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| Wednesday, February 4, 2009 09:11 AM |
| On the Viewer - Wolverine and the X-Men (Episode 3 - "Hindsight - Part 3") |
 by Fëanor |
And here's Emma! In the comics, she didn't get her secondary mutation (the diamond form) until after Genosha was destroyed. I wonder how they'll deal with that here... I see Kitty hates Emma, which is just as it should be. This is interesting, the backstory about Emma having her own mutant school in Massachusetts. I don't know if that's canon or not, but it makes sense. Emma, of course, has the cleavage and midriff going on, but at least her outfit here isn't nearly as ridiculous as many she wore in the comics. Bobby sure likes her, though! Poor Bobby. He gets so upset when Kitty points out Emma knows what he's thinking. Heh.
Hey, Forge is here, too! And he's a cute little nerd! Awww.
It's pretty neat how quick any member of the X-Men is to do something if it means helping Xavier.
Pieces are dropping off the Blackbird and Wolverine wants them to get in and fly it?!
Bobby freezes in his sleep! Awesome.
Uh... if the Blackbird's stealth doesn't work, why don't they just wait a few minutes? You know, go around the block a few times? I mean, c'mon. Xavier's been in Genosha for a year, apparently; he can wait a few more minutes.
Cyclops is just busting all the doors open, and Bobby's leaving a giant trail of ice? I thought they were trying to be discreet!
It's not particularly surprising that Magneto is smarter, calmer, cooler, and more in control than any of the X-Men. They attack him, but he easily subdues them. Once he learns their purpose, he ends the fight and gives them Charles. A true gentleman! But Xavier is in a coma with no brain function. When the X-Men get him back home, he suddenly contacts them telepathically - but it's not the Xavier from the present. It's an Xavier from 20 years in the future. He reveals that his coma will last that long, and gives them a glimpse of the world he wakes up to: a horrible post-apocalyptic future where Sentinels patrol a blasted wasteland. This future came to be, he warns, because the X-Men fell apart and the members failed on their own. They must stick together as a team to keep it from happening. As he breaks off contact with them, we see he's been talking to them from the ruins of Cerebro. As he runs outside, he passes the gravestones of every member of the X-Men. Ouch!
Now we've got a story! The team has an urgent purpose, and another major element of X-Men storylines - a glimpse forward at a dark and terrible future that must be avoided at all costs - has been added. The interesting thing is that Xavier also pointed out that Wolverine has to lead the team for this to work. That made Cyclops almost walk out right then and there.
I'm really impressed with this series! Sure, it's got some corny dialogue at times, but overall it's pretty clever and the over-arching storyline is really intriguing. Now that the premise-building first three episodes are out of the way, I'm very curious to see where it goes next. |
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