Maybe if Emma stays a villain then Polaris takes her role, reveals her connection to Magneto and now tries to lead the X-Men then falls for Scott which leads to a love square with Jean-Scott-Lorna-Alex lol
I hope that Iceman can be brought onto the team.
I want to have the Mutant Massacre story of 1986 adapted for once. That has never been done, to my knowledge.
Honestly? it had the exact opposite effect on me. there's so FEW cameos and they're... DIFFERENT people than we saw last time we saw Genosha in TAS.
Something as simple as having Unuscione and Frenzy or Arclight and Blockbuster sitting down drinking coffee would have helped a lot. Why? Because they were among Magneto's followers in TAS. They even moved to Genosha.
Why would we necessarily see the exact same people when revisiting the same place? It's an entire country filled with people and time has passed. It would feel pretty small if it was the same people as it was last time. A lot of them probably would still be there, but there's no real reason we'd see them.
Dark does not mean deep.
They probably emphasized the younger mutants to emphasize people actually moved to Genosha with their families, it's not just a bunch of adults. If kids are there it's a real society.
I think the emphasis on the Morlocks being in trouble this episode was a slight allusion to the Mutant Massacre, especially if we eventually find out Sinister was involved. And Gambit being their savior(at least temporarily/for some) is a nice inversion on his role in the comics MM.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Just did a re-watch of the episode, and somehow it hit even harder on second watch. All the Rogue/Gambit scenes are just... oof.
I kinda don't mind that the episodes release on Wednesday instead of in the weekend. Gives me something to look forward to in the middle of the tedious work week. And then I'll do a re-watch on Saturday, helps me catch what I missed on first viewing.
Take my dreams, childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze, please just be there for me
Did you intentionally erase from your memory the fact my primary criticism is the tiny number of people we actually SEE?
Same goes for Refrax, Zoks, and Tank.
My main criticism is just how FEW actual characters we see. We don't even see large numbers of nameless randos. there's a few actual characters tossed in so it's not just randos, but... other than the Morlock group?
It's not hard to give a sense of continuity by simply... having the same thing from last time. We SAW in TAS season 5 Magneto's start to creating his island nation of Genosha. This isn't that.
It's perhaps too late for an effective adaptation of that storyline now.
At least in regard to expecting a reaction and reception comparable to the one the comic readership had at the time.
After all the wider audience has now been introduced and given a much more detailed and personal version of the destruction of Genosha, that any similar event from now on will be compared to.
To put this in perspective.
In the comics Genosha was around 5 or 6 pages of things happening with a very distant viewpoint (2 pages of a class room, one splash page of a Time Square stand in getting shot at, then just a distant view of the island and some narration) and then it was all over and the heros were standing around in the aftermath. It was like half of ONE issue.
To comical exagerate it somewhat. It was the comic version of someone in the 1980's reading the newspaper and seeing an article on page 3 about a bomb going off in a city they never heared of in a country very far away and reacting with "Oh dear." It was distant, uninvolved and allready happend by the point the reader would learn of it.
Perhaps that's why the destruction of Genosha has always existed somewhat in the shadows of the Mutant Massacre in terms of how it's remembered and regarded by the readers, despite being much bigger and dramatic in scope and death toll.
Meanwhile the Mutant Massacre itself happend "life" on pannel as multiple different books would show different perspectives over weeks, with the villains performing the massacre being actual characters, rathern than some WMD like robot, all the core heros were also personal involved in the fight and then they came back home alive but scared and essentialy defeated. It was up close and personal, with the outcome uncertain.
However in this adaptation the destruction on Genosha was given many of those qualities from the Mutant Massacre, feeling more drawn out, more personal and much closer, which likely played a vital role in why this episode has gotten all these reactions afterwards.
But this essentialy steals all of the Mutant Massacre's thunder, so to speak. Because now the wider/casual audience has the destruction of Genosha as their "many mutants are suddently and brutaly killed" event, without a predecessor it can be compared to. For them this is now the measuring stick.
Meaning if said predecessor would be put into an adaptation it would likely no longer carry the same shock and suprise for that audience as if it had come first.
Last edited by Grunty; 04-13-2024 at 08:14 AM.
head of marvel animation says the animatic phase of season 2 of X-MEN ‘97 is complete…. nuff said!!
The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-MEN with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels.