X-Men: The Animated Series
Season One
I was able to knock these out quickly and finished them up this morning at home. You can easily watch 3 episodes in one hour, so 6 episodes equates to a 2 hour film.
The series starts out with the X-Men already in place with Cyclops and Jean Grey as adults. The rest of the team is Wolverine, Beast, Gambit, Storm, Rogue, Jubilee and Morph with Professor Xavier as the leader.
It kicks off with the Anti-Mutant movement already in full swing and headed by Henry Gynrich. I was definitely surprised to see him. Sentinels debuted just like they looked like in the comics from when this series came out. Magneto is introduced and already kicking up his war against humans. This plot line carries out thru the whole season.
Wolverine was depicted like he is in the comics. They didn’t water him down, no graphic violence with him cuz it’s a kiddie cartoon. The 2nd surprise is they dealt with the relationship between Logan, Scott and Jean. Other characters are depicted like they are from the comics.
A large number of other well known Mutants dating back to the early 1970s were shown in minor background appearances which was interesting. Other members are introduced like Colussus, Cable, Angel and Bishop thru-out the season.
Apocalypse is introduced in this season. Senator Robert Kelly is introduced around the Mutant Registration Act plot. The season does a “Days of Future Past” two part episode.
I went into it thinking each episode was independent from another with separate adventures, but every episode connected to each other for one continuous story. There is a recap at the start of each episode on what happened prior that relates to whatever episode you are about to watch.
Fight sequences with the characters played out well displaying their powers.
Also, like all animated/live action productions taken from comics, it doesn’t follow the source material. So if you originally watched this series when it aired and bitching today how today’s content doesn’t follow the books, it’s obvious you forgot and haven’t been paying attention thru out the decades. The series looks to mainly follow where Marvel comics was at in the early 1990s.
The series didn’t play out as a kiddie show as I assumed. It handled the storylines maturely and came off pretty good.
Gonna start Season 2 here this week and possibly try to get season 3 also.