"Speak no Evil": Gotham City is goin' ape! Now that that lame pun's out of the way, a gorilla that's on the loose acts a little too smart when Terry tries to bring him in. Turns out some scientists, desperate to meet their deadlines for ape intelligence research, spliced the guy with human DNA. Now he's getting smarter, and is demanding to be re-united with his mother. Well, if you were plopped in the middle of a big, confusing city, wouldn't you want your momma too? Anyway, both the ape and Terry get mixed up with the poachers that originally caught the gorilla and his mother, etc. etc.

This was a fairly mediocre ep for me... seeing an ape run around for half an hour just wasn't interesting. And the old "evil poacher" thing has been done before. Though it was pretty painful to hear the poacher admit to the ape that he has no idea what happened to the mother... she was just another ape, to him. And the ending, where the ape returns to Africa and promises to tackle poachers, seemed a bit odd. An ape vigilante? Hmmm... Bruce had Robin and Batgirl as sidekicks, while Terry has Ace the dog and a big ape.

X-Men: I forget the title, but it has an X in it. Scott Summers (Cyclops) saves Toad (sorry, I forget his name) from angry jocks when they see him pickpocketing. Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, arrives at Xavier's school and gets all angsty. Later, Xavier, as a way of "testing" Toad to see if he really is a mutant, lets him run amok in the mansion for some reason, which of course leads him and Nightcrawler to get trapped in the Danger Room. That's more or less it.

Eh, this show wasn't as bad as I thought... it avoids the Kids WB "Hall of Shame," anyway (Captain Planet, BRATS, Waynehead, Generation O, etc.). But it's not something I'd go out of my way to watch every week, if this ep is any indication.

Logic is constantly defied here. So Scott and Jean go to a regular high school AND Xavier's school? If Xavier already used cerebro to determine that Toad is indeed a mutant, why did he feel the need to "test" him? Couldn't he have asked Scott, who experienced his leaping and icky tounge firsthand? Furthermore, why was the Danger Room automatically set to "thourough butt-whooping?" Xavier said it was for security, but we _already_ saw that the rest of the mansion had security too (Toad tripped it), not to mention the fact that an intruder would have to sneak through a whole lotta mansion to get to the underground Danger Room, not to mention that only a complete idiot would sneak into the Danger Room to begin with. Also, why the heck does it take so long to turn the Danger Room off? (Answer: so we could see an unnecessary fight scene.)

Meanwhile, as I feared, there was LOTS of lame after-school special moralizing about the nature of being different. Xavier: "You're as normal as you feel." Um, okay, that makes a lot of sense. Then, at the end, Magneto threatens his lackey Mystique (the principal of the high school) with: floating paper clips. Oooooh, I'm scared! Both Wolverine and Mystique's voices sounded way too cartoony. Other cartoony bits: Toad uses his tounge to swallow a sack lunch whole. That's a bit much. And, as I've said before, I don't like the "waif" look in all the characters. There's a difference between streamlining and emaciation, you know.

There were a few good points... the animation itself was pretty darn good. And I like how they're taking their time to introduce the characters one at a time, rather than overwhelming us with new faces... but come to think of it, most of the characters aside from Toad seemed pretty darn flat so far.

Eh. It's something to watch if I'm awake and there's nothing else to do, I guess.
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