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| 'X-Men' (1992) |
In this episode of “X-Men”, a few more things get set up at the beginning of ‘Captive Hearts’ such as Storm having to face her claustrophobia again during a Danger Room scenario. Also, Wolverine’s unrequited love for Jean Grey is shown when she tries to get him to rest after being injured by Sabertooth in the previous episode.
However, the main plot point of this episode involves Cyclops and Jean Grey trying to enjoy a romantic date, only to be kidnapped by an underground gang of Mutants. They identify themselves as the Morlocks, Mutants who are too deformed to live above the subways and sewers with normal humans and normal looking Mutants.
This adds another interesting aspect to the lore. If humans hate Mutants in this world, then they would definitely not like seeing a green skinned one or one that looks like a two-dimensional drawing. The reason they were kidnapped, though, is due to the fact that Callisto, the leader of the Morlocks, wants an heir and she thinks that Cyclops is the right man to provide her with one.
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| Storm takes on Callisto with... lightsabers? |
Eventually, the other X-Men manage to track down Cyclops and Jean and there is a pretty cool battle. I also got a few chuckles at just how happy Wolverine was to be fighting and trying to track down Callisto at one point.
However, the episode takes an unexpected and sort of anticlimactic turn when Storm challenges Callisto to a fight over the control of the Morlocks. It would have been cool seeing them use their powers against one another, but it’s actually a battle with what appears to be lightsabers and turns out not to be all that interesting.
Despite this final dull twist, though, I did find the episode to be entertaining though I also felt that it was nothing more than a filler episode. It’s good, but it’s also probably the weakest episode I’ve seen up to this point.
GRADE: C
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