Decided to rewatch a bit of this. Checked out the first two episodes. Quite liked them.
At the center is teenager Jubilee, which makes sense. With her you've got this young character, who gets thrown into all of this, together with the audience. Allowing for more organic exposition into mutants and everything. Though Jubilee, we're also shown the experience of young mutants: not understanding what is happening to them (scared). Not yet being able to control their abilities. This came out in 1992, with Jubilee having only been introduced in 1989. When you consider the time to animate a show like this, prior to that developing the show and writing the scripts (and casting actors, recording the dialogue), the decision to use her (and not Kitty Pryde, as they did in a 1989 animated pilot) was probably done not long after she was introduced in the comics. Though, her being a fresh new, teenage mutant character (whereas Kitty had been around for a decade already) probably helped to influence the decision to go with her.
The inclusion of the character of Morph (an adaptation of an obscure X-Men member named Changeling) was so that they could have a team member to kill off. I think that was a good decision. Allows for them to kill someone off, thus demonstrating a real sense of danger for the characters. While also avoiding killing off someone's favorite character. Morph fills a similar role to Thunderbird, but, as I understand it the developer wasn't loving the idea of bringing in the only Native American member of the X-Men (furthermore, he would've been the only non-white member, besides Storm. The only man of color on the team), just to use him as cannon fodder. So, instead, he opted for an adaptation of a more obscure character. I can appreciate that, and think that he made the right move. Though, I do think that they made a mistake, not including Morph into the opening sequence of the first two episodes (then dropping him). Might've made his death more of a surprise, as you see him in the opening (thus expecting him to be a regular), and there are bound to be a lot of viewers, who've never read the comics (leaving them unaware that Morph isn't a core member of the team).
Looking at Rogue, and thinking about the Anna Paquin version, I think that it's a shame that we didn't get this character in the films. The character in the first first film felt like a plot device, to advance Logan' story (getting him involved with the team). We first see her, when she's about 17 and has her first kiss (seriously, at 17?), causing her power to manifest. At Xavier's school, she starts a romantic relationship with Bobby Drake. In the second movie, her whole thing is that she can't be physically intimate with her boyfriend. In the third movie, she's insecure that she can't be physically intimate with her boyfriend (fearing that she'll lose him to another girl), and chooses to give up her powers, so that they can make physical contact. That's really her whole story arc in the films. Sure, she couldn't have absorbed powers from Carol Danvers (to give her flight and strength), but they could've come up with an alternative path, for her to acquire those abilities.
At the center is teenager Jubilee, which makes sense. With her you've got this young character, who gets thrown into all of this, together with the audience. Allowing for more organic exposition into mutants and everything. Though Jubilee, we're also shown the experience of young mutants: not understanding what is happening to them (scared). Not yet being able to control their abilities. This came out in 1992, with Jubilee having only been introduced in 1989. When you consider the time to animate a show like this, prior to that developing the show and writing the scripts (and casting actors, recording the dialogue), the decision to use her (and not Kitty Pryde, as they did in a 1989 animated pilot) was probably done not long after she was introduced in the comics. Though, her being a fresh new, teenage mutant character (whereas Kitty had been around for a decade already) probably helped to influence the decision to go with her.
The inclusion of the character of Morph (an adaptation of an obscure X-Men member named Changeling) was so that they could have a team member to kill off. I think that was a good decision. Allows for them to kill someone off, thus demonstrating a real sense of danger for the characters. While also avoiding killing off someone's favorite character. Morph fills a similar role to Thunderbird, but, as I understand it the developer wasn't loving the idea of bringing in the only Native American member of the X-Men (furthermore, he would've been the only non-white member, besides Storm. The only man of color on the team), just to use him as cannon fodder. So, instead, he opted for an adaptation of a more obscure character. I can appreciate that, and think that he made the right move. Though, I do think that they made a mistake, not including Morph into the opening sequence of the first two episodes (then dropping him). Might've made his death more of a surprise, as you see him in the opening (thus expecting him to be a regular), and there are bound to be a lot of viewers, who've never read the comics (leaving them unaware that Morph isn't a core member of the team).
Looking at Rogue, and thinking about the Anna Paquin version, I think that it's a shame that we didn't get this character in the films. The character in the first first film felt like a plot device, to advance Logan' story (getting him involved with the team). We first see her, when she's about 17 and has her first kiss (seriously, at 17?), causing her power to manifest. At Xavier's school, she starts a romantic relationship with Bobby Drake. In the second movie, her whole thing is that she can't be physically intimate with her boyfriend. In the third movie, she's insecure that she can't be physically intimate with her boyfriend (fearing that she'll lose him to another girl), and chooses to give up her powers, so that they can make physical contact. That's really her whole story arc in the films. Sure, she couldn't have absorbed powers from Carol Danvers (to give her flight and strength), but they could've come up with an alternative path, for her to acquire those abilities.
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