The Reel Rejects - X-MEN '97 1x03 Breakdown & Review | Marvel Studios Animation | Ending Explained

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

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Yeah, we're going to be throwing you guys like we saw Gene. Throw into the audience the entire time. Good luck. It's going to be a trip. It's going to be great for us, questionable for you guys. At best. Yeah. See you there.

See you there. Let's transition into the review now. Oh, it's going there. Yeah. All right. Let's get into the review. Guys. What did you think of episode three?

Whiz what Greg and I thought. Yeah, that was amazing. That's like this succeeded where a lot of what it fails. That was so dense. Jabs. Yeah, pull it and other things To elevate the other Even though I love what if season two

Things can't all be good I have to make things bad Yeah They told like Inferno very quickly And like the highlights you needed They address the techno organic virus Which he got to deal with the rest of his life They addressed so much in the way of like

The clone sinister stuff Because in the comic Sinister's always wanted to Play with the Summer's DNA And like the way he gets theirs through this in the comics there was always an illusion which I hoped they would do was for like 10 years Sinister had the two Summers Brothers

Havoc and Scott Cyclops but there was a third Summers' brother and it was always like tease that it might be Gambit because their powers are similar like the charging up and emitting of things and then it ended up being this guy Vulcan which nobody really heard about

but I would love if the show or the movies because I do think the movies are going to end up using Sinister You became I mean a vulcan dude like this guy and no one really cared about Showed up and ruined movies. But I think what's going to happen is if you look at the Sony movies versus the Marvel Spider-Man movies,

every time they're about to use a character, they end up using the character in the next movie. So Spider-Man 4 was supposed to be the Sam Ramey one was supposed to have Vulture. And then it turns out that Tom Holland used vulture. They were originally going to have Craven be in Spider-Man No Way Home. Now Craven's getting a movie. Like they kind of format a villain and then they end up using them later. Bruce Campbell is going to play Mysterio and Spider-Man 4. Jake J-Chill and I'll play him in the second Tom Holland.

So it's like once they've got a shape of a character they use them later, throughout the X-Men stuff post Days of Future Past, they were teasing Sinister. There's even a Mr. Essex suitcase at the end of New Mutants. Like, he was going to be the guy. I think the best way to make the X-Men live action would be to let Magneto not be the Big Bad at first or have him be like the Palpatini and like Let Sinister be the first movie's Big Bad. And I think it's really clever to use the show to get the word of mouth out about X-Men again,

to get the hype around the characters again, but also to play with characters and have the Odigan's get familiar with them. I think it would be great to have Cassandra Nova in here before she's in Deadpool 3. I think it would be great to have, you know, sinister use like this. And then that way you can kind of plant seeds, not use the canon of this character, but use the concept of the character to raise familiarity. Yeah, those are all fantastic ideas for the future of X-Men that I love that you were pitching here, Koi. Now let's talk about the episode itself.

Now let's remind it back in time. Let's spin our mind palace Like a wheel Let's take it back to a time Of ten minutes again We were in Jean's mind palace Yeah Well, it's kind of crazy

When I hear you like reference the comics And because you're pulling for the comics Your Knowledge because you need to the rewatch And I'm going Well, yeah, that's what the show did So the show sounds like it's pretty accurate to the comics Yeah, so it's pretty neat I didn't remember of Morf dealt with Sinister

He did. He did Like when Morph comes back, it is via through Sinister. And he's mind controlling Morph. Got it. He's in Morph's mind to basically manipulate and try to take down the, help take down the X-Men because, you know, Sinicers always after DNA. Oh, okay. So, yeah, I haven't watched these since I was 10.

So I'm glad you, this is a fun thing because comic show, they are really accurate. And if I remember correctly, Sinister comes in, I believe in season two. And it is, he made, he disrupts Scott and Gene's honeymoon. Oh, yeah, yeah. And that's funny. He's like, I want your DNA and I want your son. And I've done that to people. So I'm like, relate, man.

Respect the game. You've got to respect the game. Sometimes you don't want your own kid. Just want to get someone else who's in the profit. Can you imagine if you got one of Brandgelina's kids? Woo! Man. Moneymaker.

Shear gold. I know. Seriously. Think about it, guys. But, yeah, and I think it's really cool how this show is tying up a lot of loose ends. I think that I'm really impressed with the. creative amalgamation of how they are continuing it, because it's a revival.

They are continuing it. It's penultimate episode before graduation day was the origin of Sinister in the 1800s, as referenced here by Morph. And then the show just kind of ends, right? So you're like, all right, this future's unknown. We got his origin, cool. But it also ended with this thing with like Xavier having a book that was about Sinister.

and we haven't seen that brought up or acknowledged here. So what I think is cool is like they know how to, I've seen people come in in the comments and be like, do I need to watch the original show? And I feel like the show actually, I think it's more rewarding if you at least know the comics or watch the original show. However, I think they do a great job by catching you up

or at least alluding to things from the past. And I'm so impressed with how they are handling this because I do feel like, I know for some people talking to any shade on the X-Men original animated series, can sound like sacrilege. However, you know, it is, it is a very dated show. And when you watch that, you got to go into the time in which it was made.

And the time in which it was made, there were certain limitations on what they can pull off. And here, they get a chance to evolve it. And there are so many aspects to how I think they're handling the emotionality here that I think feel a little, that could actually last a little. Like, let me put it to you like this perspective. last episode was like 96 we are now what 30 years later right 20 years later how's math work 30 or 28 years later yeah 20 years later i feel like this will hold up to date better 28 years later from now comparatively to how some of the episodes were done in 96 years ago right and watching like the horror here of sinister watching how much of a loose cannon he could be kudos to them

going all out with the terror as well And, yeah, I was, I love how they keep it like psychological, existential, how it's Gene having to save herself. It's about saving someone else. Act of self-love ultimately by going to your core. Who are you without your memories? It's such a good line. Just that concept of like you are physically you, but if you, if your clone remembers more of your life. True.

Like what is the, like, your mind is who you are. This is just your like skin suit. Yeah. So like if the other person has more of your like internal drive, what does that make you? love that quandary. And also the letting go of pain. Like that line when Clone Gene, Madeline Pryor says, those are,

that's my pain. Like that, that unwillingness to let go of her pain and of cherish. It's precious to her. Because that's what she has. And how you feed off of that. Wow, that's deep shit right here.

Are these your friends? Do you remember them? This is my pain, my agony. A line just like that. That's my, but you can't take my pain away from me. I use that pain. And that is also my identity. Whoa. That is so fascinating. And having a good life lesson for a lot of people. And then to land that metaphor with the birth and the tying it all to love, like so many stories are about how love conquers all. But what is going to be a stronger memory? What's going to bring you back to you more than like the birth of a child or what's going to remind you of who you are more than that key memory? And the visuals, it sort of like a

Terrence Malick film. The way they made it so abstract and then brought it back to reality. through those images was so wonderful because that was like to reality well that's what it felt like but with her needing to snap back herself so we as an audience snap back as she needed to yeah which was really beautiful shout out to ask the pro for sponsoring us so some fun facts about me i've been seeing an en t the past couple of months got a CT scan down for my allergies and right now i'm trying to find time to get deviated septum surgery so like many of you i am someone who's tried pretty much every nasal spray you can think of because i have difficulty breathing through my nose which leads to day to day and sleeping problems on a consistent basis and So before agreeing to this, I wanted to try them out myself. Because this is a serious thing I deal with. They provided me with free samples. This is my second bottle. This is without a doubt the best nasal spray I have ever used. That's not some talking point.

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Yeah, because it could have just kept spiraling down that way where you could kind of lose an audience. Yeah. And I wouldn't have mind if they just kept going balls to the wall, go all crazy love crafting, you know, whatever the hell you want to do, honestly. Comics do. I'll recommend you some runs.

Like, X-Men's a weird. Like, it's weird. It's weird. It's very, very weird. And I love when they go weird, this show and they managed to do it in a way where every moment was there was so much about this I was like provocative like and surprisingly sexual like madeline prior is a hypersexual character because she's all of the things that jean won't let herself be at times so yeah this like aggressive lustful rageful character dude her outfit in the comics is an awakening for a lot of teenagers just the animation just keep a p and g of her in the corner of every episode just for us so

she's got like a like a loincloth for a lot of the comedy there's so there's so There's some, you know. Time to pick up the comics again. I'm just saying when you're a kid of a certain age, those comics are an awareness. You didn't have before you read it. Are these pages stuck together? I mean, this wasn't near mint.

Worth it. But I think it's really interesting to tie in the demonic elements that we are comfortable with in the MCU now because of what if, because of Dr. Strange, because of those things. And even now in the comic books, Madeline Pryor recently came back in a big way, like in the last three years.

And right now, she had a thing with Havoc, Scott's brother, because she clearly has a thing for Summers's. And then from that relationship, she ended up being with Ben Riley, a clone of Peter Parker, because it was like a brother wasn't doing it. So she found another clone that would suit her needs.

Oh, my biggest fear. I know, right? Just the clone of you out there, taking your bitties. Struggle. You never know. I've had a clone it's run into his life. It's just,

it's that and the stealing of children. Greg's had a life, you guys. You don't know what he was doing before. Really rejects. I tried doing just to take a load off my shoulders. Lock up those Brangelina kids. getting real dangerous. Whatever I can't.

Take a little break around here. Yeah. He just clones himself for editing. You're like, I don't want to edit anymore. I'll get my clone to do it. I don't want other editors to touch this, but me? I would be that guy. I mean, that's why you got a government has to dial it back.

Yeah, otherwise I will. Jamie Madrox, the multiple man will be Greg first. The multiple man storyline where he just clones himself and they all come back together and he has all the knowledge of all his clothes. That's Greg's goal. What are the new with Cyclops though, too? Oh, I love. that Cyclos basically has to have his like walkabout moment. Also, one of the times Scott quits

the X-Men, he walks out with a bag over his shoulder, and they use that for Gene or for Madeline Meyer. So like, there's so many moments that are narratively, you guys, if you haven't read a comic, it'll be like, oh, that's a frame they used. But for a comic fan, it's like, they're using covers of comics to tell a story in a really fun way, because why not use the art and frame it a certain way where we're like, well, exciting. And then like everybody else just gets to love it. Yeah, like the wedding cover, they used in a frame. Like they literally framed, I think it was X-Men 32 from the 1991 run from Jim Lee. Well, I'd love that they're giving Cyclops a true conflict here.

Yes. And the way they handled Summers, because, I mean, Summers, the way they've handled... Nathan? Nathan Summers, yeah, it is a Summers. It is A-Somers. The way they handle Nathan Summers is great, because in the show, they established he's from the future. Someone pointed out of the comments that there was like something that alluded that Gene knew

who he was, but they didn't make it explicitly clear. This episode, I feel like when they said, like, Nathan, Like, it felt like she'd met him before. It's a thousand percent. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. How could I forget you? Like, I think that's reaffirming that she's recalling the adventures with when she's, when they've encountered Cable.

Yeah. And I wonder if Cable knows, though, because sometimes when Cable would encounter them, you wouldn't treat them like they were his parents. Like, you wouldn't have a line or two that even sounded like any sort of familiarity of paternal maternal. That's why I was so unsure whether or not the animated series was taking that direction because of some of the interactions. that they would have, but the way they explain it here, especially to have, like, Bishop as part of the team for the revamp, then to be like, oh, yeah, well, you know, Bishop, Cable, both from the future. Oh, this explains how Cable gets.

I'm like, that's really clever to, again, tie that up, but also just make intriguing storyline and not just fill in a blank. And I'd love to see Bishop and Cable have at least a part of an episode where they get the Cable and Hope storyline where it's like them going to solve problems in the future or find worlds that work and like that hunt and stuff. because cables, I mean, that's Josh Brolin. It gets fascinating. The character goes crazy places.

The body horror here. Even that was a sexual, like with a rogue and... Oh, man, it just, yeah, Magneto and Rogue. And, like, how horrific they'd be for Gambit. I love that they had that scene in the most horrific way, because Gambit had to see it all as they melt into each other. So disturbing. It was so disturbing.

The Morph just pressing the button. Like, it's in the danger room all night, do we're like, dude. That's so mean. I love the way morph messes with them. But, yeah, I'm actually surprised by... It's pretty old. This really is, like, the... The teen version.

I think I said it in last episode. The animated series felt like it was a kid show. And this feels like more in the teen direction. Well, I think they know that the audience that this is for is either teens or even adults. Because the people that watched it 28 years ago are grown. Yeah, this is really great. I really love this a lot. And, you know, I know that they have five seasons in the original series.

And we're only three episodes here. But from the direction that it's been going, could see myself ending this season going. I think they did it better. And I know that is, you know, again, people are really sensitive to sort of things like that. But I really think in terms of storytelling and of like it's really easy to go, the animation. Come on. They're able to do cooler action. But I am strictly talking about the way I think they execute the storytelling itself. I find just a lot more compelling. Sure, is it more modernized? Absolutely. And maybe that's why it speaks more to my sensibilities,

even though I grew up for the show. I love it. I really love it. I think this is damn good television. I'm so impressed, coming from the comic perspective, more than the show, because I don't remember it as well,

what they're able to do encapsulating months of comic books. I remember reading Inferno over months. I didn't read it when originally came out, but I remember, like, it's so vast and it's even present today. So what they've been able to do to wrap up a bunch of different storylines

and kind of blend it all together. It's been really wonderful. That episode was so much. I can't wait for what's next. And Life Death is next according to the story description. And that's one of my favorite storm stories ever. And the setup with Forge at the end, so excited. I just love all that memory, the mind hopping show of how they just kept like playing

tops with each other internally. Yeah. Literally swallowing. Deeper. Deeper. It's like they were taking expressions. Yeah. And then manifesting them into physicality.

Right. Which I thought was so cool. This is cool shit, man. Yeah. Thank you, Animators for the drugs you've done. Thank you, Terse Malik, you're directing this episode. We appreciate it. Terrence Malick, David Krodenberg.

Yeah, the body horror and existential crises. We thank you. That is going to do it, Reject Nation. Hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did. Leave a comment below. Let us know how this compares to X-Men 92 for you. And what do you think is going to happen in Life, Death, in the next episode? If you haven't read them already, it's only two issues of comics.

There's more that tie in, but you can just read two issues. Dive into Life Death. We will see you next week for Life Death Part 1. Corey, should we play with time? Yes. Let's play with time. I'm going to keep this part in, as I say, Hey, by the way, we're going to be at WonderCon, guys.

WonderCon, Sunday, March 31st, myself, Koi, Michael Tesler, and John Humphrey on the panel. It's going to be a weird, wacky, wild time. There's going to be blood and body horror. Body horror and perhaps substances. Yeah, we're going to be throwing. Like we saw Gene. Throw into the audience the entire time. Good luck.

It's going to be a trip. It's going to be great for us. us questionable for you guys at best yeah see you there see you there let's transition into the review now oh it's going there yeah all right let's get into the review guys what did you think of episode three whiz what gregg and i thought