I think the problem with Magneto also stems from the 90s show. They would gloss over some of his more heinous acts and just be like "awww well you know"

Dj dj dj I value you and your nitpicks I love this season and it got me turning to an X-men fan again! Hope they keep this going for a fox spiderman cartoon !

That was T’Chaka not T’Challa in the Black Panther suit.

In the Fantastic Four 90s cartoon Ghost Rider showed up for less than 2 minutes to save the world from Galactus and just casually leave.

To counter your arguement about nostalgia being the primary reason the show was seen so favourably, I never once watched a single episode of the original series when I was young (despite the fact that I had seen Spider-Man TAS and most other superhero animated shows from the 90's and have been reading comics since I was a kid) and only watched it for the first time just a few months ago, and yet despite that I absolutely loved X-Men '97 and would even say that it's far superior in most ways to the original X-Men: The Animated Series. I really don't mean this in a disrespectful way but sometimes just because you may have a certain opinion, it doesn't suddenly make it fact. I really hope this idoes not come off as disrespectful or harsh in any way because it really was not my intention whatsoever. If it did, I want you to know that I really didn't mean for it and I'm sorry.

I wished they hadn't used season one Iron Man. Fingers crossed Robert Hayes shows up.

DJ I love you and this channel but cmon man why’d you have to put Iron Man in the thumbnail. I hadn’t seen it yet and I know it was just a cameo but cmon dude

I overall agree with your points here and I don't think you were nitpicking. Even if the Avengers themselves didn't come to help (you could maybe say they didn't have any way to get to the asteroid in time) humans really showing up to help somehow would have been great. Like... I don't know, some human scientists radioing in to help Hank run calculations or something. Just that moment of unity. As for the X-men reaching out to Bastion, I'm also of two minds about that, but I suppose you could say that Bastion was born with Sentinel programing that was influencing his actions and so he's not fully culpable. I don't know how much I would buy into that, but it's something. One thing I did really appreciate was the show making the point that no, humans and mutants aren't in competition with humans, and their presence doesn't equate to human extinction. Mutants are just a new kind of human. I think that's an important perspective to present for the X-men in contrast to their villains.

For me, the finale felt like a constant rising action. Some cool moments with a thin narrative to string them a long and a payoff/climax that felt lacking with the overall story of the season.

i disagree but see where you are coming from especially with showing the good of humanity. Pitch: what if instead of random pheonix appearance: when bastian has cable he gets sinister to raise jean out the water and have cable kill her. Before he can though boom shield hits sinister, knocking him out, and you hear avengers assembly. Both avengers and xmen battle bastion and right when they have him done and out sinister wakes up throughing the shield at jean but cable pushes her out the way thus cutting his arm. Jean seeing her dismembered son goes super saiyan (pheonix) ans strips sinister of his dna and then bastion gets the arm, transforms to mega-bastion-x and wipes out everyone with a shock wave then goes to space and the eps continues as is but less heroes looking up (except keep that tchaka line to the president).

One thing DJ did clearly get wrong about Captain America, and it's not said out loud, and it's inferred in what he said to Rouge, is that a symbol of America wearing a flag as a Uniform can not go into a sovereign country America is not directly at war with and fuck shit up. That would cause tensions between America and Mexico. Even for a genocidal racist like Gyrick, that would be bad, as Rouge tore through them and did very bad things.

Biggest reason that the Avengers couldnt help is because it was the 90s, and they blew chunks. Book wise they either would have been heroes reborning [cant do that yet in the show] or still reeling from the crossing and Tony is only 19 and probably still a burgeoning alcoholic, which is why he was less then active against the primes

I was a little annoyed of characters flip flopping like what Rogue did this season.

DJ, will they come for you saying that was T'Challa and not T'Chaka? I think that was T'Challa too idc.

They didn't show any heroes that could stop an asteroid. It's not like Thor made an appearance. I do agree with you that the show doesn't really make a tangible case for Xavier's view. I didn't need a big hero team up tho, it would've been enough to have some human supporting characters who weren't problematic (Trish Tilby). The show is doing so much more than the previous series, I have no idea how you can chalk it up to nostalgia. The 90s show was much less mature.

I think that framing magneto as purely a genocidal maniac is a little off. He is the victim of 2 attempted genocides hinself. It is completely understandable how that could radicalise someone, and Charles entire worldview is about acceptance and understanding. He'd be a hypocrite if he stand with humanity, who have been genocidal towards mutants, but not magneto

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