Coming back about my issue with the status is that everything about it feels like it's triggered to blow at a hairpin's notice. Things could go to hell in no time at all in previous series and eras, but never has it felt more like the entirty of the franchise is a deck of cards perched on a castle made of sand, with tide coming in.

And it's not because of the level of interest or success they're having now, it's just that every single intricacy feels like it's built wit a contingency string to unravel it at any moment.

The only place where that doesn't feel to be the case if New Mutants, and that's entirely due to them just being a gang of friends on silly space adventures completely removed from everything.