Josh-da-man

Watching that, it occurs to me that I watched less of the X-Men: TAS than I thought I did. The only story I remember is the first one with Jubilee and the Sentinels at the mall. This was on Saturday mornings, and I was a teenager at the time, and spent my Friday nights out raising hell, so it's unsurprising that I didn't stick with it.

That said, it seems like the series was mostly a repurposing of the Uncanny X-Men comics' greatest hits. Throw them in a box, shake it up, and see what comes out. Looks like they kept a mostly stable line-up of characters, unlike the comic, where members would come and go quite often.

candyrocket786

I honestly don't give two shits about the MCU or Star Wars right now.

Just give me more X-men '97 for the next 10 years.

I've watched these three episodes more times than I watched the original X-men films.

tanman

One thing I hate about modern day TV is how few episodes there are and how long it is in between seasons. That goes doubly when there is a cartoon like this 10 episodes is exceptionally short.

Why So Blu?

Yeah, I rewatched the first 3 episodes yesterday again. So good.

Xiroteus

Really depends on the show for me. There are many where I am good with ten to thirteen episodes while a show that is only half an hour like X-Men could have twenty. The original run was 13,13, 19,21,10.

tanman

Yes absolutely it depends on the show. Most shows I prefer a tight 10 episode season. But when it's really good and already short at 20 minute episodes, 10 episodes just isn't enough. Especially when they have so many stories that they could tell on this show. But at least the pacing is quick so they are fitting a lot in a 20 min show.

Xiroteus

I love the pacing. They are giving us more stories by not dragging it out too long. A show like this could have twenty five episodes a season and I would be good with it. There is also the fact a lot of these ten episode seasons only happen once every two to three years. If it could at least be every year that would help.

Star Trek - Strange New Worlds. Since it is mostly episodic I could easily do twenty plus a year. Felt like it was over with too soon. Feels like there were stories there that other shows would drag out for an entire season vs one episode.

tanman

I know we're getting OT here and it just seems to be us two, but I think I'm done with the trend of season long, or even series long story arcs. It's they're good then it ends up being a great season/show. But too many times the build up is just not worth it. It can ruin dozens of hours of TV if the plot arc isn't resolved in a satisfying manner. And most of the times it isn't.

Kdogg

But this is not episodic. The story lines are still serial as where the first four seasons. Season five is the only one that's episodic and it's by far the worst of them.

Xiroteus

It's better if they at least break it up into smaller arcs and pace it well enough within the season. Or when it's in the background over the entire season. To use SNW again, I really enjoyed watching an hour long Star Trek show with the entire story in one episode. (And really almost an hour) Of course Picard season three was great and it was basically a movie. Really depends on a few factors.

OldBoy

Next ep comes out Wed right?

Why So Blu?

Good episode and the first one that seems to be a multi-parter. Enjoyed the recreated 16-bit simulations.

stingermck

I was not expecting all that. 😭

candyrocket786

Holy Shit.
HOLY SHIT....

That was on the same level as .

Kdogg

Wow! They aren't messing around at all with this.

story

Holy cow.

Deftones

Well that was certainly something!

Why So Blu?

Holy shit!

dex14

I know! This was my reaction to that Ace of Base needle drop too!

In all seriousness... wow...

lisadoris

That was a LOT!

Kdogg

So looking forward to this. I don't know what Beau DeMayo did to warrant his separation from Disney but at least we have two season of his done. This show is so dialed into the audience and characters than anything Marvel has done in years.

Why So Blu?

5 episodes in, this is the best Marvel has done since Endgame ended.

Boondock Saint

Awesome episode!

majorjoe23

That was amazing.

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story

It's like the comic books. No body = not dead.

Also, it's like the comic books. Dead =/= dead. There are mistakes, resurrections, surprises, clones, hidden identities, changelings, etc.