天下制覇

  

I hope you start kicking ass and rocket punching people soon, Kitty.

Impressions:

Nowhere near as exciting or as action-packed as the first episode, but it did gain all that structure it was lacking, and it actually covered not one, but two little plotlines of characters acting doing things, letting us learn about them by their actions instead of exposition. Take the opening sequence when Magneto dropped a helicopter on her. Nobody had to explain magnets to me, or polarization, or that things are made of iron. He simply tossed metal things around, the north/south poles on his back glowed, and they assumed that I possess at least a 2nd grade understanding of science. All this happened incidentally to creating giant iron fists and throwing cars. Means, motive, opportunity, and execution, all covered in seconds without a single damn lecture.

Not too terribly surprisingly, the whole thing flashes way back to do the origin story schtick after throwing a few helicopters and giant plants around. They probably could’ve found a better… uh… villain? for the first half than CGI Katamari Dad, and the fight in the second half against… Wow, are there really no X-Men who turn invisible? Sue Storm doesn’t count. Let’s go with Invisibo then because “Black Fist” is awful. Anyway, Invisibo was also pretty lame, and they had apparently already blown the budget on the intro scene so it was a bunch of stills and speedlines.  

So I’m relatively happy with it, especially compared to how woeful the second episodes of most shows this season have been, but there are definitely things it needs to be improving on. Hopefully it can keep the pace up and put its action scenes to a little better use instead of squibbing out toward the end like this episode.