the plot in this show is like watching a movie in fast forward. My best guess is that the plan is to setup an approximation of the current comics status quo with the first season. I mean they barely showed us Genosha... and then suddenly! Yeesh. It's like I said earlier... the impact here NEEDED major characters to die or it'd have little impact due to us not even knowing what got destroyed.
Regarding parallels with modern comics - if Sinister is going to outmaneuver Sentinels or outright manipulate them, especially while himself using time-travel shenanigans, that is going to be quite funny.
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While you don't expect adaptations to be exactly the same, you do expect them to adhere to certain basics and essentials, which this did not do.
That's the one sole hope I have for this cartoon. That hopefully the new showrunner taking his place has more sense and respect than Beau.
For you, and mainly because it was rendered in animation with voices and music. Give the actual Genosha events the same treatment and it would be better in all respects than what this cartoon did.
People like to ignore what could have been in favor of acting like what currently exists is the best thing ever.
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Are you talking about Lorna's role? Shouldn't you be waiting until next season for them to find her going insane after they are done dealing with the immediate aftermath? Or are you upset since Gambit was on the island he managed to stop the genocide early, preventing everybody from being wiped out?
Adaptation of the super hero comics by Marvel and DC have by now a long tradition of being very lose with adhering or following the source material.
Sticking to the basic and essential only concerns the rough outline of the major big name characters or what has allready been established as common knowledge in wider pop culture. But even then creators might regard it as valid to change certain elements in order to provide a new spin on allready known things.
Compare basicly everything about King Arthur and the 800 years of pop cultural changes or exclusions various authors (and nowdays movie and tv show creators) have applied to it. To put it jokingly. Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur and Lancelot are a must, or else the viewers will complain about their absence. But Kay, Gawain and Bedivere are lucky when a coin toss allows them to have any notable role.
Meanwhile since the number of the comic readers, who are attached to the original versions of characters and their stories, is basicly insignifanctly small compared to the general viewership of cartoons, tv shows and movies, who have for a long time shown being flexible about liking various versions of the characters and their stories, there is actualy little pressure on the creators to stick to said comic versions. Unless they are personaly attached to it of course.
Considering the Acolytes did not seem to have acquired any major foothold in the wider perception of the X-men, the creators seem to have been in a position where they could simply ignore them for the sake of structuring/streamlining this version of the story in a way that fit their vision.
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While it would be nice, expecting a truly faithful adaptation of anything is asking for too much except in very specific circumstances where all the stars align. Ultimately, many details are going to be changed just from the change in medium or the choice of characters presented in the show to begin with. The original show was never going to have Colossus in the Dark Phoenix Saga despite his role in the original story simply because it wasn't the kind of story where a guest character would make sense. So too, the new show's version of Inferno couldn't have the real Illyana when they couldn't be expected to fit any version of her origin into a 10-episode season.
Ugh. I was hoping when I saw the title it was going to tease Cable's role in all this, and specifically how he's trying to prevent what happened in Ep. 5. Instead it's more Logan simping for Jean and love triangle b.s. I'm over it.
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There's also the whole no Legacy Virus in the original animated series. Part of the reason all those mutants ended up on Genosha in the first place was because they were quarantined there, and after the cure Magneto decided to go to war. Polaris was last seen active during this event evacuating civilians to Wakanda. Later in New X-Men and Uncanny X-men we get the flashbacks where she found out her real biological father was Magneto, and when she went back to Genosha to confront Magneto, the island was attacked as soon as she arrived. So based on what happened in the comic books and what happened in the show, we can safely assume she just got taken out as one of those early mutants who tried to fight the Wild Sentinel. Gambit specifically said anybody who tried to get close to it got taken out, and while the camera did pan over those victims, you have to remember the victims we saw were at the party that night, not the mutants who tried to attack the sentinel (all of them were likely vaporized).