The Gist of It: Ahahahaaaaa. Hahahaa. Ha. Storm's a wuss. This is the conclusion I'll elaborate on later. For now, I'll just say this: another episode (kinda like "Beast of Bayville") chock fulla Evan's development as a character-- lousy development (as it only makes me dislike his character more, when previously, I simply didn't care about him >.>), but development nonetheless.

Anywho, this episode opens with crazy chanting and African tribal stuff. I'm not sure if they're using a real language, or just made the little animated men jump around spouting gibberish knowing that no child in America would really know the difference. Um, and so, Villain-Of-The-Week waltzes out-- obviously the villain because he has a skull painted on his face, and we all know skiull guys are bad!-- and is like "Mwahaha, we're gonna do something that has to do with this statue of a goddess that greatly foreshadows problems for *cough cough* Storm *cough*"

Aaaand then! Um. The next scene is... the school? I don't think anything happens before this scene. Anyway, we get to see another display of Jean being a total bitch (and why does she keep on using her freaking powers in public?!! In "Power Surge", she stops the ping-pong ball in front of EVERYBODY but nobody seems to notice it just floating in the air... right in front of Jean... who has a determined look of concentration on her face... Go figure). She sees Scott and Taryn eating lunch together and they're like "Hi! Wanna sit with us?" Jean: "*sniff* Peasants. Where's Duncan?" Scott: *goofy half smile, half frown, I'm not sure WHAT kind of expression, but it made me laugh* Evan: *zips by, acts like a dork, takes some of Jean's food and is thus thrown into a table with her powers... Yes... Ms. Responsibility blatantly uses her powers in public. Not that anyone notices. Bayville's kinda like Sunnydale with the level of obliviosity... obliviousness... that word. Whatever. He gets detention*

Then, at the Institute, Storm and Evan go through a Danger Room session wheeere he's supposed to protect her, but he sucks and she gets stuck in a teeny box that makes her go nutty and snap at stupid head Evan. He gets pissy and leaves, then Storm starts seeing lil shadow things running around, so she hurries to the elevator, where she sees Beast who's like "Oh, by the way, Evan's failing and being an all around loser."

And then, a lotta redundant stuff happens. Storm sees foreboding shadowy things, Evan bitches and whines, Storm sees things and spazzes, Evan bitches and whines and tries to act cool but nobody likes him, Storm has bad dream, Professor X arranges for Evan to leave, Risty acts suspicious, aaand Storm sees bad things. Whee! And then these all come together in the end when Storm's taken by Bad Voodoo Warrior Men People who put her in a box to... uh.. ship her back to Africa. She freaks, being claustrophobic, and Voodoo Priest Man is like "Mwahaha, your will is broken so I steal your soul" and then... her soul flies from her mouth into his little stick and all I can think of by this point is the voice-stealing scene from "The Little Mermaid" ^^;

Anyway, as always, there's a climactic battle scene, right after the X-Men rush to the docks to save Storm and meet up with a guy who very quickly sums up the plot of the episode in one sentence (probably because the Evo writers realized "Crap! We never explained the plot of this episode yet! Uh... uh... quickly! Throw it in... there!" :D). They fight, Evan has an epiphany (ala "Beast of Bayville" >.>) and saves the day. In the end, the good guys win and Evan gets to stay in Bayville. Uh. That's about it.

Brotherhood Moments: None. Not even a stupid-obsessy-Lance scene. >.<

My Opinion: Blah. That's all. Blaaah. The whole episode was just "Beast of Bayville", only they replaced Beast with Storm! Guah. I didn't like it at all. The only fun I had watching the ep was making fun of it. And... that's it. OH! Wait! I just remembered something! The new mutants had ACTUAL lines today! Consisting of more than one-word cries! Whee!!

Rating (out of 5): 2... Why? Because I'd feel guilty if I gave it anything less, as I pity Storm's blandness. :D

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Rosiel needs sleep.