Episode 454 - X-Men '97, Part 2 (Patreon)

SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP

In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.

X-PLAINED:

• Fabian Cortez’s name

• X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10

• Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation

• Varying levels of going in blind

• A somewhat different and possibly better Forge

• The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen

• Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes

• Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend

• Colonialism vs. Identity

• Delayed catharsis

• The narrative power of altered opening credits

• What makes allyship effective (and not)

• Justified mutant anger

• The worst version of Nina DaCosta

• What makes Prime Sentinels scary

• Summers family feels

• The best damned fight scenes out there

• Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy

• Simultaneous crossovers

• A psychic gay bar

• A last boss arena

• Acolyte equivalencies

• Phoenix Ex Machina

• Crying

• Whether Magneto was right

• Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts

• A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents

• Soft Serve

• Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU

• X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway

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