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Podcast: The North-South Connection
Episode: X-Position: An X-Men Podcast #13: Whatever It Takes & Red Dawn
Description: "I do not yearn for an easy life, Magneto. Only a just one."
These third and fourth installments of X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES' second season are representative of a revised story structure, adopted at the behest of the Fox Kids executives. Gone is the single, unbroken heavily serialized narrative approach of the first season, wherein episodes that weren't explicitly identified as multi-partners still ended in cliffhangers and flowed directly into the next adventure. This was especially pronounced in the midseason, when animation errors forced delays and the airing of episodes out of script order. Fox understandably wanted...