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"Oh, dear" you can say that again, Hank.

After Phoenix Saga and Spider-man's clones shenanigans none of this seems far fetched or too comicbooky lol
So sure, why not throw Apocalypse into alternative past, present and maybe future with X-Men. For some reason, I'm very glad that none of them caught up to a present day.

Two questions:
- Why daughter of Magneto is currently "off world"?!
- Is that a hint that Peter finally found the real Mary Jane after cruel cliffhanger that we got? Oh, yeah she and Jean can share some stories

p.s. can we, please, get real Colossus in season 2? Kurt was the best "new" addition to the team.
Overall, X-Men'97 were awesome.

Dialogue is the key.

I'm not talking about the conflict in X-men, but why so many episodes of the series felt impactful, fresh, poignant.
Visuals are incredibly creative, be it fight (any), ability (Kurt's teleporting) or contemplation (Auschwitz's shadow). Its both cinematic and faithfully limited to the movement of the OG series.

But, in my opinion, only in combination with handful of lines, one sentence sometimes, do those scenes feel heavy, very character focused and forever relatable. Sadly, even "Never again" feels beyond tainted

Was it so necessary for the plot to turn every ghoul into an addict timebomb in the show? Some people can overcome psychological damage and some don't. Same with ghouls some are feral, some just don't.

More importantly it makes the supposedly "cool guy" into a blameless victim that forced to do ugly things in order to survive. That's cheap. Vault's part was better, but at the same time both storylines were too predictable to be satisfying.

idk setting felt very fan made. Not in a good way. Dear lord that slow-mo fight... almost killed any desire to watch further. Maybe if it was done as clear V.A.T.S. node and wink it could have worked for me. At least keep it around main character pov so you get a nice mix of both.

Characters:
- Naive vault dweller - she nailed the combo of satire, absurd comedy and brutal violence in her acting. Works.
- Fan of Brotherhood of Steel - I care as much about him, as I did about all of those fanatics in the games. "This is unfair" scene felt like utter bs. Injured person was more interesting than him.
- The Ghoul supposedly to be the cool character. His scene dragged on, felt like a parody. Make up/effects on him look good. That's about it.

And most importantly it felt very boring. Not necessary the show problem. I feel like being familiar with the world worked against the narrative.

I heard so much praise... maybe it will get better in a couple of episodes, hopefully?

This has no right to be so good. Happy nation, huh... who would have thought.

I love how they are using dialogue is this revival. Every character is communicating in it's own specific way, solely from their perspective. It should have being obvious and default approach for any media, but it's so often neglected. I'm looking at you Invincible's writers.

I love they approach to Magneto costume aside one panel is all you need. Using train, speaking his native German. So simple, so effective.
Part of me really wants for disruption of status quo to stick with Gambit, Magneto, Storm etc. New reality the rest of the characters would have to live in. But with return of Cable it's probably gonna be reset.

p.s. Hearing Gambit and Rogue real speech is still pretty trippy, not gonna lie. That's why subs are superior they don't change big part of characters identity, culture for no good reason.

Happy nation sounds positively haunting in that rendition.

Kudos, they kept themes, values and characters all intakt. This series always felt ahead of it's time... and product of it's time. So, X-men being corny is actually spot-on thing. Honestly feels like seamless transition, to how I remember X-men at least, including plot continuation.

I only wish my child self would remember what happened to Charles exactly. I think he was somehow trapped inside Jean's mind... maybe kid's drawings are hint to Jean's childhood? So, maybe Phoenix is in the cards, heh. I like slight adjustment with FOH treatment.

I can't believe they, for the first time ever, did a proper final at the last episode of the season. Crazy.
2nd part of Season 3 was incredible and everything I was hoping the series would be since very promising 1st half of season 1.
Finally, Bobbie grew on me. For some reason Mao's daughter did it instantly. Not as a person, but fascinating character to watch.

Drummer alive and the show is better for it.

On thematic level it's kinda messy. So the lesson here is that unethical sacrifices of thousands of people paves the way for progress. Once again. Who would have thought...
No, but seriously. After crusade against "von Braun", his work and his benefactor. Turned out that Eros was anthill, but simultaneously "let's finally work together and not fire at the problem as a solution".

Let's keep the maniacs who painted the world red in prison, but also let's not worry ourselves with the ethics of sharing fruits of their labour and trust ancient civilization that didn't find ethical way to obtain "building material for the road".

Second Russian character. Cool.
I'm gonna pretend that she was born in the States to explain away misgendering in her last name.
But the choice of her last name is a bit funny. Safe for kids version of expression "вола водить" (vola vodit') basically means "to bullshit someone". Professional bullshitter as a last name for speechwriter is quite fitting)
I was wondering how did they legally justified going after Mao's relatives... turned out they simply didn't give a damn.

Please, can we not go with the angle of Mao suddenly feeling bad for ordering experiments on kids? How many kids did he killed on Eros? It won't humanize him, it would just turn him into indecisive executioner.

Hey, Holden symbolically killed himself by killing off truth teller.
Finally made a conscious choice with a heavy price. I hope writers not gonna brush it off.

I'm on "evil" scientists side. No point in stopping now or destroying unethically obtained data. If we did it irl, 2 countries wouldn't have had space programs in the 60s.

Martians would be perfectly fine trope, except that they all overacting I don't by their nationalism or comradery.
Water thief overacted, but it works for his character. Same with the scientist that actually did great job selling his obsession. Martians just time bomb at this point. I got used to odd scene or two from Holden and Miller.

Amos is my favorite character and I usually hate those type of characters. Cudos to writers and actor on making it work. They sidelined Naomi hard this season, sadly.

Are they hinting on Julie being alive in some form? Let me guess, stupidly emotional, Miller gonna abort his plan of destruction the moment he will see some form of Julie on Eros, right?

I'm of two minds about the Reveal. Characterwise the last 3 episodes are everything I was asking for. Execution was pretty close to being perfect. Characters weren't allowed to do the dumb trope thing either by themselves or thanks to Amos or Miller's friend. Naomi becomes idealistic at the worst possible time is fair character evolution.

"Leviathan" itself was pretty much what I was afraid it's gonna be since episode 1. Thematically it doesn't work for me at all.
Class conflict and environmental issues were such a strong, grounded part of the show that it was enough for me without some sort of premonition (Julie last vision before death, presumably) and that level of bioweapon (probably not a weapon at all).

With the whole shtick of "this thing will save us all"... I kinda at lose what could this thing possibly solve? Wars (hivemind type of solution)? Diseases? Death? Terraforming? Fast-travel? Time travel?
So far, it cheapen overall impression of worldbuilding and themes that first half of the season set up.

I hope that adventure like lightheartedness that crew is having right now is intentional storytelling point. Including Miller conversation with Amos along side with "not seeing tragedy behind the comedy of Don Quixote" comment is a giant hint that current stand-in for main character gonna get reality check or pay the price personally. I don't mean Holden's death, I mean having his hands get abit red.

Because so far, majority of characters and factions felt morally gray. And Holden doesn't belong in that sort of story, yet.
Amos on the other hand has a potential to become very interesting character with viewpoint that is usually badly done and I, usually, don't give a shit about.

The best one so far.
They finally made Miller interesting to follow. Thanks to him not buying into bribe (that was probably just set up anyway) and not giving a shit about New Guy apparently his name is Dimitri, how curious. I can't quite read the roots of his obsession with solving the case. Did they imply that it's about pride more than anything else or maybe I'm reading to much into his remark about his own abilities. Either way he doesn't feel like walking cliche now.

That the first time where I felt that Naomi wasn't reasonable. The easiest answer would be that Johnson killed (or took a fall for) somebody she cared for or that he is her father. And she hates that now he is more Catholic than the pope. I like that they do something different with her character. So far Holden is the least interesting out of all of them.

Such a fitting name for the ship. Would not called it "work horse" perse or maybe our translation was far off from Cervantes's idea.

Called it! Policeman is alive.
On the other hand, I did not expected that they would kill comedic relief after saving him for some odd reason a couple of episodes ago. You win some, you lose some.

I love almost everything and everyone in this show, but I'm afraid that it gonna turn into Aliens. Could it be time travel or wormhole to some 3rd power force or something like that? I would prefer that big time.

Damn, quite impressive and consistent approach to every faction: they all kinda right, they all doing shitty things to keep their head above the water. And everyone afraid of one another.

That freaking language is killing me. It sounds Jamaican, Slavic, French, Spanish, German depending on the person who speaks it.
I'm wondering if anybody turn it into a real thing after so many seasons.

With established high level of medicine on Earth, I'm kinda assuming that the new guy going to be alive.

I was so sure that cough that usually means death flag in TV land was just a red herring, maybe indicator of Jimmy assuming the worst when in reality nothing ever changes in the life of Marco and Slippin Jimmy.

I don't know something feels off with the show. I can't put my finger on what's missing. All new characters are solid so far.