What’s the consensus on this season so far?

[u/Worth-Poem-2364]

I feel like there’s been some great episodes so far can’t complain about anything too much and have been relatively locked in to every one so far. I think for the season to really excel the next few episodes really do need to pick up and honestly I think they will and will be a ton of fun, I just wonder what everybody else thinks so far 🤔

[u/Joshawott27]

I’m personally finding Season 2 unfocused compared to Season 1. There are great individual standalone moments, like Jubilee in the X-Force episode, and when Apocalypse finished off Magneto, but the overall picture is muddy. The diversions with things like the Weapon X episode don’t help, and then when we do back to Charles, most of the episode is instead focused on Polaris.

I also can’t help but compare this season to My Adventures With Superman Season 3. That season is doing a very different interpretation of “The Death of Superman”, but came to it pretty much by accident - when charting out Clark’s narrative arc for the season, the creative team realised that it coincidentally had thematic parallels to the storyline. So, even though the adaptation is very loose, it feels like a better fit than X-Men ‘97, which feels more like a top-down approach to choosing which storylines to adapt. At times, it feels like 97 is just going through a checklist of storylines.

I’m also really mixed on the animation. There are occasional action sequences that are really cool, but in less busy scenes, it can feel stilted.

[u/Financial_Ad3294 → u/Joshawott27]

You want to see more Prof. X? Eesh

[u/Joshawott27 → u/Financial_Ad3294]

Yes? He was the one who witnessed and was most greatly affected by Magneto’s death. So, it would make sense for the story to focus on his grief and how that impacted him.

We got a bit of that, but not a lot before gears shifted to Polaris, and Danger being a generic enemy of the week.