Originally Posted by
Grunty
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.