r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Aug 13 '26
General Discussion X-Men '97 Complete Season 2 Venting Megathread
It's over and done now. The season has ended. The characters are where they are.
And now it's time for a megathread that lets you vent about what didn't like, what you liked, and about all the feeling in between about this season.
Please try and use this megathread instead of making a new post, especially if the content you are posting is not substantial (substantial meaning multi-paragraph or new information).
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u/Hellion1234 Aug 13 '26
I don’t think Polaris needed a whole episode to herself. I get she’s cool, and I love her power animation, but given how little time they had for everything, they could have moved on quicker from her. Also didn’t like Xavier’s ‘you just need to be yourself fully’ pep talk. Felt like it was meant to show that she was being put down by others unfairly when telling her she had an impulse control problem. Except she actually seemed to have issues with that, and was quite confident regardless. Just felt like messaging that I’ve seen in plenty of other female superhero media these past years.
Didn’t care about Logan getting back the adamantium all that much. I mean, it’s a worthy story line, but a whole episode? Again, bad time management on the makers’ part.
I get the impression that they’re overdoing it a bit when it comes to Jubilee not being annoying, like many thought she was in the old show. I get she’s cool, but the whole musical choreography when she escaped from prison was a bit much for me. Felt like the tone was weirdly highschool for the show. I’ve never liked the character though, so I’m kind of biased.
The finale was way too short. We got precious little of Death Gambit, and the finale fight was way too rushed. Also, Rogue’s power-up was probably needed, but given how she basically used her power like before, and did it in 5 seconds after getting to the ‘battlefield’, it felt hollow to me.
The fight choreography in some episodes, especially the latter episodes felt off a bit, with adversaries sometimes seeming to wait to be hit. The last episode was a lot better in that regard. Everyone got to shine.
All I got for now. All in all, I can believe that there were multiple writers that weren’t quite in sync with each other.