X-Men 97 showrunner talks his D+ pitch for series + 1x06 discussion

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#XMen97 Spoilers ahead: pic.twitter.com/9mZ4uPTfpk
- Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 10, 2024
-“Lotta questions and so I'll momentarily break silence to answer,” he said. “Episode 5 was the centerpiece of my pitch to Marvel in November 2020. The idea being to have the X-Men mirror the journey that any of us who grew up on the original show have

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[pciam]

Loved the new episode, especially Storm's arc/transformation!!

This series is SO good.

[alwayspolaris]

God Storm's transformation literally gave me chills! Normally I'd be annoyed at switching POVs after what happened in episode 5 but I care deeply about Storm and I know her arc is necessary to save the rest of the mutants.

[theactualworst]

I want Gambit back and I want him back NOW. How could y’all do this to my bb Rogue??

Storm remains amazing. No notes.

[saturdaysinbed]

i haven't watched six yet so i won't stick around but jesus FUCK this show is so good. give me back my gambit.

[colossusx]

i DESPERATELY need to know why he was fired because his mind is just...he gets the x-men like no one outside of the comics ever has. if it was due to something unforgivably egregious then fuck him but if it was something petty like one of the higher ups didn't care for him...

basically if it was deserved then fuck him but if not they need him back immediately.

not that the show isn't clearly a team effort. from the dialogue to the animation to the MUSIC. it's BRILLIANT. i don't the words to articulate how fucking good it is.

today's episode was a goddamn treat. ro's original costume. the shi'ar empire not annoying me for the first time in its existence. it was so good. storm's for her own theme music! that little tinkly piano when she uses her powers, inject it in ME.

[setsuna16]

I do love that Ororo has her own "outer theme music" motif.

[drownsodapop]

I hope he's not a shitty person because ugh he is so good.... this trend of iconic X-Men adaptations by problematic gays is so disheartening

(I know the term problematic is understating it when it comes to Bryan Singer, but we don't know what Beau did if anything beyond OF so)

[ewanspotter]

He was also fired from the Witcher. Another writer in that show basically spilled that he’d been fired for abuse and being an asshole. He does not seem like a good dude.

[setsuna16]

I don't hate this episode. I like this episode quite a bit. BUT the producers made a mistake having this be the episode that followed Episode 5. They could have cut that final part of Ororo seeing the news about Genosha for a different episode and aired the Lifedeath stuff in sequence before they pulled the Genosha trigger. That was a story flow mistake, and I will never stop thinking that

[melancolour]

magical girl ororo can transform when and how she wants!

[setsuna16]

Noooooo, it has to make sense within the universe, and that did not!