Mutant Liberation Begins

With a cliffhanger that showed that Professor X left the School for the Gifted in his will to Magneto.

The X-Men find that their enemy is now the leader of the pack. Magneto now has to demonstrate that he genuinely believes that Mutants can co-exist with humans. When previously he advocated that the natural order of things were that Mutants would soon replace humans.

Cyclops is sceptical fo a start and so are humans. They want Magneto on trial at the UN for his past crimes.

The episode is very much rooted in the beginnings of the X-Men comics. The discrimination Erik Lehnsherr saw and faced.

The riot scenes outside the UN Court with the Anti Mutant Crusaders very much references the Capitol Hill riots of 2021. Once again the X-Men hold a mirror to the real world.

So... to prepare for watching "Deadpool & Wolverine" I decided to catch up on a lot of things about the X-Men.

This animated series seemed like an excellent starting point to me also because it is recent.

The first episode had captured my attention and definitely pushed me to go further. And he was right.

This second episode is perfection made to 30 minutes of audiovisual content.

The plot is handled very well. Every character plays an important part and says wise things. This episode is about a fantastic society where there is an encounter/clash between humans and mutants but it can very well be brought to the present day.

Magneto and Storm's speeches should be engraved on a stone and truly placed in front of the United Nations headquarters.

Thank you Marvel for giving us these pearls!

This episode is genuinely one of the best episodes of 2024.

From the start of it i was really hooked enough to watch the whole series in 10 hours NON STOP,

the plot was just "Epic" and well executed.

THE ACTING , and oh boy about the acting .. magneto's voice actor was a top tier performance , i can say legitimately that he got his place in an even top tier list such as ( Arthur morgan, omni man , duth van der linde , and much more incredible voice acting performances ) other voice actors in this series was "Good" .

PACING the pacing was really shocking in this tv show Considering that it is Disney who made this show , Second ep and my mind has been blowed, like it is fast but not rushed up You know ? . CAN'T WAIT FOR THE OTHER EPS TO COME OUT.

Incredible what this animation team was able to fit in one 30 min episode about a team of genetic outsiders. Not just retro style but bringing more subtleties of expression and emotional depth. Action without losing exploration of character and bonds in such an economy of space. There were allusions to so many storylines as well as foreshadowing of many more. Amazed how they were also able to show visually not just tell with words the complexity of the relational history between members as well as deep concepts of human relations (timely to even current events). This is the best of what has made the x-men story shine over generations.

The plot is still interesting and engaging, but I've been noticing a pattern here, and that's how the show VERY often zooms in awkwardly or shows the character with their back turned to the camera while they talk to avoid showing a character's mouth during conversations. The dialogue itself is well made, but we need to see more EXPRESSION in the faces of the characters to truly empathize and relate to the situation they're in. I don't need to see people's back turned to the camera during 50%of their dialogue...

This needs to stop. It's really annoying and they need to ensure that the animators are doing their job well AND have the budget to do it. NO SHORTCUTS!