X-Men'97 Season 2 Finale, I have Faith(But Do I?)

Ah the Celestials...

Those Marvel Gods who thought that destruction of earth through the Birth of Tiamat was the best way for the Universe to go forwards.

They also used the Power Stone to destroy a few Planets using the Infinity Stones and their own Powers.

In fact we see this very Celestial, Eson the Searcher, destroy the population an unnamed planet with the power Stone.

So we know that this particular god isn't exactly all sunshine and rainbows

The best way to describe the Celestials would be as cosmic Gardeners whose ultimate goal is overall growth, and to them the ends justify the means.

If in the long run the universe grows, then any amount of death is justified.

And this was also the hidden purpose of the Eternals but that was more planet specific as Earth was seeded with Tiamat the Sleeping Celestial, and he needed Humans to grow in numbers to be born properly.

But the Eternals and the deviants aren't the only two things the Celestials created.

In the comics, the Celestials seeded the Humanity with the X-Gene and the Mutate sequence, the latter being the reason that Spider-Man ad Hulk don't die of radiation poisoning or cancer but instead gain powers.

Basically the Mutate DNA sequence is a failsafe that prevents premature death upon Metahuman Transformation.

That combined with an active X-Gene since birth is what causes the Mutants to gain powers upon hitting puberty

So, The Celestials creating Apocalypse isn't exactly out of the Blue.

They are very closely tied to the Mutants.

So this season Finale isn't what we expected, as in Apocalypse isn't killing everyone in sight while the three Mutant teams finally come together in an united front against him.

It is the X-Men and X-Corp trying their best to stop X-Force and X-Factor from reaching to and killing Gambit before the small team sent to Ship can find a way to get rid of Apocalypse without killing Gambit.

Ship however forewarns them about the Celestial Chamber and it's tendency to ask for sacrifices.

Rogue goes in and fights against the Inevitable in Eson to save Gambit.

Eson, still not seeing the error of his ways asks Rogue to Sacrifice herself in exchange for Gambit's life, after saying the single most insensitive line in Marvel history.

I mean you know, Knull may be pure evil but the more you hear from the celestials the more your inner Kratos rises and you realize that if the god of the Klyntar did one good thing other than create Venom it is to cut off the head of(according to Fan theories)

Jemiah the Analyzer.

Creating the living quarters of the Elder of the Universe, the collector.

But regardless of all that, Rogue gains the power necessary to contain Apocalypse in a Gem for one last fight.

But first she must get there.

And it seems, at least initially, that she is too late.

Because Cable, who in most cases uses a large fraction of his psychic abilities to keep the Virus in his arm at bay, finally decides to let loose and makes his way to Gambit.

I the mean time, Havok shows dissent towards their actions straight to cooper's face, and later on, based on the expressions he gives to Jubilee, it seems he was at the very least counting on Jubilee to take him out of the fight because he truly did not want to declare war on Xavier or on Mutant kind which Cooper and Her Mech Sentinels were doing.

Or at least for someone to take care of him...

Speaking of, Mech Sentinels!

So you're telling me at the site of a Genocide, i.e. Genoshia, Sentinels show up again and all we get is Storm and Forge saying that the pilots inside require delicate touch?

Are you serious?

Don't worry, I wont go on another rant about the unfortunate issue of too may ideas being crammed into too few episodes again, everything around this has already been said to death.

But it is disappointing.

the opposite of that is seeing Gambit wake up and Join the fight, in full costume no less because I guess that is why he wasn't in a hospital gown end of last episode, it would be too not badass.

But then, Cable kills him.

And my mind went through the full emotional spectrum, at first being proud that they would go such a bold route, then sad ad disappointed that that means the apocalypse plot had an unceremonious end and then realizing no dipshit!

Apocalypse lives!!!

Shut up Eric.

So in a plot twist that simultaneously was the most epic and yet the most disappointing thing ever, Apocalypse takes over Gambit's body and gives him the same shade of lipstick.

I mean it makes sese, once you are set on a colour it is hard to let g... oh wait you want me to talk about the episode, right.

So yeah, killing Gambit kills the last thing keeping Apocalypse at bay, showing Cable yet again the error of his ways as Apocalypse uses Gambits Kinetic manipulation to create a Scythe.

Speaking of Kinetic manipulation, did you know that Cyclops and Havok are brothers and both the son of Christopher summers or Corsair, a space fairing swordsman pirate guy... yeah X-Men gets weird guys.

So when Jubilee called Havok Knock-off cyclops in episode 2, it wasn't just a jab at how similar they act, it was an easter egg hinting at this.

But I was under the misconception that that is why he was chosen as leader, when in reality, their brotherhood isn't even publicly known they themselves don't know this fact, all they know is when they first met, their powers wouldn't work on each other.

That Tangent is necessary because we are going to talk about another brother here in a moment because after avoiding the "rogue solves everything with her touch" plotline, they do it again this time on Apocalypse Gambit after he has spread his mind to all the X-Men including Cable turning them into Horsemen.

She does that and turns Apocalypse into a Gem to give to Cable, who will probably know what to do with it, gonna Doctor Strange Supreme it I guess.

bUt wHaT aBoUt thE SaCRifIcE?

Well.

I think they are definitely trying to make a point here, as in compassion and comradery is what leads to more life.

And it seems at the very least, Eson is intrigued.

He even asks Curt how he is sure that his death will bring forth all this life, and he simply says that he has faith.

Cause Remember, The Celestials aren't pure evil, even at the end of Eternals, Arishem takes Sersi and the others to check their memories and "judge" if the right call was made.

If he were pure evil, he would have punished such insubordination, it seems more like, they are pure Logic.

he still hasn't by the way.

But Curt's faith may yet be misplaced as Greydon creed wins the elections and Mystique replaces Val Cooper.

And the only other Shapeshifter in this episode, tricks Psylocke along side his "friend" Wolverine.

and For once him being an animal with claws helps.