Reception
At the height of the series' popularity, Pizza Hut sold two VHS tapes that featured "Night of the Sentinels (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Enter Magneto"/"Deadly Reunions". Also contained were round-table discussions between prominent names such as X-Men creator Stan Lee and 1990s writer Scott Lobdell. The story of this pilot was also adapted in the comic book "X-Men Adventures (vol 1) #1-2". According to Marvel Animation Age this was one of the best episodes of the series. This episode has a rating of 8.8 out of 10 on Internet Movie Database and 9.2 out of 10 on TV.com. An IGN review of the X-Men Volume 1 DVD described the episode as "pretty decent" and "as compelling here as it is in comic form."
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
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