95 – Earthfall
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men finally follow up on a dropped plotline; you should probably not mess with abandoned star sharks; “Dawn of Blood” is a sometimes food; The Goblin Queen makes her first appearance; we debut a new podcast feature; and there may or may not be a frozen woman in the Xavier School basement.
X-PLAINED:
- The Providian Order
- Uncanny X-Men #232-234
- The Brood (again)
- Several ill-fated campers
- Harry Palmer
- The Brood as horror antagonists
- Why John Doggett is the best X-Files agent
- Psylocke’s armor
- Why Nestor Carbonell should play Gambit
- Some deeply dubious codenames
- Red Bee
- Michael the Bee
- Reverend William Conover and his Glory Day Crusade
- The Mile High Diner
- The strange case of Hannah Conover
- One hell of a nightmare
- A deal with a devil
- InfernoWatch
- The direct market
- Ways to approach an endless serial
INFERNO WATCH:
- Madelyne meets and strikes a deal with S’ym
- First appearance of the Goblin Queen costume
NEXT EPISODE: Evolutionary War
CORRECTION: In this episode, Jay recalled the direct market as having been conceived in significant part by Carol Kalish. It was, in fact, the brainchild of Phil Seuling.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, whatever happened to Deathbird? |
| 0:02.6 | Uh, you know, married Vulcan, got paralyzed and kidnapped by a weird science cult before |
| 0:06.6 | breaking out and popping up on the peak where she then proceeded to... |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, right, that was in adjectiveless X-Men, right, when she was pregnant. |
| 0:11.8 | Right. |
| 0:12.9 | So what did the space scientists want with her again? |
| 0:14.9 | To splice Kree DNA into her fetus. |
| 0:17.2 | Why? |
| 0:18.8 | Because at this point, alien DNA tampering is literally the only way left to make the Summers family tree more complicated. |
| 0:25.2 | Wait a minute, Summers? I thought we were talking about Deathbird. |
| 0:28.6 | Look, Miles, I don't know how they do it in your family, but I was under the impression that pregnancy usually requires two parties. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, so Vulcan... He's the gift that keeps on giving. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay, okay, but to go back a step, why did the Cree want Death bird and Balkans kid? Oh they didn't. |
| 0:43.7 | But you said Cree DNA. Well yeah but the Cree had nothing to do with it that was the |
| 0:47.6 | Providian order. The what? It's a science cult dedicated to monkeying around |
| 0:51.3 | with weird new alien hybrids. |
| 0:52.8 | For fun? |
| 0:54.3 | No, in the name of interest species galactic equality. |
| 0:56.6 | What? I'm J. Rachel Eddittin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:12.6 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:14.2 | Welcome to episode 95 of Rachel and Miles Explain the X-Men |
| 1:17.0 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the rat cons of our favorite |
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