Hands down worst episode of this show. Jubilee takes on the writer's chair and writes some lame x-men fanfiction with her as the Mary Sue protagonist. It is so bad I feel second-hand shame for everyone involved in this. Wolverine voice actor surely embraces the garbage and starts making some clearly mocking voices in the middle of the episode. I am almost surprised he got away with it but, then again, someone calling the shots would need to give a crap about it to notice.
In a meta sense is kind of insteresting how it mirrors all the strong female boss ladies stories we have nowadays, twisting popular franchies into unrecognizable shells of their former selves.
[5.0/10] This one isn’t outright bad, just painfully boring. You could do so much creative stuff by translating the X-Men universe to a historical setting. (See: Marvel 1602) Instead, “Jubilee’s Fairytale Theater” is a painfully generic fantasy story with the X-Men thrown into it. Sure, it’s mildly novel to see Gambit as a Robin Hood-type thief, or Jubilee as a rogue elf, or Wolverine as a troll. But that’s about where the fun ends. The quest to recover a magic gem from an evil wizard is the same as any off-the-shelf fantasy story you’re likely to find, and the show isn't able to inject any real creative wrinkles or observations from subbing in Jubilee and company into the proceedings.
There's a decent frame story, of Jubilee herself spinning the tae to keep a young group of students on a field trip from being scared white they’re trapped in a cave. There’s a tribute to the power of stories to keep us calm and give us comfort in times of stress, something I certainly appreciate from the solace I find in even over-the-top shows like X-Men during tumultuous times. But it’s pretty thin gruel here.
Overall, this is an episode of wasted potential, that takes a “What if?” transplant of our heroes to a fairy tale setting, and then proceeds to do only the most bog standard, expected stuff with the setting and tropes. Seeing familiar characters in unfamiliar garb and environments is amusing for a minute, but you need deeper twists than that to keep an episode like this one entertaining.
Shout by Jerry HowellBlockedParent2017-04-01T23:04:19Z
This one was fun, but, it also made it painfully obvious that the writers and producers were running out of ideas.
Content Concerns:
Sex: A brief kiss. 4/5
Nudity: Occasional slight cleavage. 4/5
Language: Name-calling, and one use of "heck". 4/5
Violence: Fantasy action violence throughout, including robotic enemies being torn apart. 3/5
Drugs: None. 5/5
Frightening/Intense Scenes: A scary troll; a bunch of kids are in harm's way during a cave-in. 3/5
Other: Use of magic. 4/5