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I'm glad someone's mentioned Xavier's line to Xorn: "Sometimes even the best people will do terrible things to protect their secrets". Excuse me whilst I pick myself up off the floor after having been squished by the Anvil of Foreshadowing. I think that tells you a lot about where the Xorn storyline is going: he's not evil exactly, but he has a big secret, and he has done and/or will do some things which are at best horribly misguided. Note: I think this will be almost entirely disconnected from both Weapon Plus and whoever Esme is working for/with.
The other line I'm surprised hasn't been given much attention: "I'm going to dye my hair and scrawl my name across the world" says Esme. Now is it me, or is that soooo Quentin Quire? He dyed his hair, he carved his name across a guy's memory - plus his whole motivation was basically to make a name for himself, in a 'new world'. This is further spelt out for us by Esme walking past an Omega Gang logo just after she says that line. I'm starting to wonder whether Quentin, with his 'see-through' mind, wasn't just influencing people around him but also being influenced by something else (because I think it would be crap and unlikely if he was influencing Esme now from the 5th dimension or wherever). I think he picked up on whatever Esme was feeling and/or being influenced by while he was busy fixating on the Cuckoos... So yeah, I think there's been some kind of malign, unseen agency at work at Xavier's for a while, but I really don't think it's Weapon Plus either. Esme wouldn't be working for them - and remember, neither does Fantomex. He's specifically working against them, and he's an opportunist... I figure if that was Fantomex in the cabin (how tall is he?), then it works something like this: Esme is working with/for someone whose agenda is chaotic, mutant - their agenda is in conflict with that of Weapon Plus, who want order, control, and enslavement/extinction of mutants - so for one very specific moment it made sense for Fantomex to work with/for Esme's boss. Except that still doesn't explain just what Emma found out and why she had to be 'killed' in such a baroque and ultimately ineffectual manner.
Speaking of ineffectual... You have Xavier, Xorn, Bishop, Sage, Beak & Angel (plus spawn) in the cabin, and Xavier figures out it was Esme, right? And Bishop clealry figures out she'll be leaving, via the one apparent exit to the Mansion's grounds. And they all know she's a telepath, and what she can do, right? So why doesn't Chuck, the most powerful mind blah blah, or even Xorn who doesn't have a mind per se, accompany Bishop and Sage to intercept Esme? Because then she might not have been able to just fucking walk out of their... aiieee. Bad plotting, methinks.
Everyone's mentioned "sun in a box!", but what about "boyo" - is the baddie really Lieutenant Dudley Smith? And don't even get me started on "Make it oily!"... |
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