I liked this review 🤣 this feels like a friend telling you about a fun show they just finished lol.

Armand, Amun was actually a beautiful villian who did all of this because his love for Lestat wasn't reciprocated so he actually just wanted him all to himself hence killing or rather attempting to kill his only remaining family/loved ones. Like Armand I don't think Claudia actually got over being loved more by Lestat by Louis because she wanted to be closer to Louis more and thought Lestat was the reason for Louis being sombre instead of him being in his own head and hating being a night walker

😂😂😂 not booed up Mrs Louis... Love how he went from happily reminiscing after they left Lestat in his makers lair to him being thrown against the wall.

20:04 does Louis know Lestat still loves him?

5:44 I don't believe Armand when he says he didn't know what was happening, a part of me thinks this was his get back at Lestat and a way to get rid of Claudia

Armand, Lestat and Louis are a threesome across ages 🤭🤭🤭 and the triangle literally only exists because Armand likes rebels or rather uses them as an excuse to be his true self

14:39 "on the spectrum": Autism and mental health are two separate and unrelated things. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects mostly social interactions. Paul was hallucinating and talking to the air, thinking that birds are telling him to ask questions, and then unalived himself. This is clearly not autism lol, it's probably schizophrenia and maybe depression too.

love your sassy energy 😊

Not “Captain Save a Hoe”. 😂🤣 I’m here for your reviews. ❤️

Period!!!! When anyone hears those words in the Marvel universe, they should be afraid.

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Woo Hoo! Welcome back!

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Love ❤ your videos as usual!

The reason he said what he did to Ms. Addison is because he knew she once had the hots for him and he never gave he the time of day.

Mother will be MOTHERING!! 🔥

Love it

Loved this review

Hi 👋🏾 Roderic, I have to get caught up on this show. You’re review was excellent!

Happy Birthday!!!

Like the way you give creative writing points. Brings back memories for an old head like me. You sent me back to my amateur history roots when you mentioned Marcus speaking about David Shine’s (sp) draft status. Marcus discussed the matter with Robert F. Kennedy who was one of the appointed assistant counsels on the McCarthy subcommittee. Robert’s brother John was one of the senators from the state of Massachusetts at that time.

Milton Berle was a famous TV comedian of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Hawk was being super sarcastic.

Hello 👋🏾 Roderic, this is an unrelated question to this video…I wanted to know if you have seen The Color Purple movie yet? If so, will you be doing a review on it? Thank you.

Hello 👋🏾 Roderic…I learned about Sidney Poitier by way of my dad. He was his favorite actor and we used to watch his movies growing up. Excellent video by the way.

I just found you and you have me dying! Nick’s deal was for June’s safety not just the visit, he is the reason Tuillo put her on the train 😉

This mini ended on so many plotholes it's not even funny... How come the Morlocks and Creep's village are still fine when Orchis knows where they are ? Did nobody think about rescuing the mutants who were locked up on that island ? How did Maddie not notice them with her mercy crown ? Why did Maddie's team not talk about the Bamf Dragon attack to the other one ? Thet were surprised when they saw it. Why. Did they let Emplate. A cannibal with no morals. Go free. When Orchis is still out there. And just used a Mutant as a Trojan horse to get in the Embassy ?

There really was a huge problem with the way characters were used and how their powers worked in this mini : - You brought it up in this video and I agree, Maddie shouldn't be on the same level as Jean or have her powers come from an X-Gene. There was such an easy way to fix this plothole too : Have her telekinesis be a result of the demonic deals she made in her past and tied to magic (ex of limitation: she can only manipulate things corrupted by demonic magic as such she needs to corrupt first then TK them second. This creates an interesting moment of self reflexion for Maddie and the nature of her powers). Her telepathy would also be magical but only work on demons ; think of it as a boost or bonus she got as the now Ruler of Limbo. This way you can explain how the Goblin Queen could read her mind or how Maddie managed to know what was going on inside the Bamf Dragon's ; Both were corrupted by Limbo magic and became demonic through it so her powers can work on both. This would also explain why she couldn't TK Warren to the teleportation zone : She would need to corrupt him first and doing that on a living being is irreversible (ex Bamf Dragon). - The Goblin Queen in this mini is a character from Secret Wars. She was way more powerful than how she was portrayed here and to have her die from a scythe swing is disappointing to say the least. - The Orchis agents were wasted overall. You had a tech expert and a magic one : You could have had perfected Sentinels or sentinel tech given to the average Orchis soldier through him/spy tech from the future. You could have had more magically corrupted mutants thrown into the mix. The sky is the limit really. - Archangel was wasted for no reason. You might not have known this but he wasn't supposed to be DX-M's first death (it was originally Azazel) or even included. You can clearly feel this in the writing Warren got because he was nerfed to the ground while in his Horsemen of Death form of all things. He was abandoned by his friends (again) even tho they took Feint who was right next to him to the teleportation zone with them. His healing factor was apparently a joke and his healing blood was forgotten about even tho it could have saved Havok and avoided the whole situation with the Faltine magic Maddie used on him. His friends don't care about him whatsoever, didn't even investigate the attack he led on the Morlocks or why he was in the state they found him in all magically corrupted and missing skin. No after credits burial as you said. - Azazel also got seriously nerfed in DX-M. His powers include shapeshifting, magic (hex bolts) and teleportation amongst other things yet he barely used the latter and seemingly forgot he could even do that in his last moments. He has poisonous blood yet died by being eaten alive and the creature who did it flew away after being punched by a teen girl with not enough combat experience to even be seen a New Mutants recruit. For reference, the last time Azazel showed up in a comic run, he managed to completely decapitate Sabretooth with one sword swing and slowed down time so his regeneration didnt immediately fix him up.

This entire mini feels like an apology Marvel made to anyone who read Dark Web and saw how it handled Maddie's character (in short, it was this but worse). The issue with it is that to do so, it had to : - Throw many, many characters under the bus - Take the easiest way out of a big problem - Go for the most surface level of character analysis possible Which makes this a waste of a potentially cool premise because at the end of the day, It brought nothing new to the table.

9:19 You know, you're one of the only X-Men readers left, whom I've seen the reviews of, that actually calls what Legion and Nightcrawler made (the Spark) what it actually is : A religion. You can't imagine the number of people who switched to calling it a "philosophy" all because Si Spurrier calls it as such in interviews, even tho with everything he estsblished and wrote on it, it goes beyond the definition of a philosophy and falls straight into the religion category.

14:11 I genuinely felt the same about this whole situation. It doesnt help that around the same time Destiny's been brought back to life, you also had Blindfold (stated plenty of times to be a stronger precog than Destiny) being resurrected who's shown no concern over this apparently impending doom looming over Mutantkind, everything and everyone she knew and loved. One of the visions she showed was even of an older (horned) Nightcrawler sitting at the QC with his Bamfs (who've been missing since Krakoa started) which means she knew a way to get to peaceful futures. But what finally seals this for me as an ass pull of a story is that Destiny predicted the Sabretooth wars, an event that hasn't come out yet and means nothing to her, to Mutantkind and to Krakoa in general seeing how no one would be there to witness it in the first place and it feels like a pebble compared to all of this Dominion stuff. She did not predict AXE that nuked the island, Or the Orchis attack at the HFG (every Gala got infiltrated/attacked by Orchis why would anyone be surprised anymore), Or the magic illness that hit the island in LoX, Or Nightcrawler being used by Orchis to kill politicians, Or this Dominion stuff (until last minute), And so many other bigger problems than Sabretooth. But she knew about his specific event by the second HFG. Also this White Hot Room story could have been prevented by stopping Jean Grey from getting killed and all that takes is having her not attend the HFG : The Quiet Council members weren't even forced to attend the Gala (ex Storm and Nightcrawler) so Jean wasn't under any obligation to be here in the first place, not even as an ex-QC member as Apocalypse wasn't there either. Destiny wouldn't even need to talk about the Dominion to Jean (is nobody gonna mention this is pretty much the premise of the Bye Bye Man horror movie of 2017 ?) just, "I have not predicted an Orchis attack but it's become a yearly thing for them to do at this point so for the sake of everyone, you are one of the best candidates as well as your old X-Men team to go on a mission and further investigate them".

Happy New Year to you too.

Roderic~how u doing?, yo~excellent traveler. take care-:))

This series is one of the best I've ever seen. The end is like a punch in the stomach. Heartbreaking.

i noticed that in the teacup scene too - it was so jarring no one higher up was there

i love you! this is so good! so glad i found someone who talks about this show like you! it's the songs for me. i love mia and i want her to be happy tho

The interesting part about this Goblin Queen version of Madelyne is that it's not a clone of the current one. It is an alternative version of herself, who went down the exact same path she did up until she completely gave up her humanity of her own volution for more power. The way she's acting here has no connection to Orchis as she was already like this when they found her. The GQ is Madelyne if she went down a much darker path.

I was disappointed in this 4th issue. Its only upside it had is that it compensated the reduced amount of plot progression of #2 and #3 but, as a direct downside, it wasted so much time and pages on things that didn't matter. Like the data one with Nightcrawler (plain dialogue like in a stage play and 1/4 of a page was left blank) which is a conversation that contradicts so much stuff and is very much pointless right now : It's from Dawn of X, set 3 years ago for mutants and more than 4 to us readers, made right after all the villains came to Krakoa (Azazel is already there) and the laws got made (Xavier is talking about them). It's supposed to show that Kurt wouldn't give a biased opinion as a member of the Quiet Council if Azazel, his and Abyss' father, were to break a law/do something bad/ suddenly get involved just because he's his father. Problem is, Xavier of all people should already know the answer to that question. After all, it was Nightcrawler who personally sent Azazel to Riker Island right after he dragged him back to Earth when he tried taking over Heaven so Nightcrawler wouldn't hesitate in enacting justice. It's also weird for the topic of this conversation to be about Azazel as the parent Nightcrawler would "have an issue giving proper judgement on and acting unbiased towards of" during Dawn of X when Mystique is right there at the Council. Chronologically, since the laws were already made by the time this talk happened, Nightcrawler was already shown to answer to Mystique's demands and taunts. The only law he made at the Council, "make more mutants", (and his only contribution in Dawn of X with all things considered) was a direct answer to a taunt Mystique made towards him. There are no rhyme or reason to this law's origins other than "Mystique called Nightcrawler a priest, to which he quoted the Bible and used that as a new law". It's a waste of page (minis don't have plenty of these) that could have been used on : - Readying Ben Reilly through mind-control to fight the Dark X-Men in the next issue (to pay off that cover) and explicitly giving his PoV on what he underwent (you gain another page by taking away that last data one with the weird spelling). - Showing Maggott's grief over Warren's death and how he lives now with the Morlocks while reluctantly still keeping contact with the Dark X-Men. You gain space in Rogue and Gambit's talk through that by removing that element and putting another in its place (Ex. Why not join Emma's team?). - Showing the inner conflict and expending growth Madelyne underwent in her new position as the leader of a sanctuary for mutants and her new view on Jean's past work. - Showing how many mutants the Limbo Embassy rescued since the Dark X-Men came to be and how the other Fall of X mini teams interact with it. Ex. Have Emma directly ask on specific mutants with Madelyne using the Mercy Crown to give a yes/no question on if they're alive/imprisoned/ ... - Showing the actual value in the Limbo Embassy for the mutant families that have been welcomed since Dark Web and ever since Fall of X started. - If there really REALLY needed to be a conversation between Xavier and Kurt on Azazel, have it be set during Reign of X when Nightcrawler uncovered that the law he made led to many mutant babies being abandoned in the wild to die by their own uncaring parents (like he himself was) or Destiny of X when Nightcrawler was suddenly affected by an unknown illness which might be magical in origin (Azazel knows magic and has used it on Kurt plenty of times already). The talk would then be the perfect knife twist after the weird scene Nightcrawler had in Inferno#2 with Mystique where he gave her his vote to "please her".

They really killed Archangel for nothing... I'm sadly not surprised. What a waste. The timeline is rather weird in this issue : From Dark X-Men#1 to #3, everything happened in the same single night and seemed to be heading in that direction but here things suddenly get murky with this timejump for no reason. Maggott left for awhile from what Rogue said, Gambit explained the Dark X-Men went on a few more missions after the Morlocks/Marisol encounters and Madelyne has stopped mutants who went AWOL and wrecked havoc in another mini. So did days pass since that night ? Weeks ? Months ? Did nothing really happen on the Orchis side of things this whole time since Dark X-Men#3 ? It's so strange since they had the upper hand overall even after their past failures against the team. They could have attacked the Embassy right away just like here. From my research, this issue should have been written around the time the writer strike went down in America (I'm a foreign reader) so this might explain the messiness, lack of cohesiveness and why the editors are so lenient on how characters' powers work (the Madelyne situation) or how their lore goes (the Azazel situation). The first two DX-M issues already had a similar organizational problem because they were finished BEFORE the Hellfire Gala's was done : In a few interviews Steve Foxe had with fans, he stated the horror factor makes a huge jump between DX-M #2 to #3 because it was around that time his team finally got to see how stuff went down at the Gala with their own two eyes and used it as standard... At the midway point of writing their own run and after they already sent the definite versions of the scripts and artworks of it. That's why between DX-M and X-Men, it's the latter that has the most on-screen violence and horror elements even tho the first was advertised as such. The X-Office doesn't communicate properly...

Contrary to what you might think, Ben doesn't hate mutants at all, he even helped the X-Men a bunch back when he was Spider-Man. Ben hates the people who imprisoned him at the Limbo Embassy (which is led by mutants) and that's mainly Madelyne because she treated him unfairly after promising to help him regain his memories from Peter if he helps her regain hers from Jean. Cue to Bootleg Inferno aka Dark Web which ended with Madelyne getting her memories from Jean... And completely cheating Ben out of his end of the deal.

These new hoes hit different…Sue Ellen, would have got in JR’s pockets. Yes, I use to watch Falcon Crest and Dynasty (especially, when Diahann Carroll joined the show). I’m tired of the billionaire laying around Alex’s place…he needs to find something to do…lol! I love your reviews because you are very articulate and thorough.

Excellent review…I hope there is another season.

From my knowledge, the writer of Dark X-Men is actually a big Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider fan : He absolutely hated Chasm and the Dark Web event as a whole for what it did to both the X-Men and Spider-Man). In short, there is a high chance that the stupid moments of Dark Web will be rectified and there won't be any Chasm character involved : Just Ben Reilly doing hero stuff while pretending to work for Orchis.

The start of this issue with Emplate might be used as buildup for the next one like how Madelyne's dream at the start of Dark X-Men #1 was brought back again in the middle of this issue.

I'm not happy with Warren's death either so I just hope it at least meant something for the story. Personally, I have an idea as to how.

I think the main reason why they went looking for Flourish/Creep instead of someone like Mystique is because Madelyne wants to rescue mutants, not build an army of them (yet). Look at Callisto and Marisol : Both are pretty much the main leaders of a small mutant community that could easily be targeted and decimated by Orchis overnight if they were to be found, the first because the Morlocks often lack useful powers (ex one of the Morlocks has powerful precognition but it gets to the point where it physically paralyses her and traps her in her mind) and the latter because the village doesn't seem to have anyone with "powers" to speak of. Another thing is that, contrary to Mystique, Matisol is just a teenager with a lot of responsibility on her shoulders as the sole protector of her people. Her powers are tied to her emotions : If she's incapacitated in any way, shape or form, her village is completely defenceless. So Madelyne went to Marisol to give support to both her and her village as they're pretty much cut off from the rest of the world during this Crisis. (The "Why not Mystique?" has another answer : Si Spurrier called dibs on her character for a chunk of his Uncanny Spider-Man mini and his future X-Men Blue one-shot. Sadly, the minis won't have any crossovers with one another so this explains that.)

Excellent review!

My main problem with this issue is that it was revealed in Dan Slott's run that Franklin was never a mutant and his abilities were tied to the fact he was a mutate with reality bending abilities. That was the canon within Fantastic Four for years now, Reed knows, Franklin knows... Oh but who made that reveal to Franklin you ask ? Charles Xavier himself, who didn't seem surprised at all by that information when he announced it to the teen and told him to leave his sight. So Reed's "X-gene masking" machine doesn't mask the X-gene as the only person it was used on (Franklin) doesnt have one in the first place and as such it cannot of any use to the mutants. That machine would be more akin to a "reality bending nullifier" really if it affected Franklin at all (I have my doubts because Reed seemingly didn't notice that his own son was never a mutant when he made that thing just for him). I think even Kitty knows Franklin isn't a mutant (she stated as much during the 1st Hellfire gala) so I don't see the point of her sending her team to the FF.

I still don't understand how people are dunking on DC when Marvel under disney has been doing surface level storylines, I don't think anyone would be as outraged with x-force stopping like they are with like a doom patrol because even when they are mind controlled they are responsible enough to have you care. Im really annoyed Marvel let Disney ruin their brand so much. Sidebar: have you watched/read Strange Planet with the purple beings

Lol, I can’t wait to watch your next review. I’m sure it will be great.