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Pryde of the X-Men (1989)
Ryan hosts a movie dork podcast in his spare time. Also, he's the type of guy who writes about himself in the third person while composing its episode descriptions. With those things in mind, it's not shocking to state that he can be an insufferable geek on occasion. However, the apex of his insufferable geekiness lies with the X-Men, a franchise he's been obsessed with since the age of six. Once he gets started, it becomes very difficult for Ryan to shut up about his very important opinions about these very important characters.
As such, Ryan's been a bit reluctant to tackle any X-media on his movie dork podcast. For his opening foray, he's decided to go low-stakes and cover Pryde of the X-Men, a 1989 pilot for an X-Men cartoon that never got picked up. He also drafted Sylvan, Cheryl, and Sarah to provide the color commentary (and hopefully rein him in). Together, they provide a short overview of X-Men animation up to that point and briefly touch upon how Pryde's failure ultimately led to a much more successful X-Men cartoon in 1992. Along the way, they discuss the X-Men's imperfect metaphor for civil rights, its awkward metaphor for puberty, its thematic similarities to Harry Potter, Nightcrawler's creepiness towards Kitty Pryde in this episode, Magneto's general fabulousness in this episode, and why 1980's Wolverine had a terrible Australian accent.
Pryde of the X-Men is 22 minutes long while this podcast episode tape out at 47 minutes. Clearly, Ryan shouldn't expect his siblings to taper his X-rants.
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Ryan hosts a movie dork podcast in his spare time. Also, he's the type of guy who writes about himself in the third person while composing its episode descriptions. With those things in mind, it's not shocking to state that he can be an insufferable geek on occasion. However, the apex of his insufferable geekiness lies with the X-Men, a franchise he's been obsessed with since the age of six. Once he gets started, it becomes very difficult for Ryan to shut up about his very important opinions about these very important characters.
As such, Ryan's been a bit reluctant to tackle any X-media on his movie dork podcast. For his opening foray, he's decided to go low-stakes and cover Pryde of the X-Men, a 1989 pilot for an X-Men cartoon that never got picked up. He also drafted Sylvan, Cheryl, and Sarah to provide the color commentary (and hopefully rein him in). Together, they provide a short overview of X-Men animation up to that point and briefly touch upon how Pryde's failure ultimately led to a much more successful X-Men cartoon in 1992. Along the way, they discuss the X-Men's imperfect metaphor for civil rights, its awkward metaphor for puberty, its thematic similarities to Harry Potter, Nightcrawler's creepiness towards Kitty Pryde in this episode, Magneto's general fabulousness in this episode, and why 1980's Wolverine had a terrible Australian accent.
Pryde of the X-Men is 22 minutes long while this podcast episode tape out at 47 minutes. Clearly, Ryan shouldn't expect his siblings to taper his X-rants.