Episode #43 - Dark Horizons, Part Two
Original Airdate September 16th, 2003

The X-Men and The Acolytes travel to Peru in hopes of stopping the resurrection of Apocalypse.

Credits
Written By: Craig Kyle and Chris Yost
Directed By: Gary Graham
Music Composed By: William Anderson
Guest Starring: Bill Switzer as Cannonball, Tony Sampson as Berzerker and Andrew Francis as Bobby "Iceman" Drake

Review: Combined forces, the first mutant, giant robots of Anubis and Ra�it gets no better, folks.

Dark Horizons Pt. II is another bevy of exposition, but this one comes with a dollop of robot-smashing action. The audience learns the origin of En Sabah Nur and the Eye of Ages, Mystique gets what�s coming to her, and Mesmero somehow dispatches three of the best hand-to-hand fighters in the series.

The fight scenes are fun, if a little silly. (Didn�t they fight giant robots in the last season finale?) But realistically, this is all about whetting the palette. This doesn�t so much end the season as prime you for the next one. Did anyone really think they were going to stop Apocalypse here?

The only flaw: a slow-motion, overwrought ending. In the time it took Apocalypse to dispatch the Acolytes/Brotherhood/X-Men, they could have smacked around a couple more Egyptian gods.