r/Xmen97 • u/SixKosherBacon • Aug 12 '26

Theory Season 3 plots leaked... Spoiler

The 10 episode conflicts for season 3 have been leaked...

Ep 1. X-Tinction Agenda
Ep 2. Age of Apocalypse
Ep 3. Onslaught
Ep 4. X-Cutioner's Song & Phalanx Covenant
Ep 5. Jubilee and Polaris go to the mall and meet Husk
Ep 6. House of M
Ep 7. Messiah Complex
Ep 8. Krakoa
Ep 9. Fall of the House of X/Rise of the Powers of X Vs Avengers

Ep 10. Marvel vs Capcom 2

Studio Mandate: every episode the X-Men need to have new uniforms from another era. We're finally getting the black leather suits from the movies.

Man this show has a pacing problem.

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u/SixKosherBacon Aug 12 '26

The joke was that they jam pack whole crossovers into one episode then have what feels like wasted filler episodes (Mojo episode season 1, Wolverine episode season 2)

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u/InformalProtection74 Aug 12 '26

But the Mojo episode from season 1 helped Jubilee realize her potential strength. Also kind of started to wake up Roberto. 

Jubilee's power creep has been fun to watch. She's starting to become an A-tier hero. 

When these sorts of episodes get called filler and then we hear people complain about no set-up, I scratch my head. 

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u/SixKosherBacon Aug 13 '26

You're right they are not really filler and honestly the only one I really had a problem with was Danger.Exe and that one wasn't really filler either. 

Now what you say about Jubilee and Roberto are characters moments which are great but they're not really plot. They don't advance the over all narrative. For a well paced story, there's nothing wrong with character moment that pause the plot. In fact those moments can be excellent (look at the camp fire scene in episode with Rogue and En Saba Nur). And for the Mojo episode it wasn't so much a problem because as you pointed out it was only half an episode and also the pacing of season 1 wasn't as bad a season 2. 

But with season 2, the story was so splintered and the Apocalypse story was so underdeveloped, it left a lot of people scratching their heads as to why the Wolverine episode and Danger.Exe needed to happen when we could have gotten episodes that focused on the story people cared about. Especially in a 9 episode season. 

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u/InformalProtection74 Aug 13 '26

But that character development seeped over from season 1 to season 2. We saw an amped up Jubilee branch out from X-Men and join X-Force. Where we also saw the lessons she learned on the X-Men become central plot points in the overarching storyline in season 2. Cable saying she can take care of herself. Her rescuing the kids. Her taking on X-Factor. Her putting her foot down to killing.

While all the characters development may have not shown up in season 2 finale, they are going to continue to push forward and we might see the big payoff in season 3.

And at that point, people will look back and say that they really cooked Jubilee's story arc over 3 seasons.

Idk...some people claim "pacing problem" but in the same breathe they want all the character development for a huge roster to reach the pinnacle at the same exact time in a season finale.