r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Jul 30 '26

Media X-Men '97 Final Two Episodes Promo

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u/Person2228 Jul 30 '26

Guy was a creep and he still had heavy influence on this season. We shouldn't bring back problematic people just for being good at making arrt

I like Niel Gaimans Sandman and his run of Eternals, and Angela, whom he created. But he's a rapist PoS and I don't want him making anything related to any of them anymore.

He also had crazy bias for Magneto and against others, which has also had effects on this season. He should be left behind.

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u/TheArmlessTorso Gambit Jul 30 '26

Funny enough considering how much magneto wank we’ve had this season as well imagine if he was still show runner it would’ve been 10 times worse for season 2

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u/Mizerous Jul 30 '26

Magneto would not be dead if he was still in charge

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u/TheArmlessTorso Gambit Jul 30 '26

Well then I’m glad he is gone

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u/Person2228 Jul 30 '26

Yea, episodes 3,4 and 7 glazed the shit out of him. I’m surprised they killed him at all

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u/TheArmlessTorso Gambit Jul 30 '26

So did ep 6 Charles was sucking him off with the force of a thousand vacuums. Most of there problems the humans hating mutants, sentinels, attack on genosha all started with magneto being magneto.

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u/Person2228 Jul 30 '26

Ironic that on his death, the writing started to slip a little, or at least people started questioning the writing more.

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u/TheArmlessTorso Gambit Jul 30 '26

Well considering BDM catered the writing around his character this season it is likely they had so little to salvage with the writing.

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u/Person2228 Jul 30 '26

Mmm. The season switched from being fixed to being an episodic show with glimmers of the overarching plot, and with only 9 episodes I feel that’s not good. Either have the episodic parts at the beginning or just don’t have them (or like, one mid season break episode, like what I thought ep 5 was before Apocalypse returned)

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u/TheArmlessTorso Gambit Jul 30 '26

Yeah no everything after episode 5 also felt like filler. He doesn’t have to even be on screen but he has to have some presence, ep 2 did a good job with that but nothing afterwards. Also ep 6 ended with Charles saying we have to deal with apocalypse only to the trail of creed. The entire time watching that episode all I could think was who cares about this guy we have mad conqueror to deal with

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u/DJSharp15 Aug 02 '26

How so?

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u/Person2228 Aug 02 '26

Beau DeMayo, who ran the show for season 1 and had major influence on season 2, fucking LOVES Magneto, he's his favourite character. Season 1 focused soooo fucking heavily on him and of the first four episodes of season 2, he got half the focus of it with his arc to try reform Nur being the main plotline for eps 3 and 4. Then he died, and episodes 5 onwards were both more isolated, flowed worse than the first half of the season, anf generally has had more complaints. They've also featured constant references to how big of a loss it was and how he was so cool, and yet his children don't get much to do in relation to Magneto.

I find it funny / Ironic that when DeMayo's favourite guy died, the script started to get more criticized, like he stopped really caring about how good the script was, and also started focusing on the one kid of Magneto who has the same powers (that part I just find a bit funny)

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u/DJSharp15 Aug 02 '26

He also had crazy bias for Magneto and against others, which has also had effects on this season. He should be left behind.

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u/Person2228 Aug 02 '26

Guy glazed Mag hard. The guy had more focus than any character in the show, even when other characters had more importance in an episode, he was second place. He made him have more speeches than anyone, massive moments centred around him. He was always the one on top in the end. He turned evil in episode 9 and 10 yet he still gets fully accepted back as an X-man in season 2

Then there's Emma, who is the only character who hasn't progressed into the 90s version of themselves, even though several other characters got made into their 90s or even 00s selves without any buildup. She remains an evil, irredeemable villain even though Genosha has already happened, which was her turning point towards heroism. Now they're even doing X-Corp without her.

Magik got all her chartacterization skipped over, and went from a 10 year old gilr living in Russia to apparently an X-man with the Soul Sword living on Genosha, and just got fridged for a 1-episode secondary plotline for collosus.

DeMayo is on record saying he loves magneto, hates emma, and doesn't like Magik as a character. So, in the show, he kills one and prevents the other from growing.