67 – Shadow of the Technarch
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which the New Mutants get unstuck in time; Robert the Bruce is surprisingly shallow; Sentinels dabble in decoupage; Rachel pitches a comic; there’s no such thing as a happy Magneto flashback; you should probably respect teenagers more than you do; the seeds of Inferno are sewn; and Doug Ramsey hacks the planet.
NOTE: Rachel and Miles are moving this week. Expect everything to be late.
X-PLAINED:
- Messing with the past
- New Mutants character themes
- You Can’t Do That on Television
- New Mutants #47-50
- Constructive stabbing
- Sad Darin Morgan Magneto
- Adventures in time and space
- Tactical retreat
- Several dark alternate futures
- Earth-8720
- Decoupage of Future Past
- A singularly evocative Sentinel
- Earth-87050
- Magneto’s terrible, terrible life
- The New Mutants vs. Magus
- Peak Magma
- Karma’s codename
- Soul Sword continuity
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel? What's bothering you, Miles? |
| 0:02.0 | Time travel. Can't help you there, buddy? |
| 0:04.0 | I mean, I know going back in time to mess with historical figures is the time-honored tradition, but Marvel's usually more about the dark futures. |
| 0:10.0 | What are you talking about? I mean, in the fifth issue of Fantastic Four, Doom sends the |
| 0:13.8 | FF back to the 18th century. How's that work out? |
| 0:16.6 | Ben Grimm becomes Blackbeard. |
| 0:17.8 | What? I'm Rachel Eddagen. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Rachel Eddagen. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Rachel Eddagen. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:31.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:34.3 | Welcome to the 67th episode of Rachel and Miles, Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the |
| 0:38.1 | ins, outs, and retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. So we are coming back to the new mutants after the mutant massacre. They were probably the least scathed. Can you be scathed or just unscathed? I'm not entirely sure. I would expect so. Well anyway. Yeah, because something can be scathing. Well there you go. |
| 0:53.4 | They were the least scathed by scathing things of all of the teams who were |
| 0:57.4 | involved. I should also note with regards to the cold open we veered a little bit |
| 1:01.4 | away from X-Men there which seems |
| 1:03.1 | appropriate because the fantastic cast to do something very similar to what we do but |
| 1:06.7 | with regards to the fantastic for actually to a really fun episode recently |
| 1:09.5 | which I say kind of self-servingly because it was riffing off us including a cold open and you should go listen to it if you like what we do but really wish it were about the Fantastic Four because it's a fun podcast they do interesting stuff and now there is a very smooth transition point from one to the other. |
| 1:22.4 | There you go. Just you know come back here also because otherwise we is a very smooth transition point from one to the other. |
| 1:22.6 | There you go. |
| 1:23.2 | Just you know come back here also because otherwise we'd miss you. |
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