Whether you love it or hate it—or just hate that you might, kinda, maybe be chill with it—Will Gluck’s Anyone But You has found its audience. The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell two-hander defied critics and connected with plenty of folks happy to bake in the Australian sun as the film’s stars swam around Port […]
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This X-Men ’97 article contains spoilers.
Like its predecessor X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men ’97 remixes classic stories from X-Men comics to make them more palatable for television. But X-Men ’97 is also very much a continuation of TAS, returning to stories and themes that first aired almost three decades ago.
So it’s no surprise that season one showrunner Beau De Mayo has suggested that fans go back to a few classic TAS episodes ahead of the three-part X-Men ’97 finale, titled “Tolerance Is Extinction.” De Mayo points to the following story arcs specifically: “One Man’s Worth Parts 1 and 2,” “Sanctuary Parts 1 and 2,” “Descent,” and “The Final Decision.”
What do these recommendations tell us about the highly-anticipated finale of what some are already calling the best X-Men adaptation ever?
Season one’s “The Final Decision” and season five’s “Descent” focus on Bolivar Trask and Mister Sinister, respectively, two baddies who have already made their presence felt in X-Men ’97. In “The Final Decision,” the team battles against Trask’s Master Mold, in a battle that results in a massive change of heart in the bigoted Senator Kelly. “Descent” takes place in Victorian England, where the geneticist Nathanial Essex matches wits with Professor X’s ancestor James Xavier while hunting Jack the Ripper. Essex loses when his wife Reb