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Post by BackinBlack on Jul 27, 2010 22:39:20 GMT -5
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Post by Spidey 1923 on Jul 28, 2010 1:12:41 GMT -5
Still can believe those bastards canned it.
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Post by sic on Jul 28, 2010 5:25:21 GMT -5
i watched it every once in a while when it was on TV... not bad
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Post by lopli on Jul 28, 2010 10:36:55 GMT -5
I liked it. No need in canceling it.
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Post by mob on Jul 28, 2010 12:01:18 GMT -5
not a bad show
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 10, 2020 14:39:49 GMT -5
Just started watching it. I think it's the best season 1 of any X-Men cartoon so far. There were a lot of fun episodes, and the characters are done really well. Not an expert on X-Men comics by any means, but the characters as they were presented in the show have some dimension to them. It'd be great if Disney revived this one, it was awesome.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 14, 2020 17:27:29 GMT -5
So, just finished the season/series since it only lasted 1 season. Immediate thoughts... this is arguably the best show Marvel animation has ever done. It's just so good. It's definitely the TSSM of X-Men shows. Like TSSM, it took the major and iconic storylines from the decades worth of comics and wove them into a brand new tapestry that felt respectful to the comics AND refreshing simultaneously. I was watching X-Men Evolution for kicks initially, but that show has really impressed me and I find it kind of endearing as this product of its time. Yet even still, while Evolution managed to get pretty epic (I'm nearing the middle of season 3), in 26 episodes Wolverine and the X-Men has taken my wife and I on this crazy journey that deserves to be championed every bit as much as TSSM was.
There's definitely an appetite for the revival of the 90s X-Men, and although shows like Fuller House prove that it's possible to play to the nostalgia and still be successful in the modern age of television, I'm not so sure continuing the 90s X-Men would be a better choice than reviving Wolverine and the X-Men. I acknowledge that it (90s) succeeded in telling intelligent stories over extended episodic arcs that punched up and didn't patronize its audience. However, the show had 4 seasons and ran through a lot of story. They could tell more stories, but by the end of season 4 (before the season 5 changes) there were already 62 episodes. Would I love for the show to get a revival and proper conclusion this time? Absolutely. But when I think of what that could do in terms of the amount of time it would take for Marvel to get around to doing Wolverine and the X-Men, I just don't think it's worth it.
At the end of the day, all this talk about a revival is just rumors. Fans of the 90s show have waited over 2 decades, so they could argue that a fan of Wolverine and the X-Men wouldn't have a leg to stand on in terms of waiting time. To that... well that's fair play, for sure. I just think that, watching both shows simultaneously and without nostalgia as a factor (since I didn't watch the 90s show as a kid), Wolverine and the X-Men is the stronger show and on its own merits deserves closure above any other Marvel project outside of TSSM. In conclusion to this tl;dr essay here, I believe the fandom should put a higher priority on reviving Wolverine and the X-Men than the 90s show.
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