I couldn't quite 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.280 that hadn't quite considered how exciting it would be is 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.600 getting to see these characters who some of them were 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.800 in the show but who didn't get to and that opening, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.120 like getting to see Bishop in that iconic X Men opening, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.920 and the way that they kind of reimagined it, which 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.360 for so many of us is an iconic maybe the 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.480 most iconic cartoon opening of all time. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.400 It's up there with anime, and a lot of American shows. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.560 Never get a theme tune and opening that is up 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.240 there with that catchiness of what anime can do. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.400 It was magical. I went into this with. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.079 Like relatively low expectations only because how do you build 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.360 on something that is so iconic. That Also, a lot 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.480 of what we love about it is more about our 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.199 own nostalgia for it, Like when you go back, it's 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.000 it's It was kind of rushed out, and the show 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:49.480 doesn't necessarily animation wise, there were rough edges, but so 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.839 much of what we love about it is our own 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.200 interactions with it and how it shaped our love for 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.480 these characters. So to be able to build on that 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.800 and create something that feels relevant in the modern day 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:06.200 that is in conversation with the audience, that also makes 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.679 the subtext of The X Men so much more explicit. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.320 Much just that's part that the anime d beautiful. Okay, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.439 so let's get into it. Episode one and episode two, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.520 to Me My x Men and Mutant Liberation begins. This 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.160 is the first two episode drop. When the show launched. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.080 To Me My x Men, Charles is gone. He's up 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.160 in space following the events at the UN when Henry 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:38.079 Gyrich attempted to kill Charles Xavier. The team is struggling 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.240 to kind of carry on his mission and his absence, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:45.360 Cyclops taking on a more explicit leadership role, and the 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.319 team swings into action to protect Brazilian teen rich Kid 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.400 and emerging mutant Robert Costa from human extremists, who it 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.120 turns out have Sentinel tech. Where they get that done done, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.560 Jean Gray finds out where they got it. They got 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.240 it from Bolivar Trask, aka the un Musk of mutant 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:06.400 genocides he loves to do it, who is teamed up 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:12.440 with a sentient Sentinel master Mold to create new Sentinel tech. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.120 The X Men defeat Trask and the Mold, and later 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.040 in what can only be described as an incredible jaw 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:26.480 drop it twist, so we discover that Charles named his 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:34.079 former arch rival supervillain Magneto as his heir, and Magneto 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.800 is now in full legal control of the school. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.840 What and he says to me, my x Men, you 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.160 are my x Men now? 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.520 So this is so this is really fun, like I 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.160 love this so much, and basically this is a really 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.960 smart thing because it echoes the opening episode that we 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.760 get of X Men ninety two, which is all about 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.480 that big sentinel action. Nice to see the master mold, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.720 which is like a nineteen sixty six. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.000 Stanley Jack Kirby creation from X Men fifty. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.400 Then we also get that really famous moment of Magneto 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.600 being in charge of the school. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.680 But they play it so well here in the comics. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.719 It was just like in a. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.719 Nineteen eighty seven issue of New Mutants, they're like, oh, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.080 Magneto is the head master, Now, how's that going. But 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.760 here we get that great and he's in that classic 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.480 m costume and he turns around. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.920 Yeah, I think you'll find it's all mine. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.520 And if you know the comics, you may get a 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.400 hint of Charles's true fate from the fact that Magneto 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:34.040 has arrived. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.080 And then we're onto episode two. I mean, that's gotta 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.600 be one of the best cliffhangers of like all times. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:40.280 It's so good. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.640 It's a shot. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.520 If you're only your main interaction with the X Men 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.720 is this cartoon and kind of the movies and stuff, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.040 that's gotta blow you away. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.600 Like if you're not like us and you know this 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:53.679 stuff inside out. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.920 Even for me. It gave me chills, and I gave 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.400 Magneto why is he so sexy? 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.120 Why does he have. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.040 A Gambit? Gibbitt is asking that very question. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.160 Oh my god, Gambit, Gambit. I just have to say 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:08.079 the reveal. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:13.440 My Gambit's just cooking in the kitchen with like a 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.280 crop top on. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.640 I was like, oh, I get it. I was like, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.000 this show is like gay gay, like this is like 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.480 Lisa show, like folk. We are people who love the 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.080 X Man. I was like, we all blast. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.320 I am very very happy that Gambit is essentially a 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.920 Cajun himbo in this beautiful as it should be. Okay, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.440 liberation begins. Magneto or is our new headmaster. Guess what? 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.680 Scott hates it? Hey, I guess you hate guess you. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:42.360 Hate it more? 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:48.280 The humans? The humans really really hate it. Rogue surprisingly 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:48.800 into it. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.800 Okay, gambits together in the Savage Lands. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.720 They have what is their relationship about? We're gonna learn 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.400 more about it, don't worry you. Enforced led by Val 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.280 Cooper storm the mansion. They're like, you got to give 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:10.440 us the super villain and international criminal terrorist Magneto. And 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.920 Magneto's like, listen, I'm trying to go straight. I'm gonna 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.760 go on trial and if I win, then then I'm 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.280 integrated into society because that's how the system should work. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.520 And they're not go all right. The Friends of Humanity 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:29.720 aka human terrorists who hate mutants attack the trial and 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.680 very very January sixth, and let me just say, like 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.560 after the attempted assassination of Charles on that very same 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.200 un stage, we need to get the un like. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.160 U Instata, get bassacure Amen. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:50.200 The X Men defeat them, but Storm is depowered potentially 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.560 for good when she jumps in front of a blast 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:58.680 intended for Magneto. Magneto then enters negotiations to repatriate any 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.720 mutant who wants to leave what is a what is 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:08.160 a very biased American society to the mutant nation of Genosha. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.560 Should they wish to leave, If they want to go, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.640 they can go. Rogue then uses her powers to acquire 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.040 the medical knowledge necessary to deliver genes baby. The doctor 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.640 didn't want to work on mutants, Okay, whatever, and then Storm, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.360 now depowered, takes a bus away from the Seamen Leek, I. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.040 Just have to say something here, and this is something 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.400 I love about the show this is a new power 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.160 for Rogue, Like she can she can take people's powers, yeah, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.600 but now she can just take a human's talents. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:38.720 Like I love it. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.479 He was a bigger he deserved it, but also terrifying 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.440 and fantastic. And I like this as well because this 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.560 episode basically rolls in a bunch of kind of. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.920 Really important moments. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.040 You get like the two hundred trial of Magneto, as 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.160 well as the birth of baby Nathan, who I believe 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.160 we see on the first page of that issue. We 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.440 also get Storm being depowered. But what is really interesting 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.360 here is that's like a huge moment in Uncanny one 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 to eighty six, but in there she's she's saving Rogue, 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.240 who's kind of on the run, this reformed villainess, and 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.199 she's about to join the team after Storm saves her. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.560 So I think we're gonna. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:20.640 Probably see a lot more about like Storm's connection to Magneto, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.359 because that's a big choice and it would have been 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.200 easy we have broke it could have been easy to 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.359 do it for that, but they decided to mix it up. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.640 And I think it also showcases just what a powerful 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.720 person Storm is because she chooses to do that even 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.800 for someone who used to be her foe, and if 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.879 we're lucky, this is gonna essentially lead to like some 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.600 of the best Auroro storytelling. You know that this is 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.920 some of the best era of Storm is when she 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.760 is depowered and she can still whip Cyclops's ass. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.920 And I actually have to say, spoiler alert. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.680 We haven't type of thanks spoilerer, We haven't talked about 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.480 this yet, but as a renowned, quite known Cyclops hater, 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.920 I must say they actually they did such a huge job. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:04.359 He is so cool. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:05.399 This is. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:12.000 This is absolutely along with astonishing X Men, this is 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.400 absolutely one of the best depictions of Cyclops and why 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.920 he is the right leader for the X Men and 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.560 a strategic mastermind. They sell it really well. They in 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.639 the in the to Me My x Men, there's a 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.200 moment where you know, they get shot out of the 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.600 sky by the Sentinel. See you on the ground, See 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.359 you on the ground, and he uses his powers, his 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.680 concussive blast eyeblasts in a way that was one very 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.440 original and really cool and showed you like how powerful 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.680 he was. He he blasts the ground, essentially slowing his 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.520 rate of fall so that he could just like land 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.840 on the ground and I was like, wow, I don't 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.080 think I ever I know. 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.480 An The bit that I really loved was when the 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.280 Human extremists like take off his they take off his visa, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.040 and he's like no, no, please, and then once they 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.720 take you off, he's like just kidding and then he 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.560 shoot like explodes. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:11.000 The whole building. My favorite version of Psyclops is in 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:11.879 New X Memoir. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.640 He's like a very conflicted kind of adult and he's 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.600 a bit of a jerk, and I felt like that 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.720 was the first time I'd really seen him the Psychic 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.640 Affair with Emma Frost, that was kind of the first 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.879 time I'd ever seen him become interesting to me. But 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.600 this is actually the first time that I thought he 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:28.359 was really cool. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.320 And then the latest episode which dropped us this week, 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:38.480 Fire Made Flesh, continuing the X Men animated series incredible 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:44.760 tradition of distilling very very complicated and at times long 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:51.760 running storylines into episodes size plots. Folks, this is one 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.119 of the greatest episodes of the X Men animated series 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:55.760 in history. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.040 Activated show. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.440 I mean, you can't and it does that They did it, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:04.320 and it does is titanic work in making what is 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:09.160 a very very complicated and even to me right now, confusing, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.879 like I'm still confused by this storyline to a certain degree, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.120 and long running storyline and making it I think really 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:23.359 crystal clear. Episode three, Fire Made Flesh. Another gene shows 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.560 up at the X mansion. She knocks on the doors, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.840 like I need the X men. They were like, wait, wait, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.119 we have a gene. She's right here, she's holding a baby. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:31.720 What is this? 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:36.920 And they realize their gene with the baby reads the 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:41.280 unconscious the new gene's mind and sees mister Sinister, Oh 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.399 my god, what is this? This sees a jumble of 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.600 fragmented memories. But the shocking news is, after Beast runs 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.320 some tests, this new gene, the stranger who just showed up, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.920 is the real gene, and the gene that just gave 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.600 birth to this kid is a clone and at some 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.280 point in the past. No one knows when. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:07.160 It could have been a long ago. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.400 It could have been a lot of love. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.640 They could have been originally, it could have been after 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:16.760 the Phoenix lie. No one knows. Mister Sinister, an evil 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.320 geneticist who's been working on mutants since the nineteenth century, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.639 switched them. What now with the real gene back the 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.639 fake Jane, who comics fans will know as Madeline Pryor 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.000 and who will call herself Madeline Prior by the end 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.040 of this episode, uses her psychic powers to turn the 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.399 mansion into a house of horrors, and she takes on 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.080 the role of the villainess known as. 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:44.280 The Goblin Queen Dun dun du dun dun duh uh. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:48.520 And it's an absolutely trippy and crazy adventure that ends 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.720 when the Goblin Queen kind of you know, realizes that 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:54.680 wait a second, I actually do love these people. I 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.720 can't do this and I don't want to do this 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:01.399 whole thing, and she leaves, says call me Madeline Prior, 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.639 and then Ed's exits, and then we see that the 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.320 baby that Madeline Prior had given birth to is infected 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.800 with a techno organic virus. There's no known cure to 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.720 this strain of the virus. So Bishop, who comes from 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.320 the year twenty fifty five in an alternate future, says, well, 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.680