Current Events > Who's rewatching the X-Men TV series on Disney+?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Shits LIT
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What!
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I am! This show still holds up really well despite some of the cheesy 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon dialogue

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Waddlez posted...

What!

YA
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One thing that I guess surprises me (because the Fox X-Men movies have taken up most X-Men real estate in pop culture) is how well developed the rest of the team are. Like yeah Wolverine caught on because he was the tough guy, but he doesn't really overshadow everyone else. Like even Gambit gets significant character development, and he's the most straight forward character on the roster.

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I can't ever watch it again. I made a vow to never watching another Dark Phoenix storyline

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This is how I know we are getting dumber.

This cartoon, aimed at kids back in the 90's who were aged 9-13, dealt with persecution & prejudice, the Registration Act, childhood abuse, love & relationships among adult characters, and even featured a character physically being killed (something unheard of in cartoons). You could even extend this to Gargoyles & Batman: TAS.

And now today, for that same age group, I can't even think of a cartoon in the last 5 or so years that even came close to touching on these themes and subject matter. We have dipshittery like Steven Universe or Paw Patrol. And most of the superhero cartoons have been given either crappy, stringy animation to make it more childlike, or glossed over with a "mini" or "youth" version.

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To be fair the cartoon only dealt with that because that's what the comics were doing at the time. And as it is a huge analogy for racism, the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and early 90s was a factor in the whole Mutant thing as well.

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Haven't started yet, but I'm planning to watch it. Only caught the occasional episode on TV when I was a kid.

I watched all three of them:

X-Men
X-Men Evolution
Wolverine and the X-Men
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Its on the very top of my list of things to watch. Havent seen any episodes since I was a kid. Good times.

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jumi posted...

Wolverine and the X-Men

My man!
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Bad_Mojo posted...

I can't ever watch it again. I made a vow to never watching another Dark Phoenix storyline

As much as I hated every time they re-ran that storyline... Emma Frost. Mmhmm.
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EnterTheTekken posted...

This is how I know we are getting dumber.

This cartoon, aimed at kids back in the 90's who were aged 9-13, dealt with persecution & prejudice, the Registration Act, childhood abuse, love & relationships among adult characters, and even featured a character physically being killed (something unheard of in cartoons). You could even extend this to Gargoyles & Batman: TAS.

And now today, for that same age group, I can't even think of a cartoon in the last 5 or so years that even came close to touching on these themes and subject matter. We have dipshittery like Steven Universe or Paw Patrol. And most of the superhero cartoons have been given either crappy, stringy animation to make it more childlike, or glossed over with a "mini" or "youth" version.

Yeah the cartoons felt surprisingly mature.
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The animation wasn't always great but holy shit did it take a dip fast
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I plan to once Im done watching gargoyles

EnterTheTekken posted...

This is how I know we are getting dumber.

This cartoon, aimed at kids back in the 90's who were aged 9-13, dealt with persecution & prejudice, the Registration Act, childhood abuse, love & relationships among adult characters, and even featured a character physically being killed (something unheard of in cartoons). You could even extend this to Gargoyles & Batman: TAS.

And now today, for that same age group, I can't even think of a cartoon in the last 5 or so years that even came close to touching on these themes and subject matter. We have dipshittery like Steven Universe or Paw Patrol. And most of the superhero cartoons have been given either crappy, stringy animation to make it more childlike, or glossed over with a "mini" or "youth" version.

That one episode where Wolverine repents to God of his sins was the cringiest shit of all time even back then.

But yeah I agree otherwise.
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I thought you guys were talking about these

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_X_(TV_series)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_(film)
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During my free trial of the revise I watched about 1/3 of Spider-Man TAS with the plan to watch XMen after. My trial has run out and I havent subscribed yet but when I do resubscribe Im going to watch these !

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EnterTheTekken posted...

This is how I know we are getting dumber.

This cartoon, aimed at kids back in the 90's who were aged 9-13, dealt with persecution & prejudice, the Registration Act, childhood abuse, love & relationships among adult characters, and even featured a character physically being killed (something unheard of in cartoons). You could even extend this to Gargoyles & Batman: TAS.

And now today, for that same age group, I can't even think of a cartoon in the last 5 or so years that even came close to touching on these themes and subject matter. We have dipshittery like Steven Universe or Paw Patrol. And most of the superhero cartoons have been given either crappy, stringy animation to make it more childlike, or glossed over with a "mini" or "youth" version.

This is how I know you don't actually watch modern cartoons. All of these things are touched on in Steven Universe. Well except the registration act, but that's more of an exact storyline than just a theme. They just blend the serious moments more in with the humor in shorter episodes.

I agree that 30 minute action drama shows have mostly gone away which sucks. But in the 15 minute episodes of the action comedy stuff they manage to get in some pretty deep shit.

Adventure Time is definitely my biggest one like that. I watched the episode Remember You with an old homeless guy who lived with us for a while (obviously he wasn't homeless while he lived with us) and he was able to connect to the serious nature of Ice King and Marcelines relationship because it reminded him of some Vietnam vets he knew who lost their mind going through PTSD and getting dementia.

On top of that kind of stuff they are definitely exploring relationships pretty well. Finally letting the idea of same sex relationships be allowed instead of just pretending the gays don't exist.

And a lot of the modern version of superhero shows are good. But sadly they get canceled too soon. Young Justice Is really good. And like other people said Wolverine and the X-Men. And Spectacular Spider-Man is still my favorite version of Spider-Man I've seen on screen. Those are more like 10 years old not 5 though so I guess your point about the superheroes shows. But now they have movies instead. And Into the Spiderverse is still animated and targeted at kids, and it was pretty amazing.

I'm assuming most kids who want longer more serious animation are getting it from anime now.

The stories go by a little faster because they dont do 30 minute shows for kids much anymore though, but they definitely tackle serious subjects.
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