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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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