Jul 16, 2026 · 28 min · 6 segments
Welcome back to The NerdGen Report ! This week, Pablo and Brian dive into an incredible Marvel Roundup, starting with our spoiler review of X-Men '97 Episode 4. We break down En Sabah Nur's tragic…
Brian SchultzHostPabloHostSo X-Men 97 episode four, Brian, what did you think of that episode? I called Freddie and he hadn't seen it.
And then he saw it on his bootleg app and he talked about it.
We talked about it.
Shout out to Freddie.
And we both had the same reaction, yo.
The writing for this is amazing, yo.
What they've done with this show and continue to do, which is difficult to do, is to keep getting better at how they tell their stories.
And where are they pulling this from, Brian? The comic books.
If I'm running a studio, tell me where you're getting your inspiration from and then we'll talk.
What did you think of this episode?

So there's a funny thing in the way this show works where Pablo has this, his version of the eyes emoji is like, he'll just text me and say, you saw it? Question mark.

It could be a movie or it could be as he just texted, you saw it? Question mark.

Because I was traveling and so that I had to sit down and sit down and watch it.

Yeah, look, I mean, what is there to say other than, you know, fortunately, I guess one thing I would say is I felt a little sigh of relief with this episode because we had concerns about the change of writing, change of showrunner with the show.

And this episode, more so than even the first three, made me feel like, OK, whatever transition has occurred, they still have it in them too.
So X-Men 97 episode four, Brian, what did you think of that episode? I called Freddie and he hadn't seen it.
And then he saw it on his bootleg app and he talked about it.
We talked about it.
Shout out to Freddie.
And we both had the same reaction, yo.
The writing for this is amazing, yo.
What they've done with this show and continue to do, which is difficult to do, is to keep getting better at how they tell their stories.
And where are they pulling this from, Brian? The comic books.
If I'm running a studio, tell me where you're getting your inspiration from and then we'll talk.
What did you think of this episode?

So there's a funny thing in the way this show works where Pablo has this, his version of the eyes emoji is like, he'll just text me and say, you saw it? Question mark.

It could be a movie or it could be as he just texted, you saw it? Question mark.

Because I was traveling and so that I had to sit down and sit down and watch it.

Yeah, look, I mean, what is there to say other than, you know, fortunately, I guess one thing I would say is I felt a little sigh of relief with this episode because we had concerns about the change of writing, change of showrunner with the show.

And this episode, more so than even the first three, made me feel like, OK, whatever transition has occurred, they still have it in them too.
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