Obviously you guys don't remember the original animated series, it was that good sometimes better hell apocalypse evaporated them all in one blast on the original animated series trust me it's that good
I love it, coz the big thing that mattered to her was the ability to touch him, but as soon as she can touch him, she can't feel him, coz he is his soul not his skin
"Yet so many allow their leaders to be terrorist" is a line that goes so hard and is so true. This show deserves every possible award it is eligible to win
What If? really made The Watcher’s presence so much more foreboding. He’s like Absol, every time he shows up there’s this uneasy energy that something horrific is about to happen he needs to witness
I feel like even without what if it still woulda hit, just not for more normie fans. The Watcher is easily one of the most recognizable things for comic fans
I think the comics did that for long time fans. Hell this isn’t even the Watchers first appearance in X-Men the animated series, What If? just made him relevant for newer fans particularly ones who don’t read comics
"What gives this show the right!?" is so true. The script, the stories, the voice work...the whole production is utterly impeccable. And I will never not be destroyed by that final cut to black with Rogue weeping over Gambit.
The directing with the music and the camera on Jean and the lighting shifts, confusion, the dance were all soo well done. It was incredibly atmospheric and immersive
Rogue finally gets to touch Gambit with her bare skin…”I can’t feel you.” That last scene BROKE me. Same goes for "The name's Gambit, mon ami. Remember it." He went out like a true hero.
@@ArlanKelsStan bush’s the touch and the Lyons version of the theme is awesome… but come on. You really gonna compare the to the X-men theme, storms theme, magnetos theme? He’ll even the genosha song was fire
So fun fact, the man who voiced Cable in this episode originally voiced Gambit in the first 4 seasons of the original show and was the one who first gave us the line “The name is Gambit, remember it!”. Almost poetic that he now voices Cable who tried to save everyone including Gambit
Aaron in episode 1: I don't know much about X-Men so for most of these characters outside the main ones I'm gonna be like "WHO'S HE?" Aaron by episode 5: Constantly naming off characters left and right every episode, some of them even I don't recognize
It’s because he plays Marvel Snap. That game is ran by big and genuine Marvel fans and has hella deep cuts when it comes to Marvel comic book characters. I’m a big Marvel fan and even I don’t know some of the characters in the game lol
@@cl4-tpgaming even if it has absurdly priced bundles, it's one of the most F2P friendly games, much more succesful right now than old IPs. And still, while monetization is absurd, as long as it sticks to cosmetics, there's no harm done. And yes, the devs are big Marvel Fans. You hating the game does not make that a true statement xD
Yeah! Eric not only saw The Watcher but also felt the foreboding tone his presence brings. And Rick is right, Gambit has had Omega-level moments which is why this show is written so well - Gambit was, ultimately, the Omega level threat for the Sentinel. Great reaction, great episode, epic series
Omega level threat refers to Mutant power levels, which certain mutants are classed as omega level as there is potentially no upper limit to their powers. Gambit isn't an omega mutant, but the Sentinel underestimating him because he was a lower class threat was definitely it's downfall.
@@Amazing_Amy_WGambit is omega level but he made a deal with sinister to basically nerf his powers. In an alternate reality his mutant powers continue to grow unchecked until he accidentally charges the entire planets surface and burns the entire world. His powers at full power include the ability to travel different realities, charge objects just by looking at them. His powers also work on organic matter now. He has total control of kinetic energy at the molecular level giving him the power to freeze ppl in place. He can simulate other forme of energy such as microwaves and such. This version is call new sun if you want to look him up.
@@airborne19j Yep, all of this! If you are just going off of the original animated series, you would think he is just a mutant who has kinetic charge but he reaches Omega level in the comics and I think the creators of this show are nodding to that here, and perhaps, foreshadowing what's to come.
If they gave out an award for best line reading, give it to the actress who plays Rogue for that last line. Every time I hear it, I tear up like you guys.
When the show runners pitched this show to Kevin Feige THIS was the episode that made him green light the show. They said they wanted an attack on mutants that felt like 9/11.
Beau DeMayo said when pitching the show, this was the crux of the whole thing. Sure, bringing back the X-Men is awesome, but having the show defined by this event raises it above being more than a reboot of a cool nostalgia show.
Exactly how it came across to me. This show started off with a very similar feel to the OG cartoon...and then this happens and everything just keeps getting more and more insane each episode.
On his twitter, Beau DeMayo wrote that this episode was the centerpiece of his pitch to Marvel for the season back in 2020, inspired by his experiences of watching 9/11 and the Pulse nightclub shooting. The seemingly safe world of the 90s for the children who watched the show now hit with the brutal realities of the unsafe adult world, now broken and traumatized. Now the path forward for the X-Men is more complicated than ever, especially concerning the decision of whether to pursue social justice or social healing. Safe to say, this episode is probably the best singular adaptation of X-Men ever made, up there with Logan. "Remember it," we shall.
@@mariebourgot4949 They don't and they shouldn't be; but I can see why he handled it as separate entities, as if they accomplished separate things. In the world we live in, it's more palpable the rift between the concepts of "healing" and "justice", considering some of the prevailing concepts of positivity and rejection of abuse power. In some cases, "justice" is seen as an act based on negative feelings of aggresion because it seeks punishment (it doesn't help some radical voices equal "justice" only with jail or capital punishment, raids, invasions... depending on the context), while "healing" is more "positive" and "better spirited" because it asks for forgiveness and growth, not much in reparations from the aggressor. In a perfect world, both concepts coexist and contribute to the same process; in our flawed world, that the show mimicks, it's very difficult finding the middle ground for every single crisis, and leaning on extremes ("extreme justice" vs. "extreme kill your enemy with kindness") leads to unexpected disasters/side effects (each social group in each generation, eventually, has to find where they stand in that blurred line; since shocking events just won't stop happening). Odd trivia: if the dates I found are not messed up, the main event inspiring this episode (Genosha's Massacre) was published original between july and august of 2001, months before 9/11; while the pitch for the series incorporates all the mental feelings and images of the events of that year, the original printed storyline just happened to coincide with history about to unfold.
"Yet so many allow their leaders to be terrorists" "We shall not live our days wondering if we could have saved more" "Regardless of your stance on recent world events, the images you are about to see, may be disturbing" Does anything ring a bell when u hear these lines? Something currently happening? Just make sure to not waste the emotional intelligence you develop when u watch empathy inducing fictional stories like these by ending up showing apathy when similar or worse cases happen in real life. Another good quote by Bastion in a later episode talking about the genocide: "...overload their bandwidth. Too much to compute. Because when your skins not in the game, apathy is your answer"
Yeah they did not try to be subtle with the parallels and I’m glad. It is what the X-Men were made for: a stand in for victims of intolerance and hatred
The tragic thing is, if you're thinking of Gaza today, the scripts for this show would have been written long before the current war. It fits because it fits so many things in human history.
@@QueenMegaera thats true. My comment was just a reminder bcos the point about apathy is more common these days, also the point about how people invest and spend their sympathies towards fictional stories but not irl. idc if they intentionally tried to align the dialogue with current events or not bcos as u said it fits in many other events
The way Eric almost had a flinch reaction at 18:03 is exactly how it went for me. I didn't expect such a realistic delivery of that line where it sounds like she's struggling so hard to say what she was saying and just unexpectedly welling up in my eyes after it.
I kid you not I can watch something sad 5 or 6 times and not shed a tear, but when I watch that same piece of entertainment in Blindwave's reaction it always gets me, when I see the faces Eric and Aaron make before they cry it gets me REAL BAD.
“The names Gambit, mon ami. Remember it.” What a banger line. The original X-men series was hit or miss for me. I loved the Spiderman TAS so much more. But wow this has blown me away with every second!
The most shocking and heartbreaking episode of tv since The Red Wedding in Game Of Thrones for me. When Magneto not only tried to comfort Leech but did so in his native language, knife to the heart. Then they twist the knife with the last line “I can’t feel you”!😭😭😭😭😭 This is officially the best Marvel the show ever made!
Magneto has some of the coldest, hardest lines in TV/movie history. In the comics this massacre kills 16 million mutants, it was one of biggest events in marvel history.
he's a pinkish blue-eyed biped humanoid with squishy organic matter surrounding a skeleton bros just a dude in the weirdest way possible gotta appreciate Glob Herman: he's just a perfect character design
I was legit just sobbing, angry, sad, confused, terrified for 5 full minutes after the credits rolled. What an episode. And another sobering thought, Gambit didn’t know Rogue chose him before he died.
The "I can't feel you" hit hard when Wanda said it to Vision, but it hits even harder here. It also hurts even more knowing Lenore Zann lost her niece to cancer not too long before recording this episode, so she put all that emotion into it.
"What gives this show the right?" What a perfect way to summarize my feelings of this episode. The entire season has no business being as good as it is, but I love that it is.
This is the best X-men outside of comics to me. They've never been adapted this well before, and this episode is the thing that I will measure all other X-Men adaptations against.
The creator of this show said that this attack was like a 9-11 type event and he based it off of the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting (since he is gay that one hit him very hard).
I can never hold back tears during the ending of this episode. watching BlindWave react to it is no exception. 18:15 my sentiments exactly, Eric. ❤ believe it or not, the show just keeps getting better. idk how they manage to do it.
I love that they all grabbed tissue after this episode. I was right there with you guys. A lot of us were. Seeing Gambit die with Rogue holding him in her arms. It was like being 10 years old again, seeing your older cooler brother that you idolized go out.
I STILL haven't emotional recovered from seeing this episode the first time. I wasn't even born during the original X-men series but this show has done such a good job to make me care about these characters so quickly that I'm still devastated weeks later
Made me happy Aaron immediately recognised my girl Pixie. I'm so happy she actually survived in this new universe (she has a tendency to die whenever she shows up somewhere new).
Want another blow to the feels? Lenore Zann, Rogue’s VA, lost her seventeen year old niece to a long fight with cancer and would record the lines for this episode mere weeks after the niece died. Zann mentioned on her Instagram how the line reads made everything hurt again and you can definitely hear it in the performance, imo
I swear, the writers better get some sort of awards for this show, the delivery of one liners and unmistakable quotes one right after the other.... absolutely stellar
In the original series, they had an episode where they sent sentinels after Magneto. When he tried to just crush the sentinel, it didn't work and they revealed that they had started making them out of a type of plastic. That's why Magneto can't just stop them.
I've seen this episode 4 times and never noticed The Watcher until Eric noticed it. It is so much more heartbreaking now considering The Watcher knows ill-fated moments in history and what we know about this point in the timeline from future episodes. A stellar series and I look forward to how they react to rest.
This was honestly the best episode of Marvel Television ever made. Magento asked the world not to let him down. They did BIG time. His people have been begging for human tolerance forever. Now they even refused to let them live in peace. All they did was exist in in return Humanity granted them genocide. Magento was always right to treat them as an enemy. All they've done is prove him right. His name was Gambit, remember it. Remember the name of ever single innocent mutant that died because humanity refuses to accept others for simply being different.
This episode completely floored me when I first saw it. Gambit is my favorite X-Man (right next to Wolverine). Seriously, if I ever got dropped into an X-Men Universe, I would want Gambit as my mentor to train me on how to use my mutant powers. In mainline Marvel comics, the Genosha Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters in X-Men history.
This is up there as one of my favourite episodes of television ever made, so fucking good. Perfect no matter how times I watch it, it deserves every award possible
Madeleine realizing who Cable is really hit me hard. Her and Scott did not know their child survived, as Bishop doesn’t immediately return with their cured kid.
Man it is good to see Nightcrawler again. I also thought that was the Watcher in that one scene, Mutants weren't even given a chance. "The name is Gambit, Remember it!"
This shows that Disney is 100% going to handle the X-Men with love and understanding imo... This is one is the best episode ever, and is not even the best episode of this damn show.. This show is next level. The writing, drama, character development, and animated all 10/10, add some amazing music and you got a one is the best shows ever. Remember his name. Remember Gambit
Another big wrinkle (for lack of a better word) with the Scott/Madeline/Jean/Logan quadrangle (square, rectangle, whichever you prefer...to avoid insults) is that Scott amd Madeline had a child together. That makes things even more complicated and confusing.
A better word would be rectangle, or square, because that’s the word for that shape. Quadrangle😂 the American education system at work ladies and gentlemen
@@cl4-tpgaming lmao in my language we do have a quadrangle word, but its more like fourangle if you translate it directly. Triangle is also threeangle.
@cl4-tpgaming Don't rectangles just have 4 right angles? We also often think of them as having unequal sides. However, one could imagine a shape without 4 right angles but with 4 sides that wouldn't be a rectangle.
"Why lie? Because youre normal. Youre ungrateful.... I lie because the truth is we're nothing like you. Thank God, because it's the only reason you people are still alive." Honestly one of the hardest most honest moments for Cyclops.
One of the best episodes in television period. And for a modern reboot/continuation to achieve that is astounding. X-Men 97 is something special. Recency bias has nothing to do with it. The team behind this show is gifted beyond belief in storytelling and execution.
They love the first half of this show this much!!!! But the second half of this show is just BALLS TO THE WALLS CRAZY in the best way possible Can't wait for those reactions
So one of the writers for this episode drew from his friends experience during the Pulse Night Club shooting. Everyone being happy, partying, the lighting, everything being perfect as everyone is living their own lives. Then, in a single sudden moment, absolute chaos as those around you are brutally killed.
THANK YOU for being some of the only folks to give a proper nod to the Cajun's taste in formal wear. Boy was looking FINE in that suit And using the scarf as a weapon? Takes "dressed to KILL" to a literal level.
Let’s talk about the significance of Magneto, after having THAT flashback, using a TRAIN to fight the new vehicle of oppression/genocide (Magneto was right)
Generally speaking, different time travelers play by different rules in Marvel. Bishop can usually change the future and Cable is usually in a stable time loop. This is not always the case for either of them though.
I can't believe how great this turned out. It's amazing writing, even better than the original, and the animation is great. It's got its own style but is also true in many ways. We're so lucky.
In season one episode 13 of the orignal xmen series the sentinels tell magento he cant hurt them because they were made from kind of advanced plastic that was as light as a cloth and a 1000 times more durable than steel
That’s what makes the X-men so special, it’s not even that it relates to current events. As magneto has said, this is what humanity does to others it deems different.
This might be one of the single best episodes of a cartoon, period (albeit, that’s a pretty long list). The *weight* of the events. Just flat out death in a show that, to this point, has only flirted with it. XM97 definitely elevates the show from the original, but this is just a whole different level. There are other shows (animated and not) doing mass death like this these days, but they usually start with something like that. This just… you never expect a fucking genocidal event.
The episode where everything changed. It’s shocking how quickly it goes from light and happy to absolute carnage. I was not prepared for that ending and literally gasped like I was in Gambit’s place.😱😭💔
