#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
In the premier episode of X-Men: The Animated Series Jubilee says "It’s not my fault! I can’t help the way I was born!” Roberto Da Costa echos this in the debut episode of X-Men ‘97 saying “I didn’t ask for this, okay? I was born this way.” #XMen97#MCU#Marvel
I saw some buzz around X-Men 97 so with yesterday’s travel issues I just binged all of the available episodes.
And - wow. Perfect follow-on to the animated series from the 90s, right back to what I remember… and some really great emotional moments in there too. Highly recommend it, particularly for fans of the original. #XMen97
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
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.
This is not just a meme, kids. This is Logan pining for Jean Grey. His love for her has saved her on more than one occasion, but he knows that loving her means loving her enough to let her love someone else. I'm not crying, you're crying. 🥺
Retrogaming consoles, cyberzombification, elderly John Connor-esque timetraveling kid from a dystopian future, Magneto does an Escape From LA-style EMP -- what's not to love about? #Xmen97 is like injecting the 90's straight into yer Nintendo Powerglove! 2 retractable claws up.
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.
Considering all the hype and attention #XMen97 is getting I can’t stop thinking what it would be like if Disney, Netflix or someone produced a new “sequel” season to the original Super Friends cartoon. Same JLA characters including the Wonder Twins and all, in the same visual style, same cheesy music, same narration, Hall of Justice, everything but with all new stories. Could even add a season-long arc of some kind for extra kick.