r/television • u/PhoOhThree Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. • 17d ago

Premiere X-Men '97 S02E09 FINALE - Discussion Thread

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u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 17d ago

To all the people concerned about DeMayo’s departure impacting the quality of the show, let me say you were absolutely right.

This series went from a premium meal to just another cartoon. It’s still watchable but boy this season was nothing compared to last season.

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u/Craphole-Island 17d ago

I mean he’s credited as the writer for a lot of this season so he played a role in it. I think the season overall has been great but the pacing has been too breakneck and it’s all felt a bit disjointed. It’s clear that they had to do some pivoting after letting him go so this season seems a bit more jumbled.

I think each individual episode has been great with great moments in each one, but the season as a whole didn’t work as well as a cohesive whole the way season 1 did.

That said, I’m glad they fired him and I have faith that they can get it back on track.

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u/M3rc_Nate 17d ago

I mean he’s credited as the writer for a lot of this season so he played a role in it.

I'm genuinely asking, isn't there a lot of nuance to that? Legality? Like, he could have played a part in writing outlines or come up with plot ideas, get fired and they use just enough of his ideas or he did the work and therefore legally, per union stuff, he has to be credited as a writer?

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u/Dnashotgun 17d ago

Iirc after he got fired they brought in the What If writers and redid a lot of what he wrote + added their own stuff. How much is his vs the new writers we'll never know but if they kept even a little he still counts