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I just finished watching X-Men \u201997<\/em> on Disney+ and hoo boy do I have a lot of opinions.\u00a0 I don\u2019t quite really know specifically where I stand on it on how good I thought it was, but this is where I\u2019m hoping that writing out my thoughts might help me come to a conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n This is also where I disclaim that there is the possibility that I give some things away by virtue of feeling unable to avoid specificity but hopefully I don\u2019t, but it\u2019s not like I have any readers at all, so this is just old habit of trying to be courteous when I really don\u2019t have to be.<\/span><\/p>\n 1.<\/span> The show tackled numerous actual storylines that I could recall from the days when I was a massive X-Men reader, but it was almost laughable at just how little time was dedicated to what were epic arcs in the comics, rendered to literally 5-6 minutes in the show.\u00a0 Like for example Inferno, with Madelyne Pryor becoming the Goblin Queen; this was an epic event that transcended the X-universe and even bled into other Marvel properties, but in X97, Inferno literally starts and ends within a ten minute window, leaving me with this great big feeling of, wtf.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the most iconic moments from the Fatal Attractions storyline was tucked into one of the last episodes of the season, and given the sheer lack of context and time given to everything else, honestly probably didn\u2019t even need to occur, but by this point of the show, they were clearly so determined to cram in as many X-storylines as possible and using as little airtime as possible to do so, so here we went.<\/span><\/p>\n The best way I would describe X97 is exactly what the title of this post is \u2013 it\u2019s X-Men comics presented in a medium that caters to those most likely with ADHD and are incapable of sitting through multiple seasons worth of storytelling to get around several epic story arcs when they can all be crammed into the confines of a ten-episode season.\u00a0 I used to think that when I was a kid, I probably was an undiagnosed ADD kid because of my sheer struggles to pay attention and listen and follow directions, but after watching X97, I don\u2019t really think that that could\u2019ve been the case.<\/span><\/p>\n 2.<\/span> <\/p>\n Gambit was always my favorite X-Man growing up, but he absolutely got the shittiest of shit sandwiches throughout this season, but in general throughout the season, not an episode went by where some or all of the X-Men were getting their asses handed to them on a silver platter.\u00a0 Ironically, in spite of all the memes about how 1992 Jean Grey was utterly useless<\/a>, X97 Jean Grey seemed quite the opposite, and it\u2019s almost like the showrunners acknowledged the old meme and did their best to run it back the other way.<\/span><\/p>\n 3.<\/span> Yes, your primary audience has grown up, but a large part of being a nostalgia act is to not change the formula up, so that us boring ass adults can feel like a kid again and watch some kid-intended cartoons.\u00a0 But with X97, the violence is ramped up, they\u2019re showing blood and some surprisingly graphic imagery for what originated as a Saturday morning cartoon, and despite thinking that the show as a whole was definitely positive, the fact that it was advertised to be a pickup of X92 does tarnish my general opinion of it, and there\u2019s a sentiment of not-as-advertised that I feel when watching it, and wish it was just sold as a completely independent series.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, had they done that, it probably would have loosened a lot of plot shackles that the series was bound by, since they has solidified that it was going to pick up where the show left off back in 1996.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t, and ended up with this ADHD speedrun that left me feeling dizzy and exhausted after watching the last episode.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, I know it sounds like I\u2019m taking a lot of shit on X97, but I really did think it was a good show.\u00a0 It might not have been the children\u2019s show from the 90s, but when I\u2019m able to watch it without the nostalgia glasses on, it does have strong writing, albeit at 5x speed, and the more adult-handed approach to the show is a little refreshing from those expecting to see everyone who might get hurt get magically rescued by Rogue or Storm.<\/span><\/p>\n Wolverine doesn\u2019t hijack the entire series like he tends to in every other portrayal and medium of the character, but unfortunately Cyclops and his exciting as vanilla ice cream Summers family still does; however there is some interesting growth within House Summers throughout the series, which goes back to the appreciation for more complex storytelling, meant for adults and not kids.<\/span><\/p>\n I would say Rogue was probably the breakout character of this season, and it fascinating that the show did a bit of a deep dive into her backstory way more than the kids cartoon did in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n And as much as I criticize the pace of the show, at the same time, it is a microcosm of where we are on society and in the world of television now, versus back in the 90s.\u00a0 No show gets the assurances of being able to tell stories through five seasons of weekly episodic television; people just don\u2019t have that kind of attention span or ability to commit.\u00a0 Therefore, the show had to adapt to today\u2019s standards and tendencies, and even if it weren\u2019t necessarily my cup of tea or preferred pace of show, I do understand why it ended up in this manner.<\/span><\/p>\n I did like X-Men \u201997 in the end, but not without several notable caveats. \u00a0They wouldn\u2019t stop me from watching moar X-Men \u201997 in the future and to my knowledge they\u2019ve already been greenlit for a second and maybe a third season.\u00a0 All of which is obviously part of the grander Marvel Cinematic Universe plan, to slowly integrate X-Men and mutants in general into the general lexicon of Marvel, to where they can then begin to start releasing X-movies and start phase whatever of the general MCU.<\/span><\/p>\n I just wish they\u2019d slow it down in the future, although I doubt they will, but at the rate in which they\u2019re chewing up source material, it might just happen organically.\u00a0 They burned through at least 5-6 notable story arcs in X97, and before we know it we\u2019re going to have Jubilee the Vampire in animated form.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just finished watching X-Men \u201997 on Disney+ and hoo boy do I have a lot of opinions.\u00a0 I don\u2019t quite really know specifically where I stand on it on how good I thought it was, but this is where I\u2019m hoping that writing out my thoughts might help me come to a conclusion. 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\nFirst of all, regardless of where I land on my overall opinion, one thing is very clear in my opinion: the show operated at a breakneck pace, and there was basically no time to breathe throughout the season as the show went from storyline into the next into the next and into the next without any pauses in the action, minus one specific Jubilee mini-arc.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe X-Men, and mutants in general seemed to have been nerfed as fuck throughout this show.\u00a0 All throughout the season, mutants were getting their asses handed to them by humans that had Sentinel tech, as well as Sentinels themselves, in contrast to the original 1992 series where Sentinels were about as capable as the Putty Patrol from Power Rangers at neutralizing their intended targets.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nI think I would have enjoyed this show more if it weren\u2019t billed as being a direct pick up from the original series.\u00a0 Yes, they make numerous references to the original series, but by and large, this is most definitely a completely different show, with a completely different vibe, and most definitely would be a completely different rating from the FOX Kids classic.<\/span><\/p>\n