Rogue Rampage

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"Bright Eyes", last night's new X-Men'97, was pretty good, despite not being written by Beau DeMayo. Instead, the teleplay comes from Charley Feldman and JB Ballard--not JG Ballard, as Google will suppose you mean when you try to google him. JB Ballard doesn't have enough writing credits to be noticed by Google and once again Disney shows their propensity for preferring cheap writers over experienced writers. If they don't have AI working on scripts now, you know they want it so bad. Anyway, it was a decent episode.

Rogue tearing up a military base gave us some satisfying action and a seeming reference to Gunbuster's "Inazuma kick".



I enjoyed that.

This comes with a cameo by Thaddeus Ross, still sounding more like the late William Hurt than Harrison Ford (it's neither of those actors, though). But the big cameo comes later in the form of Captain America himself, who doesn't approve of Rogue going . . . rogue. That was fun. All of the plotting was satisfying, everything clicked.



I really liked Rogue killing Trask and Wolverine giving his seal of approval only for Trask to pop back up as a superzombie, like a physical manifestation of moral consequences. That adds a great extra layer of tension.

X-Men'97 is available on Disney+.