They’re back?
Cast your minds back to 1997. Professor Xavier, the founder of the Xavier Institute and the X-Men, has passed during “Graduation Day”, the final episode of X-Men: The Animated Series. You shed a tear as the event occurs. 26 years and 6 months later, the story continues as X-Men ’97 makes its debut on Disney+. Let’s see how the tale turns out in the first 2 episodes.
After the theme song, Sentinels (anti-Mutant robots) are hunting down a teenage mutant. This scene should be familiar, as that was how the first episode of the original series started, but it takes a sharp turn. The mutant is not Jubilee like in the first episode, but a new character. He is then eventually saved by the X-Men, and that’s all the story you’re getting, as the story is amazing and doesn’t deserve to be spoiled by me. The X-Men are under new management, I guess. The emotional stories, daring to talk about important topics, and flashy battle scenes are even more impressive, especially without a children’s network to constrain the writers.
Just watch X-Men ’97; it’s like X-Men never left.
10/10
Written by Finley. F
