re: X Men: '97 In Season Thread

Caught up and good lord... Yeah, the couple of yall that said this is the best adaptation of the comics nailed it. So much going on, it's awesome.

The stories are rushed, and they did take a little more time in the original series to flesh out the arcs. DoFP was only 2 episodes, but AoA was 4 episodes, Phoenix Saga was 5, and Dark Phoenix was 4. I wonder if it was a bit of a hurried attempt by Disney to put out some solid X-Men content true to the source material that also plays on the nostalgia of the target audience. No BS, no DEI, no "appealing to more demographics." Stuff that would draw a number of us back in that were getting fed up with having garbage content that crapped all over the source material.

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Here's a list of all the cameos I caught, even if they were in other episodes, as well:
Silver Samurai
Cap and Iron Man
Daredevil
Dr Strange
Black Panther
Cloak and Dagger
Omega Red, Darkstar, Crimson Dynamo
Psylocke, Puck, Northstar, Aurora, and Cipher
Wanda, Quicksilver, and Polaris
Mr. Fantastic
Peter Parker and MJ

From the posters in the lab, aside from the main lineup:
Wanda and Quicksilver listed as "Off World"
Cable listed as "AWOL"
Dust
Archangel - I think "Missing Presumed Dead"
Colossus
Magik
Iceman
Havoc
Exodus
Shadowcat
Emma Frost
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I was actually surprised we didn’t get a brief Deadpool cameo

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DeMayo said Deadpool was strictly off limits in this.

I guess we can assume that this tv show isn’t canon to the movies then and they didn’t want any type of confusion with the Deadpool movie coming up

I watched the original show growing up but don’t remember a whole lot and don’t really care to rewatch the whole thing.

Is this season a parallel timeline to the original? They don’t seem to remember Cable, mastermold and nimrod, and apocalypse. Are we to assume that since Genosha is a fixed point that every time Cable or the X-men win in the future so it’s recorrected and the past is erased in some ways meaning the previous X-men show isn’t canon?

As Deadpool would say “these timelines are so confusing”

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Is this season a parallel timeline to the original?

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No, Ep 1 picks up after the series finale of the original.

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Are we to assume that since Genosha is a fixed point that every time Cable or the X-men win in the future so it’s recorrected and the past is erased in some ways meaning the previous X-men show isn’t canon?

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I guess we'll see how they handle it. I mean, if you tried to sit down and explain a lot of these overlapping storylines/timelines, it would be more convoluted than thirty years of plots of All My Children or Days of Our Lives.

Wait until it gets into the Clan leader from the end of the episode or if they do the Messiah Complex arc...

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They don’t seem to remember Cable, mastermold and nimrod, and apocalypse.

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I didn't get that sense. They showed the destruction of the mastermold factory from the old show. Beast immediately knew the name at the end. There was the sort of "introduction" to Cable, but I almost think that was for new viewers that had only watched this season and wouldn't know Cable from anything other than DP2. They wouldn't know that family relationship.

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Just do X-men 97 and Spiderman 98. Those were the OGs that everyone loved

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100% agree. I bought every X-franchise and Spiderman comic I could get my hands on as a kid. I only got other stuff when it was bigger events or crossover issues.
However, if they're aiming to eventually do Avengers vs X-Men, they'll need the other shows for that set up. If they do Messiah Complex next season or season 3, it would lead directly into AvsX.

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When they announced Morph was gender neutral I thought the show would be shite

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Yeah I admit I was worried when this came out too, but it ended up only providing a cringe awkward moment when Rogue referred to Morph as "they" after using singular pronouns for others.

I'm a sucker for all the cameos we got. Iron Man in his 90s modular armor! Cable's story in this was great too. I wasn't a fan of the animation at first, but it really grew on me and gave us some bad arse fight scenes.

I think I watched a bit of X-men but it just kind of drops you into the middle of the story with no explanation and they go fast.

Spider-man was much easier for my small brain to wrap around as a kid.