The Gist of It: This episode opens with happy New Yorkers running around their city, tipping hats to each other, and skating. It's the perfect winters' day. Oh yes. And in a dimly lit room, atop a high building, there sits a cranky blonde man watching TV. Okay, maybe he's not cranky, but his answering machine certainly is. Anywho, he's watching a story on the news about a disabled lady stuck in a burning building. Ever so stoically, he leaps out of his office and flies to the site and rescues the lady as her daughter's freaking out. This results in a happy reunion and she's all "Mom! How'd you get out?" With all the conviction of a cartoon character in a Christmas themed episode, the mother responds with: "An angel! A real angel!"

Cut toooo... the Institute, where the X-Geeks are having an early Christmas party! Jean gives her three clones-- er, I mean, Kitty, Magma, and Jubes-- the same present, and they're all "WOW!" even though... you'd think they'd be "Heeey, you just bought three of the same thing for us!" Anywho, Kurt's like, trying to get Kitty to kiss him, Rogue hands Scott a present (a sweater), which results in an eeevil glare from Jean, the Uber Bitch! Kurt chases Kitty around some more, and winds up kissing poor poor Bobby.

After the party, everyone but Rogue, Scott, Xavier, and Beast go off to visit their families. Scott's wearing his new sweater. Rogue's wearing pink. Wow, two things I never thought I'd see! O.o;

Back in New York, a mugging is occurring, and sooo... Angel stops the criminal and hangs him on a flagpole, then flies off ever so heroically as a spooooky old man in a trench coat watches. Later on, all over New York, people are talking about this angel. Back at the Institute, Xavier talks to the gang about Angel, and Rogue volunteers herself and Scott to go find him. This ensues in a walk around New York, in which they're chased around by a crazy man with a "Repent!!" sign. Heheee!!

At a diner, Rogue and Scott bond. XD Rogue mocks the possibility of real angels, and Scott gets mopey then talks about his past. It's cute. :D

On a bridge, Spooky Old Man (tm) stands and wreaks a little bit of havoc with his magnetic powers. Angel, now in a superhero costume, rescues some people in a car, and soooo Spooky Old Magnetic Man starts wreaking more havoc, that results in a little girl getting knocked into freezing water. Despite the fact that Angel leaps in after her and SAVES her, the idiot public with all the fickleness of a medieval crowd, turns on him and is all like "You're a freeaaak! Freeeeaaaaakkk!!" Spooky Old Magnetic Man finds that his work here is done.

Scott and Rogue overhear some girls talking about Angel, so they run to the hospital where the girl's being kept. Angel, disguised as a doctor, walks through the hospital. The ever observant Rogue sees a feather fall from his coat, and they chase after him. Very very quickly, he pulls his mask on and flies off to the chapel where the girl's parents are. There, he's confronted by Magneto! Maggy tries to recruit him, but Angel's like "You're a loser, go away!" Maggy don't like havin' his feelin's hurt, so he attacks Warren. Luckily, Scott and Rogue leap in to save the day! After shooting Maggy out a window, they help Angel and are then attacked by more metal thingies flying at them. Rogue touches Maggy briefly, and the two chase each other around New York in a big, flying, metal flinging battle. You'd think she'd be too traumatized by all the scary Auschwitz stuff in his head to immediately attack him, but no. I guess she didn't get enough of his mind to see that far back O.o;; Mass destruction that nobody notices ensues, Rogue passes out, Mags flies away, and Angel rescues her.

As Scott and Rogue try to recruit Angel, the little girl wakes up and tells her parents that the angel came to see her in her dreams. It's a happy, feel-good moment, and Angel decides not to join the X-Geeks. Then, we get to see clips of everyone but the Brotherhood's happy Christmas. >.> Of course! Villains can't celebrate Christmas! Silly me for expecting a brief, two second clip of them freezing to death in their dilapidated boarding house!

Brotherhood Moments: ...not one. After all, why would we want a perfectly happy Christmas episode ruined by showing them at their old, run down home? Why ruin a merry Christmas with a brief glimpse of a bunch of poverty stricken orphans and the whore who shacks with them? >.<

My Opinion: I liked it. I mean, sure there was no Brotherhood, but there was a lot of Rogue/Scott moments! And while I'll get beaten bloody by some people for saying this, I LIKE Rogue/Scott. Hell, it's better than Jean/Scott and Kurt/Scott, at least. That, and there was quite a bit of Magneto. Being that he once was my all-time favorite Marvel character (sadly, he's now beaten by Pyro, Deadpool, and Iceman. He's now tied with that idiot Cortez O.o;;), and he wasn't nearly as dumb as he was in "The Cauldron", seeing him made me fluffyhappy! Even if I DID think he was Cameron Hodge the first time they showed him >.> Anyway, I was never really a fan of Angel, BUT! I did like him a lot in this ep! Sure, I thought his costume was a little lame, but come on, it's almost impossible to look cool while wearing a mask.

Oh yeah. Supposedly, there were two mini references to the comics in this episode. Now, I'm a big fan of the comics, and at the moment I have uhh three boxes full of comics (not a whole lot, compared to a bunch of fans, but it's enough that I at least know what I'm talking about half the time :P)... and I didn't see the fabled references in the episode, UNLESS one of them was Angel's donning a mask and being a crime fighter prior to joining the X-Men, because that was the closest thing to a comic reference I saw. O.o;

Rating (out of 5): Uhh... I'm going to give it a 4 because I'm so sick of the Season 2 episodes sucking. Yep. Whether or not this episode deserves a 4, I'm giving it one just so I can PRETEND it was a spectacular, marvelous episode!

BH Babble:

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: WELL MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, TOO, YOU BASTARDS AT KIDS' WB!!
: You know what's sad, Wanda?
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: They're introducing Fury and Captain America to the show before us. >.<
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