Board 8 > Maniac watches and compares X-men TAS and X-men evolution

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Evolution Scarlet Witch - da best

also X-23

also Rogue

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From what I remember of Evolution Rogue, I prefer the TAS version.

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Ev Rogue gets awesome once they start giving her actual development.

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Ev. Rogue's pretty awesome. I like a lot of the Evolution characters for the most part, but there are also a bunch I don't care at all about.

Though, the ones I don't care at all about, I usually don't care about elsewhere like Jean & Scott.

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I'm not sure if I tagged this earlier so here.

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Not fond of goth Rogue at all. Though that's the same Rogue that likes Summers, so it's basically a double whammy. "Hey your friend keeps disappearing and reappearing, it's weird you haven't gotten suspicious!"

If you guys can bump this for me over the weekend. I will be back and able to watch episodes on Tuesday.

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Weekend bump

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Casual bump

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Not gonna be around later, so I'm bumping this now just to be sure.

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thanks guys!

One more day until family leaves and I start updating!

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X-men TAS Episode 3 – Enter Magneto

We open at the crazy secure prison where Beast is currently hanging out and reading Animal Farm. The very hillbilly guards are surprised a mutant can read, and also have apparently never heard of Animal Farm.

Beast couldn’t care less about what is going on. I love how calm he is with the guards. He assumes that it must be Wolverine charging in, but we are finally given the proper hints to know exactly who it is, just before he shows up.

Magneto breaks Beast’s bonds and goes to rescue/recruit. Beast has no desire to leave though, which shocks Magneto. He is also shocked to find out that Xavier was behind the X-men’s attack. They debate the idea of Beast using the court to make a point. It’s done very well and does a good job of showing both sides of the argument.

Now this is how you introduce Magneto. He fights a small army with ease and does some philosophizing with Beast. God I love Magneto. In the end he is almost always right in the debate with Xavier, he just takes things too far when it comes to achieving his goals.

And now we get a flashback from Xavier. Apparently in this version they met working at a hospital. Also, Magneto may not be Jewish, guess I can see why they wouldn’t want to deal with the holocaust in a kids cartoon. Nice to see their debate has gone nowhere since the first time.

Apparently Magneto was actually doing pretty well on his quest before Xavier put a stop to it. No wonder humans hate mutants so much.

And on to the court case. It is pretty clear that Magneto was right. Beast gets some awesome points for quoting Shakespeare. Sadly the court could care less, and he’s attempt to bring up the conspiracy behind the mutant control agency is quickly and completely ignored. As he is sent back to prison (no bail) with as much violence as allowed, Sabertooth bursts in to ensure that Beast’s point is completely lost.

Cyke is not happy with how Wolverine is going to let him die, so he shoots some guards. The X-men are really good at killing any hope that their argument will ever succeed.

They comment that Sabertooth is “unknown” even though he had a big news story trashing downtown in the first ep.

Wolverine tries to get Sabertooth out (and likely kill him) but he is caught on camera. They are not happy with Wolverine’s attitude towards Sabertooth, and really they should be smart enough to listen to him. Instead they just compare each other a lot.

Wolverine makes a great point about the difference in how they are supposed to treat Magneto and Sabertooth. Looks like we are pointing out Xavier’s hypocrisy quickly.

Magneto is attacking a military base and launching their missiles, shooting them right back at the base. But the X-men (Wolvie, Storm, and Cyke) are here for the rescue.

Magneto does a little quoting of his own (he and Beast really need to hang out more). Wolvie isn’t one for philosophy though. Magneto owns them and leaves a message for Xavier. Then he leaves, apparently no longer caring if his missles work (which he probably doesn’t).

Even the most normal lines are made over the top by Storm’s VA.

Storm, with an assist from Xavier, takes out the missiles by herself. Sadly, throughout this whole thing we get no great power lines from her. Though she does commentate her own actions in hilarious fashion for absolutely no reason whatsoever. “Control circuits…destroyed…Warheads…disarmed…”

Magneto watched everything and does a bit of speechifying before we go to credits.

Magneto was awesome in this ep and showed exactly why I like him so much. Some future stuff was set up. And the Beast plotline was very good. As was the Wolverine stuff. The X-men raid at the end fell flat though.

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Huh, I also recently discovered TAS was on Netflix. I hadn't seen much of anything past season 1, so I've been marathoning it in my free time. I just started season 5. It's all very corny and over-the-top as I remember, but it's still enjoyable.

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X-men Evolution Episode 3 – Rogue Recruit

Time to find out which Rogue is better.

We open at a party where Rogue hangs out completely outside the party and appears to be a goth. A jock insults another jock to guilt him into asking out Rogue. Apparently Rogue actually came to this party with the express purpose of standing outside it and being gloomy.
Blindfold is apparently here and sees trouble. Sure enough Rogue uses her powers for the first time to knock out some poor football player. And she didn’t even get a kiss first like comics Rogue. No wonder she is so grumpy.

Rogue probably has the coolest section in the opening credits.

Footballer is out cold and his wingman is not happy. But he gets stiffarmed down like a pansy. The show pretends like this shows it must be Cody’s skill, even though it was a basic move and the guy is still a wimp to be knocked over by that scrawny chick.

Awesome, I love training sessions. This one is Storm vs Ninja Wolverine. Adults getting it done here. Storm tires to make a cool comment while using her powers, but it just isn’t the same. Wow, she has puns on the level of movie Storm. Wolverine is apparently to destructive for the Institutes budget. Apparently this wasn’t training, it was a security test. Wolvie wants much “tougher” defenses then are allowed. Poor guy.

Kitty is kind of moody, and is not receptive to Nightcrawlers flirting. Poor guy.

Xavier sends the entire team after Rogue. That seems a bit unnecessary. Nightcrawler actually is getting to learn to fly. Though that might not last since he seems to want to fly with his feet.

And Kitty has a crush on Cyclops as well. This is going to get tiring. Nightcrawler gets jealous and makes an idiot of himself; freaking out Kitty in the process. Wolverine speaks for me “Kids.”

Mystique is here now as well. Blindfold tells them where to find her. She is going to the footballers home in her confusion. Blindfold is stopped before she says that Rogue is Mystiques daughter.

Xavier is hitting the audience with a hammer by constantly referring to her as “our Rogue” whenever he mentions her.

Mystique does a good fake out and impersonates Wolverine to freak her out and turn her away from the X-men’s attempts. It’s a good plan but I think Logan would be insulted by the impersonation. Rogue runs right to Blindfold.

Then the real X-men show up and Rogue flees.

Nighcrawler is doing a great job and appears to be the best recruiter in the group, but Kitty interferes and tackles Rogue like an idiot. Rogue touches Kurt and also sees his true form. Now she speaks German and teleports. She is also picking up control of her powers (and Kurts) really quickly. Sylar would be proud.

Kurt is still down, and Kitty is showing some real caring for him. Then she screams mentally and gives Xavier a migraine. “’The Rogue’ has his abilites”. We all know who she is, you can stop calling her that.

Jean is going to try and recruit again. She is doing better this time than with Kitty, though she gets an assist from Kurt’s memories. Then Storm shows up and freaks out.

Kitty apparently thinks flirting will wake Kurt up.

Mystique is back doing her thing (as Cyke this time) when the real thing shows up. Cause Rogue wasn’t confused enough. She is really freaking out now, and ends up touching Storm. Crap.

Storm’s powers without control are as destructive as ever. Rogue is completely overwhelmed by it and teleports out of there to go ruin the weather patterns somewhere else.

Wolvie finally takes a second and smells Mystique. Storm and Kurt wake up at the same time (for some reason), and Kitty now seems to like him. Kurt is rightly confused.

We see that the QB has also recovered. And Rogue has switched schools to Bayville.

Uhoh, paperclips are moving again, the big bad Magneto must be around. <_<

We hear that the memories of the true X-men have faded, but she still has the recorded and it seems Mystique may be wrong.

First impression? Not a fan of goth Rogue. That said, the plotline of this ep with her confusion and Mystique’s tactics were all done very well. The main plot of this ep was great, the danger room scene was fun, everything else was very whatever. Xavier pounding Rogue’s codename into our heads was annoying.



X-men TAS vs Evolution Episode 3
Once again both shows have good solid episodes that just doesn’t make this easy for me. The low points of TAS were much lower, but the high points were much better. In the end I have to give the edge to TAS for starting up the moral and philosophical battle of Xavier and Magneto which I love so much, and portraying it perfectly. As a kid I would have enjoyed Evolution more, but now I really get a kick out of the deeper issues that TAS had.

X-men TAS: 3
X-men Evolution: 0

Poor Evolution, it has actually been really good, it just keeps being narrowly beaten.

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Spoilers.



Almost every female character in Evolution has a crush on Summers. Ugh.

Your first write-up for the animated series made me want to post this video

*possible spoilers but seriously not really*



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All the women love Cyclops, especially if they're telepathic, in every universe.

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Storm has never loved Cyclops. Fairly certain Kitty has never shown any interest in the comics either, nor Rogue, Psylocke, X-23, or most of the other X-gals. So far every female character on this show has expressed interest in him (except Mystique).

My memory of the comics (limited as it is) tells me that Cyke is usually on the other side of love triangles. I guess Dazzler and Jean both liked him at the same time, but otherwise it is typically another interest showing up whenever Jean dies. And then leaving whenever Jean comes back.

This is going to be very annoying if the trend continues.

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Casual bamf

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That's Destiny in Evolution, not Blindfold. Blindfold didn't even exist when Evolution was initially airing - meanwhile, Destiny is a huge part of Mystique's backstory in the comics.

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You're gonna love this Magneto.



Don't worry, it's from another cartoon.

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Man, I'm glad Magneto didn't end up sounding like that in TAS.

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That looks horrible.

Also, real life business frelling sucks.

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So Walmart is selling the original X-Men series DVDs and the complete Wolverine and the X-Men one.

Thinking of buying both.

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Buy them on Amazon. It will most certainly be cheaper.

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So I may just skip to doing episode summaries and comparisons rather than the big write-ups like I have been doing. I just don't have the time otherwise.

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So Walmart is selling the original X-Men series DVDs and the complete Wolverine and the X-Men one.

Thinking of buying both.

I've seen a DVD boxset of TAS in its entirety, but it was ridiculously expensive. Probably won't have enough money to buy it for awhile :-(

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I do because I can.....and because I'm bored.

Sorry guys, things are crazy busy for me right now.

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Hoping to watch some again on Friday.

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Where I live, it's Saturday now.

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Same here.

This week has majorly sucked for me. And to be honest I don't know when the next time I will have an hour free to watch X-men will be.

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<_<

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bumpity

Well, this didn't last long.

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Awww

Yeah, I might have been a bit over ambitious with this. But I'll still try and get a few more updates in before this purges. Maybe my schedule will open up again, who knows?

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Topic is now a tear-jerker where everyone melodramatically discusses past forum-based projects that fell apart over time despite harboring great potential.

One time on TrekBBS I managed to review 80% of Babylon 5. I had a pretty sizable following and it was a real event for a lot of people including myself. Then I lost internet access for a month and it eventually purged. I stared death in the face that evening!

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My favorite unfinished Board 8 project is probably Shake's Star Wars project (forgot what it was called). Users would submit characters to Shake and he would implement them in his Star Wars story. Then he would e-mail the users with possible courses of action their respective characters could take. So it was basically a wide-scale CYOA.

MYC submitted a Jabba the Hutt-like character from the planet of McDonaldonian, who sat in a chair all the time and had telekinetic powers. Shake refused to use him. That incident alone makes this one of the greatest things to happen to the board.

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That's amazing

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