The big question right now is whether or not that new character will go down the Mary Sue path: will she be a stable addition to the cast or will she completely take over the show with her powers? As a teenager, she doesn’t really fit amongst the characters of this series, but if she just remains in her role as victim who needs time to learn how to control her powers, then she’ll be a good addition to the plot.
Thanks to these cliches this episode was the least interesting X-Men episode so far. As build-up it should be fine, but at the same time this pace should not continue onto the next episode. Still, Emma Frost is a good addition to this cast, and she did a good job of being not obvious whether she was lying or telling the truth about having nothing to do with Jean’s death. That’s a nice thing for later on.
The most disappointing of this episode was the silly bad guy, though. He looked so cool, yet when he actually started fighting he completely lost control for no reason. I mean, Wolverine’s villains were also quite simple, but at least all of them kicked ass and were threatening in a fight.
Which brings me to the one thing that Wolverine did better than the X-Men: it had a convincing villain. Shingen perhaps was a bit too cool at times, but he stood apart, was a force to be reckoned with and he always had his presence. The bad guy here though… the U-Men still haven’t convinced me whether they’re something special.
Rating: * (Good)
It seems highly unlikely to me that armor will play a dominant role it this show.
I have to agree with psgels that the u-men are a bit lacking as villains at the moment. They have a pretty interesting villain behind them in the comics but I guess the possibility that they will just be used as ‘random baddies’ in this adaptation, is unfortunately there.
Storm looks good, but doesn’t really act or talk like Storm here which somewhat annoys me. I hope they will do a better job with Emma.
It would be great if next episode is plot heavy because 12 episodes is not a lot for a series that has enough source material for thousands of episodes if it wanted to.
Yeah, storm completely lost the tribal goddess angle and is just a generic strong female character now.
On the other hand I’m glad they didn’t go with punk storm… It always seemed silly..
Off course, we still don’t know if the U-men will be the only antagonists seeing as we do see the old Hellfire Club in the first episode.
i don’t know if i like this storm adaptation…first i thought this storm is stronger than the previous adaptations but it proves me wrong, using a little bit of her powers nearly drain her energy…second she doesn’t have those mysterious blue eyes…i love the anime so far but i hate what they’ve done to storm…