Figured there would be no resolution to Gambit and Magneto this week. Storm and Xavier returning was a good trade off for the lives taken last week, was a good test for Storm to reawaken even though she's had to fight her claustrophobia before, went down how you'd expect it. This week had some crazy good dialogue, "Milky Way Ghetto." was an all time great, and was great to get a glimpse into the Shi'ar empire again. Gladiator is OP as he always was, but still hoping for a reset button coming up via Cable. Don't think I'll ever be happy if Gambit truly is dead, or somehow they resurrect Magneto but not him, and I don't think they'd let Magneto stay dead, so if Magneto comes back then Gambit better be back too dammit!

Gambit and Magneto's deaths REEK of the "Days of Future Past" film stunts. You show the heroes getting killed, for real, and then there's some time travel ****ery that is able to undo it all while still providing the spectacle.

Gambit went out like a ****ing boss. It would be a shame to undo that level of badassery, because imo it's hard to beat a death like that just absolutely nuking that three headed abomination.

Cable arriving, warning everyone beforehand, time slide alarm goes off, he specifically says " Not again" before apologizing and veing yoinked back through time.

This is clearly an event that Cable has been trying to undo multiple times. If they'd only killed Gambit, maybe he's never successful in undoing it.

But there is no ****ing way that Magneto stays dead, this early into a revived series.

Cue time travel ****ery in 3...2...1.....

Gladiator decking Deathbird was pretty sweet.

I wouldn't be happy with Gambit dying but it would be interesting if they had him dying over and over again no matter how many times they went back in time, a fixed point kinda like the Flash movie, that he always sacrifices himself for Rogue, that would put some great added layers onto their relationship. Not like I'm not going to watch anymore and throw a tantrum but I have to admit it sucks that he was the one that was chosen to die, like take Jubilee, Beast or Morph. But yeah he went out like a BAMF it also sucks that this is the most badass he's ever been portrayed in any show and they use it to ice him, like DAMMIT I finally get peak Gambit and I can't enjoy it for but ten minutes.

Some have mentioned that maybe Apocalypse resurrects Gambit as one of his four horsemen like the comics for next season, I could get behind that.

I don't think magneto is dead. Remember the golden rule. No body no death. My guess is that while he had the shield up night crawler teleported everyone out.

I doubt they'll pull a time travel reset at the end of this, it would really cut the knees out from under the show. If they just reset it, what's the point? Also if this is part of the MCU multiverse I have to wonder if they'll retcon the MCU time travel rules into it.

I think Magneto is alive, but they may play the long game with it. One of the comic arcs they're borrowing from is 'E is for Extinction', where Magneto is seemingly killed in a Sentinel massacre on Genosha. Later a new character called Xorn joins the team, but is eventually revealed to be Magneto in disguise when he goes crazy and attacks New York (then is almost immediately retconned into not being Magneto after all, because comics). But the point is, in the comics, this took like 40 issues to play out. And remember, they had already written season 2 and were working on season 3 when the showrunner was fired.

Isn't Rogue holding his dead charred body at at the end of the episode?

Good to see Jean Grey get some action this week, Rogue had some surprising decisions this week. What she does towards the end of the episode feels out of place for her, even if she's grieving the losses, liked her revenge tour though, good shit. Finally seeing who the villains of the season are helps understand where they're going the last three episodes. Not sure why Storm and Professor X took a backseat this week but I'm assuming these events happened at the same time as last week's episode to show what everyone was doing during that time.

Love the Bastion angle and him working with Mr. Sinister. That being said I hate the way Sinister's voice sounds.

I was equally surprised that none of the X-Men tried to save him. I expected Jean to catch him Telepathically.

It was really cool to see Thunderbolt Ross, him referencing the Hulk, a Cap cameo out of nowhere (made me think of Avengers vs. X-Men storyline), and I got a real chuckle when Rogue yeet'd Cap's shield.

This show is way darker than I expected, but I'm digging it

They have done a great job of letting the mutants’ powers off the hook. Magneto goes to the pole and turns the entire world back to the Stone Age lol

Nightcrawler is so badass, love his BAMF sound. Wolverine came through this episode as well. I was starting to get annoyed that he was so useless.

Oh, and Spider-Man!!!

with 3 ****ing swords!! LOL That was awesome.

OMEGA ****ING RED and Spidey from the Animated Series??? Oh yes...ohhhh yes.

After last week it was pretty clear we were headed toward Fatal Attractions, but I wasn't sure if they'd really do it. They kind of pussed out on showing it though, with the freeze frame. I wonder if it was too graphic or too expensive.

Probably too graphic, they likely are only allowed a certain amount of animated blood and gore per episode to keep the rating. Alot of head scratchers this week, first off with wtf Scott? All this is on him, disrupting the Professor when he had Magneto where he wanted him but he blasts his eye beam saying "Gold team needs more time." What Professor X was doing was probably going to end Bastion through Magneto's power, just a dumb decision for no apparent reason. They better explain that one next week, also Sinister's mind control of Cable came out of nowhere and seemed off, like how did he end up getting control over Cable's mind? Guess we'll find out next week.

Looks like the show is headed towards the Wolverine working with Apocalypse storyline to get his adamantium back, maybe that's how they bring back Gambit too next season. One could only hope.

Hell, he could turn into Magneto and Proffesor X could do everything he wanted without having to use Magneto.

One thing that I just don't get is why everyone is like "Magneto is a huge piece of shit for doing what he did to the EMF of earth! We have to stop him!"

Bro, y'all were absolutely ****ing dead if he didn't do what he did. Like it was the end of the road for pretty much every mutant. Magneto saved all of their asses and their first thought is "wtf, dude?"

Another thing that Im not understanding is why did cyclops decide to blast Xavier? All he had to do is be like "hey bud now that you have control of all this dudes faculties let's hold off on this whole reversing thing until the other team has had more time. Jean showed some bad shit going down."

if they turn the electricity back on before bastion is taken care of all of the prime sentinels go back online. Essentially dooming all mutants.

He probably always had control over Cable? He did have him as a baby and probably programmed it then.

Did Cable have any interactions with sinister in the cartoon before?

You always have to keep the X-Men’s end goal in mind. They want peace between humans and mutants. They know the ramifications of Magneto’s action will make that peace nearly impossible. They said he killed thousands at least.

I realize that, but instead of blasting the professor he could have told him to not turn the electricity on and give them more time. Xavier had complete control over Magneto, so he was no longer a threat.

I was trying to think of how he killed anyone with what he did, but I guess people need electricity when hooked up to life support stuff like that, but what other option did he have? Everyone was going to die if he didn't do what he did.

don't forget about planes falling out of the air, hospitals without power, car crashes etc.

And while I agree he had no options as far as saving all mutants, the issue is that he will refuse to fix things. Even if bastion was taken out magneto would refuse to save humanity.

Xaviers view point is that attempted genocide isn't the path to take after an attempted genocide.

RIP Leech

Loved Bastion and how demented and unstoppable he came off. Not quite sure how all the XMen can't beat him but then a Sentinel's foot can hold him down. Also if you're going to showcase Iron Man and the Avengers in this episode as, "Guess what kids?!?" and then do essentially Avengers Age of Ultron with Asteroid M instead of Sokovia at the end, why wasn't Iron Man helping in the sky? I get why Daredevil, Captain America and Silver Samurai were just fighting crime on the ground, but are you telling me Tony Stark with all his knowledge of Project Magneto wouldn't understand that he may be needed should the missles not do the job and the Asteroid comes back down on planet Earth that he wouldn't have been on the bottom end with Storm, Rogue and Jean Grey trying to help in some way? I'm not sure why they decided to split the team into different time periods with the gravity core as well, do we need to see the En Saben Nur origin story for Apocalypse when he's already existed in this universe in earlier seasons? I know the comics has the possibility of Wolverine joining him to get his adamantium back, which is likely where they're going with it, but no mention of Onslaught at all, no tease really, Xavier doesn't go ape shit on Magento, just talks to him in his mind for the whole episode, doesn't bottle Magneto's hatred into himself like in the comics. So if you did this, it's going to be really weird pulling Onslaught out and saying, "Remember the finale from last season? We didn't show you, but this entity was created when Xavier did that." Overall Bastion, great, Cyclops, great, Jean Grey Phoenix, kinda outta nowhere and then leaves shortly after it saves her and the team for plot armor sakes. Sucks we have to wait until late 2025 to get the next season.