Motendo/Lifedeath - Part 1

Maybe the worst episode of a Marvel show ever. Need a much better plot line to follow than Jubilee in a video game and Storm with a big owl/love story. This episode was boring, the villains were ridiculous and the heroes were not much fun either. The first three episodes were ok with some notable exceptions like Gambit's hair or having 2 Jean Gray's. There is so much to explore with the X-Men let's not jumble it up with stupid villains and moronic plot lines. The people who watched the show in the 90's would appreciate a little growth. I'm finally starting to worry about my man, Fiege allowing this low of quality to be shown.

It is waste of time to put a filler in 10 episode show. Better to keep the main story to go forward instead to waste in some alt story.

If you want to make a fillers in such project just make a special with random events, stories for every single hero/heroin don't waste the view's time with some kind alt-bad story.

The whole episode could be better if was only about the Storm and how to recover her abilities that could be a way better way to do.

I really hope for the future they will avoid to put fillers because that is bad taste, it is showing to us they don't know what to do to, they don't have a plan for 10 episode so the best thing they knew to do is fillers!

The writing in this episode is a sharp contrast from the previous episodes. It wasn't quite there.

I really hate that kind of Saturday morning cartoon 2 parts format. X-Men didn't have nor need that, that's why it stood out. Plus, Jubilee never actually says she doesn't want to grow up and yet that's the message? By the time we get to the real episode you don't get a chance to get invested.

The animation is top notch as it has been and I enjoyed the callbacks to the X-Men arcade and Genesis game. Plus, Jubilee finally gets a chance to show off the skills she has developed since she joined the X-Men juxtaposed to Roberto's inexperience.

Storm's episode... felt waaaay too rushed for a moment it seemed they would wrap it up without any conflict.

It was disappointing to say the least.

The past episodes were great. What happened?

A story of two halves and both were lacklustre. Motendo is inspired by the X-Men arcade game.

It is Jubilee's 18th birthday but Magneto wants no celebrations. Not even a trip to the arcade.

However there is a games system called Motendo in Jubilee's room. Before long both Jubilee and Roberto are whisked inside the games world as they are attacked by Sentinels.

Somehow they need to get back to the real world and escape from the digital arcade world.

This part of the story was less comic book inspired and may be fun for those who remember the arcade game. Here I did not think the animation was up to much nor the story.

Lifedeath Part 1 was a better character piece about Storm trying to get her powers back. She is being helped by a man called Forge, who has his own reasons to help mutants.

The arcade part should had been the whole story and done better.

Nostalgia: Good!

Voice acting: Very good!

Plot: Good.

Drawing team: NOPE NOPE NOPE!

I'm sorry, but the characters have so few details in their faces, and I'm seeing a severe lack of facial expression as people are talking. The amount of detail is like season 1 of Archer at times.. And they NEED to stop zooming in awkwardly or showing the back of characters who are talking to avoid challenging drawing animations. We see what you're doing.

Good animation is kind of like casting good actors. It affects an entire series if the actors are bad. In the exact same way you need good animators to make the characters come alive.