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I apologize if I've offended - that's the last thing I want to do.  I tease my 12 year old sister professionally and maybe that rubs off in some of my posts.

I don't know anything about hue, radiation, etc. but it was just hard for me to take him seriously.  He is clearly animated.  Of course he's animated, but to me he stands out too much for me to enjoy.  Kind of like those scenes in Spider-Man that were clearly animated and looked a little goofy.  (But maybe I'm the only one that thought that also.)  He doesn't stand out as much as Roger Rabbit, but enough.  And there was a scene in the trailer where he was running around a canyon dodging missiles and it almost seemed like he was waddling with his huge feet and stubby-looking legs.  Maybe it was just that shot.  But I couldn't believe it enough to think it was cool.  I'll shut up now, lest I raise anyone else's hackles.

Yeah, I know, there's a suspension of disbelief.  But the fairly casual way they introduced Prof X's ability ("oh yeah, he can kill everyone on the planet just by thinking about it") was a little much for me.  You'd think someone would keep that kind of stuff a little more secret.  Loose lips sink ships (or get everyone and their mother sending in hit squads to kill you just because you can do what you do.)

Yep. Having a Star Wars, or a Harry Potter Lego set takes away what EUOL pointed out as their greatest strength: that they can't be tied down, that you can make them into anything.

Oh, and I would have thought that Storm would know a little bit more about using her powers responsibly...I wonder how many people she killed by creating dozens of tornados over New York State, or wherever they were at the time.

So I saw X2...well, it was okay, in my opinion.  Lots of great action, but it lacked a definitive conflict for me.  There was a lot of conflict, but perhaps too much, because I felt that in trying to treat too many sub-plots it took away from the movie as a whole.  But I like my movies pretty tight plot-wise.  And these powers all of a sudden growing...Jean Gray's was a little believable, but all of a sudden Prof. X is powerful enough to kill everyone on Earth?  I know, he could probably do that before, but whoa, Nelly!  You'd think that's the first thing someone would tell you about a guy.  Top of the resume kind of stuff.  I thought that they were trying to get him to use Cerebro to try and find all of the mutants to hunt them down.  But that he could kill them...that just seems a little too much for me.

Lest I come down too hard on the movie, let me mention that I think that the introduction of Kurt Wagner was awesome.  I know next to nothing when it comes to overall X-Men storyline, so I hadn't been too familiar with Nightcrawler.  His character was the best thing about the movie, in my opinion.  The faith and idealism and general niceness about him, besides the fact that his opening scene was the best of the movie, made him my favorite character.  I'm writing this as a general response to the movie without having read the whole thread previous so I'm probably repeating some things.  Maybe my biggest complaint with the movie was that Kurt did not take more of a leading or assertive role.  After he expressed his idealism to Storm (where he seemed to become a very strong character,) he got pretty passive.  So that's all...

I also think this could be pretty cool.  But I know a lot of things that have seemed like they were going to be pretty cool an dthen they ended up stinking.  So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Muchas gracias

Yeah!  AORP again!  St. E, will you be posting the new stuff here at TWG or should I still be checking the old site for updates and instructions?