POK JJ: "The Chikorita Rescue".
Not much to say because I nodded off during the second Jackie Chan ep and missed two-thirds of this one--though from what I saw at the end it reminded me a bit of "Snow Way Out", with Ash and company hiding from the elements in a cave. Kojiro mentioned that Chikorita likes to mount legs, but I must've missed that bit....

X-MEN: "Mutant Crush"
This ep opens in that great redneck mecca, the tractor pull. It features the young Blob, who here looks a bit like a cross between "Austin Powers" villain Fat B*st*rd and Kubiak (Abraham Benrubi) from "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" , topped off with a Mr. T. haircut.
Logan (who fits in well here with his new good-ol'-boy accent) and Jean are in attendance, looking like a father and daughter having a night out--which is a bit creepy considering that later Logan supposedly falls in love with Jean. Actually, considering that due to his mutant healing factor he may be at least 100 years old, so that would make him old enough to be her great-great-grandpappy.
In the Fox series Blob was simply a one-dimensional fat horse's a**. Here he is more fleshed-out (no pun intended), with a name and a personality. He is starved for both food and companionship, and when someone (Jean) shows him even a microbe of kindness, he adopts a stalker mentality in his desperation to keep it. This makes him more pitiable than villianous. The slightest mockery or rejection causes Blob to become violent--which is bad news for the X-Teens and his objet d'amor.
One almost sympathizes with the big ape because many of us are not far removed from high school and we knew guys like this--the sort one sees pass in the halls and tries to avoid looking at, or privately wondered where they purchase clothes that fit or, if we see them with a girl of decidedly smaller proportions, how the mechanics of physical intimacy works out between them. Though by the end Blob becomes overtaken by obsession/temper, ceases to become a sympathetic character, and simply turns into the monster everyone takes him to be.
Rogue also appears in this ep, rather a monster/outcast in her own right (though her accent is starting to grow on me, her makeup job looks like somebody clocked her one in both eyes). Seems oddly appropriate that the play Scott and Rogue rehearse is Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew", as Rogue, like Kate, needs a bit of dicipline and self-control. Though she performs admirably, not soiling herself in fear when Kurt pops up out of nowhere and controlling Cyclops' powers very nicely, she still refuses to join the team. Perhaps she takes solace in the fact that she can deny her true self a lot better than someone like Blob. Small comfort, that.
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