Review By Arsenal, Media By Stu
Episode #15 - A Firestar Is Born
When Firestar and Iceman join an X-Men reunion, Firestar tells the group of her past as
Spider-Man battles The Unstoppable Juggernaut!
Written By: Christy Marx
Music Composed By: John Douglas
Guest Starring: Stanley Jones as Professor X, Anne Lockhart as Storm, William Marshall as The Juggernaut, Neil Ross as Cyclops, Frank Welker as Angelica's Dad and Marilyn Schreffler as Bonnie.
Review:
There are good points to this episode, but the average Marvel fan will watch it and think one thing�Wow, Wolverine sucked.
Yes, Logan (I will never call him James) did indeed suck. He skewers an apple before offering it to Bobby and Angelica. The Logan I know would not �snikt� to serve hors d�oeuvres. He would �snikt� to cut a man, or maybe a ribeye; but not a frickin� apple. Also, the intolerable Australian accent first surfaced here, so I blame "A Firestar is Born� for the crappy Wolverine in �Pryde of the X-Men� too. Finally, the dude gets tossed after one offensive maneuver, and we don�t see him again. This guy�s a fighting machine? It�s no wonder that Wolverine didn�t reappear in the �X-Men Adventure.�
The other new characters don�t leave much of an impression either. Cyclops is not a leader here, nor does he have a stick up his posterior. (No S & AF heroes do.) Angel does get to flirt a bit, which is in character, but Storm is gorgeous (especially to Bobby) and little else. Xavier gets to look and sound particularly frail.
For as boring as the X-Men come off, Juggernaut is fantastic. He is appropriately unstoppable and supplied tension to a series that rarely has it. The actor was a bit lame, but I�m sure the voice choice was par for the 80�s. (We just have a different opinion on what is intimidating nowadays.)
Firestar�s origin story is a bore and feels pasted on to fill minutes. (I forgot how long these episodes were.) But exposition is as exposition does, and the episode earns a smile by the end� except for Wolverine, he sucked.
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