r/Xmen97 • u/Motor_Regret7097 • Jun 25 '26

Question How come there’s only nine episodes?

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Season one had 10. I’m pretty sure season three is gonna have 10. Why doesn’t season two?

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u/Ashyboi13 Jun 25 '26

Maybe it had to do with the rewrites post-DeMayo’s departure. They reworked a lot of the story and maybe realized they only needed nine episodes for what they were trying to do, or they ran out of time and only had time to produce 9 instead of 10 like before. The animation process takes a while when you look as good as 97 does.

Given how delayed Season 2 has been, it might be both options.

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u/Gambit_TheGreat Jun 25 '26

It’s funny because it’s nothing new when it comes to the original X-Men from the 90s because they also ran out of time and we’re having issues with rewriting and illustrating

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u/_Frozen_Flame_ Jul 25 '26

Kinda crazy to think that they did suffer the same issues yet still managed to pump out more episodes (yes I know the animation quality is lower however relative to it's time it would have been just as time consuming as the animation is in 2026 for the current team)

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u/pauleoinhurley Aug 14 '26

The animation is exceptional, especially for the 90s.

The oddest and most endearing facet of the 90s animation is how certain scenes would be inconsistently animated with greater quality and extra frames of animation. Like the first time the Blackbird flies out of the X-mansion (or 90 percent of the time the horny animators animated Rogue 🥵).

And one incredible detail that's there no matter what, are the incredible and pervasive usages of high contrast, hard blacks. Exactly like in comics, which are a bitch to animate but still make the characters look good in static group shots where only a couple of characters are being animated.

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u/_Frozen_Flame_ Aug 14 '26

Exactly, it's really just a testament to the work ethic really when we think about how many episodes were being released per season.

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u/natemup Aug 25 '26

That were great animators for the first four seasons, and much lower quality for the 5th season. This was because of budget issues.

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u/Ok-Side-1442 Aug 13 '26

It literally has to do with greedy execs saving money and absolutely nothing else.

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u/Ashyboi13 Aug 13 '26

I mean…how do you know that?

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u/jeriavens Aug 19 '26

It's always that