Even though I damn well knew Gambit would be gone from the credits, it still was super depressing. I was really paying attention to them showing us and reminding us about Cable, Apocalypse, Bishop and Nimrod here in the opening. I think it's a key clue for Ep. 7. Storm's story was poignant and well written, but went 100% as expected. Glad she got her glow up to an older and cooler costume and of course her powers back. The adventure in space to catch us up to Xavier was unexpected. Though I get the notion they are intentionally making us wait now for resolution after episode 5 and getting all the chess pieces in place, it made me all the less patient for this bit of Shi'ar space drama with the bird jerks. Though it was nice to see them tying them fully into the MCU universe with the Kree. Deathbird was given the best dialogue for sure and well characterized. We got a lot of good discussion via Storm, Forge, and Xavier about colonialism.
It was just hard to feel excited for this episode though. Ain't no sunshine when Remy is gone! And Charles vision to me was an absolute confirmation of his death. I mean, we also have a body in his case. I didn't really see this vision as tied to his Death persona though. Highly notable to me is that Xavier's vision was of Gambit to whom he had little personal connection and not the other supposedly dead main character and love of his life, Magneto. Which tells me that Mags ain't really dead and the writers are all yanking our collective chains. He can't be dead if he's going to seek revenge for Genosha in highly dramatic fashion as we all know he is and then need to be stopped by Xavier and the X-Men. We also got pretty well outright confirmation that Sinister took the place of Cassandra Nova in this version of "E is for Extinction". So it's kind of like mashing up the Morlock Massacre and Genoshian Genocide into one event. Streamlining?The weird thing about this to me is, what interest does Sinister have in a mutant versus human civil war? What does it do for him? It doesn't really serve a clear purpose towards his usual principles. Not unless he is serving Apocalypse? And/or Bastion. Apocalypse and Bastion both would have reasons based on their principles for instigating a war. I guess we find out next week week.
Really ready to see the X-Men and Rogue especially mourn Remy. Also ready for the big bad to reveal themselves. Hoping against all hopes that Cable, Bishop, Rogue, and Nightcrawler go save our boy. It would be especially poetic for old Gambit to save new Gambit and for Rogue to rescue Gambit as he says she always does in Ep 1. But hope also feels dangerous. These writers have yet to earn my trust. |