Got Disney+ just to watch Marvel cartoons and I've been watching X-Men for the last few days. Wolverine and the X-Men is about as meh as I remember back when I dropped it. The storyline is nice and interesting but the character work is bland and it's hard to care about anyone. The OG 90s X-Men cartoon has a bombass theme obviously but the numbskull pacing makes it hard to feel like the narrative is anything but a long trailer and the dialogue is just a collection of one-liners. I want to love it and the nostalgia is real but it's just bad.
But as I expected X-Men: Evolution is by far the standout even if people still sleep on it after all these years. The writing actually feels like I'm watching a narrative and the characters feel like actual people and even if the pacing of the series as a whole is sluggish when it gets going all that time you spent becoming invested in the characters gives the plot a weight you'll never see in any of the other two series.
And it introduced X-23 for ****'s sake.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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