129 – They Don’t Allow Dragons in Here (The Cross-Time Caper, Part 1)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which “Cross-Time Caper” is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde’s expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive.
X-PLAINED:
- Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme
- The Cross-Time Caper
- Excalibur #12-15
- Three love triangles
- Jay’s mom’s late iguana
- Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm
- Prince William
- Butch the ogre
- Princess Kate
- Fisticuffs
- Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style
- Bagpipe Vader
- An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem
- Sorcery 101
- Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship
- Arrested Excalibur
- The Campsite Rule of relationships
- The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering
- A protracted parody
- A very large number and several names for it
- A theoretical team-up
- Ultimate Hunger
- An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger
- Some less-than-ideal creative choices
- A multiversal montage
- Jamie Braddock (more) (again)
- A duck
- The unenviable fate of Doctor Crocodile
- Pairing mutants with metal genres
- Inconsistent flight safety measures
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay I know this is a little outside the X umbrella, but what's Rick Jones's deal? |
| 0:05.0 | Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, yeah, but just in that weird fight-based world in that one-ex caliber story, right? |
| 0:11.0 | Oh God, no. |
| 0:13.0 | Dude, 616 Rick Jones has kicked for half the Marvel Universe, the Hulk, Captain America. |
| 0:18.0 | I thought Cap's sidekick was Bucky. |
| 0:20.0 | Right, who was also briefly Rick Jones? |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:23.2 | Who else? |
| 0:24.2 | Two different captains Marvel. |
| 0:25.2 | Well, that's at least consistent. |
| 0:26.7 | Oh, and Action Figure Marketing Vehicle vehicle Rom Space Night. |
| 0:29.7 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddeton and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to episode 129 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comic's greatest |
| 0:54.8 | superhero soap opera. |
| 0:56.0 | Or as the case may be, it's Britain-based spin-offs. |
| 0:59.3 | Oh, but such fun ones, we're finally on the cross-time caper aren't we? We are now the cross-time |
| 1:04.3 | caper okay so the last two episodes we covered the first part of the new |
| 1:07.4 | mutants as guardian adventure and the first part of X-factors judgment war and |
| 1:11.6 | Excalibur is kind of doing something similar a really |
| 1:14.1 | really long storyline that's going to take them away from their usual status quo. |
| 1:17.6 | Right this is what a 12 issue arc? 13 although one of those issues is a fill-in, so I guess 12. |
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