X-Men '97 (new animated revival) Disney+ 2023 (4 Viewers)

[TheRealJRad]

THEY DID THE THING

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Once Wolverine started getting in Magento's personal space, I thought it may be coming. Yeowch

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

GRRRR - forgot it came out today so just spoiled myself

Lemme go cleanup

 

[Sun Wukong]

Another absolute banger:

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-The second I saw Rogue in her old school green costume, I knew she was joining up with Magneto.

Speaking of costumes, I LOVE that they broke out the 80's fits for this episode. Brown and yellow Wolverine will always be my favorite Wolverine.

I love the Xavier/Magneto interplay here. They've both forked up. Xavier peaced out for bird alien sex and everything went to sheet while he was gone and his cries about reconciliation ring particularly hollow after Genosham which he wasn't even around to see. On the other hand, Magneto has gone from well intentioned extremist to just so completely forking P'Oed off that he isn't thinking rationally and is about to kill untold numbers, human and mutant alike. You can't blame him for his rage, but at the same time he has kind of lost the plot because of it.

That said, I do think it was a tad unfair for everyone to keep dunking on Xavier for leaving the school to Magneto. His plan for Magneto and the X-Men actually WAS working until Bastion showed up, which he realistically had no way to account for.

As expected, we got a sort of Fatal Attractions adaptation. Wolverine gets his adamantium ripped from him. They did it well here. I really hope season two doesn't spend a lot of time on feral Wolverine like he was immediately after this in the comic, I'm fine if they don't speedrun his adamantium getting returned, but if they could skip over feral Wolverine and just go right to "bone claws, but heals even better than he did before" Wolverine, that would be ideal. Feral Wolverine sucked. That said, I feel like Apocalypse is coming back soon and that's how he got his adamantium back, so it wouldn't shock me to see it happen then.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Oh, and also...

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After this episode, he's definetly on his way...

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

This had me shook even more than last week

 

[tenordas]

Wow. Did I say this series goes for jugular? That was an understatement.

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Seems like they've gone after all the harsh storylines from the mags, plus. Wondering if they're intending to kill off Magneto, Professor X, or Bastion.
Since they "picked up" where the original animated series stopped, I assume we will soon see Apocalypse owing to one the last episodes in the original where he found a physical host for himself. If this season is any indication, we'll finally see a well done version of him.

 

[Brock Meaux]

Damn. What a season.

 

[TheRealJRad]

Walter White is now Marvel canon

 

[Sun Wukong]

Totally stuck the landing. Awesome finale. More specific thoughts later.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Maybe best comics to screen adaptation ever

 

[Sun Wukong]

Maybe best comics to screen adaptation ever

I want to avoid recency bias but also feel very strongly that it could easily claim that title.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Thoughts:

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I can't get over how good the animation on this show is. Some of the scenes in the fight with Bastion were mind blowing. And when he got all battle damaged and had half a jaw missing and was all jacked up, it looked incredible.

The ending swerved me. I thought Onslaught was on deck for next season. Instead we get...Ages of Apocalypse? Most of the team is in Ancient Egypt with pre-Apocalypse Apocalypse. Scott and Jean are in the future with Clan Askani where they're fighting against Apocalypse. Then we have Apocalypse show up in the post-credit scene in the present. So Apocalypse all over the place. I'm interested to see what they do here. If they actually do an Age of Apocalypse adaptation or just play around with the idea. This show found insane success remixing plots and story arcs from the comics into something new, so we'll see.

Gambit is 100% coming back as the Horseman of Death based on that post-credit scene.

Wolverine and Morph remain unaccounted for. Interesting.

Loved all the cameos of heroes dealing with the chaos of Magneto's EMP.

 

[Saintman2884]

If anyone else didn't know who that was at the end

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Meet Bastion, the Anti-Mutant Master of Sentinels

Who is Bastion? Meet the X-Men villain who blends man with machine and exercises total control over technology in his bid to eliminate mutantkind.

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Sounds like hes the evil offspring version of Forge and Tony Stark who hates mutants and actively seeks their destruction.

 

[Saintman2884]

Thoughts:

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I can't get over how good the animation on this show is. Some of the scenes in the fight with Bastion were mind blowing. And when he got all battle damaged and had half a jaw missing and was all jacked up, it looked incredible.

The ending swerved me. I thought Onslaught was on deck for next season. Instead we get...Ages of Apocalypse? Most of the team is in Ancient Egypt with pre-Apocalypse Apocalypse. Scott and Jean are in the future with Clan Askani where they're fighting against Apocalypse. Then we have Apocalypse show up in the post-credit scene in the present. So Apocalypse all over the place. I'm interested to see what they do here. If they actually do an Age of Apocalypse adaptation or just play around with the idea. This show found insane success remixing plots and story arcs from the comics into something new, so we'll see.

Gambit is 100% coming back as the Horseman of Death based on that post-credit scene.

Wolverine and Morph remain unaccounted for. Interesting.

Loved all the cameos of heroes dealing with the chaos of Magneto's EMP.

Will Season 2 introduce X-23, Wolverine's genetically-modified assassin-daughter? They teased her existence and showcased her in a few episodes in earlier adaptations like Wolverine and the X-Men, and in the Wolverine stand-alone film, Logan, or will this show even get around to displaying her in anything more then brief cameos, here and there?

 

[Sun Wukong]

Will Season 2 introduce X-23, Wolverine's genetically-modified assassin-daughter? They teased her existence and showcased her in a few episodes in earlier adaptations like Wolverine and the X-Men, and in the Wolverine stand-alone film, Logan, or will this show even get around to displaying her in anything more then brief cameos, here and there?

I suppose anything is possible, but I feel like it's unlikely at the moment for a few reasons, chiefly that the show has made a conscious creative decision to sideline Wolverine so that other characters get more story/screen time, and X-23 is very much a Wolverine/Weapon X centric storyline. Also

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everything we see in the season 1 finale indicates next season will be an Apocalypse centered story, maybe even with a soft adaptation of Age of Apocalypse, and I don't think debuting X-23 would fit in there very easily.

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