The Gist of It:

(Note: I'm doing this update on another computer, so the keyboard's kinda funny to me, so if words are missing letters or freakishly misspelled and such, it's the damn keyboard's fault for not being as cool as my other one!)

The episode begins with Kitty (YAAARGH!!) and Rogue walking over to the Danger Room or one of the other shiny, metal places in the Institute to go check out Forge's new experiment, which will help Kurt teleport farther or something like that. Anyway, along the way they talk about the Sadie Hawkins Dance and who they're gonna ask. Kitty (YAAARGH!!) has apparently been talking to Lance for hours upon hours upon hours and is acting like she's not gonna ask him when we all know that she will, otherwise Lance would still be the cool character he WAS and we can't have that now! Or something. I'm not quite sure if that made any sense, so moving on... Rogue's cranky because she can't touch anybody; therefore, can't ask Scott out, blah blah Jean comes in, Rogue blows her off and they all go see the experiment.

Forge is tinkering with some stuff, sporting a new, semi-grungy look! For a moment, I thought he looked kinda hot with the makeover... until I realized that he looked almost exactly like a darker-skinned non-raver/punk/druggy version of my older brother and I promptly threw any and all Forge-thoughts out of my head. I will now never EVER EVER slash Forge or stick him in a romantic situation in ANY of my fics after coming to that freaky realization. Annnnywho, he and Professor X explain their theories on Kurt's teleportation abilities and whatnot, (I really don't want to explain it myself) and then send Kurt off to teleport farther than he ever had before via slowing down his abilities to send him faaaar away. So, slowed down, he crosses through a fiery hellish dimension (which explains the brimstone cloud when he 'ports) to get to his destination, all the while oblivious to the little monster watching him ever so eye-glowingly. At first, I thought it might be some freakish version of Lockheed, then I thought it might've been the brood, but I guess in the end they were just a bunch of Jurassic Park-esque critters cooked up for the episode, so MOVING ON!

The rest of the episode is a little repetitive. I mean, there's just a bunch of talk about the dance, everyone gets asked out at one point-- Kitty (YAAARGH!!) asks Lance, Evan somehow gets a chick, Taryn asks Scott, Risty and Rogue go together (must not slash, for Risty's Mystique which equals ROGUE'S MOMMY INCEST BAD! in my eyes eeeeven if it's not real incest and Mystique's NOT her adopted monther in Evo >.>), some soft-spoken quiet girl named Amanda asks Kurt (and apparently I've been writing TD WAAAY too long, because I kept on expecting Amanda to turn out to be like Amy O.o), and Jean goes with Duncan-- and there's a bunch of gratuitous velociraptor-- er, I mean totally original monster shots.

Professor X and Forge and Wolvie realize that there are monsters in Happy Kurt 'Port Land, and so they decide to test it out. This results in Kurt getting attacked, freaking out, and vowing never to teleport again. Oh, this also results in the monsters escaping from their realm in the middle of the Sadie Hawkins Dance.

Oh yeah, and sometime during all of this crap, there's a scene of the BH at home talking about the dance and acting utterly stupid (with the exception of Pietro, because he's cool and I love him stil). Sure, Lance doesn't really do anything in this scene, but because he's being pushed down to the bottom of my favorites list, he's stupid by default. Anyway, Boom Boom acts like the general whore she is, Pietro doesn't seem to be fond of her at all and calls her pathetic (let me PRETEND he's directing that to her at least!) and they all decide to go to the dance together for some reason. Well, not together like as dates, apparently, since when the dance scene begins, Pietro's shown strutting in looking snazzy with like... 4 girls on him XD

Oh yes, and Freddy seems to have contracted mange or shaved his hair off or something. Anyway, moving on!

At the dance, all the happy (or not so happy in Jean and Scott's case, since they'd rather be together) couples are shown. Lance is dressed pretty niftily, but because he's with Kitty (YAAARGH!!) he automatically looks bad (heheh, I'm so stupidly biased)... Anywho, Tabitha, Freddy, and Todd come in looking like rejects from the 80s, Big and Tall, and 70s (respectively). Pietro comes in looking sparkly and shiny and... well, Pietro. But enough about the BH's clothes and stuff! On to the action! (yeah right)

The gremlins-- I mean raptors-- I mean Kurt's Creatures-- escape from all the places Kurt's ported to in this episode (the gym where the dance is, Forge's old lab, and the Danger Room) and wreak havoc. Yeah. Forge makes a new laser to zap them back to their homeland and... I wonder what all the students are thinking now that their dance got attacked by a bunch of monsters. Anywho, the BH (minus Pietro, who promptly disappears like he always does in the middle of episodes) take out one of the monsters, too, and stuff...

Kurt rescues his date, who already knew he was a mutant because she saw him change to his regular form in "Shadowed Past" and teleport out of the school (MAN the X-Men are dumb about using their powers wherever the hell they feel like it). They have a moment and the episode just kinda... ends there. There's no REAL resolution to it, which is dumb.

Brotherhood Moments: Surprisingly, there were some O.o However, they sent me into rageful seizures (o.O;). We see Kitty (YAAARGH!!) asking Lance to the dance, to which he replies "I'll think about it *stupid grin* HAA! I was kidding! Of course I'll go, Kitty! Golly gee!" and later we see them at their house where Boom Boom is dancing around like a whore and being her usual flamboyantly mentally defective self. You think I'm exaggerrating? It's AWFUL! I wasn't expecting a BH scene in the first place, so when they cut to the cacophonous scene of mass chaos, I was like "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!!" The girl's just dancing and drooling for no reason and the BH boys are cackling like her personal flying monkeys or groupies or something! Except for Pietro because he's the only decent member of the BH left (seeing as how he's untainted by her whorish presence, and he's still true to his character and not a watered down, vanilla version of a villain like a CERTAIN SOMEBODY NAMED LANCE!) and Lance because he's probably thinking about naked Kitty (YAAARGH!!). We also see them at the dance sporting hideous, hideous clothes. Well, Lance doesn't look bad, really (in fact, I need to find that style of shirt and jacket for my A-Kon costume O.o;), but he's with Kitty (YAAARGH!!). Boom Boom looks like the kind of hooker you'd find on a street corner in the 80s, Todd looks like a sad little loser from the 70s, and Fred's popping out of his suit. Pietro looks genuinely good and comes to the dance with many girls clinging to him. We later see the BH (Freddy, Todd, and.... her) when the critters attack, and they take one out by having Freddy sit on it.

My Opinion: Delete any scene with Lance an Kitty (YAAARGH!!) together and replace Boom Boom with a black blob, then I'd love this episode!! REALLY! It would be a great episode reminiscent of Season 1, which is far superior to 2!! REALLY!!!! GOLLY GEE!! But because there's Lance/Kitty (YAAARGH!!) crap and Boom Boom's not dead or a featureless blob, I watched this episode with an extremely hostile feeling. I'm sorry, I know I used to be okay with the idea of Lance/Kitty (YAAARGH!!), but I despise it now more than I ever hated Kurtty. It's just BAD. The writers are going about it in a totally hideous way! They're butchering my ex-favorite character! What the hell is with Marvel and ruining good characters?! Magneto, Avalanche, Mystique-- three of my favorite Marvel villains have been TOTALY destroyed in the regular continuity, and are they satisfied? Noooo. The destruction had to seep into Evo, too, in the form of... Lance/Kity (YAAARGH!!).

Okay, had to rant. Really, I'd like Lance/Kitty (YAAARGH!!)-- or at least be able to tolerate it-- had the writers gone about it a different way. Preferrably one that doesn't make me sick to my stomach.

On a lighter note, Pietro's still gay. Now, I know someone out there is thinking "Rosiel, you stupid slash whore, quit calling Pietro gay! He's clearly straight! Look, he has four girls with him at the dance!" To that I respond with: So? I went to the Sadie Hawkins dance with my gay friend, and it was damn fun! Really, how else could Pietro have that many girls and they're NOT trying to rip each others' eyes out for touching their man? Because they know he's gay, there's no reason to fight their pals for his ass! Aren't loopholes fun? *hugs Pietro*

Oh yeah, and I lost all repsect for Todd because of the way he was like "TABITHA!!! *_* *_* *_* *_* GO WITH ME, PLEEEEASSEEEE!!! *_*". *shudders* Why won't she die?

Um, but all in all, I did like this episode. I just.... hated the scenes with Lance, Kitty (YAAARGH!!), and Tabitcha.

Rating (out of 5): This episode could've gotten a four, but I must stick with my self-imposed rules, one of which states: "Any episode with Tabitha, no matter how good the untainted scenes are, has automatic points taken off based on how much she is shown". That said, this episode gets a 2. It's GOOD, don't get me wrong, but it already gets one point off for the Lance/Kitty (YAAARGH!!) crap, and then the other two are deducted for Tabitha... But I did like this episode! :D

BH Babble:

: Where is everyone?
: They're not allowed to show their faces here right now. :D Well, all except for me!
: Uhh... why? O.o;
: Because I was a good boy!
: I... see...
: .... and why the HELL am I not in the show yet?! That bitch was NEVER in the Brotherhood in the comics, but I was! So why is SHE there instead of me?!
: O.O;
: ... Um... *nervous smile*