Only took about 30 years but they made Cyclops cool again.... by letting him just be classic Cyclops. Also the Friends of Humanity's cartoonish bigotry feels way more unnerving now that we see the conspiratorial nonsense actual humans post on Twitter these days
2 little nuggets. 1. Continuity Rogue's pink dress is the same as episode one in the '92 series when they run into Jubilee at the mall. Just added gloves. 2. Beast's ripping up the Sentinel, and doing the little cannonball is a move set from an X-Men fighting video game.
Kitty running away from Storm crying over the mohawk was inspired by a similar situation Walt and Louise Simonson had with their daughter returning from sleep away camp.
18:29 Girl, same! You telling me, they went into the room, picked up the basketball, but didn't pick up/cleanup the framed picture on the floor? Truly, basketball is life.
Thanks for the shoutout! Glad I could help. Don't feel any shame!!! That was such a random mention of it. Also yes, if anyone else knows of another mention of Cyclops using his powers to break his fall in his origin out of desperation, please let me know. I'd love to go back and give it a read (or watch). 🤓
My favorite X-Men was the Paul Smith era, specifically when the Morlocks kidnapped Angel and Storm beat Callisto in a knife fight to free him, that cemented her as my all time favorite
Cyclops and Havoc do blast down to stop from falling in X-Men Evolution. In the Season 1 finale they use their powers to survive the fall from Asteroid M. That was the scene I thought of when Cyclops blasted the desert in this episode.
I KNOW!!!!!! And looking at the episode names, there are 2 episodes called Lifedeath, so they aren't going to breeze by this. Which I'm SO happy for because Lifedeath is one of the most beautifully written and drawn stories of all X-Men.
I liked the episode. But of course I must highlight my nitpick: I got the impression that Trask was genuinely repentant and at the very least realized that in creating Master Mold he’d made something, in his words “Truly inhuman.” That moment where Master Mold tells Trask “Mutants *are* human. Therefore humans must be protected from themselves.” Stuck out to me as a kid. I get a person “regressing” but he just…made a new Master Mold? I feel like they knew Trask was just a character to bring back so we could have a big Sentinel fight to kick off series with a bang, disregarding what he had actually done in the series. It’s a small complaint in the grand scheme of things but I didn’t really see it being mentioned elsewhere and needed to get it off my chest.
The season 4 episode “Courage” establishes that Gyrich and Trask were once again working together, and by implication of their partnership, on a new or restored sentinel program. Trask even goes so far as to tell Gyrich that “Mastermold was perfect.” So the show definitely re-established Trask as reverting to his former unrepentant self back in the ‘90s, prior to the current revival series.
So glad you are covering this, was really curious as to whether to re sub to disney plus. May have to now lol. Also nice shout out to amanda, nice to see you both work on stuff together and stay in touch. 🎉
I personally think this series might be worth the re-sub. I will say I think Disney Plus is one of the services I watch the most. For me it's between Disney and -somehow still- Netflix. Also what a lovely comment! I feel very fortunate to still get to geek out with Sasha every now and then. Miss working with her on Nerd. She's brilliant!
I was a teen when the show first came out in 92. I had some apprehension when I heard the announcement. Saw the teasers and got some cautious optimism. I'm so very happy with how the series has started! I love that they kept the kinda jhanky art style but updated the animation. Please do episode 2! The trial is so important and interesting. Also, I'm secretly hoping we get to hear Storm cry out "Jubilation Lee!"
'97 really took me back to my childhood, and I love, love, LOVE the updated animation and designs. There are a couple parts that stand out as clearly 3d, but not everybody can be Studio Orange. Omg, an X-Men series from the same studio that did Land of the Lustrous would be sick!
"I feel this is the beginning of a beautiful involuntary friendship!" God in heaven, I do so love Hank McCoy! And I will go to my grave being assailed by the slings and arrows of out rages commenters, That even though he was wonderful in Frasier on NBC, Hank McCoy was the role that Kelsey Grammer was born to play!
That cyclops scene. I remember it, but it wasn't an origins reference. In one of the cartoons there was a storyline where magneto or sinister kidnaps and brainwashes havoc. Scott gets involved. Him and bro get advanced mutations. Then in finale of arc. They jump outta something. To keep from splat they used they buff bods and upgraded powers to stop their momentum. That's what came to my mind.
It's basically a variation on something Galactus says: "To me, my herald!", famously riffed on in Fantastic Four # 604, where a future version of Franklin Richards turns Galactus into HIS Herald, saying "To me, my Galactus!".
Storm coming in after Scott called her in for the Sentinel cleanup gave me chills. For me, tonallyand visually was the standout moment of ep 1. I enjoyed Jubes little light show dance (animations very fluid). And while I’ve never been a Cycloos hater, I’ve also never been a fan either. This episode didn’t change that but he definitely came off as a lot cooler than his other on screen interpretations.
Marrow has 2 cameos if you count the daily bugle page! She's on a poster on a telephone pole by the FOH base. Also early in the episode you get a Leech and Calisto cameo in an alley.
“To me my X-men” was occasionally used by Prof X in the era pre-Changeling/Charles faking his own death…my recollection is that it was mostly used in Kirby-issues; I remember reading it in an X-men digest I had as a kid…it might have been when they guest-starred in another book…
Maybe Scott's collar is reinforced with some sort of brace that keeps his neck from jerking back. (I assume there was some sort of super hero conference about this after Gwen Stacy's neck snapped.) My question was why is didn't make a giant hole in the ground. Also, the dust rising up seemed vaguely evocative of the Phoenix.
The question of Spider-Man being a mutant ties into the Neogenic Nightmare saga from the Spider-Man Animated Series. Specifically when he met the X-Men, seeking Xavier's help to "cure" his mutation.
Exiles (at least pre Claremont) was a truly great early aughts comic run. For all the grimmness of the concept (dead heroes from destroyed timelines trying to save them by saving OTHER timelines) it was a real fun read. And that Mimic has spawned so many nerd conversations about which 5 powers you'd pick to copy.
The scene of cyclops using his powers to slow his descent could be a call back to x-men evolution. In the season one finale him and his brother use their powers in a similar way.
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I think if you start opening the pandora's box on what these characters bodies SHOULD look like after so, so many actions or battles or power uses then we might as well just all go rewatch Kick-Ass because even their exaggerated reality is more grounded in that regard than superhero comics have EVER been. This is hardly the first time Cyclops has used his powers to save him from a long drop. Now lets see Batman jump off another roof holding onto a rope.
@@atoth62 I wonder if there's a lot of recoil, though. His eyes are basically just a portal to another dimension filled with concussive energy. His original origin has it as energy he stored by absorbing sunlight.
Like i've said before, i'm just happy to talk about X-Men in general, that's not in a reddit space, and isn't just about the comics, which are great to fantastic, but this is so straight forward, and with how big the series has landed, more people to talk to about it, got me researching more X-Men stuff and drawing again... and then tired lol I'm also grateful that there's more good takes than bad ones out there, because if there's anything we know about the X-Men, the ideas are pretty cut and dry clear (It's what most hope would see).
6:00 Also, right before you see the newspaper, you can see a shot of Calisto slinking away from a helicopter spotlight in the alley next to the video store.
I can remember in the mid-to-late 90s that the line "To me, my X-Men" was referenced and parodized a lot in ToyFare magazine's "Twisted Toyfare Theatre" in a manner that felt like it was a long established tradition.
The way Cyclops uses his powers here to me hints at his power being more than just the optic blast he seems to be able to ground himself and somehow he becomes tougher more resistant to injury when he's using his blast I hope they explore this
I dunno, but that extreme close up on Jean's and Logan's eyes and the way his eyes went from tense to relaxed suddenly gave me mamor mind control vibes from Jean.
The first half of the episode was rough. Cyclops struggling against a stationary Sentinel hand, Gambit charging an explosive and just throwing it at him...but thankfully it picked up.
I enjoy watching your videos, but there are times when your commentary just launches my viewing experience to the next level. I literally could not stop laughing when you said "Charles wrote a whole book of last will and testament huh? It's nicely bound so Magneto can dramatically float it over to people".
Nice catch with that newspaper! And always appreciate Sasha dressing up for the video. I love Storm's new hair. I even bought the 97' action figure, but only because i could not find her in the rock outfit. With these new episodes i am liking Jubilee and Morph more. I am for doing episode by episode reviews. I just saw episode 3. Has my favorite X-men villain!
Cool video! 🙂 Re. the Favorite Era question- For me, it’s Claremont, followed VERY closely by Whedon & Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men. Immediately after that would be the Krakoa phase, despite it taking a dip once Hickman left.
Krakoa indeed feels like a return to a high for the X-Men. Also, it's one of the only truly forward looking sci-fi style stories I've seen in comics. It constantly bugs me that the world they live in still maintains the real-world status quo even though these amazing technologies and powers exist. Terraforming Mars is the ultimate flex.
I would love to see more episode-by-episode breakdowns here! I was one of the kids who got into X-Men through the original animated series. Highlight of my Saturdays in middle school. It was so much fun to get into the comics in the late 90s in high school, and to read through the original versions of the stories I knew from the show and see how they'd adapted them for the cartoon. And watching '97 now, I've ended the first two episodes in giant grins and full of glee, because I can see what they're pulling from to make the stories they're going to tell, and I cannot wait to see how those stories will play out in this universe! Was the first actual "to me, my X-Men" really Wisdom spoofing Xavier?! I know that was the first I'd read it, but I started X-books with a random array of comics my friend had, and glommed onto Excalibur hardest, so started my collecting and back-issue reading there. I didn't branch out from Excalibur until I'd gotten all of the original run in floppies. Fun fact: I got into reading the comics in the middle of Onslaught - the Excalibur tie-ins, at least. With all the nods to the current continuity in the background, I wonder if/when Moira will show up in the new series, and how she'll be portrayed.
This show is such a breath of fresh air after the disappointments I've had with other rehashes of older shows lately (looking askance at the Netflix ATLA show). I really hope you do a video on Episode 2, because I really liked that episode. It's definitely what has sold me on wanting to watch the rest of X-Men '97. Also, I'm curious if you'd want to do a video at some point on the X-Men '92 comic series that spun out of 2015's Secret Wars. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember it taking an interesting (and different) approach to continuing the original animated series.
There was a comic where Scott fell into the temple of Ozymandias, an acolyte of Apocalypse, and hit his head on a column falling into a trap. The panel literally suggests that this head bump undid the side effect that his previous one caused. Meaning that from that point forward, he should have been able to use his eyes without Ruby quartz glasses… Then nothing came of it. It was never mentioned again as far as I saw.
Jean Beauvoir Storm was my favourite, although it's probably comics nostalgia. Also hoping now he's called Morph, they'll introduce Chas, his slightly crazy but endearingly dense brother - Brit-claymation reference.
I love the series so far, but I find myself still wondering why Rogue doesn’t just grab one of those Genosha collars for her own personal use. Just throw the collar on, boom, SO many kisses for Gambit, how bout it.
Probably some philosophical "there's nothing wrong with us" argument that works excellent for people with control but falls apart the second an actual dangerous mutant exists.
I'm so glad I found this page :) Looking forward to following along on the reviews. P.S. I found it odd no one was really freaking out about the blackbird being destroyed too lmao
As someone who was literally born in 97, I've never seen the og show. These episodes are a wonderful introduction to this era, and got me to go back and pick back up the Claremont era. I think they're a great re-introduction to the XMen and I can't wait to see more
I need a video exploring Cyclops' powers. Not so much where his concussive blasts come from (the explanation has changed over the years), but how those blasts affect his body. Do they push him back or not. It's super inconsistent, even within the fight scene at the beginning of the episode. He stands perfectly still and shoots a guy, then immediately fires at the ground and pushes himself across the room. His eyelids can resist being pushed, does that mean anything. And the answer can't be that he can control when he gets pushed, because a major part of his backstory is he doesn't have control over his powers. Also, his and his brother's powers don't work against each other. How does that factor in? I've heard some say his body is immune (for some reason) to all kinetic force, so that should make him immune to being punched or hitting the ground at terminal velocity. So many questions!
LOVING the new eps so far! Another ref I caught was that on Beast's bookshelf is "Animal Farm" - which is the book he's reading in the original series, season 1 ep 3, where he's in prison and is mocked for reading it by the guard who thinks it's a picture book.
Nice catch with that reference! Another book he had in jail was Civil Disobedience by Thoreau. That was particularly on point because it mirrored Beast’s jail storyline.
I only have 2 complaints about the first episode of X-Men 97. 1: It should have opened with Cyclops saying "Previously: On X-Men" followed by clips of the original series tenuously connected to what was about to happen in the episode. 2: I wish it had explained why Bishop was there. His time travel bling seems to work the opposite of the way it did before and I want to know why. This flaw may retroactively become a benefit if they explain it later.
I loved all the call backs to the original show. I saw a good deal of elements from episode 1 and 2 that give me the impression they are eventually going to animate the Age of Apocalypse down the road.
I felt both episodes served as a bridge in time. Episode 1 made me feel as a kid, but episode reminded me I'm an adult, and that this show will be too.
Cyclops' optic blasts is just one of those "don't worry about it" things that you don't look too closely at, like how Wolverine's claws fit in his forearms or how Morph can violate the Law of Conservation of Mass every time they shapeshift or whatnot. I mean, if you're going to argue that he should have broken his neck when he cushioned his fall, then why didn't you argue something similar when he blew that hole in the wall of the warehouse? Or why he didn't suffer a concussion at bare minimum when he used his optic blast to slide himself and Bobby across the floor? Or why he wasn't pushed back an equal distance when he sent other grown men flying with his optic blasts? Or how (with his visor off and his eyes wide open) did Cyclops only knock a few people out and blow out the windows and not destory a huge chunk of the building and potentially surrounding buildings with a wide beam? It's just not worth it to ask. Better to have fun with it and chalk it up to "mutants are magic."
Great content! The only other time I've seen Cyclops use his optic blast to slow his decent was with Havoc in X-men Evolution Season 1 Ep 13 after their powers were enhanced by Magneto.
Interesting hearing the origins of Morph. I thought he was based on the Mimic character because he too could mimic the abilities of mutants and died in combat whereas Changeling just faded out like a punk. I also thought they picked the name Morph because "morphing" was so popular at the time and it was a cooler name than mimic.
Pausing the video because I laughed out loud at the AI lying to you, followed by the friend finding the origin of Cyclops so quickly that you felt nothing but shame. Spot on humor and thank you for that.
Awesome video and love the deep dive. I love the team combo attack moves and fighting scenes. I do hope for more Morph scenes as I like that they r nonbinary and I want to see more of their dynamics with Wolverine. Very excited to watch the new episode every Wednesday❤
I really appreciated how Wolverine was already clued into how Jean was wanting to leave given that he cares for her so much. Also explains why he is in such a shitty mood during the episode. Good bit of character writing w/o slamming you over the head explaining it.
Yes! Do episode two! Cause I want to talk about the whole Madylin Pyer, Pyor, thing. Cause most of my friends who watched the 97 have no idea about that story line. And even though it's from the 80s, I didn't want to spoil it for them
Who Is Your Favorite Member OF The X-Men?
Im a Cyclops guy, Sasha.... Since 1980 ( im old) 🤗
X-23 followed closely by Rogue
Wolverine, Magneto, and Nightcrawler
Storm and Magneto. I've been eatin' good between this and Al Ewing.
Magneto was right.
Only took about 30 years but they made Cyclops cool again.... by letting him just be classic Cyclops. Also the Friends of Humanity's cartoonish bigotry feels way more unnerving now that we see the conspiratorial nonsense actual humans post on Twitter these days
Very true
What's funny is that it felt cartoonish then... but now... without changing a thing about them... it feels uncannily on-point.
2 little nuggets.
1. Continuity Rogue's pink dress is the same as episode one in the '92 series when they run into Jubilee at the mall. Just added gloves.
2. Beast's ripping up the Sentinel, and doing the little cannonball is a move set from an X-Men fighting video game.
Got your Rogue wig on! I dig it ^_^
Illyana wants her bangs back, though.
@@dngillikin I can't read that without hearing Colossus.
Now u got me imagining him saying this to rogue lol (with a very specific sass that only ultimate Colossus could have)
Are we not going to talk about how apparently the X-Men were ready to eat nothing but whole ass plates of bengiets for brunch?
Danger Room carb loading 👀
Bengeits aren't meant to share a plate.... Also, wasn't it breakfast and not brunch?
What do you expect when it's Gambit's turn to cook?
I'm not seeing the problem here
Kitty running away from Storm crying over the mohawk was inspired by a similar situation Walt and Louise Simonson had with their daughter returning from sleep away camp.
Wait, Weezy had a mohawk? 😄
@aldinbaroza9640 lol I don't think it was THAT extreme. IIRC it was Walt shaving his beard.
I think Louise could pull off the Mohawk 🤔
I like the horror vibes with the broken Sentinels rising from the ground, nice touch
I get that Bobby can be a nickname for Robert but i keeeept think of Iceman
Same. Also, wasn't Sunspot's nickname usually 'Berto?
@@BenChanNYC that's a much more Brazillian nickname. In fact, I think that's what Mr. Incredible was called in the Brazillian dub.
Maybe Iceman will turn up again and they'll have a moment with somebody saying "Bobby" and they both say "Yes?"
18:29 Girl, same! You telling me, they went into the room, picked up the basketball, but didn't pick up/cleanup the framed picture on the floor? Truly, basketball is life.
Thanks for the shoutout! Glad I could help. Don't feel any shame!!! That was such a random mention of it. Also yes, if anyone else knows of another mention of Cyclops using his powers to break his fall in his origin out of desperation, please let me know. I'd love to go back and give it a read (or watch). 🤓
I am convinced that JJJ and Thunderbolt Ross do more to make humans hate mutants unintentionally than Stryker and the FOH ever could
My favorite X-Men was the Paul Smith era, specifically when the Morlocks kidnapped Angel and Storm beat Callisto in a knife fight to free him, that cemented her as my all time favorite
Cyclops and Havoc do blast down to stop from falling in X-Men Evolution. In the Season 1 finale they use their powers to survive the fall from Asteroid M. That was the scene I thought of when Cyclops blasted the desert in this episode.
Nope the show runner said he played video games and watch anime y’all pulling too hard! 🤦🏾♂️
@@delmarfrazier2727
Not really hard to pull, since a lot of people were thinking of X-Men Evolution, even if it was just a coincidence
The ending of episode 2 was very much a "OMFG.. No! Did they..? I can't believe it.. they did.."
I KNOW!!!!!! And looking at the episode names, there are 2 episodes called Lifedeath, so they aren't going to breeze by this. Which I'm SO happy for because Lifedeath is one of the most beautifully written and drawn stories of all X-Men.
I liked the episode. But of course I must highlight my nitpick: I got the impression that Trask was genuinely repentant and at the very least realized that in creating Master Mold he’d made something, in his words “Truly inhuman.” That moment where Master Mold tells Trask “Mutants *are* human. Therefore humans must be protected from themselves.” Stuck out to me as a kid. I get a person “regressing” but he just…made a new Master Mold? I feel like they knew Trask was just a character to bring back so we could have a big Sentinel fight to kick off series with a bang, disregarding what he had actually done in the series. It’s a small complaint in the grand scheme of things but I didn’t really see it being mentioned elsewhere and needed to get it off my chest.
The season 4 episode “Courage” establishes that Gyrich and Trask were once again working together, and by implication of their partnership, on a new or restored sentinel program. Trask even goes so far as to tell Gyrich that “Mastermold was perfect.” So the show definitely re-established Trask as reverting to his former unrepentant self back in the ‘90s, prior to the current revival series.
I do like that magneto says the episode title in a way, "(It all belongs) to me, my x-men"
So glad you are covering this, was really curious as to whether to re sub to disney plus. May have to now lol. Also nice shout out to amanda, nice to see you both work on stuff together and stay in touch. 🎉
I personally think this series might be worth the re-sub. I will say I think Disney Plus is one of the services I watch the most. For me it's between Disney and -somehow still- Netflix. Also what a lovely comment! I feel very fortunate to still get to geek out with Sasha every now and then. Miss working with her on Nerd. She's brilliant!
Marvel vs capcom reference whooo! I want more than anything for them to reboot the series with a new X-men vs Street Fighter!
I was a teen when the show first came out in 92. I had some apprehension when I heard the announcement. Saw the teasers and got some cautious optimism. I'm so very happy with how the series has started! I love that they kept the kinda jhanky art style but updated the animation. Please do episode 2! The trial is so important and interesting. Also, I'm secretly hoping we get to hear Storm cry out "Jubilation Lee!"
'97 really took me back to my childhood, and I love, love, LOVE the updated animation and designs. There are a couple parts that stand out as clearly 3d, but not everybody can be Studio Orange. Omg, an X-Men series from the same studio that did Land of the Lustrous would be sick!
"I feel this is the beginning of a beautiful involuntary friendship!"
God in heaven, I do so love Hank McCoy!
And I will go to my grave being assailed by the slings and arrows of out rages commenters, That even though he was wonderful in Frasier on NBC, Hank McCoy was the role that Kelsey Grammer was born to play!
That cyclops scene. I remember it, but it wasn't an origins reference. In one of the cartoons there was a storyline where magneto or sinister kidnaps and brainwashes havoc. Scott gets involved. Him and bro get advanced mutations. Then in finale of arc. They jump outta something. To keep from splat they used they buff bods and upgraded powers to stop their momentum. That's what came to my mind.
Sounds like Evolution? I remember that show introducing Havok as having been adopted to a family in Hawaii but reunited with Cyclops.
It's basically a variation on something Galactus says: "To me, my herald!", famously riffed on in Fantastic Four # 604, where a future version of Franklin Richards turns Galactus into HIS Herald, saying "To me, my Galactus!".
Storm coming in after Scott called her in for the Sentinel cleanup gave me chills. For me, tonallyand visually was the standout moment of ep 1. I enjoyed Jubes little light show dance (animations very fluid). And while I’ve never been a Cycloos hater, I’ve also never been a fan either. This episode didn’t change that but he definitely came off as a lot cooler than his other on screen interpretations.
Marrow has 2 cameos if you count the daily bugle page! She's on a poster on a telephone pole by the FOH base. Also early in the episode you get a Leech and Calisto cameo in an alley.
“To me my X-men” was occasionally used by Prof X in the era pre-Changeling/Charles faking his own death…my recollection is that it was mostly used in Kirby-issues; I remember reading it in an X-men digest I had as a kid…it might have been when they guest-starred in another book…
I swear when I did a chronological read that I read it in that era.
Kirby only worked on the title through issue 12. Xavier's fake death was in issue 42.
You should definitely do an Exiles deep dive. One of the best comic series' that I've ever read.
I second this.
Exiles love is necessary
I can't wait for this to finish on a cliffhanger and we need to wait another 30 years for X-Men '99.
On that cover for the Daily Bugle the one in green is Stacy-X and the one next to Nature girl is Loa.
I've always had a crush on Jubilee. 😍
Same.
Same!
Rogue sounds like Bobby Hill and I cant unhear it...
Maybe Scott's collar is reinforced with some sort of brace that keeps his neck from jerking back. (I assume there was some sort of super hero conference about this after Gwen Stacy's neck snapped.) My question was why is didn't make a giant hole in the ground. Also, the dust rising up seemed vaguely evocative of the Phoenix.
The question of Spider-Man being a mutant ties into the Neogenic Nightmare saga from the Spider-Man Animated Series. Specifically when he met the X-Men, seeking Xavier's help to "cure" his mutation.
Exiles (at least pre Claremont) was a truly great early aughts comic run. For all the grimmness of the concept (dead heroes from destroyed timelines trying to save them by saving OTHER timelines) it was a real fun read. And that Mimic has spawned so many nerd conversations about which 5 powers you'd pick to copy.
Please keep reviewing these for as long as it remains fun for you!
Please keep reviewing and going into the details of all the episodes! Love all the lore you're showing.
I would love for you to keep discussing this show for as long as it keeps your fancy! A breakdown at the end would also be cool though.
The scene of cyclops using his powers to slow his descent could be a call back to x-men evolution.
In the season one finale him and his brother use their powers in a similar way.
The whole to me my X-Men, really reminds me of Silver Surfer. "To me, my board!"
17:22 - It's great to see Storm being goddess-level powerful, as it was always supposed to be.
Xstremely Enjoyable, & I’m Xcited for the remainder of the season ( or is it remaining season 🤷🏾♂️) …I am a long time comic geek , & fan of the 90’s series, but came into this with the judge it on its own merit attitude…& love how well they handled it,so far …Thanks for the review, would love one for every episode… Amazing 🤩 Amanda is truly the Best source for all things Marvel Mutants…Keep Up The Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾
I think if you start opening the pandora's box on what these characters bodies SHOULD look like after so, so many actions or battles or power uses then we might as well just all go rewatch Kick-Ass because even their exaggerated reality is more grounded in that regard than superhero comics have EVER been. This is hardly the first time Cyclops has used his powers to save him from a long drop. Now lets see Batman jump off another roof holding onto a rope.
I read somewhere that Scott has very strong neck muscles. No wonder Wolverine decided a thruple with Jean and Scott was ok.
Yeah, he should probably be breaking his neck every time he fires his optic blasts, which is technically all the time.
@@atoth62 I wonder if there's a lot of recoil, though. His eyes are basically just a portal to another dimension filled with concussive energy. His original origin has it as energy he stored by absorbing sunlight.
@@MoesTube1 I would think there would have to recoil, if he's using it to break his fall. So he's got to have a heck of a strong neck.
I enjoyed this episode. Very good video with lots of great discussion and fascinating analysis. Keep up the great work.
Like i've said before, i'm just happy to talk about X-Men in general, that's not in a reddit space, and isn't just about the comics, which are great to fantastic, but this is so straight forward, and with how big the series has landed, more people to talk to about it, got me researching more X-Men stuff and drawing again... and then tired lol
I'm also grateful that there's more good takes than bad ones out there, because if there's anything we know about the X-Men, the ideas are pretty cut and dry clear (It's what most hope would see).
6:00 Also, right before you see the newspaper, you can see a shot of Calisto slinking away from a helicopter spotlight in the alley next to the video store.
I can remember in the mid-to-late 90s that the line "To me, my X-Men" was referenced and parodized a lot in ToyFare magazine's "Twisted Toyfare Theatre" in a manner that felt like it was a long established tradition.
The way Cyclops uses his powers here to me hints at his power being more than just the optic blast he seems to be able to ground himself and somehow he becomes tougher more resistant to injury when he's using his blast I hope they explore this
I dunno, but that extreme close up on Jean's and Logan's eyes and the way his eyes went from tense to relaxed suddenly gave me mamor mind control vibes from Jean.
The first half of the episode was rough.
Cyclops struggling against a stationary Sentinel hand, Gambit charging an explosive and just throwing it at him...but thankfully it picked up.
All of your videos are great, but this one is particularly outstanding. I really hope we continue getting X-Men episode breakdowns!
I enjoy watching your videos, but there are times when your commentary just launches my viewing experience to the next level. I literally could not stop laughing when you said "Charles wrote a whole book of last will and testament huh? It's nicely bound so Magneto can dramatically float it over to people".
Nice catch with that newspaper! And always appreciate Sasha dressing up for the video.
I love Storm's new hair. I even bought the 97' action figure, but only because i could not find her in the rock outfit.
With these new episodes i am liking Jubilee and Morph more.
I am for doing episode by episode reviews. I just saw episode 3. Has my favorite X-men villain!
Can’t believe Sasha didn’t rock a Mohawk wig for this video.
Maybe she's saving that for the season finale?
I hope so!
Cool video! 🙂
Re. the Favorite Era question-
For me, it’s Claremont, followed VERY closely by Whedon & Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men.
Immediately after that would be the Krakoa phase, despite it taking a dip once Hickman left.
Krakoa indeed feels like a return to a high for the X-Men.
Also, it's one of the only truly forward looking sci-fi style stories I've seen in comics. It constantly bugs me that the world they live in still maintains the real-world status quo even though these amazing technologies and powers exist.
Terraforming Mars is the ultimate flex.
“To me my X-men” was brought back in House of X. That’s likely why it was used. It’s the first line in House of X.
I did wonder if Rogue could use the collar that friends of humanity uses to damper mutants powers for sexy time with Gambit.
We need a review for each episode!!! Love ur explanations on how it ties to the comics!
Any time Pete Wisdom is remembered as having existed, I consider that a win. :)
I say we give him credit for coming up with “To me, my X-Men”.
Hard to believe the Peter "Sugar Bear" from Deadpool 2 is supposed to be a powerless average Pete Wisdom (as his full name is "Peter W.")
I would love to see more episode-by-episode breakdowns here! I was one of the kids who got into X-Men through the original animated series. Highlight of my Saturdays in middle school. It was so much fun to get into the comics in the late 90s in high school, and to read through the original versions of the stories I knew from the show and see how they'd adapted them for the cartoon. And watching '97 now, I've ended the first two episodes in giant grins and full of glee, because I can see what they're pulling from to make the stories they're going to tell, and I cannot wait to see how those stories will play out in this universe!
Was the first actual "to me, my X-Men" really Wisdom spoofing Xavier?! I know that was the first I'd read it, but I started X-books with a random array of comics my friend had, and glommed onto Excalibur hardest, so started my collecting and back-issue reading there. I didn't branch out from Excalibur until I'd gotten all of the original run in floppies. Fun fact: I got into reading the comics in the middle of Onslaught - the Excalibur tie-ins, at least.
With all the nods to the current continuity in the background, I wonder if/when Moira will show up in the new series, and how she'll be portrayed.
This show is such a breath of fresh air after the disappointments I've had with other rehashes of older shows lately (looking askance at the Netflix ATLA show). I really hope you do a video on Episode 2, because I really liked that episode. It's definitely what has sold me on wanting to watch the rest of X-Men '97.
Also, I'm curious if you'd want to do a video at some point on the X-Men '92 comic series that spun out of 2015's Secret Wars. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember it taking an interesting (and different) approach to continuing the original animated series.
There was a comic where Scott fell into the temple of Ozymandias, an acolyte of Apocalypse, and hit his head on a column falling into a trap. The panel literally suggests that this head bump undid the side effect that his previous one caused. Meaning that from that point forward, he should have been able to use his eyes without Ruby quartz glasses… Then nothing came of it. It was never mentioned again as far as I saw.
Jean Beauvoir Storm was my favourite, although it's probably comics nostalgia.
Also hoping now he's called Morph, they'll introduce Chas, his slightly crazy but endearingly dense brother - Brit-claymation reference.
I love the series so far, but I find myself still wondering why Rogue doesn’t just grab one of those Genosha collars for her own personal use. Just throw the collar on, boom, SO many kisses for Gambit, how bout it.
Probably some philosophical "there's nothing wrong with us" argument that works excellent for people with control but falls apart the second an actual dangerous mutant exists.
I'm so glad I found this page :) Looking forward to following along on the reviews.
P.S. I found it odd no one was really freaking out about the blackbird being destroyed too lmao
The animation makes me think of Archer.
The sentinel blasters are very Mega Man
Dude!!!
*THIS!!!!*
I was thinking the same thing bro. Straight facts
Cyclops does the optic blast to avoid fall damage thing on the Proteus saga in Claremont's run
He also uses his optic blasts in the Proteus ark to slow his descent.
As someone who was literally born in 97, I've never seen the og show. These episodes are a wonderful introduction to this era, and got me to go back and pick back up the Claremont era. I think they're a great re-introduction to the XMen and I can't wait to see more
Friends of humanity stealing Megaman's arm tho lol
"...to me, my X-Men" are also the last words spoken in the episode, in a different context, coming from Magneto, and I thought it was a nice touch.
I need a video exploring Cyclops' powers. Not so much where his concussive blasts come from (the explanation has changed over the years), but how those blasts affect his body.
Do they push him back or not. It's super inconsistent, even within the fight scene at the beginning of the episode. He stands perfectly still and shoots a guy, then immediately fires at the ground and pushes himself across the room.
His eyelids can resist being pushed, does that mean anything. And the answer can't be that he can control when he gets pushed, because a major part of his backstory is he doesn't have control over his powers. Also, his and his brother's powers don't work against each other. How does that factor in?
I've heard some say his body is immune (for some reason) to all kinetic force, so that should make him immune to being punched or hitting the ground at terminal velocity.
So many questions!
LOVING the new eps so far! Another ref I caught was that on Beast's bookshelf is "Animal Farm" - which is the book he's reading in the original series, season 1 ep 3, where he's in prison and is mocked for reading it by the guard who thinks it's a picture book.
Nice catch with that reference! Another book he had in jail was Civil Disobedience by Thoreau. That was particularly on point because it mirrored Beast’s jail storyline.
Sasha's hair has gone rogue.
I only have 2 complaints about the first episode of X-Men 97.
1: It should have opened with Cyclops saying "Previously: On X-Men" followed by clips of the original series tenuously connected to what was about to happen in the episode.
2: I wish it had explained why Bishop was there. His time travel bling seems to work the opposite of the way it did before and I want to know why. This flaw may retroactively become a benefit if they explain it later.
I loved all the call backs to the original show. I saw a good deal of elements from episode 1 and 2 that give me the impression they are eventually going to animate the Age of Apocalypse down the road.
Also on the bookshelf is animal farm the book beast was reading when magneto tried to brake him out of prison
Don't forget that Cyclops did his own stunts this time.
I felt both episodes served as a bridge in time. Episode 1 made me feel as a kid, but episode reminded me I'm an adult, and that this show will be too.
I remember seeing him trying that maneuver in a Wolverine comic pre-onslaught but during Wolverine feral days. I think Wolverine 101 or 102 .
Cyclops' optic blasts is just one of those "don't worry about it" things that you don't look too closely at, like how Wolverine's claws fit in his forearms or how Morph can violate the Law of Conservation of Mass every time they shapeshift or whatnot. I mean, if you're going to argue that he should have broken his neck when he cushioned his fall, then why didn't you argue something similar when he blew that hole in the wall of the warehouse? Or why he didn't suffer a concussion at bare minimum when he used his optic blast to slide himself and Bobby across the floor? Or why he wasn't pushed back an equal distance when he sent other grown men flying with his optic blasts? Or how (with his visor off and his eyes wide open) did Cyclops only knock a few people out and blow out the windows and not destory a huge chunk of the building and potentially surrounding buildings with a wide beam?
It's just not worth it to ask. Better to have fun with it and chalk it up to "mutants are magic."
11:16 Damn, I forgot how bulky Gambit used to be, especially compared to his more twinkie body type in 97.
Great content! The only other time I've seen Cyclops use his optic blast to slow his decent was with Havoc in X-men Evolution Season 1 Ep 13 after their powers were enhanced by Magneto.
The storm scene in the desert belongs in the Louvre, for it is art
This show has been so amazing! I can not wait for more of it.
Interesting hearing the origins of Morph. I thought he was based on the Mimic character because he too could mimic the abilities of mutants and died in combat whereas Changeling just faded out like a punk. I also thought they picked the name Morph because "morphing" was so popular at the time and it was a cooler name than mimic.
Pausing the video because I laughed out loud at the AI lying to you, followed by the friend finding the origin of Cyclops so quickly that you felt nothing but shame. Spot on humor and thank you for that.
Concerning the mohawk: “it is not universally well-received. Kitty Pryde runs away crying when she sees it.” LOLed AGAIN.
Awesome video and love the deep dive. I love the team combo attack moves and fighting scenes. I do hope for more Morph scenes as I like that they r nonbinary and I want to see more of their dynamics with Wolverine. Very excited to watch the new episode every Wednesday❤
I do hope you cover further episodes this video was 🎉 FANTASTIC 🎉
I’d be interested on your take regarding the video I posted a couple days ago about X-men 97’s animation being (potentially) groundbreaking.
I really appreciated how Wolverine was already clued into how Jean was wanting to leave given that he cares for her so much. Also explains why he is in such a shitty mood during the episode. Good bit of character writing w/o slamming you over the head explaining it.
I would not be hurt to see you do a weekly recap!
I loved that Goldballs reference so much
great video, love the '97 show so far it really shows love for the comics and show
Gambit is the best 70 odd year old in the comics just let him be
I hate the nickname "Bobby" for Roberto. "Beto" is the correct Brazilian nickname.
Im so happy you are reviewing this Sasha
Yes! Do episode two! Cause I want to talk about the whole Madylin Pyer, Pyor, thing. Cause most of my friends who watched the 97 have no idea about that story line. And even though it's from the 80s, I didn't want to spoil it for them
Yes to more X Men 97 discussion.