User Reviews

This is like the worst episode so far into the series. It's so over the top. It almost seems like a protest from the creators to the TV studio.

Mojo as a villain is part of the comics, but having a ugly drama queen with an annoying voice is not doing it for me. It's just an awful storyline.

The parts with Magneto and Xavier at good.

For a show that features larger issues of bigotry, identity, survival, and trying to fulfill basic human desires in the midst of over-the-top powers, the danger was for even this PG show to take itself too seriously, and always have the same stakes that never quite resolved. Here is an X-Men episode which ventured into meta-commentary about the very violence and tropes that the audience is being exposed to, challenging the ideas of what could justify extreme actions.

Of course it's brought to us through an over-the-top character-how else to break us out of the mindset of the regular X-men formula? Is it always great writing? No, but it's bold and trying to keep things fresh. For 90s animation that isn't Disney, Batman TAS, Animaniacs, or Tiny Toons, it's serviceable. A solid episode.

The X-men get zapped into the digi-verse.

The villain is totally evil, the action is off the walls, the characters are true to form. Not a single complaint, really.

Mojo is just the right amount of "villain of the week".

An archetype not too often explored. Most times it's organized groups, re-accruing baddies, or a specific tale centered around a specific mutant and their nemesis. This is just Saturday morning fun.

Which isn't completely true, it's a little annoying, it's campy, it's loud, it's a little bit pointless.

But with this being the exception, and the whole premise of the episode being "stuck inside the TV", you have to think that this is all an excellent point: You can have superhero shows with actual characters, plots, and stories. It doesn't have to be "the villain of the week" every episode. Children can handle more.

And they proved it this episode, it's the lowest rated so far.

But with stuff like this you have to give grace and look for one thing: does it sacrifice the characters we know, just for the sake of entertainment, story, or the episode? If not, I don't see if there is an issue, and it's just as entertaining and fun as it can be. I don't see that it did any of that, so I give up, it was a fun episode.

And the magneto professor x part was super interesting.

That's a point that shows how they still know what they are doing.