The Reel Rejects - X-MEN '97 Season 2 Episode 5 REVIEW – THE WOLVERINE HORROR EPISODE!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Guys, Koi got something wrong. And everyone's celebrated. You know what? There's so many X-Men teams. When one pops up randomly. Yeah, I got a lot of excuses for these experts that were able to take a second and realize what was. I was wrong. I was wrong.

Starting point is 00:00:17 What were you wrong about? I swapped the exiles and the externals. Okay. The exiles were the team I described wherein there are a bunch of timey-wimey, multiple-dimensional X-Men that gather in different. settings. The externals are basically the internals of an X in their name. It's pretty silly when you actually think about it. It's just the

Starting point is 00:00:37 eternals and they put an X in the middle. Because the word externals doesn't make any sense. Dude, everyone knows these facts. Everyone knows externals. Every casual person knows. Everybody's like, I know Wolverine, I know Cyclops, and I know the externals. Everyone talks about the end. Everyone's like, oh yeah, X-Forst exists. Obviously. But external. People are like where's the externals intro to X-Men 97? That's what I'm waiting for.

Starting point is 00:00:59 We keep waiting for. Name the 10 members. It's okay, Coy. It's okay. You should be, you're humbled. Okay. You're humbled. That's a word I use for me often.

Starting point is 00:01:06 I had a weirdest situation today because like a couple hours ago randomly at some random not L.A. event. I happen to be met. He came up to me the writer of this specific episode, Anthony Salad. He came up to me. He's like, hey, I love your videos. And we talked for like 15 minutes with us. I'm like, I'm actually about to go. go watch your episode.

Starting point is 00:01:31 Like a couple hours from now. I love that light. That's so very uniquely here. Yeah. So now I have to automatically like it. They sent someone from Disney. He gave me my check and I'm going to like it automatically. I sit in that chair with the sniper on you. He's like like the episode. I understand. You're ready to like it? You're ready to like it? He's watching.

Starting point is 00:01:46 Because we haven't liked it out of this, but now I will like it. We'll start liking it now. Yeah, yeah. Liking commence. Coy! Greg! So you called right away. You said they were the boomers. I did. I was like, man, I hate boomers. Then they were, they infest everything. They stay in power and they should just die off.

Starting point is 00:02:07 Out of people want. Just like in the generation. Get out of here, boomers. You got to light them on fire and like cut them up. Get rid of them. Got to kill the boomers. Get off my plane. That's the problem I got with them.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Big hive mind. They listen to one person when they should really make their own decisions. Just the roughest species, the boomers. So you knew who these creatures were pretty fast. I got to show you the actual cover because it made me real happy. Because this is the era of X-Men that I was first collecting when I started like really connecting collecting and I was just a wee lad and it was when they were going through like Jim Lee was on art. John Amita Jr. was on art. A lot of like the classics like a lot of my favorites to this day. But this is I think I said Johnometer Jr. And I was wrong. It's Mark Sylvester. If I remember correctly now that I'm looking at. But that is look at that cover. Oh, they did so memorable. They did do the cover. It's uncanny X-Men number 234. is about 30 issues slash five years before. That was like a whole thing.

Starting point is 00:03:05 Oh, it's huge, dude. It's like a, I mean, like the issue before, like there's a lot of stuff building up to it. It's pretty rad. Yeah, the brood storyline is, it's pretty iconic and important. How do you feel about one episode doing it? You know, I personally think the brood are able to come back

Starting point is 00:03:21 whenever they kind of want once you introduce them. So like, I don't think this is the end of the brood, but now that they're introduced in Canada is pretty cool. And not a real thing that you would do like a whole season about? Not a season. think they'd be like in a movie I think it'd be a cool like opening villain or something that like affects the bigger villain but I personally don't think um a full storyline would work for you know that's fair if you wanted to do like a small budget horror movie it did really well for new mutants

Starting point is 00:03:47 to do something like that then perhaps but um I think it's like a piece of a storyline I think it served the purpose of this episode which was obviously to get a wolverine centric episode that's also about him trying to figure out like his animal side versus his human side, I would have personally had a little bit more feral wolverine before we reverted him. So that would be more of a commentary on like, what's the difference between a feral wolverine and a possessed one anyway? Yeah. Is the brood making him more of who we really is? Yeah. I feel like they kind of like nodded at that idea. Like that was the undercurrent,

Starting point is 00:04:20 but like I don't know that we really met or saw a feral wolverine very much. No, not really. And it doesn't have a nose in the comics. It does feel like there should have been. It would have. I would agree with you there. Like it would have just elevated that episode. It's like the episode itself as an isolation is very effective in that sense. But if we were able to feel some of that pre-context and then have the debate feel real as opposed to us just being here being like, well, no, in the past like season and a half, you know, fucking, yeah. Doesn't have a nose.

Starting point is 00:04:49 He's so feral. He's just noseless. Look at that. That's, we never met this guy. I like no nose wolf because she's just that feral. Then he was a ninja for a while, teamed up with Daredevil, had to be retrained. how to discover his senses and put them at the normal level. There was years of Wolverine being like Farrell.

Starting point is 00:05:06 So that's not a storyline I enjoy. I think Bone Clause and Ferrell Wolverine are not my thing. But I think it would have allowed this story to feel a little deeper. Well, they might be heading in that direction, though. This portion of the video is sponsored by Kalshi. And once again, they have found the exact type of nerd argument we were probably going to have anyway. Calci is the largest prediction market globally.

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Starting point is 00:06:38 verified from a rotten tomato. So it's not just vibes. It's tied to the actual score after release. So we can treat this like a Marvel debate. Yes side, Spider-Man has been one of the Marvel's most consistent characters. There's a ton of goodwill coming off of no way home. Trailer looks awesome. And if brand-new day gives us some more grounded, emotional, Peter Parker's story,

Starting point is 00:06:57 critics could absolutely respond to that. The action looks amazing on the no-state. above 90s, a very high bar. Superheroes with that kind of score are a little bit more rare these days. The movie may have a lot of characters and expectations to juggle, and Spider-Man fans are very particular about tone, villains,

Starting point is 00:07:15 compactness, and how much setup gets packed in, which is compactness. Personally, I'm leaning, yes, because of everything I've been hearing behind the scenes and the test screenings have been through the roof. It just looks like they're doing something different that's going to give us a lot of feel.

Starting point is 00:07:32 So even if it's not the most character thing, which I feel like it will be, I imagine that the entertainment value will have a descend above 90, which Spider-Man movies have reached before. So I'd be placing a small trade on that side. Not placing a trade right now, but that's where my head is at. And Calcia has other Spider-Man and movie markets on here. So if you want to see where the conversation is moving,

Starting point is 00:07:51 check out the Spider-Man market yourself. You can click our link in the description box or use code rejects and you'll get $10 when you trade $10. All right, Spider-Man brand-new day above 90 on Rotting Tomatoes. Are you leaning yes or no? I'm definitely leaning yes. Thank you, Kalshi. You know, I know they have like quite a bit of a plan here for, you know, a while for this show to carry on.

Starting point is 00:08:11 And I don't know what that plan is. It's just it's been made clear that they wanted to last a while. Yeah. So perhaps they were doing that because, yeah, Wolverine, this side of Wolverine of like, is he really this guy or is he the other? Which is the thing explored in the movies quite a bit. But not so much in the show as of late. so then to have it just kind of be thrown in here as a thing to comment on.

Starting point is 00:08:32 And I understand, like, there's characters from his past who have a lot of terrible past experiences with him. So, of course, you're going to have this belief about who Logan really is and then morph is with a very different time period version of Logan.

Starting point is 00:08:46 A lot of that context does make sense, but if the debate about it was there, yeah, I agree. But for the immediacy, for something that wanted to strike a tone that was very much aliens meets the thing, I thought that for as an isolated episode Was effective it was cool to get this like extraterrestrial bit here

Starting point is 00:09:03 There's a lot of alien shit going on right now And so much of our media It's just kind of crazy it is like oh no X-Men's even doing that even much more now To have this one in here so I thought it was like just cool to to get that and for me to be introduced to the broo Yeah, I think it's a really good episode for people that aren't as like enriched in the lore People that forget the externals But I think that the people Discovering Brood this

Starting point is 00:09:27 is a perfect gateway because it is that tone it is that world it also brings us some in the comic sense it's cosmic right like in the comics it ties into shiar it's in invading alien species all those things this didn't have to go to space in order to have these space characters so we still get to this season's doing a lot right it's doing timelines it's doing all these big powers is introducing like 40 characters at a time i don't think we have time to go to space so i think it did a good job of making a space based character set work terrestrily for the purpose of the narrative yeah Yeah. It was interesting after having like three episodes that were solely focused though. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:03 To then have like kind of what I imagine will tie into the larger picture is it feel a bit like anthological. Because like not season one was an entirely just one storyline to focus on. They would have episodes where they would divert and go to like a different focus. And obviously we wanted Wolverine to eventually get his adamantium back. And I thought it was interesting though with all the association we have Wolverine. Like him getting the adamantium is obviously not a thing that is known to be. like this is what I want can you inject me with this pop into the spot

Starting point is 00:10:31 this time for him to like be wanting it back is something that was never done in like the live action of him trying to attain that and to have that here where it does kind of go to his identity of him feeling like more because they have like that line in a couple episodes ago that is saying that's

Starting point is 00:10:47 that's keeping him and I forget what the fucking line was something about how it's like it's essentially holding him together yeah it's like this run for me and broker something yeah yeah yeah he needs the adamantium it's funny how like Logan the movie is like the adamantium's killing him yeah well and that is a thing like adamantium poisoning is a thing but the feral side is much sooner like that's a much more present problem yeah so but the for him to actually like want the adamantium and feel like it seems like it was much more than just

Starting point is 00:11:16 hey it's it's keeping my body together it seems like he actually wants it for the benefits at the he feels more complete with it yeah you know and that is like you said as soon as at any of the most complete episode we have a Wolverine in this take on the show. So it's also interesting to see like his past coming to haunt him, which is a very Wolverine thing, bringing in some villains like Omega Red and like letting his story grow out. This episode is very much, these aren't X-Men villains.

Starting point is 00:11:40 Obviously, Omega Red's in the X-Men, but like these are very much Wolverine's world. Like, I didn't think we'd get Garrison Kane. So these are all characters that are very tied to Wolverine continuity. So it's cool to see the episode focus on Wolverine and then also make it like Wolverine weapon X baddies. Yeah. Like Maverick and Wolverine have the beef even in the current.

Starting point is 00:11:58 Like right now comics, Maverick just had a huge whole arc. And then Garrison Kane, I said it in the episode was supposed to be in Deadpool. There's a lot of these weapon X-E characters that are like C-list to X-Men, but like, you know, important to his story. So I'm glad they used them here. True, true.

Starting point is 00:12:14 So we had to have Sabretooth back. Has been back here in a while. Lady Death Strike, Yukio. We haven't had her in a bit either. So it was kind of cool to see that apparently he can just summon them as buddies. Yep. Just hanging out. I didn't know he could do that.

Starting point is 00:12:27 That's why I was, we both thought it was a flashback. So I was like, is Sabertich is just hanging out? Yeah, I didn't know, he could just, you know,

Starting point is 00:12:33 he sold, he sold them on some, we're gonna stop fighting for now. He sold them on some lie to get them back in. It worked. But yeah, there was something a bit jarring. Oh,

Starting point is 00:12:40 he was just able to, like, it seemed like there was no calamity putting this together. Yeah. So the Bruder introduced in like the 70s, in the 2010s, there was a storyline,

Starting point is 00:12:51 uh, a, a, a, There's a young little brood named brew, and he becomes one of the X-Men. Yeah. So there's a cute, if you kids that love your little, you know, your rocket raccoons and your baby grutes, there's a, there's a brew that is a young little glasses wearing brood. Okay.

Starting point is 00:13:09 Not kidding. Nextman's crazy. Good stuff. Good stuff all the round. You got options. You got Corny that's back. So, yeah. No, this was a, I still, I still thought it was like a fun, effective episode.

Starting point is 00:13:19 While there would have been some other contexts, I would have let this like a land a lot harder. It was still one that is going to be remaining in monoggin. Yeah, I had a lot of fun with it. I like the tone. I like the spirit. I like the atmosphere. I like the vibe overall. And I like the introduction of potential that it does give.

Starting point is 00:13:37 And it gives a huge corner of the X-Men universe. It's introduction with the brood. They're very prominent. So it's exciting that they're here. But because, you know, I met the writer anthony. It is a 100 out of 10. Oh, it's your favorite episode of the series. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:53 He came up to me. And he gave me. I was like, wow, you have the check delivered to me. Yeah. Thanks. It's nice when the writers are like, they don't pay us that much. But we're going to pay you to talk about me. To say a good thing.

Starting point is 00:14:05 They gave me a little courier bonus. Because you're an influencer. Yeah. We're going to influence you. Positive. Reject nation. So it's like a little taste. People who already watch our videos who have already seen the episode.

Starting point is 00:14:18 Those are the people we're trying to influence retroactively. We're trying to change your opinion. Yeah. Because you're already watching. watching it and we're like thanks correct it's working it's very effective it's good marketing strategy yeah definitely it's why the studios love us all right guys well that's it for x-men 97 today what did you think about the episode leave your thoughts down below thank you so much for being here koi thanks for recognizing they were the brood and telling me who they were still shamed that redemption

Starting point is 00:14:44 within five minutes of you you know scorn yeah it was like oh we didn't know a thing i'm like well let me make up for it brood well you deserve it thanks if you cannot be an encyclical If I don't know the exiles and the externals off the dome and which is which and from 30 years ago, I've failed you. That's why AI is replacing you. That's directly me. Because, you know, AI would have known. It would have been like, who are the characters of the... It would have been like, whoa, who's the king mentioning here?

Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah, yeah. Immediately been like, boom, no. You, failure. Yeah, and then cable comes around and goes, hey, where did you guys go wrong? Well, it's like, we decided to stop learning anything as a species because we just looked stuff up and then it just went downhill from there. And there's a lot of timelines. about that who's capable that's exactly my point all right guys well leave your thoughts down below we'll see you soon

The Reel Rejects - X-MEN '97 Season 2 Episode 5 REVIEW – THE WOLVERINE HORROR EPISODE!

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