Nice, looking forward to watching it later! I’ve been very positively surprised by the series - I was never interested in X-Men, but after watching this I totally understand why some people love the comics. Especially the dialogue!

Me when Magneto and Gambit are removed from the opening: 😭

Me when Nightcrawler is added to the opening: 😀

Edit:

Okay now that I’ve watched the episode and had some time to digest, I think it was pretty good. About the same level as episode 4. Overall, while it had some great moments such as Storm finding her inner strength and subsequent transformation, I feel like the Lifedeath story was a bit of a letdown. I’m not sure what it’s like in the comics, but I think some of the emotional stakes of the story didn’t hit home for me because I didn’t really feel the strength of the relationship between her and Forge. Having said that, goddamn does her theme slap.

I was surprised Xavier was still alive. Having not seen the original it came as a bit of a shock. Him schooling the Shiar in the Astral Plane was fun and the vision he got of Genosha’s downfall was pretty haunting.