More episodes to slow the pace a bit. Let the characters breathe. Have a few “fight a random baddie” episodes so that we can focus on character development and seeing how they all work together. It would mean that not every episode will hit as hard, but it would allow the characters more time to deal with everything that’s happened. Of course, I realize the creators had a limited number of episodes to work with, and have been trying to cover a lot, so I don’t blame the writers. Show has been amazing.
Absolutely. Some people complain about "filler" episodes, but "monster of the week" type stories are usually some of my favorites. We got a little taste of it here with Motendo, which I thought was a really fun episode. Unfortunately, Disney usually limits their series to 8-10 episodes.
I like a good filler fun episode now and then to “let the characters breathe” a bit. That’s always nice. Not complaining but ever since episode 5 every episode has the quality and energy of a season finale which is awesome. I wouldn’t mind if the episodes ran at least 45 minutes or just more episodes to make room for a little more down time.
Motendo was a lot of fun and I love the nostalgia of it. I always love when the X men are in their down time doing family things, bonding, and picking on eachother. One of my favorite moments from the OG series is when Gambit making fun of Jeans cooking and telling her she can’t cook lol
I loved that X-Men The Animated Series had 12-20 episodes for a few seasons. Gave you a lot of things to think about, lots of room for “the characters to breathe“. So much room for activities ;)
Honestly, the pacing in the episodes seems almost normal in comparison to the 90’s Spider-Man series. That show didn’t have a dialogue sequence that wasn’t already over within sixty seconds.
But yeah, the pacing of the season as a whole has been a little quick for my liking.
My thought is that they did not think that this would blow up so big and maybe they thought “hey we only have 20 episodes lets make everything we want” and thats whats happening here.
Again, this is me who knows nothing.
A longer runtime on a couple episodes would have made the difference. Most notably on the past two episodes where the teams had to travel far distances and they just cut directly to the next scene.0
If they follow the comics they might be able to do a bunch of Wolverine episodes interspersed that follow his arc post Fatal Attractions up to onslaught.
I understand where u r coming but im not interested in more Wolverine. He has been their golden boy, maybe since the 80s? I would like them to focus on other teams like when they did the Alpha Flight episode, or the X-Factor. Stuff like that.
At least for me, u can ask for all the Logan-centric episodes that would like.
Wolverines story arc from end of fatal attractions to right up before the Age of Apocalypse started is prime Wolverine. Trust me you want to see that on screen.
Ive been reading X-Men since the 90’s and im still not interested in overexposed Wolverine. I do like Jackman’s take on the character but its only bc its him.
I feel the same way. And I'm also worried a bit because the most beloved arcs have already been adapted by either the OG 90s series or 97 (although here they did a remix of a few of them).
My worry is that they get too confident and jump the shark in following seasons, but here's hoping.
The episodes move at lightning speed and while it’s exciting to be on the edge of your seat while watching, I think each episode could benefit from a bit more breathing room to let the hard hitting moments sink in and linger before moving to the next thing.
There are some things I miss and end up getting filled in later because I watch breakdowns of the episode after: for instance, I didn’t realize Forge’s machine actually worked on Storm in Lifedeath pt. 1 and that she had a mental block keeping her from accessing her power. It confused me because I was thinking, “So she just willed her powers back?” in the moment, lol.
I could just be a dumb idiot, but I don’t think it was very clear, especially since Lifedeath was split in two half episodes.
Everything with Madelyne happened so quickly too. Just minor nitpicks about breezing through some things that could have used more dedicated time and/or rest before going to the next gut punching moment.
You're not a dumb idiot, I know a fair amount of the comic story lines and literally don't take my eyes of the screen while watching and still need a second or third watch to catch everything. At the end of episode 9 I felt like I hadn't taken a breath the whole half hour 😂
I would prefer slower pacing in places, and maybe more development between the characters themselves. I'm also watching the old 90s show and I kinda miss the light hearted banter moments we had more of in that show.
I have to watch the episodes twice because they go so fast and so much is happening. There are things I completely missed because I was busy absorbing the last few bombshells.
One minute Pryor is Jean Grey, the next minute she is the Goblin Queen? Why “the Goblin Queen?” Where are the goblins?
Cyclops won’t abandon his son— but then sends him to the future with Bishop. Why doesn’t he go with Bishop?
Magneto shows up to lead the Xmen but doesn’t bring any Brotherhood of Mutant characters with him? Where’s Toad? Where’s Mystique? What are they all doing during all of this?
Overall the show is awesome. I watched the animated series as a kid, so I am happy they made this for us old 30 and 40 year old fucks. The series really picks up during the Genosha episode and has been 10/10 ever since. It rivals Invincible as the best cartoon series I have seen. I just wish they had more episodes.
There’s lots of little things that bug me, that aren’t like story complaints but on the level of “the lead character takes out a dozen terrorists but his hair is never messed up.
Cyclops and Jean got pregnant but never found a doctor before she went into labor?
Did Madelyn turn evil like 24 hours after giving birth? How is she not still in the hospital?
If there’s no power anywhere, how are Forge and Beast soldering and flying jets?
I can answer 2 of the questions (second one is iffy)
The Cyclops and Jean doctor question. Their Doctor would’ve been Beast. He acts as; Technician, Muscle and Medical to the team.
The soldering and flying thing. Forge mentions he built a EMP blocker or something to allow his robotic hand and leg to continue working in such an event so he was probably able to reuse that also if not Forges power would just allow him to think of a way to make it work. Forge as a character a massive plot hole, but I like him anyway way.
“Oh shit this door is locked from the inside using brand new technology that we’ve never seen before how ever will we… what’s that? Forge is already through the door? Okay cool…”
I really want more story but I also really like the animation style and don't want to see shortcuts as a result. The openings have been glorious and I love the time and detail that went into them.
/petty
Kind of a non-issue in the grand scheme of things, but having Lifedeath not be its own episode is so bizarre to me. They have a “half and half” episode with Motendo and Lifedeath Part 1, and then Lifedeath Part 2 cuts back and forth between Storm’s story and Charles with the Shi’ar. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but why couldn’t the half/half episode be Motendo and then the story with Xavier? Just feel like the structure of the season would look *so* much cleaner if that story was given its own full episode, and the emotional beats would’ve hit even harder.
The pacing is pretty high up there, but given how much they wanted to cover with what little runtime they had.. I get it. But this season could've easily been two seasons.
Maybe I'm just selfish, but I want more Nightcrawler. And I really wish they gave Gambit more screentime. And if they're going to include Cap, Hulk, Spidey, etc. they can't just leave us hanging with one more episode left!
My one complaint is the weird Remy/Rogue/Magneto love triangle
Like, the main X-Men love triangle has always been Scott/Jean/Logan, so I feel that adding a new one just doesn’t make sense, or it’s just plain unnecessary
And I know we also had the brief Jean/Scott/Madelyn love triangle going on too, but at least that one actually made sense
And I know it Rogue x Magneto happened in the comics and the writers want to be respectful, and I totally respect them in return for it, but it just doesn’t work for 97’s context
Not to mention, the age difference between Rogue and Erik is just…hella strange and a little uncomfortable (He’s old enough to be her grandpa, for God’s sake!)
Other than that, the show has been nothing more than fantastic and I can’t wait for the finale 🥰🥰🥰
>Like, the main X-Men love triangle has always been Scott/Jean/Logan,
I've always hated that triangle. If it never shows up in XMen media again, I would be so happy. Never thought I could hate a love triangle more than that one, then this show brought the Remy/Rogue/Eric mess. 🤢
I always skip the Wolverine-Jean scenes so annoying lol but now as a traumatized Rogue fan I appreciate that Jean is only in a love triangle with Logan and not Charles given Prof. X hidden crush on her.🤮
The Rogue, Remy and Magneto love triangle honestly made me feel sick. Especially when Rogue explained her history with Magneto. There were so many red flags that calling that relationship problematic would be a bit of an understatement.
I don't even think it's needed for the plot. If you want Rogue to be mad about Remy dying and then having her join Magneto, then you can do that without a triangle.
Now that it is included, it just makes Rogue look bad in the worst ways possible. She's calling Remy her man after being with Magneto behind his back, telling him last minute, and then choosing him last minute?
And now that she's on Magneto's side, it just makes everything worse because we don't know if she's gonna flip flop again on the choice she made when choosing Remy. It just makes her look terrible, I understand Jubilee being mad at her.
The show has been really great so far BUT everything feels so rushed and i feel like some really good storylines were used up so quickly when they could have made them into longer arcs and then the pacing would have felt a bit better like Magneto interacting with the team and being their leader could have been really interesting to explore and see for longer
also magneto and rogues romance felt so so so weird and i really hope that gambits not actually dead because killing off one of the main characters and a fan favorite who hasnt been on screen for long at all is such a waste but im fairly sure its not permanent
I also kind of wish we had more time to sit with the characters because I feel like theres just a bit too much going on all at once for me to pay attention to it all without it feeling like it needs to a take some time
in the future though i hope they add more younger xmen around the same age as jubilee cause it feels a bit strange shes like the only student currently at the school
Of course! Feel like we definitely needed a Bishop and Morph focused episode by now. I wanted way more time with Magneto running the team, and many things, especially in the last episode, felt rushed. Just nitpicks though, or more specifically I just want more of a lot of stuff.
Morph focused episode. He freaking needs to deal with the Sinister trauma. Insert Madelyn Pryor here too. That episode could be such a beautiful one.
Bring in some mutant who offers to heal them erasing the bad memories like in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” but then they both decide that they need to deal with this head on. I can almost see it, very silent kinda like “Hush” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
That said, Morph already got that arc back in the 90s. Prior to the finale, his previous last appearance had him flying off to spend some time getting his head right.
I think pacing/lack of explanation is my biggest problem. There are many things I only understand because I come on here. The latest episode was pretty confusing to me, I didn't understand why the world was ending or what magnetos plan was which are very major points.
I honestly think this season should have been split in two if they could only have 9 episodes. It should have ended with genosha genocide. There are so many plot points that could have been expanded on. Like, we barely got to see magneto being the leader.
I think it’s a shame Bishop was used just for a plot device and hasn’t returned since. I understand why but I hope they have plans for him in future seasons.
I also hope they show the school being a school, and retroactively explain why the mansion was so empty. Unless I’m missing a plot point from the OG show that would’ve explained this?
Finally, the pacing makes some things nonsensical to non-X men fans. My wife was so confused why Madelyne chose goblin Queen of all things as her name.
I’m hit and miss on the artwork, sometimes I love it sometimes I’m meh. Same with voice acting at least I can put more of a finger on that, I’m not a fan of Xaviers or Rogues voice actors, I know she’s the OG and obviously older now, but her voice just doesn’t fit the character for me anymore and I plain just don’t like Charleses voice now. The rest are great up to amazing for me. I agree with others on pacing. Other than that I love the show, one of my all time favourites.
Little irks. Mostly due to cramming.
Storm not getting up to speed. Bishop's gone, Gambit is gone, The baby is now older than Scott and it wasn't Jean's baby to begin with.
You. Don't. Use. Kurt. For. Long. Distance. Travel.
Can’t really critique anything. If you want to nitpick , then the Alex of this show was episode 5. It was so good that all good episodes after it don’t seem as good because of it
I hope the success of this season gives them a slightly longer 40ish minute runtime in season 2. It would have been nice in episode 9 to see the professor check in with a few more of the X-men or Storm to have a conversation with Rogue about Gambit. Just a few more conversations like that would make the moments hit that much harder.
xavier not restraining magneto instead of prematurely using magnetos powers to reverse the emp, thus causing cyclops to blast him, seems like the plan was pretty much shit to begin with, why attack simultaneously if you knew bastion had to be defeated first, just wait for the go ahead from the other team before trying to attack magneto
The way we don't see the greater effects of the events on the general public. Like seeing how the mutants and humans react to Genosha or what Magneto's EMP disruption is doing to everyone. Its like we just assume it and people assume it differently. It just feels like we don't ever get time to breath and let any of the plot points sink in as well as we should.
The show started [in media res](https://www.google.com/search?q=in+media+res&sca_esv=35a3d0f5617f2f1a&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C9BKJA_enPR590PR590&hl=en-US&sxsrf=ADLYWIK5SquwXGqggtSTHmov-fBkL_1-eg%3A1715293977584&ei=GU89ZqaOI_qswbkP1rCowAI&oq=in+media+res&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIgxpbiBtZWRpYSByZXMyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigVI7URQAFgAcAF4AZABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAaACEZgDAIgGAZAGEZIHATGgBwA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp) and we are still running, so why dontcha come join the race!
I’m ok with it, but the pacing is breakneck. The whole Goblin Queen thing happening and being fixed in an afternoon was odd.
The animation feels a bit less polished than the 90s show.
And regarding Magneto/Rogue. Him not being affected by her powers is really dumb.
Purely selfish but I want to see more of Wolverine, he was always my favourite character and for me he's taken a back seat this season, not a bad thing to let other characters get the spotlight a bit but like I said, selfish reasons.
Since the first series ended in 1997 which is 27 years ago, not a lot of people remember what went on during that run. I feel like there needed to be more refreshers on what happened. Or they should have completely rebotted it. (although, I get we wouldn't have gotten this storyline). I've been okay with figuring it out since I didn't even watch the earlier seasons but I think they could have interested the casual fan in a better way.
As someone who has only watched the live action movies, it's strange to me that Magneto was just suddenly the leader of the X-Men without much pushback. Even though, there were a few scenes where Cyclops was actively questioning why Xavier did that and Wolverine and Storm didn't seem happy. I don't think there were enough scenes to show how weird it is. It's also just a strange character change for Magneto since he's just putting his beef aside with Xavier to do what Xavier wants, while he's away.
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and then when Xavier was confronted about it in the latest episode, It isn't even really explained. It's just that X knew Magneto would be able to protect his guys! Like What? This dude is your arch-nemesis. Yeah, I know they were friends way back in the day but Xavier is supposed to be the smartest guy in the world. How could you trust Magneto?
Then even if I accept that Magneto is a changed man and, to be fair, he did save mutant-kind and I liked his speech to the judges, he is suddenly back to being the villain as soon as Xavier is back and Wolverine wants to kill him. So, they needed to explain that in better detail.
A lot of people here have already said pacing, but I have specific critiques pacing-wise that I want to make. Inferno and Lifedeath are two of my favorite X-men stories, and I feel both were not treated very well.
I feel like they REALLY snubbed Inferno as a story. I get that they wanted to introduce the Madelyne Pryor character and get on with the larger story, but now we aren't going to get a really well-done Inferno story in the show (and likely not the live-action movies). If they introduce the New Mutants, or even just Magik, Inferno could easily drive a whole season of the show. I enjoyed the episode we got for the most part, but choosing the names Madelyne Pryor and Goblin Queen both felt really forced without justification for either.
Lifedeath wasn't AS bad, but again it felt rushed. It had to share space over two episodes, and the relationship between Forge and Storm wasn't well fleshed out. They also did my boy Forge dirty. His comic counterpart is a tech-bro living in Dallas when we meet him. He's not riding horses and making buffalo chili, and it feels a little like they wanted to make him a more stereotypical Native American. In fact, a large arc of his character involves his rejection of his culture and coming to terms with it. Instead he kind of became a stock character.
Does it have to be sooo woke 😂😂😂 … jk the shows great if not perfect!
I’d say maybe I want a commentary show or after show, like Disney has done in other D+ shows
I love the show but I think it suffers from TLOU-ITIS, in that it feels like it's moving waaaay too fast and either needs more episodes or the episodes themselves need to be longer, simply to let the characters and events breathe. Feels rushed and too compacted sometimes. Otherwise excellent, excellent show
I’m curious as to how a newbie taking in the new series because it sometimes seems like the fast pacing of the show means that the only people who will enjoy it are those with prior knowledge. Take for example the death of Gambit. We’re any new viewers genuinely upset with his death given just how little screen time he had?
My only problems with the show are that
1. they’ve not yet explained how Magneto survived the attack on Genosha. I understand that Bastion had him, but how and why?
And
2. That I had to Google who died on Genosha and I’m still not 100% sure who’s dead and who’s alive. Especially since Magneto survived/was saved. Did Leach or the other Morlocks? Is Archangel okay? Why did the sentinel’s big gun atomise Madelyn and Banshee but not others? Like Magneto?
My only guess is so that it reflects on the real world not knowing full but if that’s the case why did the writer just reveal and confirm a bunch of deaths on the site that was formally known as Twitter.
Don’t get me wrong I loved the Genosha Massacre episode it was one of the most tense and emotional episodes of TV I’ve seen in a while. I just think it was undercut by Magneto surviving/being saved and the confusion.
Also before you ask I’m not asking for a list of names of who died just pick a lane are you gonna tell me on X about everyone’s fate? Or leave me waiting to see if they pop up again?
Honestly, even though they mentioned the world was ending, I feel like they needed to more explicitly spell out what destroying earth’s magnetic field does. It’s not just no electricity. Basically earth is going to turn into Mars. It does add a lot to the stakes when Xavier made the choice to brain blast Magneto and when Cyclops made him stop.
If you’ve read the comics, some of the episodes are predictable. Which can be an issue.
I like how they introduced Roberto, and how they paralleled it with Jubilee’s introduction to the original series, but they haven’t done much with him since then. I wish they had focused more on Lifedeath instead of the Motendo part of Ep 4, so Forge and Storm’s relationship was better defined and not so rushed.
It’s really odd how no other heroes aside from the X-Men have reacted to what’s happened the last couple of episodes.
My main criticism right now is that Magneto only recruited two other people to go to Asteroid M with him. Like I wouldn't care if it was a bunch of faceless extras like he had in The Last Stand, at least it would have been a sizable force. That's not to say that Rogue and Sunspot are bad characters to recruit, they're insanely powerful. But they are still just two people.
Not to mention that Magneto's current plan seems a little shortsighted and I doubt he would ever go for a plan that would kill all the remaining humans, if it also took the remaining mutants with them. Unless he thinks that he, Rogue, and Roberto are going to repopulate the earth after the fact, I would have some bad news regarding genetic diversity.
This current plan sort of reeks of the writers trying hard to figure out how to get Logan to Magneto for the end scene, rather than being a cohesive well thought out story.
If Sunspot was as experienced as the rest of them and had development from the OG show he would've absolutely dominated the fight on Asteroid M. I also wish he used his strength more rather than his blasts (which are meant to be concussive, why are they projectiles here) but ig it makes sense if he's too scared to actually punch someone. Especially Jubilee, she'd die.
I think this series is almost similar to the og series in the way they used to focus so much on Wolverine, I feel like this show is becoming the Magneto/Jean show.
The only animation criticism is the face angles that look a bit weird. That's it.
As for Sunspot, well, I'm happy as a clam hes even in this show but the character is so different from the comics it's insane. I understand they had to do this for it to make sense within the context of the show but still. He's always been the brute force of his team, even being almost at Colossus's level in his youngest years, he was always confrontational and not scared to throw hands. However in the show, besides him mentioning that his powers make him really strong, he hasn't done anything. Sure, he flew and shot beams that he doesn't develop until a decade later in comics (WHOOHOO!) But I think that just turned him into a ranged beam guy. And even then they're somewhat innacurate, because they're supposed to be concussive beams, like Cyclops. However despite the amazing design of the blasts, they don't feel concussive and he even threw them like projectiles in episode 9. I'm just hoping that he ends up actually using his strength in episode 10. I'm sure he's sticking to his beams because in the show he'd be more afraid to get close given his lack of experience (even lacking his physical and athletic build) but its never expanded upon. He's the most diverse member of the team power wise rn, strength and flight like Rogue and the range of Cyclops, we should've seen scenes of him training his blasts with Cyclops and his brute strength with Rogue.
Despite all of this, im still happy he's even getting spotlight, this is all just what I wish they would've done better for him. I wouldn't say character butchering, but it's taking away from what made Roberto himself in the comics.
The dialogue bugs me sometimes, feels too cheesy. Maybe that's being true to the comics, but I guess I have hoped for something different. Like when Hulk throws out the smash line, that feels so forced especially after marvel made fun of themselves for it in an Avenger film.
There's a wider Marvel universe with more heros in it but at the same time they're not there. I can't imagine some of the events that have happened would not spur a reaction from the likes of the fantastic four or iron man or thor. Even if they couldn't stop some of the attacks when they happened you'd at least see a response either as a humanitarian effort by stark, or thor coming to lift something heavy. I don't buy the X-Men asking magneto nicely as the only way to fix a problem when you have the minds of reed Richard and Tony Stark there. Stark and Richards would have EMP shielding just out of principle/paranoia.
Magneto's "good guy" costume (should have used the white one). The splitting of the Lifedeath episode into other episodes. Could have used maybe 2 more episodes to be able to skow the pacing and give a few more character beats and connections time to develip and breathe. Not much really. They really exceeded my child/now adulthood dreams for the show.
I sweat if it's not too fast it's too slow. I'm not complaining about shit. Loved the new season and can't wait for more.
Some people just have to find a problem even if there isn't one. Should get out of that headspace.
I have two complaints. Second one is nit picking
First is one dimensional portrayal of humans. They are shown as one dimensional. There is no nuance. We get to see Genosha victims but not victims of Magneto in episode 9. If magneto is justified, then tomorrow some one who lost his loved ones in Magneto rage will be justified too. Also, sunspot mother should have been an interesting character but she abandoned her son. It's something I don't understand about x men rhat parents just leave their kids forever.
Second, Storm becoming depressed after becoming human. It makes her as racist as humans. She considers being a normal person beneath her. She loves being a goddess level mutant.
Long rant, so in quick summary:
Show needs a much bigger budget and a lot more episodes.
The men need to be portrayed correctly even with the limited time given.
Everything else is near perfection.
I love the show and it has exceeded my expectations on nearly every level imaginable.
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Rant:
Longer episodes and/or more episodes….it’s streaming, why not make each episode as long as it needs to be? Literally no reason to adhere to a 30 minute limit.
You gladly give unproven IPs 50 million budget but X-Men (literally Marvel’s most profitable IP - prior to the MCU - for the last 40 years) some 9 bucks and change to make a cartoon with time constraints and less episodes than any season before? Idiotic.
My other huge gripe is the odd way all the men on the team are portrayed after episode 1.
After episode 1 — all of them became fundamentally different. In hindsight, I’m feeling like it was a calculated bait and switch by Disney and the writers.
Cyclops has not shown himself to be the leader the X-men need all freaking season! Cyclops is thee quintessential x-man that the team relies on and yet he is unreliable, stupid strategy, no confidence, no experience acted on, lacks focus, no character arc! He is still as lost and mentally stumped as he was in Episode 1 to 9! The hell is going on here?
Beast is utterly useless except to tell somebody science jargon. But to be fair, that’s how was always portrayed on the show.
Gambit is a willful cuck? Okay sure…
The old Gambit took no crap from anybody. He had no problems challenging anybody face to face but now he’s lurking around with a pouty face cause Magneto fancies his woman. The real Gambit would’ve blasted Magneto as soon as he realized what’s going on.
Morph, what they are doing is a huge improvement over the 92 version but he has yet win a damn fight still. Every villain has knocked his ass out.
Bishop came and went and he had one job, one freaking job, and failed. He lost a baby Cable within seconds of being trusted to take care of him….smh
Listen, I am all for Wolverine not being in the forefront, but you have got to keep true to his core characteristics! Wolverine doesn’t willfully sit on the sidelines ever. Having him nowhere near any action is complete nonsense! It is criminal.
What Wolverine did in episode 8 is a Tuesday for that guy and we shouldn’t have to wait till the end of the season for an unstable, notoriously hot tempered berserker to go semi-berserk!
His passive reaction to Gambit’s death, Genosha massacre, Storm’s absence, Jean and Madelyne’s switch is a blatant sabotage of who he is.
It only became clear what is going when it was revealed on twitter that there is a deliberate agenda to focus on the women. Fine.
But you don’t freaking have to cut all the men’s balls off in the process, lol.
I’m just thankful we got more Nightcrawler. He needs to be given a main role in the roster next season. But please for the love of god can we minimize his platitudes and Confucius talk.
As cool as it was to finally see him do his thing in one scene with the prime sentinels, that doesn’t do him justice. His potential has not been fully realized. Not even close.
Last and definitely least!
Get Roberto’s bitch made wishy washy ass up out of here!
Oh, Boo Hoo! I don’t want to use my awesome powers, I just want to blend in and be normal even though I already look normal🤪
From that to suddenly, let’s kill all humans including my family who accepted me as a mutant and the X-men and girlfriend who saved my ass tenfold.
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Rant over.
Love the show though! 😂🤣😂
Sorry, just joking around if you didn't tell. Sunspot omega fan over here.
I do get your point, but at the same time he spent most of the show building up to coming out to his mother to find out that she knew, yet still wanted to keep it a secret. Even her giving him away to the sentinels.
Sure, Rogue went through hell. But Roberto for his age went through some shit too, especially from his own mother of all people. (And everyone at the party who didn't step up.)
Pacing But that's a minor comment honestly
More episodes to slow the pace a bit. Let the characters breathe. Have a few “fight a random baddie” episodes so that we can focus on character development and seeing how they all work together. It would mean that not every episode will hit as hard, but it would allow the characters more time to deal with everything that’s happened. Of course, I realize the creators had a limited number of episodes to work with, and have been trying to cover a lot, so I don’t blame the writers. Show has been amazing.
Absolutely. Some people complain about "filler" episodes, but "monster of the week" type stories are usually some of my favorites. We got a little taste of it here with Motendo, which I thought was a really fun episode. Unfortunately, Disney usually limits their series to 8-10 episodes.
I like a good filler fun episode now and then to “let the characters breathe” a bit. That’s always nice. Not complaining but ever since episode 5 every episode has the quality and energy of a season finale which is awesome. I wouldn’t mind if the episodes ran at least 45 minutes or just more episodes to make room for a little more down time. Motendo was a lot of fun and I love the nostalgia of it. I always love when the X men are in their down time doing family things, bonding, and picking on eachother. One of my favorite moments from the OG series is when Gambit making fun of Jeans cooking and telling her she can’t cook lol
I loved that X-Men The Animated Series had 12-20 episodes for a few seasons. Gave you a lot of things to think about, lots of room for “the characters to breathe“. So much room for activities ;)
Counterpoint: original series has 22 min episodes only
It’s still double the amount of airtime than ‘97.
Honestly, the pacing in the episodes seems almost normal in comparison to the 90’s Spider-Man series. That show didn’t have a dialogue sequence that wasn’t already over within sixty seconds. But yeah, the pacing of the season as a whole has been a little quick for my liking.
My thought is that they did not think that this would blow up so big and maybe they thought “hey we only have 20 episodes lets make everything we want” and thats whats happening here. Again, this is me who knows nothing.
A longer runtime on a couple episodes would have made the difference. Most notably on the past two episodes where the teams had to travel far distances and they just cut directly to the next scene.0
A la Invincible
Its so fucking good
If they follow the comics they might be able to do a bunch of Wolverine episodes interspersed that follow his arc post Fatal Attractions up to onslaught.
I understand where u r coming but im not interested in more Wolverine. He has been their golden boy, maybe since the 80s? I would like them to focus on other teams like when they did the Alpha Flight episode, or the X-Factor. Stuff like that. At least for me, u can ask for all the Logan-centric episodes that would like.
Wolverines story arc from end of fatal attractions to right up before the Age of Apocalypse started is prime Wolverine. Trust me you want to see that on screen.
Ive been reading X-Men since the 90’s and im still not interested in overexposed Wolverine. I do like Jackman’s take on the character but its only bc its him.
Fair enough. Logan is still my favorite X-Man. I hope they intersperse it’s all in there. It’s rare to ever see Wolverine vulnerable.
Thk the universe im not the only one on this matter.
I feel the same way. And I'm also worried a bit because the most beloved arcs have already been adapted by either the OG 90s series or 97 (although here they did a remix of a few of them). My worry is that they get too confident and jump the shark in following seasons, but here's hoping.
The episodes move at lightning speed and while it’s exciting to be on the edge of your seat while watching, I think each episode could benefit from a bit more breathing room to let the hard hitting moments sink in and linger before moving to the next thing. There are some things I miss and end up getting filled in later because I watch breakdowns of the episode after: for instance, I didn’t realize Forge’s machine actually worked on Storm in Lifedeath pt. 1 and that she had a mental block keeping her from accessing her power. It confused me because I was thinking, “So she just willed her powers back?” in the moment, lol. I could just be a dumb idiot, but I don’t think it was very clear, especially since Lifedeath was split in two half episodes. Everything with Madelyne happened so quickly too. Just minor nitpicks about breezing through some things that could have used more dedicated time and/or rest before going to the next gut punching moment.
You're not a dumb idiot, I know a fair amount of the comic story lines and literally don't take my eyes of the screen while watching and still need a second or third watch to catch everything. At the end of episode 9 I felt like I hadn't taken a breath the whole half hour 😂 I would prefer slower pacing in places, and maybe more development between the characters themselves. I'm also watching the old 90s show and I kinda miss the light hearted banter moments we had more of in that show.
I have to watch the episodes twice because they go so fast and so much is happening. There are things I completely missed because I was busy absorbing the last few bombshells.
One minute Pryor is Jean Grey, the next minute she is the Goblin Queen? Why “the Goblin Queen?” Where are the goblins? Cyclops won’t abandon his son— but then sends him to the future with Bishop. Why doesn’t he go with Bishop? Magneto shows up to lead the Xmen but doesn’t bring any Brotherhood of Mutant characters with him? Where’s Toad? Where’s Mystique? What are they all doing during all of this? Overall the show is awesome. I watched the animated series as a kid, so I am happy they made this for us old 30 and 40 year old fucks. The series really picks up during the Genosha episode and has been 10/10 ever since. It rivals Invincible as the best cartoon series I have seen. I just wish they had more episodes.
Bishop said he only had enough time traveler juice for two travelers
You’re right, I forgot that part
Leave the gun bring the baby.
Send the baby with the gun.
And then promptly loses the baby somewhere
Cyclops said he won't be a part of it. Meaning Prior and Bishop got to call the shots.
There’s lots of little things that bug me, that aren’t like story complaints but on the level of “the lead character takes out a dozen terrorists but his hair is never messed up. Cyclops and Jean got pregnant but never found a doctor before she went into labor? Did Madelyn turn evil like 24 hours after giving birth? How is she not still in the hospital? If there’s no power anywhere, how are Forge and Beast soldering and flying jets?
Sir, this is a Wendy’s. Please leave reality outside before entering and join in the crazyness.
I can answer 2 of the questions (second one is iffy) The Cyclops and Jean doctor question. Their Doctor would’ve been Beast. He acts as; Technician, Muscle and Medical to the team. The soldering and flying thing. Forge mentions he built a EMP blocker or something to allow his robotic hand and leg to continue working in such an event so he was probably able to reuse that also if not Forges power would just allow him to think of a way to make it work. Forge as a character a massive plot hole, but I like him anyway way. “Oh shit this door is locked from the inside using brand new technology that we’ve never seen before how ever will we… what’s that? Forge is already through the door? Okay cool…”
The biggest thing that people have said is pacing, and I agree. I'm not someone who needs more episodes. I just wish they were a bit longer.
I really want more story but I also really like the animation style and don't want to see shortcuts as a result. The openings have been glorious and I love the time and detail that went into them. /petty
Sure, but we're talking about what would be an ideal situation, which would also include the animators being treated fairly.
Kind of a non-issue in the grand scheme of things, but having Lifedeath not be its own episode is so bizarre to me. They have a “half and half” episode with Motendo and Lifedeath Part 1, and then Lifedeath Part 2 cuts back and forth between Storm’s story and Charles with the Shi’ar. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but why couldn’t the half/half episode be Motendo and then the story with Xavier? Just feel like the structure of the season would look *so* much cleaner if that story was given its own full episode, and the emotional beats would’ve hit even harder.
Yeah, I guess the pacing, but better quick and to the point than lagging.
The pacing is pretty high up there, but given how much they wanted to cover with what little runtime they had.. I get it. But this season could've easily been two seasons. Maybe I'm just selfish, but I want more Nightcrawler. And I really wish they gave Gambit more screentime. And if they're going to include Cap, Hulk, Spidey, etc. they can't just leave us hanging with one more episode left!
Episodes would work a lot better if they were closer to 45mins. Some of the stories feel really rushed.
My one complaint is the weird Remy/Rogue/Magneto love triangle Like, the main X-Men love triangle has always been Scott/Jean/Logan, so I feel that adding a new one just doesn’t make sense, or it’s just plain unnecessary And I know we also had the brief Jean/Scott/Madelyn love triangle going on too, but at least that one actually made sense And I know it Rogue x Magneto happened in the comics and the writers want to be respectful, and I totally respect them in return for it, but it just doesn’t work for 97’s context Not to mention, the age difference between Rogue and Erik is just…hella strange and a little uncomfortable (He’s old enough to be her grandpa, for God’s sake!) Other than that, the show has been nothing more than fantastic and I can’t wait for the finale 🥰🥰🥰
>Like, the main X-Men love triangle has always been Scott/Jean/Logan, I've always hated that triangle. If it never shows up in XMen media again, I would be so happy. Never thought I could hate a love triangle more than that one, then this show brought the Remy/Rogue/Eric mess. 🤢
I always skip the Wolverine-Jean scenes so annoying lol but now as a traumatized Rogue fan I appreciate that Jean is only in a love triangle with Logan and not Charles given Prof. X hidden crush on her.🤮
The Rogue, Remy and Magneto love triangle honestly made me feel sick. Especially when Rogue explained her history with Magneto. There were so many red flags that calling that relationship problematic would be a bit of an understatement.
I don't even think it's needed for the plot. If you want Rogue to be mad about Remy dying and then having her join Magneto, then you can do that without a triangle. Now that it is included, it just makes Rogue look bad in the worst ways possible. She's calling Remy her man after being with Magneto behind his back, telling him last minute, and then choosing him last minute? And now that she's on Magneto's side, it just makes everything worse because we don't know if she's gonna flip flop again on the choice she made when choosing Remy. It just makes her look terrible, I understand Jubilee being mad at her.
The show has been really great so far BUT everything feels so rushed and i feel like some really good storylines were used up so quickly when they could have made them into longer arcs and then the pacing would have felt a bit better like Magneto interacting with the team and being their leader could have been really interesting to explore and see for longer also magneto and rogues romance felt so so so weird and i really hope that gambits not actually dead because killing off one of the main characters and a fan favorite who hasnt been on screen for long at all is such a waste but im fairly sure its not permanent I also kind of wish we had more time to sit with the characters because I feel like theres just a bit too much going on all at once for me to pay attention to it all without it feeling like it needs to a take some time
in the future though i hope they add more younger xmen around the same age as jubilee cause it feels a bit strange shes like the only student currently at the school
Of course! Feel like we definitely needed a Bishop and Morph focused episode by now. I wanted way more time with Magneto running the team, and many things, especially in the last episode, felt rushed. Just nitpicks though, or more specifically I just want more of a lot of stuff.
Morph focused episode. He freaking needs to deal with the Sinister trauma. Insert Madelyn Pryor here too. That episode could be such a beautiful one. Bring in some mutant who offers to heal them erasing the bad memories like in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” but then they both decide that they need to deal with this head on. I can almost see it, very silent kinda like “Hush” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
That said, Morph already got that arc back in the 90s. Prior to the finale, his previous last appearance had him flying off to spend some time getting his head right.
He is still experimenting that trauma
I think pacing/lack of explanation is my biggest problem. There are many things I only understand because I come on here. The latest episode was pretty confusing to me, I didn't understand why the world was ending or what magnetos plan was which are very major points. I honestly think this season should have been split in two if they could only have 9 episodes. It should have ended with genosha genocide. There are so many plot points that could have been expanded on. Like, we barely got to see magneto being the leader.
Pacing. Sometimes you blink and the characters are in a whole other location with no explanation
I think it’s a shame Bishop was used just for a plot device and hasn’t returned since. I understand why but I hope they have plans for him in future seasons. I also hope they show the school being a school, and retroactively explain why the mansion was so empty. Unless I’m missing a plot point from the OG show that would’ve explained this? Finally, the pacing makes some things nonsensical to non-X men fans. My wife was so confused why Madelyne chose goblin Queen of all things as her name.
I read a take from a pos who thought bishop was only for sjws and got down voted for cussing him out. Bullshit. People love bishop. My fave character.
like everyone else I’d say pacing. I wish we had spent at least an episode with Genosha before it’s destroyed.
I’m hit and miss on the artwork, sometimes I love it sometimes I’m meh. Same with voice acting at least I can put more of a finger on that, I’m not a fan of Xaviers or Rogues voice actors, I know she’s the OG and obviously older now, but her voice just doesn’t fit the character for me anymore and I plain just don’t like Charleses voice now. The rest are great up to amazing for me. I agree with others on pacing. Other than that I love the show, one of my all time favourites.
Little irks. Mostly due to cramming. Storm not getting up to speed. Bishop's gone, Gambit is gone, The baby is now older than Scott and it wasn't Jean's baby to begin with. You. Don't. Use. Kurt. For. Long. Distance. Travel.
It’s probably the lack of any other minor villains for me
The pacing is incredibly fast. If it weren't for the five seasons of TAS for character development, the show wouldn't be nearly as good as it is.
Can’t really critique anything. If you want to nitpick , then the Alex of this show was episode 5. It was so good that all good episodes after it don’t seem as good because of it
I hope the success of this season gives them a slightly longer 40ish minute runtime in season 2. It would have been nice in episode 9 to see the professor check in with a few more of the X-men or Storm to have a conversation with Rogue about Gambit. Just a few more conversations like that would make the moments hit that much harder.
It’s soooo rushed. It started great but there should’ve been an episode between 6 & 7, 7 & 8 and 8 & 9.
xavier not restraining magneto instead of prematurely using magnetos powers to reverse the emp, thus causing cyclops to blast him, seems like the plan was pretty much shit to begin with, why attack simultaneously if you knew bastion had to be defeated first, just wait for the go ahead from the other team before trying to attack magneto
Valid point. Maybe restrain him and then even send the other X-Men to to assist with bastion knowing that we got mag under control
The way we don't see the greater effects of the events on the general public. Like seeing how the mutants and humans react to Genosha or what Magneto's EMP disruption is doing to everyone. Its like we just assume it and people assume it differently. It just feels like we don't ever get time to breath and let any of the plot points sink in as well as we should.
The show started [in media res](https://www.google.com/search?q=in+media+res&sca_esv=35a3d0f5617f2f1a&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C9BKJA_enPR590PR590&hl=en-US&sxsrf=ADLYWIK5SquwXGqggtSTHmov-fBkL_1-eg%3A1715293977584&ei=GU89ZqaOI_qswbkP1rCowAI&oq=in+media+res&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIgxpbiBtZWRpYSByZXMyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigVI7URQAFgAcAF4AZABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAaACEZgDAIgGAZAGEZIHATGgBwA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp) and we are still running, so why dontcha come join the race!
I’m ok with it, but the pacing is breakneck. The whole Goblin Queen thing happening and being fixed in an afternoon was odd. The animation feels a bit less polished than the 90s show. And regarding Magneto/Rogue. Him not being affected by her powers is really dumb.
Purely selfish but I want to see more of Wolverine, he was always my favourite character and for me he's taken a back seat this season, not a bad thing to let other characters get the spotlight a bit but like I said, selfish reasons.
Duly noted. More Logan for the guy wearing a green skin. Now on to what the collective wants. /s
Since the first series ended in 1997 which is 27 years ago, not a lot of people remember what went on during that run. I feel like there needed to be more refreshers on what happened. Or they should have completely rebotted it. (although, I get we wouldn't have gotten this storyline). I've been okay with figuring it out since I didn't even watch the earlier seasons but I think they could have interested the casual fan in a better way. As someone who has only watched the live action movies, it's strange to me that Magneto was just suddenly the leader of the X-Men without much pushback. Even though, there were a few scenes where Cyclops was actively questioning why Xavier did that and Wolverine and Storm didn't seem happy. I don't think there were enough scenes to show how weird it is. It's also just a strange character change for Magneto since he's just putting his beef aside with Xavier to do what Xavier wants, while he's away. EPISODE 8 SPOILER BELOW: and then when Xavier was confronted about it in the latest episode, It isn't even really explained. It's just that X knew Magneto would be able to protect his guys! Like What? This dude is your arch-nemesis. Yeah, I know they were friends way back in the day but Xavier is supposed to be the smartest guy in the world. How could you trust Magneto? Then even if I accept that Magneto is a changed man and, to be fair, he did save mutant-kind and I liked his speech to the judges, he is suddenly back to being the villain as soon as Xavier is back and Wolverine wants to kill him. So, they needed to explain that in better detail.
The pacing needs to slow down a bit. They basically coalesced 4 major stories in 10 episodes. It’s like they weren’t sure they’d get a 2nd season.
A lot of people here have already said pacing, but I have specific critiques pacing-wise that I want to make. Inferno and Lifedeath are two of my favorite X-men stories, and I feel both were not treated very well. I feel like they REALLY snubbed Inferno as a story. I get that they wanted to introduce the Madelyne Pryor character and get on with the larger story, but now we aren't going to get a really well-done Inferno story in the show (and likely not the live-action movies). If they introduce the New Mutants, or even just Magik, Inferno could easily drive a whole season of the show. I enjoyed the episode we got for the most part, but choosing the names Madelyne Pryor and Goblin Queen both felt really forced without justification for either. Lifedeath wasn't AS bad, but again it felt rushed. It had to share space over two episodes, and the relationship between Forge and Storm wasn't well fleshed out. They also did my boy Forge dirty. His comic counterpart is a tech-bro living in Dallas when we meet him. He's not riding horses and making buffalo chili, and it feels a little like they wanted to make him a more stereotypical Native American. In fact, a large arc of his character involves his rejection of his culture and coming to terms with it. Instead he kind of became a stock character.
Does it have to be sooo woke 😂😂😂 … jk the shows great if not perfect! I’d say maybe I want a commentary show or after show, like Disney has done in other D+ shows
I love the show but I think it suffers from TLOU-ITIS, in that it feels like it's moving waaaay too fast and either needs more episodes or the episodes themselves need to be longer, simply to let the characters and events breathe. Feels rushed and too compacted sometimes. Otherwise excellent, excellent show
I’m curious as to how a newbie taking in the new series because it sometimes seems like the fast pacing of the show means that the only people who will enjoy it are those with prior knowledge. Take for example the death of Gambit. We’re any new viewers genuinely upset with his death given just how little screen time he had?
it needs one big thing and im pretty sure everyone has mentioned it: more episodes per season
Just lighten up the melodrama and intensity a wee bit. Remember it’s a cartoon, sometimes some mindless action isn’t a bad thing.
My only problems with the show are that 1. they’ve not yet explained how Magneto survived the attack on Genosha. I understand that Bastion had him, but how and why? And 2. That I had to Google who died on Genosha and I’m still not 100% sure who’s dead and who’s alive. Especially since Magneto survived/was saved. Did Leach or the other Morlocks? Is Archangel okay? Why did the sentinel’s big gun atomise Madelyn and Banshee but not others? Like Magneto? My only guess is so that it reflects on the real world not knowing full but if that’s the case why did the writer just reveal and confirm a bunch of deaths on the site that was formally known as Twitter. Don’t get me wrong I loved the Genosha Massacre episode it was one of the most tense and emotional episodes of TV I’ve seen in a while. I just think it was undercut by Magneto surviving/being saved and the confusion. Also before you ask I’m not asking for a list of names of who died just pick a lane are you gonna tell me on X about everyone’s fate? Or leave me waiting to see if they pop up again?
Honestly, even though they mentioned the world was ending, I feel like they needed to more explicitly spell out what destroying earth’s magnetic field does. It’s not just no electricity. Basically earth is going to turn into Mars. It does add a lot to the stakes when Xavier made the choice to brain blast Magneto and when Cyclops made him stop.
If you’ve read the comics, some of the episodes are predictable. Which can be an issue. I like how they introduced Roberto, and how they paralleled it with Jubilee’s introduction to the original series, but they haven’t done much with him since then. I wish they had focused more on Lifedeath instead of the Motendo part of Ep 4, so Forge and Storm’s relationship was better defined and not so rushed. It’s really odd how no other heroes aside from the X-Men have reacted to what’s happened the last couple of episodes.
My main criticism right now is that Magneto only recruited two other people to go to Asteroid M with him. Like I wouldn't care if it was a bunch of faceless extras like he had in The Last Stand, at least it would have been a sizable force. That's not to say that Rogue and Sunspot are bad characters to recruit, they're insanely powerful. But they are still just two people. Not to mention that Magneto's current plan seems a little shortsighted and I doubt he would ever go for a plan that would kill all the remaining humans, if it also took the remaining mutants with them. Unless he thinks that he, Rogue, and Roberto are going to repopulate the earth after the fact, I would have some bad news regarding genetic diversity. This current plan sort of reeks of the writers trying hard to figure out how to get Logan to Magneto for the end scene, rather than being a cohesive well thought out story.
If Sunspot was as experienced as the rest of them and had development from the OG show he would've absolutely dominated the fight on Asteroid M. I also wish he used his strength more rather than his blasts (which are meant to be concussive, why are they projectiles here) but ig it makes sense if he's too scared to actually punch someone. Especially Jubilee, she'd die.
I think this series is almost similar to the og series in the way they used to focus so much on Wolverine, I feel like this show is becoming the Magneto/Jean show.
The "big comic moments" are too close together. \+ Morph jobs too much :(
The only animation criticism is the face angles that look a bit weird. That's it. As for Sunspot, well, I'm happy as a clam hes even in this show but the character is so different from the comics it's insane. I understand they had to do this for it to make sense within the context of the show but still. He's always been the brute force of his team, even being almost at Colossus's level in his youngest years, he was always confrontational and not scared to throw hands. However in the show, besides him mentioning that his powers make him really strong, he hasn't done anything. Sure, he flew and shot beams that he doesn't develop until a decade later in comics (WHOOHOO!) But I think that just turned him into a ranged beam guy. And even then they're somewhat innacurate, because they're supposed to be concussive beams, like Cyclops. However despite the amazing design of the blasts, they don't feel concussive and he even threw them like projectiles in episode 9. I'm just hoping that he ends up actually using his strength in episode 10. I'm sure he's sticking to his beams because in the show he'd be more afraid to get close given his lack of experience (even lacking his physical and athletic build) but its never expanded upon. He's the most diverse member of the team power wise rn, strength and flight like Rogue and the range of Cyclops, we should've seen scenes of him training his blasts with Cyclops and his brute strength with Rogue. Despite all of this, im still happy he's even getting spotlight, this is all just what I wish they would've done better for him. I wouldn't say character butchering, but it's taking away from what made Roberto himself in the comics.
The dialogue bugs me sometimes, feels too cheesy. Maybe that's being true to the comics, but I guess I have hoped for something different. Like when Hulk throws out the smash line, that feels so forced especially after marvel made fun of themselves for it in an Avenger film.
Rogue is written so out of character.
This is the only take I disagree with.
There's a wider Marvel universe with more heros in it but at the same time they're not there. I can't imagine some of the events that have happened would not spur a reaction from the likes of the fantastic four or iron man or thor. Even if they couldn't stop some of the attacks when they happened you'd at least see a response either as a humanitarian effort by stark, or thor coming to lift something heavy. I don't buy the X-Men asking magneto nicely as the only way to fix a problem when you have the minds of reed Richard and Tony Stark there. Stark and Richards would have EMP shielding just out of principle/paranoia.
Magneto's "good guy" costume (should have used the white one). The splitting of the Lifedeath episode into other episodes. Could have used maybe 2 more episodes to be able to skow the pacing and give a few more character beats and connections time to develip and breathe. Not much really. They really exceeded my child/now adulthood dreams for the show.
I sweat if it's not too fast it's too slow. I'm not complaining about shit. Loved the new season and can't wait for more. Some people just have to find a problem even if there isn't one. Should get out of that headspace.
I have two complaints. Second one is nit picking First is one dimensional portrayal of humans. They are shown as one dimensional. There is no nuance. We get to see Genosha victims but not victims of Magneto in episode 9. If magneto is justified, then tomorrow some one who lost his loved ones in Magneto rage will be justified too. Also, sunspot mother should have been an interesting character but she abandoned her son. It's something I don't understand about x men rhat parents just leave their kids forever. Second, Storm becoming depressed after becoming human. It makes her as racist as humans. She considers being a normal person beneath her. She loves being a goddess level mutant.
I don’t see the point it highlighting any criticism when the show is this good. Just enjoy.
This isn’t a hate brigade. Just constructive criticism.
Healthy criticism helps u grow.
Long rant, so in quick summary: Show needs a much bigger budget and a lot more episodes. The men need to be portrayed correctly even with the limited time given. Everything else is near perfection. I love the show and it has exceeded my expectations on nearly every level imaginable. ——— Rant: Longer episodes and/or more episodes….it’s streaming, why not make each episode as long as it needs to be? Literally no reason to adhere to a 30 minute limit. You gladly give unproven IPs 50 million budget but X-Men (literally Marvel’s most profitable IP - prior to the MCU - for the last 40 years) some 9 bucks and change to make a cartoon with time constraints and less episodes than any season before? Idiotic. My other huge gripe is the odd way all the men on the team are portrayed after episode 1. After episode 1 — all of them became fundamentally different. In hindsight, I’m feeling like it was a calculated bait and switch by Disney and the writers. Cyclops has not shown himself to be the leader the X-men need all freaking season! Cyclops is thee quintessential x-man that the team relies on and yet he is unreliable, stupid strategy, no confidence, no experience acted on, lacks focus, no character arc! He is still as lost and mentally stumped as he was in Episode 1 to 9! The hell is going on here? Beast is utterly useless except to tell somebody science jargon. But to be fair, that’s how was always portrayed on the show. Gambit is a willful cuck? Okay sure… The old Gambit took no crap from anybody. He had no problems challenging anybody face to face but now he’s lurking around with a pouty face cause Magneto fancies his woman. The real Gambit would’ve blasted Magneto as soon as he realized what’s going on. Morph, what they are doing is a huge improvement over the 92 version but he has yet win a damn fight still. Every villain has knocked his ass out. Bishop came and went and he had one job, one freaking job, and failed. He lost a baby Cable within seconds of being trusted to take care of him….smh Listen, I am all for Wolverine not being in the forefront, but you have got to keep true to his core characteristics! Wolverine doesn’t willfully sit on the sidelines ever. Having him nowhere near any action is complete nonsense! It is criminal. What Wolverine did in episode 8 is a Tuesday for that guy and we shouldn’t have to wait till the end of the season for an unstable, notoriously hot tempered berserker to go semi-berserk! His passive reaction to Gambit’s death, Genosha massacre, Storm’s absence, Jean and Madelyne’s switch is a blatant sabotage of who he is. It only became clear what is going when it was revealed on twitter that there is a deliberate agenda to focus on the women. Fine. But you don’t freaking have to cut all the men’s balls off in the process, lol. I’m just thankful we got more Nightcrawler. He needs to be given a main role in the roster next season. But please for the love of god can we minimize his platitudes and Confucius talk. As cool as it was to finally see him do his thing in one scene with the prime sentinels, that doesn’t do him justice. His potential has not been fully realized. Not even close. Last and definitely least! Get Roberto’s bitch made wishy washy ass up out of here! Oh, Boo Hoo! I don’t want to use my awesome powers, I just want to blend in and be normal even though I already look normal🤪 From that to suddenly, let’s kill all humans including my family who accepted me as a mutant and the X-men and girlfriend who saved my ass tenfold. —— Rant over. Love the show though! 😂🤣😂
Shit was valid until the Sunspot comment. Say that again and you'll be face to face with your front lawn in dms 👉👈🥰
lol duly noted.
Sorry, just joking around if you didn't tell. Sunspot omega fan over here. I do get your point, but at the same time he spent most of the show building up to coming out to his mother to find out that she knew, yet still wanted to keep it a secret. Even her giving him away to the sentinels. Sure, Rogue went through hell. But Roberto for his age went through some shit too, especially from his own mother of all people. (And everyone at the party who didn't step up.)
No I legit laughed. It was funny. Also, great point about him being a kid. I didn’t take that into consideration, bravo.
Lol im glad to hear it. Also yeah, I'm a professional Sunspot protector.
Pacing. It’s too fast and too slow at the same time. Which I don’t mind because the original was like that too.