454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it. X-PLAINED: Fabian Cortez’s name X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10 Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation Varying levels of going in blind A somewhat different and possibly better Forge The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend Colonialism vs. Identity Delayed catharsis The narrative power of altered opening credits What makes allyship effective (and not) Justified mutant anger The worst version of Nina DaCosta What makes Prime Sentinels scary Summers family feels The best damned fight scenes out there Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy Simultaneous crossovers A psychic gay bar A last boss arena Acolyte equivalencies Phoenix Ex Machina Crying Whether Magneto was right Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents Soft Serve Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls! LINKS AND FURTHER READING: The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein No visual companion this week! Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	So, does anyone like Fabian Cortez?
0:05.0	No.
0:06.0	I mean, hell, even when it came to the original X-Men cartoon,
0:10.0	Broadcasting standards and practices was dead set against him. Because he's so evil? What? I'm Jay Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men.
0:27.0	I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men.
0:34.8	Because it's about time someone did.
0:36.8	Welcome to episode 454 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you through
0:41.2	the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest
0:44.0	superhero soap opera.
0:46.0	Or as the case may be, Television's greatest superhero soap opera because we are back
0:51.1	for part two of our discussion of X-Men 97.
0:55.0	And as in part one, this discussion will be shock full of spoilers for the entire first season of X-Men 97.
1:03.4	All of it.
1:04.2	If you don't want it spoiled, don't listen.
1:07.5	For real, if you care about spoilers at all,
1:09.7	like the episode will still be here. You know, provide a disasters don't occur.
1:15.0	I made a really good joke here, but Miles said that it was too close to a spoiler so we couldn't include it.
1:21.0	I got your back, spoiler-phobic listeners.
1:24.0	Do you think Magido ever erases videotapes just to be petty?
1:28.8	Uh, I think probably yes, or well, not for everyone.
1:32.1	I think he does for Fabian Cortez.
1:34.0	Probably Toad too.
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