X-Men 97

I still have to watch last week's episode.  My wife and I are behind on our TV watching.  But this show has been incredible.

One thing I've learned in the past week, however, is that you don't even need to click on the links anymore, people will put spoilers right in the thumbnails of your feed.  (Yes, if you show one very specific panel from a 30 year old comic book, I can connect the dots on my own, thanks).

Also, sudden X-Men Marvel Legends sell outs correlate directly with appearances in this show.  So if you don't want to be spoiled on who shows up, don't go scrolling around amazon or BBTS.

The internet, it's a hell of a thing.

Hey! We're back! X-Men '97 season one ends on the day of Fwoosh's latest rebirth. The road to the finale was truly awesome, even if it resurrected old wounds from childhood. I think the penultimate episode was better than today's finale, but there was good stuff there too. Mostly, I'm just a little disappointed the finale left no room for any fallout from last week's episode. It's the curse of this era of streaming, serial, story-telling where a finale needs to setup next season first and foremost. Still, all in all a successful season one and hopefully we get an update around comic con regarding when we can expect season two. 

Good finale. The show has some room to improve (mostly by slowing the hell down), but I was impressed. Without posting spoilers the same day the finale aired, they sure are setting up some exciting stuff. More X-Men stuff, please.

I agree. It’s okay to slow down a bit. 

It’s entertaining. Cyclops is a great leader. Jean is more than just tragic super power. Rogue is cool. All of the X-Men are cool. They are the stars of the show as it should be. Even with all the other powered characters shown they don’t tell the story. The X-Men do.

Thwipp!

Pacing issues aside this show was incredible. If they had the budget to extend the episodes by 15 minutes or so, or maybe give us two more episodes per season, I think that would solve their issues. They just try to cram so much in there. The writing so far has been strong enough to overcome that, but it would be easy to falter under the weight of the plot.

Really some of the best x-men content we've gotten in a while. Between this and the new Deadpool (I'm very optimistic about that), it will be a good year for X-Men (and Marvel). 

@tsi co-sign on the pacing. I think it improved after the second Lifedeath episode. The last four episodes did what they needed to do and I didn't have the same feeling of being rushed as I did earlier in the season. I'm just curious how Season Two will go. I'm looking at where things ended and it feels like they practically have the whole season mapped out, but it wouldn't shock me if they blow through it all in a couple of episodes. We shall know in time. It definitely feels like this first season DeMayo and staff knew what they wanted for a climax to the season and they had to figure out how to get there by a certain episode while also working within the confines of where the original series left off. If they have a different approach for next season it should flow better especially because now they had full control over that starting point. Unless they shit-canned DeMayo because they didn't like the path he put the show on, then who knows what we could be in for?

I still have a lot of problems with the show generally; pacing, some of the dialogue/exposition, specific plot points not making sense, etc. And I thought the post-credit Gambit-Death foreshadowing was way better than basically spelling it out in the earlier episode with Xavier seeing Gambit instead of Magneto dying. I still hated that. Might as well have just screamed 'by the way kids, Magneto isn't dead and Gambit is coming back all Sith-ified.' It's not foreshadowing - it's foresledgehammering.

BUT.. holy shit. I mean, I still really liked the show despite there being one episode I genuinely did not like. The last two were fantastic. They stuck the major elements and ending, in my opinion. I'm STOKED about another season. I fangirled over the various cameos. I'm all in on this one, even if I complain about this or that. Terrific show. Easily my second favorite Marvel cartoon after the original X-Men, and with a chance to eclipse even that show if the next seasons are even as good as this one.

Not that it was prompted, but Remember It is my favourite piece of Marvel media in 2024. Even over Agatha, which was tailor made and so deliciously executed to my tastes. 

Remember It was such an important piece of X-Men digital media, and I'm already seeing it's immense impact on how X-Men is perceived in animated and live action standard.

It was a turning point, and makes me wonder, even when the X-Men are adapted in to the MCU, how could they ever replicate and handle the impact any storyline like this had on a continuous narrative so well.

I really wonder how live action X-Men can debut, grow, and develop, to even reach the stage which this show has done. Then again, that was always going to be the X-Men's challenge in live action.