In this, our sixteenth episode we discuss:
- How we spent our respective Easter Sundays
- The bane of Rian's existence
- Goat trouble
- Playing with firearms
- Jesse's opinions on an island of beautiful girls and "the smoke ghost"
- Catching the BBC fever
- The British Office versus the American Office
- A desire to be region free
- What the hell happened at the end of No Country For Old Men?
- Where have all the Clint Eastwoods gone?
- What Rian has watched since the last episode
- Crossing the line from fanboys to flat out nerds: Our individual X-Men Dream Teams
...and multiple other topics. Come along, won't you, as Jesse and Rian get Sidetracked.
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Episode 16 Song List:
The Predator Rap - Mouthmaster Murf & DJ Mayhem
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Tubthumper - Chumbawumba
Possum Kingdom - The Toadies
Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
I Want You - Savage Garden
Out Of My Had - Fastball
Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me) - Blessed Union Of Souls
Closing Time - Semisonic
Losing My Religion - REM
All Star - Smash Mouth
Smack My Bitch Up - Prodigy
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Wonderwall - Oasis
Here's To The Night - Eve 6
Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
***OOPS - Rian meant to say that there was a Gambit series drawn by Steve Skroce, not written by him. Also, when Rian stated that he couldn't remember the names of the actors in That Mitchell & Webb Look, he of course knew that their last their names are Mitchell and Webb, but he couldn't remember their first names at the time, which are David and Robert.
***SHOUT OUT - To Jay, Sean, and Greg of the Film Junk Podcast, from whom I snagged the clips which open and close this episode of Sidetracked.
Here's my very eclectic pick for a 7-person X-Men team.
ReplyDelete1. Professor X
2. Shadowcat
3. Quicksilver
4. Blink
5. Forge
6. Multiple Man
7. Kylun
Shadowcat is great for spy shit and sneaking through places. She can phase through anything, AND bring people with her. So say, if Quicksilver was running top speed somehwere and couldn't be bothered with going around anything, he could take Shadowcat with her and they could race right through it at top speed. That's pretty badass.
Blink is for transportation. Age of Apocalypse or regular, take your pic, I'm not specifying, she's the transportation girl. Much more powerful than Nightcrawler in that dept.
Forge is for technology. He talks to machines. That's way faster than a telepath taking over the mind of someone who knows machines, or hacking it in two. Forge makes shit all the time. He's there for technology, offensive and defensive, pure and simple.
Professor Xavier- Let's cut to the chase. Everyone picks Cyclops as team leader. Fuck Cyclops. Why not pick the man he aspires to be (or did when I was reading the book)- Professor X. Is it because he's a cripple? Fuck that. There are ways around that- Forge could make Xavier some sort of cool exoskeleton to move around in, or a little hover scooter or something with force fields- suffice it to say, he's riding around in something Forge built, and it's bad ass).
After you get over the mobility issue- You've got the most powerful telepath in the world, checking shit out with his mind- and directly speaking psionically to everyone at once- FUCK! He could could show everyone what everyone else was looking at or thinking about! Now That's communication. Plus with this psychic comm station/therapist around, there wouldn't be any infighting (Logan and Scott, anyone?).
Multiple Man is a no brainer. Especially if Blink teleports him in, Shadowcat phases him in, Quicksilver runs him in, etc. Keep Jamie Madrox away from his duplicates so he won't die, send the duplicates in to get slaughtered (or start slaughtering), and don't stop until the badguys are super tired. The original Madrox never lifts a finger, so he's never tired. The ultimate disposable soldier.
Now, I could have thrown Wolverine in the mix, God knows I love 'im, but when he's not copping an attitude or flipping out or going AWOL (usually in that order), he's just a feral-looking guy with sharp things that can kill enemies.
I went with Kylun instead. Kylun looks like a goddamn lion, is a master tactician who has led ARMIES against evil foes and he's got two super-frikkin' cool swords- swords that can cut through ANYTHING as long as it's not pure of heart. Fuck adamantium claws (in this instance). ASure his ACTUAL mutant power sucks "I can recreate any noise I hear! Perfectly!... hey, where'd everyone go?" But the fact that he grew up in a different reality with magic, where he gained the features of a lion, led armies and got swords that can cut through anything. He's not a hothead. He's a dependable member of a team.
So there is my list.
And Jesse thought I had a "weird, weird X-Men line-up"...
ReplyDeleteThanks for throwing your hat in the ring, Karl. I like your list for the most part. Specifically the thought you put into inventive forms of teamwork like combining Quicksilver and Kitty Pride or Professor X and Forge.
I had to look up who Kylun was. I never read Excaliber. Who cares about the Brits lol.
ReplyDeleteCool team Karl.
With Professor X, I never thought of him as an actual X-Man which I know is dumb. Good pick though. Forge is cool but most of the time he is wasted as a character. He makes like a toaster that will toast the bread better or something stupid like that. The only one I don't care for is Quicksilver because he is a douche bag. He would just cry all the time.
Quicksilver, when he was on X-Factor (with Madrox), was pretty bad-ass and pretty mission-oriented.
ReplyDeleteSince then (the early 90's), he's been really whiny, ESPECIALLY in the Ultimate universe.
But by himself, written by Peter David, Quicksilver would be a good assett.
Besides, like I mentioned, there is no reason why Professor X can't psychically reach out and help all these poor fucks with their hang-ups.
P.S. I in no way am saying Peter David would write this comic. Peter David's version of Quicksilver is who I would like on my team.
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