X-Men: First Class: Many More Sentences

My brother learned to read from Dr. Seuss (he would come out of his room where he'd been reading, yell, "Hop on pop!", and jump on my dad), but Spiderman taught him to really enjoy it. Then, when I was about fifteen or so, he got me into the animated X-Men cartoon. Because we were already a comics-friendly house, I started reading the comic books. While X-Men wasn't the first thing I felt fannish about, it was my first fandom in terms of fannish participation. (I'm sure my few newsgroups posts are still out there somewhere.) I started out loving it for the Rogue/Gambit relationship, but Mystique quickly became my favorite character. (I had the first ever Mystique fan page on the internet when I was about seventeen or so.) Then I started reading Generation X, and Emma Frost became my second favorite character. (If you've seen X-Men: First Class, that is probably enough of an explanation for why I didn't like the movie, although there's a lot more detail below.) I tell you all this so you know that I come to the X-Men movies from a place of history.

Even though I spent the movie wanting to hurl things at the screen, I will start out with the two things I liked: ( Spoilers )

And then there was the rest of the movie. ( Spoilers )