453 – X-Men ’97, Part 1

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.

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0:00.0	Hot damn Jay! X-Men 97!
0:04.6	I know I feel like it really captured the audacity of scope of the first animated series.
0:10.3	Right? Well I guess maybe except for episode 10.
0:15.0	What do you mean? The ending was fantastic.
0:18.0	Oh, I mean, it was a great season finale. I couldn't have asked for more from it.
0:22.0	But if we're talking about sheer unhinged audacity,
0:24.8	beyond good and evil probably still holds the record.
0:28.7	You're comparing the X-Men 97 finale to Nietzsche?
0:33.4	No, dude, the four-part finale of X-Men the animated series season four.
0:37.7	It was actually supposed to be the series finale, so they went all out, and then some.
0:41.7	Wait, I think I remember this.
0:45.0	Was it the one where Apocalypse tried to go back in time and rewrite history?
0:50.0	Yes, and he found the axis of time and built a castle with a bunch of telepaths and tubes so that he could draw energy from the axis instead of hibernating, and Bishop came on stuck in time and had to be guided back by a guy named Bender who then turned out to be... Magneto?
1:04.0	Why would he be Magneto?
1:06.0	I don't know.
1:07.0	Would have been pretty cool though, right?
1:09.0	Anyway, no, he wasn't Magneto.
1:11.0	He was Mr. Fantastic's dad.
1:13.0	Nathaniel Richards.
1:14.0	What? I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men
1:31.9	Because it's about time someone did.
1:34.0	Welcome to episode 453 of J and Miles, explain the X-Men,
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