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Review and Media by Stu
Episode #21 - Time Fugitives, Part One
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy Animation Services By: AKOM Guest Starring: Philip Akin as Bishop, Lawrence Bayne as Cable, John Colicos as Apocalypse, John Stocker as Graydon Creed and Marc Strange as Forge Review: This episode sees the return of both time traveller’s and pits them against each other. I’ve never been too fond of either Cable or Bishop, but this episode is probably their best appearance.The episode even continues some of the season’s “Friends Of Humanity” arc, with Creed doing whatever he can to plague mutant kind. It was certainly a little “out there” for an X-Men story, with a lot of this episode’s animation/scenes being repeated modified for the second part. One of the things I like most about the story is part one’s ending. It’s a little crammed, but to it was still cool seeing Apocalypse killing all of the X-Men and Creed with a simple thought, and Cable’s realisation that he has to help Apocalypse. Bishop was annoying as usual. I find his voice to be a little irritating, but the man reason is simply his design. I know it’s like that in the comics, but he has an absolutely terrible costume and a hideous haircut. He was simply an eyesore of a character. Part two is slightly more enjoyable than part one, with Cable added to most of the scenes, which basically created more tension in the already stellar action scenes. I especially liked the Blackbird falling from the rooftop and Jean’s attempts to catch it. These earlier episode often suffer from trying to get too many characters in. Someone on the show’s staff must have noticed this by next season too, as the full team rarely appeared together again, if at all right up until the final episode. I personally think the show worked better with a handful of X-Men rather than the full team. A lot of characters are simply left standing around in some of these episodes. The stories conclusion was well executed, and simply wrapped everything up nicely. I’m not too big a fan of time travel stories in this show (which is odd, I love them in most shows, but I’ve always been a sucker for going into the Screenshots: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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