Charisma isn't always a product of your environment. Hell just look at Scott's childhood and he's one of the most charismatic leaders in the MU. She just simply lacks charisma both in and out of the comic and really anything endearing about her character. She's been around as is since Second Coming and the writers have failed to make her remotely likable as a character.
Chamber doesn’t really seem to care about Banshee being back. Hope completely ignored any chance at trying to find Velocidad nor does she have that fun banter with Scott that she had on Utopia. Dani’s tension with Hope is nowhere to be found. I may have missed it under Jamie’s constant snark but his utter hatred for Scott never comes up. It’s like the only pre-existing relationship touched on is between Karma and the rest of the New Mutants and it’s just used to **** on her. There’s also Wolfsbane but it was because she got fridged so they kind of had to bring up her connections.
Everyone’s just off enough that no character comes across as genuine at points.
Like I've said many times, this book is a nostalgia trip for Rosenberg, telling stories he wanted to tell for decades, and to do so he's ignoring anything that happened in the last 25 years or so, hence even the costumes are the same as the 80's and 90's, acting like the X-men voting on their problems is something new (and Magik being surprised she can bring ideas when she already did this, and worked closely and was friends with Scott for a long time) and he literally has everyone forgetting that Emma exists.
Hope he's using as a substitute for Cable, even though Cable with Scott has never really been disrespectful since learning he's his dad.
Rosenberg has only 4 issues left and there's quite a lot of villains he hasn't dealt with.
Could Cassandra, Vulcan and Shadow King actually pop up?
So far it's been a rollercoaster ride! Full of surprises and deaths....
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the penultimate issue cliffhanger is scott flipping to the next page of that notepad where we find "HICKMAN!!!" taking up the whole page, underlined, and circled because they have to stop him from destroying everything
this is the bumcanny team though so they fail
this is forever
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
The addition of Hope/Banshee has indeed been an utter and complete waste of time so far, Madrox isn't quite portrayed as the backseat whiner that he is, Rosenberg really, really wants to write another New Mutants book and the Scott/Logan bromance comes off as a fun-but-not-particulary-genuine result of the "Cyclops did everything wrong/Wolverine did nothing wrong!" editorial mandate.
That being said, Alex desperately wanting attention and being kind of an emotionally manipulative jackass to his big bro sounds like classic Alex, no?