Motendo/Lifedeath - Part 1

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.

Ok I understand some people mot liking this but hear me out. Jubilee was and has always been in the animated series as a somewhat conduit for the 90s of the kids who watched the show but recently I see her differently bc as any person who wouldn't want to go back to better times when it made sense, but seeing her realize she can move forward and then finally start not holding back feelings for a boy. It's natural for people to want to not embrace change so you can't fault her for not liking the changes she's dealing with. For the next episode with Storm, I really feel for her because when she lost her powers, she lost a part of herself that made her feel special. I thought Forge was in his own way trying to help to relieve his guilt and want so much to show Storm there's more to life than being an X-Man. When you're used to fighting for so long, the thought of normal would scare anyone. But that's just opinion. Take it as you will.

It was a disappointment. Half of the episode was spent with two teenagers playing video games. Whoever's idea was to compress the entire X-Men world into a 16-bit game and waste a whole chapter was terrible... I can't even praise the Matrix and Nintendo references...Don't waste 20 minutes on arcade graphics... If you skip this chapter, you won't lose anything. It was a pointless episode that spoiled a good series.

I don't know, while there are dozens of good characters, the story is persistently told through "Jubilee". I hope the series reaches its initial pace in other episodes..............