Lol Storm loves giving her long-winded emotional speeches. I feel like we got three of them this week--one at the mansion before the team departed, one to Jean on the X-Jet, and then again during the finale.
Splitting the X-Men into Blue & Gold was great; I can't remember if that was ever name-dropped in the original series.
BLUE: Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Professor X
GOLD: Storm, Jean Grey, Beast, Morph, Forge, Cable
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time with both Cyclops and Jean--I kept getting the feeling that the writers were going to subvert expectations and kill Cyclops instead of Jean, especially after Rogue essentially hangs a lampshade on the idea of Jean dying & resurrecting. Leaving the episode on a cliffhanger with Cable vs. Jean makes the wait to next week even worse for me lol. I wonder how that will play out...
So it's theory time...
- Xavier goes off & mind wipes Magneto in retaliation. Magneto will be confined in a plastic prison.
- The Phoenix reemerges and Jean sacrifices herself to save the world. She'll tell Scott to move on, echoing Professor X's words to him from the beginning of this episode
- Cyclops will leave the team (maybe go home to Alaska), setting him for a more militant turn in S2
- Storm will become the new headmistress at the re-opened X-Mansion (maybe renamed as the Jean Grey institute)
- Xavier will leave, his dream in shambles.