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  1. Dandesun

    X-Men'97

    That was the X-men at their messy finest!
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    X-Men'97

    Jean clone Maddy was not the first time Claremont used the name for a character. She was a character in Avengers Annual 10 - just a kid character with no connection. He got the name from Steeleye Span singer Maddy Prior. Sidenote, in the first Genosha storyline in Uncanny X-Men, Maddy is seen as a child singing a Steeleye Span song. Claremont loved doing shit like that. Okay, so... here's the deal, not only am I impressed that they even attempted to take on Inferno but they did it in one episode. Maddy being a clone was never the intention when she appeared in comics. She was meant to usher Cyclops off the scene completely because Claremont believed in characters that change, grow, move on and such so new characters could come in. Jean was dead in canon and that was against Claremont's wishes... he wanted her to be de-Phoenixed and basically 'psychically lobotomized' and the intention was to have her and Scott leave the team for good. Editorial decided that a) Phoenix had to die after eating the sun and killing the planet of broccoli people and b) let's get the original five back together... woo hoo! I have a lot of opinions about the canon story. First, I thought it was weird as fuck that Scott would meet someone who looked exactly like Jean, get involved with her and ultimately marry her and everyone was totally fine with it. You had people be really startled by the 'uncanny resemblance' but no one even suggested that this was maybe a tiny bit unhealthy? Second, the sheer amount of editorial nonsense that had Scott go alone to see Jean after she was pulled out of Jamaica Bay was kind of insulting. For one thing, the woman he watched kill herself in front of him is suddenly back, one of his oldest friends is the one to call him and tell him, and he's expected to... not do anything about it? Maddy herself should have recognized how important it was and GONE WITH HIM. But instead, he goes to see Jean in the flesh and then immediately returns to Alaska but discovers that Maddy (and baby) is not only gone but all trace of her existence is wiped out. And a significant amount of those early X-Factor stories are about Scott trying to find his son and any trace of Maddy. Was he perfect? No, but I never saw that initial 'I have to see this for myself' moment as character destroying the way Claremont insisted it was. So here we have a situation where we don't know WHEN or HOW Maddy and Jean were switched or anything. I like the mystery of that. I also like Maddy not wanting to stick around, after all she was trying to get Scott to leave the X-Men just one episode before. That all fits for me. And also, Jean reaching out to her at the end made me think of the very recent situation in comics canon where Jean advocated for Krakoa to bring Maddy back and after a Dark Web crossover involving Limbo and more than one clone absolutely had no issue with sharing all of her memories of raising Nathan with Maddy who was very much robbed of it. First by Sinister trying to kill her (several times) and then her deal with the devil bullshit with the Inferno demons S'ym and N'astirh. The entirety of the Inferno storyline is so rife with nonsense that I'm actually glad that they whittled it down to the core essence. We already know Sinister in the show. He's already fucked around with Scott and Jean. But this does open some questions and leave room for Maddy's return. Then they went ahead and did the Nate infected by the techno-organic virus and having to be sent to the future which was a big Apocalypse story so I wonder what's to come of that. Morph turned into Illyana? Have we even seen her in this series at all? And then Maddy turns Illyana/Magik into Darkchylde which is PERFECT for an Inferno story but if you don't know then it's just an Easter Egg for the rest of us. Gambit's vision of Rogue and Magneto was GROSS! Nice touch with the outfits being based off the UXM 269-275 Savage Land story arc but the skin melting? Ewwww. And we end with punk!Storm getting approached by Forge. Bring it.
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    X-Men'97

    That was Morph when they were falling from the jet. He also turned into Lady Deathstrike, Colossus and Kwannon/Psylocke in the fight at the courthouse/Hague or whatever. Yes they had the OG5 in the picture and it doesn’t necessarily go along with show canon but, you know what, whatever. If you know the X-men you know the original 5. They did establish Bobby/Iceman as a former student and I’m just going to say that the scenes with Warren centered more on Rogue interacting with him as opposed to Hank, Scott or Jean. It’s a reach but that’s what I’m going with.
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    X-Men'97

    Roberto is from Brazil, he speaks Portuguese and given how rich he is it doesn’t surprise me that he would speak excellent English with little to no accent. Claremont wrote his international team with heavy accents and phrases to show they were international but that was the 70s. ’Berto tossing in some Portuguese is fine, I don’t think he needs a heavy accent to drive the point home. Rogue has that covered.
  5. Renee Elise Goldsberry is in Netflix' Girls5Eva and... just watch it, y'all.
  6. Sounds like you suffered enough. Honestly, we're all better off just watching the Overly Sarcastic Productions run down of Iliad, Odyssey and anything related to mythology in general. I really hate... and I mean HAAAAATE that anyone tries to pass off Paris and Helen as a love story. It isn't. Helen was a commodity who had no choice in the matter and was handed over to a horny, short-sighted loser by a vain goddess so she could win a prize. I get just as mad when Romeo and Juliet is touted as a love story. IT'S NOT! It's a tragedy and they were two horny teenagers surrounded by a bunch of MORONS! Which isn't to say the two horny teenagers weren't also morons but they were TEENAGERS!! At least they have an excuse! Yeah the Troy movie making Achilles and Patroclus cousins? Really? That shit didn't work with the dub of Sailor Moon either. And these decision makers going the cousin route with these 'relationships' doesn't exactly cover them with glory, you know? Can someone do a legit House of Atreus mini-series? Because seeing Agamemnon get his and all the reasons WHY it's satisfying would be fucking GREAT!
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    X-Men'97

    Oh by the way, all of that with X-cutioner? I'm the one sitting there going 'I remember when Gambit took him out with gum.'
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    X-Men'97

    WELL!! I mean! There were definite surprises and I have not been actively looking for spoilers beforehand although I did see the list of episodes and it really left me wondering. I got some clarification on some things but I look forward to how this all plays out. I like the animation, I think it's cleaner and more active as well as being in the same style. Storm and Bishop are two characters of color who are different shades! I love that, to be honest. And Jubilee is definitely Asian (this has long been a thing in comics where all of a sudden she's just drawn and colored as a white girl... which she is not.) 'Berto's power animation looked cool as fuck. I kind of dig that Jubilee is playing mentor to the new kid as she was the new kid before. Just know, Jubes, that 'Berto's heterosexual life partner is Sam Guthrie and I don't care what part of the multiverse it is, I don't make the rules. Storm turning the desert into glass and then said glass into a tornado to rip apart Sentinels? Yes, it is important that we see how absolutely fucking awesome Storm is before the power negating gun. But I fear not... I know this story. "Once upon a time there was a woman who could fly." Storm's non-powered era is fucking epic, I am here for it. And Scott being bad-ass? YESSS. He doesn't shoot lasers out of his eyes! They are 'concussive force blasts' which is just comic speak for 'he can punch you with his eyes but more.' Getting down to earth after the Sentinels attacked, hell, taking some Sentinels out before all that, using his beams to move around... so good for Scott! I am always down for Gambit's ever present slut phase. He is a 90s man with his crop top to show off his abs but also to protect his nips while frying up some beignets. Also ready to rip the shirt off completely. Also, the little clap-clap with the tongs was a delightful detail for me. Look, there is no heterosexual explanation for Magneto. They work so hard to make his ass soooo straight in every conceivable outlet and it just never works. There he is with mourning Charles and swanning about with his Pantene hair, his magenta body stocking, his opera gloves and his cape and yet I'm supposed to buy that he's into Rogue? Seriously? I'd sooner believe that he's sidling up to her to make Gambit jealous. Gambit wears those gloves with the middle and ring fingers covered so he is clearly down for a little hand action at a moments notice. Is that crass? It's what the X-men do to me. They are a horny as fuck soap opera and sexuality is never set in stone but it always leans towards queer. Magneto's flex after Storm got shot? Hells yes motherfuckers! But, again, look at that fucking DRAMA QUEEN! His grand speech, his one perfect tear, his going on about his 'old friend' and of course his 'Don't make me let you down' mic drop. Magneto is That Bitch. I feel the Rogue/Magneto stuff smells more of 'oh, Rogue's keeping secrets, too' for me but love triangle angst is a soap staple. Ororo is on a personal journey and will be awesome. Can't wait for more Roberto DaCosta. And as for the ending? Jean? Maddie? Who is who? Will they attempt to do Inferno? I'd be shocked but also... why not? It's crazy. It's all fucking crazy. And I LOVE it.
  9. Zeus gets horny and then turns into something completely different to get his rocks off. A swan (!!) -- that's how Helen came to be after all. A golden shower? (Kinky.) The doppleganger of the woman's husband?! (Dude.) Zeus fucks Leda in the shape of a swan and she lays two eggs, because, you know THAT'S normal and in one egg is Helen and Polydeucus (Pollux) -- Zeus' kids. And the other egg was Castor and Clytemnestra -- Tyndareus who was the Spartan king and Leda's husband. Agamemnon and Menelaus (members of the doomed House of Atreus) were staying with Tyndareus while in exile and they ended up marrying Clytemnestra and Helen respectively. Which really makes me wonder about the age differences but Menelaus was described as being handsome and with a pleasing personality so I often feel like he gets screwed over completely in retellings for the sake of 'romance' which Helen and Paris ARE NOT! The vow all the suitors for Helen make to defend her husband in a quarrel and then the idiot Paris going 'give me the hottest woman!' instead of taking either Hera's or Athena's offer results in the Trojan War. And then there are four different tellings of how Menelaus and Helen reunite. Apparently he intends to kill her for the betrayal but either felt sorry for her when she wept at his feet begging for her life and had all of his wrath leave him; was struck by her beauty and all of his wrath left him; she tore her gown and revealed her breasts and all of his wrath left him; or he handed her over to his men to be stoned to death and she tore her gown and showed them her breasts and everyone was struck by her beauty and everything was cool after that. So... go Helen, I guess? Use what the swan gave you or whatever. Oh and then there was the whole 'let's have Menelaus and Paris fight this out because this war is draggggging on' (did Odysseus - the only one with a consistently working brain cell nap for the first ten years?) and Menelaus was winning handily when Aphrodite interfered and rescued Paris. The thing is the stories leading up to the Trojan War are complicated enough to have their own movie or series, really, so I always hate that it gets boiled down to 'Helen runs off with Paris and everyone is annoyed by that' because it really makes Helen look bad when she gets too much shit as it is. Things that are constant? Paris sucks and is a coward. Hector was a tragic hero. Agamemnon is the worst and that's why he embodied the doomed aspects of his house. Menelaus was a pretty good guy all said and he and Helen reconciled and even reunited after death. Aphrodite really cause a mess with her shit.
  10. Look, the Iliad is what it is. Achilles did in fact throw a gigantic hissy fit over Briseis but not because he was in love with her. She was his spoil of war and Agamemnon (who's just a dick, period, no matter the version of the story) had HIS spoil of war taken so he needed to be petty and take Achilles' -- that's what it was, douchey warriors fighting over women they claimed as prizes in battle. Achilles losing his shit over Patrolcus is a MAJOR thing in the Iliad. He was so distraught that he didn't just throw down with Hector but he desecrated his body afterwards which was an insult to the gods but because they can't allow gayness in the movie they don't go into that at all. As for Helen, she gets a raw deal period. She is given to Paris by Aphrodite as a reward so how much autonomy does Helen actually have? That's often glossed over. Stories show that she was quite happy with Menelaus before and after the war. And really the Judgement of Paris and the Iliad and the Odyssey highlighted the capriciousness of the gods and the effects of it on man. To have the movie make it all about Helen escaping an abusive husband and then war happening to get her back... Helen is nothing more than a MacGuffin in the movie. But then that's what she is in the stories, too, so...
  11. Dandesun

    X-Men'97

    I'm actually fine with this. Let the animated series exist in its own world given that we've seen X-Men in the MCU multiverse situations they're clearly building something there and I'm very eager to see it. Can I also say that I appreciate that they've finally drawn Gambit as legit hot? About freaking time. He's gone through some rough animated patches. (Wolverine & the X-Men was the worst offender there.) The usual suspects out there in Internetland are screaming about Morph being gender fluid and WOKE. *aggrieved sigh* Just admit you don't know anything about the X-men if you're going to start throwing 'woke' around as a bad thing. Cripes this is fatiguing. I do wonder what stories they'll come up with or draw from. They've got even more to pull from now than they did before so it will be interesting to see what they decide to adapt. I mean, it looks like Inferno might be in the cards somehow which... would be INSANE but I could be here for it. Depending... I do think it's interesting that the show runner Beau DeMayo is referring to Rogue and Gambit as the OTP... I'm down. I love them. Just enough with the touching angst! Since they've got past that in the comics it's been an absolute blast to have them deal with other shit. Play with it show-runner!!
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    X-Men'97

    Chris Potter, I've heard, will be voicing Cable.
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    X-Men'97

    Magneto coming in hot like Alexis Carrington? Hell fucking yes. 'My husband left me everything!' Jean being pregnant? I wonder if they're going to go Rachel or Nathan here... Inferno is so crazy and I know people love Maddie Pryor but man that's a gigantic mess so I could see them play this out as Jean having Nathan and them having to send him to the future and, boom, there's Cable! God I love this insane soap opera!
  14. You know how sometimes you go back and re-read a fic you wrote years later and realize that you actually wrote a boyfriend for Jack without meaning to and when you re-read you also realize they totally hooked up in college and fell in love? (This happened after the fic ended I would say...) Yep. I apparently did that.
  15. Nice to know that I made the right decision not to bother. This was never a love/hate relationship. They both really just despised each other, particularly Blair. Bullshit officially erased from everything in my head. Forever.
  16. I'm not made of wood, people. That is a picture that just makes me really fucking happy.
  17. When Henry says something along the lines of 'slipping through the sculptures like a shadow' as they were doing so... very evocative. Kind of made me jealous. I'd love to have access to a museum at night. Okay, it depends on the museum because there are some I'm fine staying out of but the V&A? Yes please.
  18. I got a schadenfreude kick out of thirsty-ass journalist not getting the hint. When Alex told Nora they had made out in the hot tub 'during the campaign' that's like at least three years ago? And, yes, Taylor Zakhar Perez (and therefore Alex) is ridiculously hot so I get why Miguel was trying to make it happen again BUT Lord Alex looked mildly uncomfortable the first time he flirted again in the movie and he sure as hell didn't give any 'ooo, let's make this happen again' vibes during any of their interactions. I mean, interaction number two where Alex was staking out the entrance so he could get eyes on Henry and barely made eye contact with Miguel and the second he did clap eyes on Henry was barely even able to focus on anything Miguel was saying... dude, I'm embarrassed for you. At least Alex got to just lay it out for him later. "Do you honestly think anything is going to happen between us? I don't like the way you conduct yourself, you're an asshole, excuse me while I go rail my hot royal boyfriend who decided to surprise me." I enjoyed this immensely. The two leads are likeable which is hard enough in ANY romcom, the groundwork is laid well that it's believable they'll last after the movie ends (also rare in a lot of romcoms, I feel), no one dies, the leads are rootable together, and yes very very very pretty to look at. I also appreciate the lube and the condoms. Sidenote: Uma Thurman was giving me Julia Sugarbaker and I am here for it.
  19. Be fair, he did put it down to gaze at Henry so maybe he wasn't completely engrossed in the book.
  20. Lineker is one of the top international goal scorers for the English national team. He was a regular top scorer during his club years and the only player to be top scorer for three different clubs. He won the Golden Boot in the 1986 World Cup. He never received a yellow or red card during the entirety of his career. He started his professional career at Leicester (he was born there) so it was a huge thing when they won the league a few years back. He was the guy that organized a consortium to invest in the team and save it from bankruptcy and was named honorary vice-president for the team as a result. And he also played at Barcelona for a few years under the management of who? Johann Cryff. He's also the one who coined the phrase: Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.
  21. I am not going to stand for this Jeff Beck erasure, people. Absolutely not!! While I'm in agreement that Roy's ass is probably hairy, not only did he defend himself to the team but pointed out that they all knew well and good that it wasn't, and no one pushed back on that so... I'm going to have to believe that training room and just understand why Rebecca would make assumptions. I did get a kick out of former dickhead manager/current TV pundit going on about how Isaac wasn't captain when HE ran Richmond because he wasn't temperamentally suited to it. Um, no, he wasn't captain BECAUSE ROY WAS THERE. And of course, Isaac has proven to be a wonderful captain. So wrong on all counts former dickhead manager! Rupert continues to be Rupert. I don't believe any of his behavior was in thinking that Nate could 'do better' than Jade. I don't think for a moment that Rupert even thinks of Nate as a person. He's a tool for Rupert to use, nothing more, nothing less. The car? A means of making that tool remain beholden to him as the 'one who sees so much more in Nate than anyone else ever did.' Will Nate not participating in Rupert's... whatever that was? result in retaliation? Mmm, I think it will only be a means of Rupert being able to shed Nate whenever Rupert feels like it, or when he starts losing or something. "Well, I could see you weren't really cut out for the job after all. You don't really have that killer instinct that's necessary for a Real Man." Blah blah blah nonsense. Rupert tears down. That's all he does. Meanwhile, Rebecca is building up and that's a beautiful thing to watch after season one where she was just lashing out. Seeing her as a complete person who got that forgiveness from Ted and then moved forward to repair the various bridges in her life and now be a source of comfort and inspiration herself... and yes, tough love towards Roy who actually responded. Although I loved the initial comment from Keeley about Roy doing the presser. "He hates them but he's really good at it." Keeley was absolutely right. Please heat that rift between her and Roy! They are so good together!!
  22. Rooney's longest stint was with Man U. He did come to the US and play for DC United and is actually head coach there now. As for the team cleaning up the restaurant I go back and forth on it. The show has been making a point in tying them together very closely and things like the haunted training room, Jamie's return to the squad, Sam's fight with the sponsor, the Christmas episode and, yes, the Netherlands episode have worked at making that a major part of the Richmond storyline. Plus, this is football where these are kids and they get scouted and picked up at very young ages so their whole lives pretty much revolve around the pitch. Roy often mentioned how young he was when he was sent off to play. In real life, take Leo Messi who went from Argentina to Spain at the age of 13... and he'd been scouted in Argentina and focused on football by at least age 6. Was the pillow fight silly and unbelievable? Yes, but I found the restaurant scene heartwarming enough to buy it given how insular the football world is when you're actively in it. I agree that Dr. Jake is the most at fault in the relationship with Michelle but it is flat out irritating that no one seems to be willing to call that shit out for what it is. No one is saying the words out loud and having to watch Ted sit with them being awkward as all get out when everything about that relationship is fuuuuuucked up. I really liked how Rebecca talked Ted down about Michelle and Jacob being in Paris but I'd love it even more if she pointed out what a mess Michelle's new relationship actually is but that's her problem, not Ted's. I learned about transference from Frasier. Just wish someone else would call it out here already and I wish Ted would just move the fuck on already.
  23. That's a fairly common trope in the actual comics. There isn't a cure for cancer, hell, we don't have a cure for the common cold despite all the other strides we've made and it gets very sketchy when they try to confront that in the books. You have situations where Wakanda had a cure and they wouldn't share it with outsiders which got really ugly for a bit. Or you have funny bits like the villain Sauron (not Lord of the Rings guy) who, when confronted by Spider-Man about his ability to cure cancer with his genetic studied said 'but I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!' Jane's story was, I thought interesting because the cancer was considered, by the hammer, to be a part of her and the chemo was a poison that it eradicated every time she became Thor. Becoming Thor was killing her and she continued to do it because the world and the universe needed her. And that's why she was welcomed to Valhalla. She was a warrior and a hero. Now, in comics, I thought they played it all well.
  24. Yeah, it was D&D Gatekeeper misogyny directed at the GM's girlfriend because 'girls can't play' combined with Marisha playing a class that is really a lot... especially considering they had transitioned from Pathfinder to D&D so she got a few things wrong from time to time. She also got accused of metagaming a lot which, whatever, we all sometimes have problems with that. Plus, considering Orion during the same time period was metagaming like crazy and full on messing with his sorcerer points in game and didn't get a fraction of the rage that Marisha got. It was a whole bunch of horseshit. Plus, combined with Beau, you could see that Marisha likes playing seriously awkward characters that need to go on a journey. She really seems to like that trope and there is NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. Hell, Laudna (C3) falls under that category, too. The frustrating thing is that you still see some of that shit. It gets shouted down by others because, at this point, the majority of the fanbase is sick to death of that crap. It was all so over the top in those early days that I don't think a legitimate gripe is even something people want to hear anymore. By 'legitimate gripe' I mean things like 'well, I just don't like the kind of characters she plays.' No one cares to hear it, you know? That's how bad it was. It's not something that's too likely to come up in THIS show but...
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