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In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.

X-PLAINED

• The evolution of Angel
• Cold opens
• rachelandmiles.com
• X-Factor so far
• X-Factor #12-15
• A miscommunication triangle
• Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
• Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
• Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
• Cameron disambiguation
• Famine
• Master Mold (more) (again)
• The Twelve
• Tanya Trask
• Caliban

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