Originally Posted by
DakenGirl
Both Whedon and Warren Ellis used that cast brilliantly. I'm still hoping we'll get back - or move forward - to a place where they're all going on missions together again, because that was a great time for great team dynamics.
And I don't see current Hank as a write-off; I just see him as damaged. All the traumas the X-Men have been through I think they're entitled to get a little frayed around the edges. I still think Young Hank might be the means to help Old Hank, as he did initially. And although the Watcher was pretty tough on him, it's not like Hank actively wants bad things to happen in the future or to block off good things. He certainly doesn't want Jeen hair twiddling on a throne of naked slaves or Cyke getting crucified and burned at the stake. His reasoning may have been skewed by grief and anger and depression and the pressure they've all been under since M-Day, but he wasn't trying to kill anyone when he brought the O5 forward. He was trying to find the past they've lost where he had control over his mutations and Jean was alive, Bobby hadn't been hit with the Death Seed, Warren was still Warren, and Scott was still a boy scout. His mentor had just died. He reacted. I really think his reasoning might not be morally sound but it's still something that a good man who felt desperate might do.
Any minute now I think we're going to get hit over the head with something awful about Hank, but I'm staying over here in my denial place until then because I still love the guy he was too much - and have loved him for too many years, and particularly his friendship with Cyke - to give up on the guy he is now.