X-Men '97 Season Recovers Its Momentum In a New Episode That Expertly Adapts Some Seminal Marvel Storylines

Warning: This review contains full spoilers for X-Men '97 Season 2, Episode 6! At what point does Disney need to change the name of this series? It may be X-Men '97, but the show is really starting to lean into the early 2000s era of the comics with Episode 6. That being said, when the result is that X-Men '97 starts drawing from all-time classics like the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely New X-Men and Joss Whedon/John Cassaday Astonishing X-Men runs, who are we to complain? As is the show's wont, "Danger.exe" covers a lot of ground in the span of 30 minutes. This episode pulls in many elements from the first half of the aforementioned Astonishing X-Men, albeit with Polaris (Carolina Ravassa) filling in for Kitty Pryde. Meanwhile, on the New X-Men front, we get the introduction of those lovely Quitely-designed costumes and some key developments late in the episode. It's a stew with a lot of ingredients, but they all come together nicely enough in the end. This isn't a case like Episode 5, where the show failed to truly take advantage of the source material it was adapting. One of the main draws of "Danger.exe" is that we finally get to see the Xavier Institute treated as what it actual