Max AlmonteI started watching #Xmen The Animated Series before #Xmen97 premieres later this month. I cannot say I really watched X-Men TAS as a kid except for one or two episodes here and there. It aired during the 90s in #FoxKids, a channel that closed in 2002, so I maybe catched some episodes around 1999, (when I was only 5). Still, I have the intro theme burned in my memory, that's the impact it left on me.
I started reading #TheUncannyXmen a couple years ago, so watching TAS feels so weird. Why is #JeanGrey still alive? Didn't she die during the Phoenix saga? Why is #Cyclops still with the team? Where's #KittyPride (and #Colossus and #Nightcrawler for that matter)? Why are #Jubilee and #Gambit part of the team (I'm around issue 200 and they haven't been introduced yet)? Also #Beast should be part of #TheAvengers since he's already in his furry, blue state.
These changes make the adaptations of some stories feel weird—when compared to the comics that is. For example #Storm fighting with #Callisto, leader of the #Morlocks to save #Cyclops. That never happened in the comics (?). I think in that storyline they're trying to save Kitty Pride who was kidnapped by some Quasimodo-like mutant.
Nevertheless, TAS is good for what it is, I wish I watched more of it when I was a kid. Sure some storyline adaptations are not 100% accurate but who cares? TV is a different medium than comics, if they adapted the comics as they were, half of the dialog would be #Iceman saying "holly Hannah!"
Well, Iceman is not in TAS either, so probably not, but you get the point.
Here I am, a 30yo grown ass man talking about a 30yo show for kids, based on literature for kids. And excited because they finally decided to do a revival of said show.
What can I say? 🤷♂️