evo woe and thots

[eliyes]

The perils of watching things on the internet: I was watching the episode "Adrift" in season 2 of X-Men: Evolution, and about 9 or 10 minutes in (i.e. right when we go from "ALEX?! AHHHHLEHHHHHHHHHX!!" to "Scott? Scott? SCAWWWWWWWWWT!") the video cut out. I don't want to go from audio only. :( I wanna see Scott sinking in the ocean, dammit! I wanna see if it's the coast guard, the X-Men, or the boys themselves who save the day. Also: Alex and Scott are so entertainingly alike in their recklessness when confident.

The previous episode rocked hardcore, however. I love the Evo Hank as much as the 90s cartoon Hank at the very least. :3 I didn't expect to! Because the 90s cartoon voice for Hank is essentially what I hear in my head when I read him, and this is a different voice, but it works very well.

Was Boom Boom the only new recruit old enough to go to high school? That doesn't seem right, since I'm pretty sure Bobby (frex) is 15 when we first meet him. But other than her, none of them seem to go to Bayville High. Nor do they show up when Xavier telepathically wakes everyone with "to me, my X-Men!" "All students to the first floor" in the wee small hours. Maybe he only called the blooded heroes? Because he was putting two of them in charge? It's just kinda weird. Do they not live at the Institute? Do they live there, but have meals at a different time than the Bayville-attending kids? They're never there at breakfast, at least not thus far. eta: Just watching the episode "African Storm", it's pretty clear the new recruits are at the Institute itself while the others are at school.

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[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Evo Hank is adorable -- I love that he entered quoting Louis Caroll. And good lord is his animation nifty. The art team really put a lot of thought into how he moves. I believe they won an award for their work on him.

Boom Boom is the only recruit important enough that we get to see her at school regularly. I'm pretty sure the rest of the New Mutants go to Bayville too (okay, maybe not Jaime, who is *tiny*), but we only get to see them when it's relevant to the plot. I'm pretty sure Amara showed up at Bayville in the grrl-power episode.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I did a silent dance of joy in my chair when he entered quoting (iirc) the caterpillar.

I ask because in the party episode, Bayville students "Risty" and "Arcade" see pics of the new recruits when Webber hacks Cerebro, and they don't recognise them. (Meanwhile, they're all at the party upstairs.) It struck me as weird.

eta: I'll add this to my OP, too, but in "African Storm" it's pretty sure that at that point the new kids are at the Institute while the others are at school.