30 minute episode
Rogue says, Previously On the X-Men.
Polaris is part of the team, and the main credits.
Mystique almost dropped baby Kurt into the river!
Ooof, reliving the Genosha massacre.
Magik!
Magik attempted to attack the Omega Sentinel.
Colossus couldn’t even put a dent into it.
Dang, we actually see her dead body.
But at least we got Magik.
Crayton Creed being so beloved, so gross.
Creed is running for president. Will Iceman and Cannonball show up?
Does he address the Sabretooth connection, or will that be part of his undoing?
Beau DeMayo co-wrote the episode.
Acolytes!
Random, Frenzy, and Colossus.
Colossus looks good with a cape.
Exodus! Maybe I’ll have a better understanding of his character now? I got to know him better during Krakoa, but his whole deal before that is still beyond me.
4621 seconds is the attack of Genosha.
Rogue and Nightcrawler look great in the Frank Quitely outfits.
Oh, Rogue & Nightcrawler’s half sibling, I see what the show is doing here.
Did Xavier move the X-Men to Genosha to avoid American oversight? That’s pretty clever.
Forearm is a prisoner of X-Factor. The only shadow I recognized.
Episode 7, so we only have the three part finale after this. Dang, this season went fast.
Bishop, Kurt, Polaris, Rogue, and Beast are going to Savage Land.
Kurt’s costume incorporated his priest collar.
Polaris and Bishop are chatting here, because they became fast friends last episode.
Bishop and Polaris also look great in Quitely uniforms.
Are we going to get Zaladane?
Rogue doesn’t have her powers, none of their powers work. Classic Savage Land. Probably why Logan isn’t on this mission.
Is that why Bishop immediately noticed the radiation? His power defaults absorbs it?
T-Rex almost got Polaris and Bishop.
Poor Bishop, he’s absorbing so much power, but he can’t release it. There’s probably a joke in there somewhere.
Classic X-Men, they get split into groups.
Colossus rescued Rogue and Kurt. Poor Rogue, feeling pain for the first time.
Is that Amelia Voight? Who is the guy with the white hair?
Creed and Kurt share Mystique.
Nice plotting with including Colossus in a story involving siblings, with him losing his beloved sister.
Kurt working Colossus.
That’s definitely Amelia Voight.
I don’t know the big guy either.
I like the Acolytes rescuing mutants, AND not making them be child soldiers. Well, I assume they’re not turning them around to then work for them.
Beast is bold claiming Magik wouldn’t want Colossus working with the Acolytes. Did he know her? Morph knew her enough to morph into her in episode 3 of season one.
Aw, the Illyana shrine! With Marrow, and Magneto was added later, I guess?
Illyana was wearing a New Mutants costume.
Colossus painted all of the photos. Or paintings. All of the photos seen, are actually paintings Colossus created.
Colossus brought the X-Men to Clayton Creed.
Kurt greeted Creed as a brother. Hey, they can relate to each other with scripture.
Exodus with his giant wing thingies.
I like Rogue not wearing a Quitely jacket, even though everyone else is wearing a jacket, and one would think, with her powerset, that she would be inclined to wear a jacket.
Would Creed do well in a mutant run trial? A Savage Land trial is better than a kangaroo trial.
Kurt wants to proof Creed can be redeemed. Oh, Kurt.
Colossus is brokering a deal. If Exodus wins the trial, Kurt will join the Acolyte. Colossus will be the judge.
Bishop and Polaris are slowing working their way to the X-Men. They think the X-Men are being held prisoners.
Polaris doesn’t have bright ideas, only fun ones. She’s so great in this series.
Was that Tempo?!
Senyaka, I always have to look up how to spell his name. He’s like a beatable Omega Red, with his power whips.
How much of a trial are we going to be able to see?
I don’t recognize many of these mutants.
Kurt skips the opening remarks to get straight into questioning Creed. Kurt tells everyone Mystique is their mother. Creed is quick to mention how she threw Kurt off a waterfall. Comics have since rewritten that.
Kurt telling all of Creed’s business with the Sabretooth reveal, which upsets Creed. Apparently at one point, Sabretooth scared Creed’s face. Did we see that in the show?
I like Creed acknowledging Mystique is his mother, but Sabretooth is too much for him.
Kurt doesn’t have an idea who is father is.
Mystique booted Creed as a baby, and Sabretooth wanted a cub.
Aw, Creed thought he was going to get powers at 13. He couldn’t become a hunter, or did he?
Like most racists, he had a bad interaction with someone, and has made it everybody’s problem.
So, was Exodus opening his entire case? Fictional trials are rarely like the real thing, but that makes sense with the time limitation.
ESPN Jeopardy. We’re playing pretty fast and loose with the Jeopardy brand. I still need to watch the Tini Howard episode.
Whoa, Exodus wants to jump to the end, and behead Creed.
Colossus finds Creed, and with too long of a pause, Exodus attacks. Dang, Exodus is going to kill Colossus!
Bishop and Polaris on Pterodactylus. So cool.
Exodus is very powerful.
X-Men have their powers back!
Bishop wants to end this with a bang. Probably a joke in there as well.
Is Colossus going to join the X-Men after this?
Exodus and Nightcrawler in a s-word off! With powers.
Beast bounced off the big guy after Rogue got him on the ground, so silly.
Exodus’ line about Kurt truly being a demon. Hits harder knowing Exodus’ religious background.
Whoa! Creed killed Exodus! Wha?!
Creed wants Kurt to get him out of this mess.
Kurt teleported his half brother to the snowy part of the Savage Land.
Kurt is choking Creed out with his tail. His blue tail.
Kurt isn’t going to kill Creed, right? Right?!
Kurt lets Creed live, but with the knowledge that he is truly his parents’ son.
X-Factor found Creed in the snow, alive.
Val Cooper threatens to take away Xavier’s school.
Colossus is at the X-Mansion. So the school is under American control, but not the X-Men.
Colossus was going to find Creed , and claims Illyana would have been convinced. I guess because she loves redemption arcs so much?
Back at Athens. X-Force! Doing some stealth. Whoa, Apocalypse is dead! Wha?!
Jubilee found Gambit’s Queen of Hearts card, as the episode ends.
Probably my favorite episode, and yes, because of all of the sweet Magik references. RIP Queen of Limbo.
Next episode is, The Dead Man’s Hand.
Thanks to Disney fandom for the cover image.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 