Using Where Is My Mind if you know anything about Bob is just…<chef’s kiss>

Fantastic fucking episode.

Nightcrawler’s eulogy for Gambit was perfect and showed a real love for the character from the writers

The sudden twist from relief that Sunspot’s mom knew and accepted her son as a mutant to betrayal that she wants to keep it secret mirrored what a lot of LGBTQ youth go through with their own parents

Rogue going off in her grief and actually trying to kill Trask when he was no longer useful was jaw dropping

And some cameos from Captain America and Thunderbolt Ross, with a Hulk name drop to boot

I’m using Jerboa. What are you using?

I tried but apparently I’m doing something wrong. What am I missing?

EDIT I’m not sure how to spoiler tag apparently, so read at your own peril

Easter eggs I’ve noticed so far:

That’s a sling ring portal

The ::: spoiler

Ant-Man helmet

:::

is actually ||his whole corpse, as you can see his arms fanning out beside his skull, his skull under the helmet when it opens, and you can see that when DP and Deadpool jump into the Sling ring portal it is through the skull’s eye socket||

You can see ||Azazel and Lady Deathstrike|| in the group shot of the thugs around 1:52 and maaaaaaaybe ||X-23 in costume|| on the far right

The shop in the background during the slomo walk is ||Liefield’s Just Feet|| 🤣🤣🤣

Gambit charging Wolverine’s claws is something I never knew I needed, but my inner 10 year old was squealing with delight at that

And chills when Cyclops said, “To me, my X-Men…”

Sensei of my domain

I remember in the early post-Avengers days there was the theory that Clark Gregg was going to return to the MCU as Vision, and Vision was going to be based on Coulson’s brainwaves. Obviously this was before Agents of Shield.

Arcane. Hands down 10/10 on practically every possible metric, but the thing that really got me was the way they portray trauma and the subsequent impact on mental health. I work with folks who have experienced trauma and I thought this was one of the best depictions of the aftermath I had ever seen in media.

Also, this is a perfect depiction of a Greek tragedy, in the sense that everything ends in tragedy not despite, but because of everyone’s best intentions. As the story unfolds you understand everyone’s motivations and they all make sense. There’s no perfectly good or bad characters, just a lot of people doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.

Overall I enjoyed it. I really liked the setting of the French Revolution and the way that the Church allied itself with darkness in the face of an existential threat. Very relevant I think to many religious institutions today.

I REALLY liked Olrox. An Aztec vampire that can transform into a serpent god? Yes please. And they made him a three dimensional character, neither totally good or bad.

I agree that more time could have been spent on Rictor and Marie’s upbringing, but that wasn’t critical. I assume Rictor just comes by his skills naturally by way of being a Belmont and doesn’t need formal training. Marie was obviously trained by her mom. I really liked her power of conjuring creatures from another dimension, especially that one particular moment on the last battle with her foot.

Anne was a cool character but I agree she took too much responsibility for Eduoard’s death. But she’s also young and he was one of her only friends, so I can also kind of understand. She has a lot of growing to do.

I thought the idea of reformed Night Creatures was intriguing. Elizabeth Bartlett was underdeveloped as a villain, and Drolta wasn’t much better. Grandpa Belmont coming out of left field was weird and didn’t add much to the story since he didn’t do much.

Whatever it’s flaws, they weren’t enough for me to not enjoy it.

Seymour! Gaza’s on fire!

That’s why I always go alone…

I’d keep it the same, but with blackjack and hookers!