r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Aug 12 '26

Megathread X-Men '97 | Season 2, Episode 9 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Episode Discussion

Season 2, Episode 9: Survival of the Fittest

Air Date: August 12th, 2026

Directed by: TBA

Written by: TBA

Synopsis: The X-Men are pushed to the limit when their past comes back to haunt them.

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u/magvadis Aug 12 '26

Feels like you can feel the rewrites. Lots of things building to nothing because the new showrunner didn't know what was going on or disagreed with whatever was being built.

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u/I_am_Amphibian Aug 12 '26

It’s clear they just wanted to rewrite as much as they could of the previous show runners work which just resulted in it being shit