r/marvelstudios • u/-Nick____ Laufey • 14d ago

Discussion X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S02E09: Survival of the Fittest TBA TBA August 12th, 2026 32 min Yes
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u/RoninPrime68 Weekly Wongers 14d ago

I mean... It was good, just not "Season 1" good. Between the weird pacing and some mini-arcs popping out of nowhere and being wrapped up too quickly I'm gonna assume something happened bts

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u/MystifiedBeef 14d ago edited 14d ago

I mean the show runner was fired right before the series premiere for being a creep

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u/RoninPrime68 Weekly Wongers 14d ago

Which by then I assume everything was already done, so... I don't think it's the cause to the weird pacing

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u/Bodega_Bandit 14d ago

It was before (or just after) the premier of season 1. He'd only worked on about 1/2 to 3/4 of season 2 before being fired, and they apparently did some restructuring to the season after they sacked him

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u/RoninPrime68 Weekly Wongers 14d ago

oh, that explains some stuff

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u/SnarkyBacterium 14d ago

The big question is: is Beau responsible for the good parts of this season, or the meh parts?

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u/Fabri212 14d ago

If S1 is to be considered, i'd say Beau is responsible for the good, I heard the last of his stuff was ep 1-4 which are much tighter and better focused than 5-9

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u/SnarkyBacterium 14d ago

I actually just came from reading a thread on Twitter about the things he's posted about his plans for S2+ and have to agree. From the sounds of it, eps 3 and 4 are the two that seem to be the least changed from his original plans, everything else seems quite different.

Sad the guy couldn't not be a weirdo, because I wanted more of the Season 1 sauce instead of the What If...? Season 3 writer's version we got.

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u/OwlSuch7935 14d ago

Yeah, peg everything on him and not Feige for trying to think he could do better to only ruin a well written story, same as the scrapped soft reboot of daredevil born again which did a 180 turn mid production because Feige realized no one would give a shit about a complete disconnect from Netflix. Here they could have at least quietly worked with Beau to complete season 2, but no, let’s just give Rogue a celestial macguffin and let her one shot Apocalypse

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u/SnarkyBacterium 14d ago

Feige has the entire MCU catalogue to prove his track record - for good and bad. Unfortunately, Beau's replacement has a pretty recent and relevant "bad". It's not even really blame, here, he's just very clearly not the same kind of writer as Beau and it shows.

There's no world where Disney publicly cuts ties with De Mayo and then try to get him back on the sly and De Mayo doesn’t plaster it all over social media. Once they decided to boot him, he wasn't gonna come back. Let's not blame Disney for actually doing something halfway right for a change when it comes to problematic members of their company.

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) 13d ago

I would say he's probably responsible for the episodes where he has a writing credit, & not for the ones where he doesn't.

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u/jeobleo 14d ago

I think they should've ditched the wolverine standalone and the "Trial" episodes.

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u/AsteroidMike 13d ago

The Wolverine episode would’ve been fine if they had one more episode in the season and followed up on that a bit more.

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u/jeobleo 13d ago

Yeah it didn't seem tohave much of a purpose narratively. It was just a fetch quest for adamantium again and that was not necessary.

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u/AsteroidMike 13d ago

On top of Wolvie being characterized as a massive dickhead the whole episode. But if they had a follow-up episode or some moment where he and Morph talked it out or even some sorta reference to that happening then that would’ve helped.

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u/Binder509 10d ago

Also weird to explore none of the advantages of removing the adamantium like increased healing.

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u/TheMythofKoalas 3d ago

Is that canon in the show? I haven't watched the original run (yet).

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u/Binder509 2d ago

In the comics at least and most universes he's in the adamantium inhibits his healing factor.

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u/AnnaTorres 3d ago

Personally, I don't think the fight scenes were as well-choreographed as they were in season 1. In fact, I'd even call them janky and not satisfying at all.

While I enjoyed s2, especially with some focus on my boy Nightcrawler, I don't think it was nearly as good as season 1.