X-Men 97 1x8 "Tolerance Is Extinction" Reaction | Legends of Podcasting

[@mydreaminorbit9297]

The creators of 97 really said let's take the audience through a Nightcrawler bamf... like what!!!. The people behind this show were cooking a 5-star meal.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Was such a cool moment. They have so many great moments in this show

[@yermatedave4930]

I like this version even better than the version they showed in X-Men: Evolution

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@yermatedave4930 But the Evolution version was intentionally slowed down by Forge's device to study the Brimstone Dimension. So it's a different experience.

[@mattreid8098]

So amazing my fave moment from the episode which was just 🔥

[@shanecampbell7423]

Omega Level Series Detected. Seriously, this is peak X-Men!

[@Jjop017]

This episode made me feel hopeless. If Magneto is right that means tolerance and coexistence is impossible and one race has to kill off the other one to survive. That is a depressing thought. I am unsure how Xavier can fix this. Amazing episode and I cannot wait to see what happens next.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Coexistence isn't inherently impossible. It's only impossible because humans won't stop being dicks guided by misinformed fear and selfishness.

[@dynaguy3]

I really loved seeing all the Summers together. It felt like a family road trip with superheroes. Reminded me a little of The Incredibles

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Yeah was amazing having them work together

[@PeterSaenz-hz9df]

Lots to say on this one. I had mentioned power-ups before, and it looks like Jean has a new one shown in this episode: psychometry. Instead of just mind reading, she can now gleam other people's past history by reading the psychic residue on foreign objects. She was able to see SO much of Bastion's past simply by touching a drawing he made. Also, the scene where the Prime Sentinels are standing over an unconscious Rogue totally took me back to the Stephen King movie Salem's Lot. Also, the Summers finding the old woman at Bastion's childhood home totally reminded me of Harry Potter and Hermoine meeting the disguised Nagini in Godric's Hollow. My absolute FAVORITE X-Man is Rachel Summers (Scott and Jean's daughter, and Cable's sister), so it was completely cool to see her appear in Cable's retelling of the future where she's helping rebuild a bridge. It was nice that the writers were able to give Scott, Jean and Cable a bonding adventure together. Watching them escape the Prime Sentinels, I was again reminded of the DC Comic's OMAC invasion storyline. The Sunspot mother storyline is totally messed up. That she displayed to everyone that her finances hold more importance than the welfare of her son...just wrong. Kurt showing his seeing Rogue as a sister is heartwarming. I don't know if the writers are going to keep the fact that Valerie Cooper was the leader of Forge's X-Factor team, or if they are keeping her separate from that team in this universe. If she was their leader, I can't imagine what those members will feel when everything comes out on what she's done. The one thing I completely don't get though, the sentinels were created to stop the evolution of normal humans into a new stage, but Bastion and his brood are doing that anyway. Instead of becoming mutants, they're progressing the future for humans to become cyborgs. Tomato, tomoto. I'm loving Jubilee's new outfit, but I think she got that outfit in the comics once she was transformed into a vampire. P.S. Rob rocks

[@hunterpdx7061]

Jean's psychometric exposition dump was almost too much but then I remembered that this show does everything at brisk pace and just accepted it. I admit that I don't know modern Sunspot all that well (other than he is still very rich) but I remember him when he was first in the New Mutants and he could do none of what he was doing. He basically had super strength. When Gyrich said they were placing dominoes, he wasn't kidding. Forge is coming back with Storm and he's going to be instrumental in curing this plague, with some help from Beast.

[@KillJoy5950]

The emp took out Spider-Man’s web shooters mid swing and he set omega red free, along with taking out millions of people

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Oh crap. Didn’t think about spideys webshooters

[@philip1718]

I will lose my mind if Cyclops ever shouts “Behold! Optic blast!” in the finale

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Haha that would be epic. Doesn’t seem to be doing much to the prime sentinels

[@hamhockbeans]

This was only part 1 are you kidding me. All this epicness.

[@nick4msi]

The only show this year that makes me ache for week of waiting

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Agreed but like we said in our post chat having tho week between brings together everyone to chat, come up with theories. If they released them all at once all this x men pandemonium would of been over on a couple of days ago

[@RealBLAlley]

There have been a few.

[@Manx36]

They changed Bastion’s origin, he didn’t merge with Mastermold and Nimrod until he was older. The Nimrod joining with his dad is new as far as I know. How cold is he to mutate his own mother, I mean I’d do it 😈

[@cje499]

I like that they gave consequences to the OG episode "One Man's Worth"

[@kR-qj7rw]

'' I mean I’d do it '' oooh watch out we have a badass with mommy issues over here

[@dramonmaster222]

And thus begins the 3 part Season Finale and what a Bang that was! Also Poor Roberto! His Mom really screwed him over.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

His mum is so horrible doesn’t give a crap about out her son just about her image

[@jollyrayda]

@@LegendsofPodcasting "Let the nice men fix you" - and yet another parallel to the LGBTQIA+ experience, as the ghosts of conversion therapy are strong in this behaviour from his mum

[@jlo1195]

Quantum entanglement could still happen between clones too....that's what Jean Grey is experiencing. This Nimrod did the nasty... XD Cyclops' new convertible Porsche's license plate says "SL1M"....."Slim Summers" was originally his name until the X-MEN issue #3 where they change it to "Scott" and "Slim" was just a nickname.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Didn’t wolverine call him slim in the original show as well

[@redlion-o8855]

So safe now to say Val Cooper is not Mystique. Prime sentinels in the lab would have detected her but more importantly Sinister says that HUMAN wretch on his holo call to Bastion 23:10 Maybe Daria is Mystique.

[@brandonclements1414]

Those people definitely volunteered. People are awful, especially if they already feel like they are being “replaced.”

[@EyeOnSciFiPod]

Remarkable writing. What's very telling is many, many people are watching this - and still are clueless about the messaging in this show. Personally, X-Men I hope to see before the series ends is Havok, Colossus, Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), and Iceman.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Would love to see iceman and colossus get some love from the writers in this shows

[@ChristopherPlatt-wu9bk]

The X-Men cameoed in the fantastic four animated series so they are within the same universe. Aliens do exist in the x-men animated universe, also there was the brood episode in the original series, so I think it's common knowledge. This show is so good though. Love it. Still think Val Cooper is Mystique but she's playing the long con. She also seems to have an interest in Rogue. When Sebastian Shaw told her that Magneto would only rule genosh if Rogue came along, she asked in shock "what did she say?" And looked even more shocked when Rogue flew in and she and Magneto kissed.

[@mrcleane6559]

I was thinking that also, but why are the prime sentinels not reacting to her X gene, they can detect Morph. Why not her?

[@Hanoua2]

It would make her whole speech to bastion lose its meaning, I hope she's not Mystique

[@mrshade810]

@@Hanoua2 agree! I love mystique and I hope she makes her appearance asap, but I hope Val is Val

[@borjankosarac3645]

Have you ever heard of or read a novella called, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”? I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t, but it’s a 1970s piece about the price of utopia… and how people could choose to justify it to themselves, or not. The scary thing about this version of Bastion - besides how they gave him an MO that he can reason through and is applicable to our world (compared to the comics where he’s just… so hateful of mutants, that when he ended up in a world without them he engineered their existence just so he had them to kill and torture) - is that he’s a parallel to the mutants themselves; a later, more “superior” being. Heck, remember how MCU!Ultron was stated by Vision to be a unique lifeform that he regretted the need to destroy? That’s Bastion, in a way… I really don’t know if Magneto being let out when he was, is actually part of the plan; he’s utterly justified at this point in declaring war, but it’s something Bastion can certainly use… How will this conclude, in the end? We shall see in the next couple of weeks.

[@borjankosarac3645]

Several things I want to add: If Madelyne is really, actually dead, I’m going to be annoyed. Not because of the way she seems to have perished, but because it feels like her setup for an arc would have been cut off at the knees; why have her leave the mansion only to kill her a scant two episodes later? I get the point Beau DeMayo was making with Genosha and how tragedy is indiscriminate, but… unlike Remy whose death creates good story and character potential (same if Magneto had died), I feel like Naddie dying was too clean ultimately. We’ll see, but I’m still hoping she and other mutants are Sinister’s captives for now. Lesser point, but I’m pretty sure Cable’s future showed an elderly Lorna Dane/Polaris, aka Magneto’s non-Wanda daughter. You guys might have noticed or not (or I completely missed you referencing her), but I’m surprised you didn’t mention her. The Spider-Verse idea of “canon events” is not like fixed points, the latter being about events in the timeline you can’t interfere with. Canon events are more like… narrative causality, if you will; each Spider-person is a chosen guardian of their Earth, and they have similar notable life events like an “Uncle Ben” or the Captain who dies. Miles wasn’t meant to be Spider-Man but because he did, his Peter Parker died for his origin story (while the world without one went to hell).

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Thanks for all your great thoughts. I agree I hope maddie isn’t dead as well as there’s more story there. Yeah we noticed Polaris and then after that I think it was Rachel with next to the bridge. Agree on canon Events. Better example would be what if event in the dr strange episode where he can’t save Christine.

[@borjankosarac3645]

@@LegendsofPodcasting Because in that timeline specifically, Christine's death was THE cause of him becoming Sorcerer Supreme... Also yeah, you mentioned Rachel; I for one hope she's adapted properly into the story later. Along with... well, I've already said my part on Kitty Pryde (I want her and Kurt's friendship SO badly in '97 now!)

[@raimiranda126]

The Summers Exiting the Blackbird with a Porche reminds Me of their take from the Movie 2012 when the planes passenger ejected with what ... A BENTLEY? ENGINE START LOL😅 😆😆

[@raulramirez8515]

Been waiting for this reaction 🙏golden reaction ❤️❤️

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Thanks so much. What an amazing part 1

[@ETNMom]

This show gets more epic with each episode. Love it

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Right?? Think it can’t get any better and then they throw another epic episode out. What are the next 2 going to have

[@BajelSilver-i2u]

Bastion is crazy insane as the 4 other evil master villains are saying," we're evil but we don't dig your cup of tea.it's too much for us."

[@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740]

Even evil has standards.

[@Matthewgreen7779311]

I got a bit misty when the professor said “to me my X-men” and his children heard his call. That was awesome.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

I think most of us did. Each episode has so much going on I don’t think our brains compute it all. I end up watching lots of other reactions and the episode 1-2 more times and then the emotions kick in big time

[@archieelmido2797]

Love the Nightcrawler and Wolverine fight scene!!!❤❤❤

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

That was up there with the bests wolverine FINALLY using his claws in the show and Kurt with those swords is why is one of my favourites

[@mcpics4448]

Say it with me people *Magneto is Right*

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

What does that mean for the rest of the world

[@hamhockbeans]

But your not a mutant so your dead too.😮

[@HalJordan661]

Nah Professor X is right...Magneto is selfish he's only cares about his own species

[@KSTheGOAT14]

14:40 “ Woh! Doctah Doom

[@armandoarevalo5117]

I keep hearing that onslaught will make an appearance professor X will confront magneto and they accidentally fuse together

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

That would be awesome to see

[@PoppieLand]

I love how they basically turned Wolverine into a house cat

[@silverindigo8302]

I like your analogy. Especially giving that the average house cat is one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet lolololol

[@davidpuerto1619]

My immediate thought when I saw the woman on the monitor was it might have been Madame Hydra

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Can’t think who else in marvel has that kind of hair cut but why not show her like doom and zemo

[@davidpuerto1619]

@@LegendsofPodcasting can't think of a reason for that. The only reason for that is that they showed Zemo right before and I thought of the previous episode where they had the Cap cameo which is why I think my mind geared towards her.

[@riccyblue7744]

How’d they not react to Wolverine getting pulled through the brimstone dimension

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

So much going on I don’t think we took it all in. Watched again since and realised how cool that was. Nightcrawler MVP

[@officialjpyro84]

If they are setting up for Onslaught ima freak out.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

I mean I think I would pass out from nerding out. But what a cool season 2 that would be

[@nightcrawler1229]

My Nipples were hard too LMAO 😅

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Just how my body reacts to absolute epicness

[@KillJoy5950]

Are those the mondo 1/6 X-men figures behind you guys?

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

They are indeed. Have jubilee,gambit, wolverine, sabertooth, magneto and omega redd. Rogue on pre order

[@darrenbaptiste5022]

Hi Stuart. Are you enjoying the "Ghost Machine" universe so far?

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Hey Darren, I am indeed. Looking forward to getting issue 2 soon. Who’s your favourite?

[@darrenbaptiste5022]

RedCoat!!

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

Me to. I thought Rook would be my favourite but redcoat really surprised me

[@josepatino5351]

How does wolverine know "Magneto declared war!" ?? How does he know he's alive? They all thought he died on genosha.

[@androkguz]

Good question. I have a better one: How did Bastion sneaked a Colossal Master Mold into Genosha so fast that no one saw it coming? Another: how did bastion create so many prime sentinels that he covered the planet? Without raising any alarm? Did no one died or went to the hospital in those days? And why did Bastion not just put a bomb or something inside magneto? Why leave him unguarded with the only good that has explicitly told him she doesn't trust him? It's a great great f-king show. Tier S. And part of that, it that it now when to explain and when people won't care that there's not a complete answer. Such as when Logan know Magneto declared war

[@josepatino5351]

@@androkguz and how would they know it's a worldwide EMP if there's no electricity and no communication immediately after it happens?? 🤔

[@Jjop017]

I think Logan assumes an EMP on that scale as to be a mutant. The only mutant he can think of is Magneto. Magneto surviving the Genosha Massacre probably isn't that far fetched to the X-Men considering all the things that happened.

[@scottishjedi1522]

Who else could’ve blasted the whole planet with an EMP? They know Magneto’s the only person that could’ve done it. So Logan just rolls with it.

[@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740]

Who else besides Magneto would do an EMP on a global scale?

[@armandoarevalo5117]

I have a question what happens to the rest of the world now that magneto cut power to the whole world he took out the sentinels but also set back our economy and our way of life

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

I guess we will find out. Did it effect bastion as well

[@armandoarevalo5117]

Well knowing bastion he probably fortified his underground lad with futuristic metals cause he is always 10 step ahead of everyone

[@silverindigo8302]

I think this is why Magneto has never used this technique before. He knows the risks and he felt that this was his only and last option to handle this level threat. I honestly agree with his decision but LORD…..the consequences that will inevitably follow is a lot. Omega Red being inadvertently released is a whole high level threat all on its own. Val Cooper said that Magneto hadn’t spoken a word since Genosha. I am quite sure he used that time to plan and weigh his options in what measures to take if and or when he found a way out of there. Even when he was released he still didn’t say anything. Just up and straight shot to the North Pole where “enough “ was all that was uttered. The plot is so amazing, this

[@armandoarevalo5117]

Well I wonder what other bad guys he released when he shut down world pretty scary

[@eaglesphan5650]

I think Val is going to be revealed as Mystique next season or maybe the end of this season.

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

A lot of people think this but if she was mystique surely she would of revealed herself by now

[@amazingmetapanda8166]

I thought she was Mystique up until now. I actually hope they don't have her turn out to be Mystique. It kind of undercuts the whole point of her speech.

[@amy_grace]

She's way more interesting if she's not Mystique at this point

[@b1onecarter96]

Anybody paying attention to how all our media and movies are sending the same signal as that Obama movie leave the world behind!? This shits eirrie ASF!

[@silverindigo8302]

Dude what?!?!?!?!?! 😒

[@dawnbugay7094]

scripted reaction!

[@LegendsofPodcasting]

How do you script a reaction?

[@dannyderes4907]

I was genuinely worried about 97. The animated series was excellent so expectations were high. This series has been absolutely superb. 🤌🏾