Spoilers X-Men '97 spoilers

[Henadic Theologian]

That’s how the old CW superhero shows worked. Other than Arrow and Flash, everyone was in a different universe.

And it did allow for some cross stream shenanigans.

Legends of Tomorrow was also in the same universe.

 

[deganawida]

Just finished the season. I am torn. On the one hand, there are a lot of hard hitting emotional beats, particularly when it comes to my boy. On the other, though, no one mega arc from a year period of the comics was allowed to really breathe and grow. I really would have liked a whole season doing the Fall of the Mutants, half of one on Inferno, and so forth, instead of rushing through ten years worth of stories in one short season.

Like I said, I am torn.

 

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[Stalker0]

Just finished the season. I am torn. On the one hand, there are a lot of hard hitting emotional beats, particularly when it comes to my boy. On the other, though, no one mega arc from a year period of the comics was allowed to really breathe and grow. I really would have liked a whole season doing the Fall of the Mutants, half of one on Inferno, and so forth, instead of rushing through ten years worth of stories in one short season.

Like I said, I am torn.

I am hoping that season 2 will slow things down a bit. Probably because they weren't fully confident in how this show would be recieved (as lets be honest, remakes have been very hit or miss with the audiences), they wanted to jazz up the plotlines with a lot of comic meat.

In season 2 they might afford to slow down and let some plotlines breathe.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

What kind of trailer is 9 minutes long. Lost interest long before that point.

 

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What kind of trailer is 9 minutes long. Lost interest long before that point.

irony....

 

[Staffan]

So, I watched the whole thing now, and my first reaction was "Damn, they sure are speedrunning through the plotlines." E is for Extinction (with a touch of mutant Utopia-Krakoa), The Trial of Magneto, Operation Zero Tolerance, Lifedeath and the rest of Storm's depowered period, and God damn Inferno! This could definitely have benefitted from a slower pace, particularly Inferno and Storm. Both of those are beloved plotlines (and to a large degree overlapping) precisely because they were allowed to cook for so long in the comics. Maddy first showed up in Uncanny 168, when Jean Grey was believed dead. Jean returned three years later, and Inferno was another three years after that (of course, it wasn't like Inferno was planned out from the start – Maddy was supposed to be Scott's Happily Ever After, but then Kurt Busiek had to go ruin it).

But taking the show for what it is, I liked it. A lot. And they sure went hard.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

irony....

I mean you gotta admit Honest Trailers have started getting too self-indulgent.

The older ones, they were actually funny and kinda sharp and sometimes mean because they boiled stuff down and really hit the mock-able points about their targets.

This... isn't that. It's a 9-minute love-in that basically tries to make every possible joke. Brevity is the soul of wit, and brev this ain't! You don't have to kick every ball! Also a lot of this is just badly-paced/edited - they don't need the extra clips illustrating the points in many cases - they could just hit the point and move on.

 

[jian]

Binged it over Christmas (we hadn’t gone back to Disney Plus before then) and, watched as a binge, this series was amazing. A fantastic adaptation distillation of almost every major X-men plot in the last 40 years - they basically did Krakoa in an episode and it was fantastic and heartbreaking.

Magneto: Hab keine angst.

The writers really leaned into the queer analogy (“when will be good enough?” and of course the whole Charles-Erik flashback conversation in the last episode) which is all to the good. Magneto got the best speeches but Rogue got the best character moments. Lenore Zann deserved an Emmy, sorry the series didn’t get one.

I’ll just leave you with what I think is Erik’s best speech:

“This is your dream. To see my kind splayed before you, powerless and afraid. All the X-men have ever done is use their awesome power to protect a world that hates and fears them. Behold their reward. What must we do to be good enough? Is this the high road’s destination? If so, I say what I have said too many times before: NEVER AGAIN.”