Watched the first ep of #XMen97 cause everyone seems to be talking about it. Was pretty fun but I’m kinda lost. Never watched this show back in the day. I know some of the characters but that’s about it. Some of the art direction is pretty impressive.
There is a very strong rumor that (if true) would be incredible for the fans of #Xmen. The rumor is that #MarvelStudios is VERY pleased with the success of #Xmen97 and are considering carrying this team into live-action in the #MCU.
If this is true, they would forgo the traditional origin story and give us the complete team introduced during the upcoming #SecretWars storyline. Personally, I think this is a GREAT idea. We don't need the origins of these beloved characters. To me, my X-men. 😎
Next week, when the last episode of the season airs I think I'm going to have to splurge tens of thousands of words on how incredible and wonderful and impossible this show has been. It's not just the greatest piece of X-media since the comics, it's one of the best shows I've watched in many years, with only Andor coming close in recent memory.
My family, who have not watched this yet, are simply not prepared for it. I defnitely wasn't: it hit me "like a hay-bailer with a jet engine attached" (lol @ rare writing mis-step). It is on another level over and above its forebear. Its timing could not have been better, and that's as much by fate as by design.
But sadly I think we've had our 'Endgame' moment in that this experience will be almost impossible to duplicate. Many of the shocks and surprises we've seen worked (I'll speak for myself here) because they were so unexpected. While the original series played loose with the source comic timeline (With Dark Phoenix in season 4 there should have been many events before we saw The Phalanx Covenant in season 5, for instance), this new series has gone berserk with it, to tremendous effect. It actually led me to ponder if Time itself was being manipulated by someone in-universe but there's been little evidence so far, though Bishop's disappearance being kept visible suggests this might be a simmering plot point for season 2....
Or perhaps it'll completely surprise me again. I'd be delighted to be wrong.
Idk abt y'all but Wolverine to me is the most random boring-ass x-man. So what if he's got claws coming out of his knuckles? So what if he can heal himself? Only himself?? Why did this man take the spotlight for so long when Storm, a literal goddess, is there? Rogue? Damn, even that one Genoshan whose body is made of pink jelly is more interesting than this cat-turned-man-but-still-behaves-like-a-cat man. #Xmen97
When I was a kid, #Cyclops was my least favorite #XMen for obvious reasons. He was bossy, clean-cut, and frankly had a boring superpower. But now I'm older, he's turned into my favorite. Cyclops is literally the guy who just wants to keep things together amid all the chaos. Dude just wants to have a family and a normal nine-to-five job without the kids getting in trouble while current events blow up all around him. And I like that his superpower is boring, as boring as "clocking in." #Xmen97
To round out my #Xmen97 cast, I want to do some #fancasting for one of the most important members of the #Xmen, Storm. To say this is a coveted role is an understatement, but my pick carries the strength needed to take on the Goddess herself. My pick is Jodie Turner-Smith because after her performance in 'Queen and Slim' she's earned the right to run away with this one. She's has so much presence and would be dead on for Ororo. 😎
It's so weird seeing people pleased to see Charles Xavier back saying his immortal line.
In the comics, just as Magneto has been on the side of the angels for the last twenty plus years, ol' chuck X has been a moderately unrepentant asshole, soundly shunned by his one-time "Son", Scott Summers and even given lessons in morality by Emma Frost, the White Queen! And lately he figured he could save Mutantkind from eternal dominion by shooting child Moira McTaggert in her past. He was prevented from doing so (thank you, Rachel Summers) but only after he pulled the trigger.
The Onslaught storyline in the early 90s was among the first to really take the shine off his character, Onslaught's revelations re: Xavier's secret 'love' of his underage student, Jean Grey, serving to shatter trust and cast him in a much darker light. Subsequent stories, such as revelations he knew all along Scott had another brother, simply pushed him further away from his original portrayal os a moral guiding light for the X-Men, undoubtedly leading to their wholesale departure from him in the Utopia era, Cyclops' ascendance as the mutant driving force ("Cyclops Was Right") and Magneto's welcome into the fold as a more or less permanent state of affairs. There was a fair amount of revisitiation of earlier decisions too; looking at how he talks a very noble game but in practice he oversteps moral boundaries almost as a matter of course, wiping the minds of entire towns to protect the X-Men's identities, leaving people to believe him dead (as he just did in the cartoon...!) and more besides.
He's also a fairly crappy father to his son, David a.k.a Legion. I have one of those so it's less easy to forgive him that. Even in the Krakoan era (Krakoa is for ALL Mutants) where the likes of Apocalypse and Mr Sinister were made members of the governing council, he mistook David's peaceful reconciliatory overtures as David seeking revenge, and -get this- struck back first. Even when he's Winning at Life he's still a jerk (Thank you for that immortal insult, Kitty Pride).
And going purely by the cartoon let's not gloss over his arrogant presumption in calling for "his" X-Men when his Will handed them wholesale to Magneto, and he's subjected them all to the pain and grief of his loss for MONTHS.
@SuperSideshow Ummm guys? I'm READY for #XMen97! I ripped all my X-Men
'92 DVDs and found "Pryde of the X-Men" on Archive.org!
One bad thing! My discs are so old ONE EPISODE was bad and I couldn't rip it! Guess which one? "The Phoenix Saga: The Dark Shroud (2)" I am SO ANGRY! S03E4!
#XMen97 is the only show I'm watching, animated or not, where I'm literally trying to catch my breath the last 10 minutes or so. The original #XMen back in the '90s was a quality animated series for sure, but this revival is a totally different beast. Every episode is flat out inspired writing, directing, and animating. This is Emmy Awards stuff. Not even exaggerating. I'd be bummed out if people don't start these discussions, as wild as that sounds. #Episode8
Damn is Professor X really this annoying I don't remember him being an insufferable naive virtue signalling bitch like this when I was a child 😭 #Xmen97
O episódio desta semana de X-Men ‘97 caprichou na nostalgia: os personagens vão parar dentro de um videogame de 16 bits! E de novo tem o Mancha Solar falando várias frases em português. #xmen97
#XMen97 is some of the best work #MarvelStudios has done in years. People who complain about 'comic accuracy' don't understand that what the #MCU does best is take the BEST elements of several stories to tell one cohesive story and tell it well.
“Trial of Magneto,” Lifedeath,” “Inferno,” “E is for Extinction,” “Operation: Zero Tolerance,” Fatal Attractions.” All there, & more.
Birthday gift from my 17 year old was a Gambit figure from 1994. We’ve been bonding over #MarvelSnap and he has gotten to know the characters. We’ve watched some #xmen97 together too. Very thoughtful…he is a good kid.