I know what you’re thinking: January Jones? As X-Men: First Class‘ uber-bitch, Emma Frost? Surely that’s not going to work.
I share your concern, but want to offer these moments of hope. Yes, Betty Draper may not seem like the White Queen that we’ve come to know, love and potentially wish we were Scott Summers, indulging in no-holds-barred kinky psychic affairs with, but that might work in her favor: who’s to say, after all, that the younger Emma of First Class won’t be closer to the selfish, spoiled brat of Mad Men‘s Betty? Here are five moments from the AMC series that give me hope that this isn’t a hideous piece of miscasting.
1. Like Emma, Betty knows how to take charge of a stressful situation in unexpected ways.
2. Like Emma, Betty has a healthy imagination and is not averse to self-gratification.
3. Like Emma, Betty has psychic visions.
4. Like Emma, Betty is a bitch.
5. Like Emma, Betty is strong, nurturing role model for those in her care.
See? Maybe there’s nothing to worry about after all. Well, aside from Jason Flyming as Nightcrawler’s demonic dad and watching a young Charles Xavier fall in love and get himself crippled as a result, of course…
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