Wolverine & The X-Men Trailer

[andraste]

My Doctor Who download is claiming that it will be another four hours. Given that it has taken seven so far, I am not optimistic. Why must it take so long, today of all days?! (I guess because the entire internet is trying to acquire it, but that does not help me.

Anyway, have now watched the trailer for the new X-Men animated series that nobody told me they were making. Why have you failed me, internets?

I am kind of torn. On the one hand, it looks shiny and has an interesting cast of characters. Plus, sympathetic portrayal of Magneto for the win! On the other hand, Charles gets taken out of the action in the first ten seconds of the trailer. Way to make me not want to watch your new show, Marvel. I will at least watch the first episode just to check if that actually is Erik's bed that Charles is unconscious in *g*. I mean, it's obviously not a hospital, and who else would have a room that you need magnetic powers to open? And even if it's just a guest room: awwwwwwwwwwwww. It's good of Magneto to look after his 'dear friend', and Wolverine shouldn't be snarky about it.

... which brings me to my other reservation. I like Logan just fine, but he's painfully over-exposed as it is. Do we really need a cartoon where he's in charge of the X-Men?

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[andraste]

I liked the trailer, and will probably check out the series, but--even aside from my being a Cyclops fangirl--it is awfully difficult for me to take seriously a portrayal of the team where Logan's the team leader making the impassioned speeches. It is not a role he's very suited for! (And by this I mean: he's terrible at it. If they show him struggling with the job, that'll help, but...)

Charles does have some history of making, um, interesting choices for his successor - putting Magneto in charge of the New Mutants was not his smartest ever idea - but this is one odd decision on his part. If Cyke can't do it for some reason, what's wrong with Storm?

Of course, it occurs to me that if he's been in the future, he may know something we don't. Which will not make it any less annoying on a meta level, but could possibly work in story.

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten that Charles actually told him to lead; now I have weird Transformers flashbacks (http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Still_Life%21). (I've been spending way too much time on Teletraan-1. I'm pretty sure I can blame it on you.) In the Professor's defense, all-out fights are certainly Logan's strongest territory, and given that the trailer seems to be pushing Sentinels and DoFP, I can sorta kinda see it, especially if he has Mysterious Future Knowledge...but still, it's Logan. Even the movies know that Logan would rather run off and do the lone hero thing.

I had assumed that Scott was in a depressive state due to whatever happened to Jean, and was in no state to take command--and this is not unlikely, given what he looks like when Logan finds him--but actually, that "frat boy" crack may suggest that he's just young and untrained in this universe. Not sure how I would feel about that; I mean, there's interesting character work to be done with a Scott who's never had the weight of the world on his shoulders--even Evo Scott was the over-controlled leader guy we know and love--but that assumes that anybody's actually interested in Scott, as opposed to just wanting an excuse to shove him aside in favor of Logan.

This possibility raises an interesting question, actually; Charles is in a wheelchair at the start of the show, and the X-Men apparently already exist then. So unless he's being really, really telepathically heavy-handed, they must have had a field leader. And presumably it wasn't Logan, or Charles wouldn't have needed to say he had to be in charge. So who was leading, and why aren't they still doing it...? --oh, wait, what if it was Jean? That could be kind of cool, if she wasn't disappeared in the first five minutes--Jean being an established field leader of a team that includes Logan and a recently recruited Scott, those would be fascinating personal dynamics...or am I overthinking this trailer? Or maybe it is Scott, and we're back to the depression. And none of this addresses where Storm is in this equation. She's standing right there in the lineup...

[andraste]

I had forgotten that Charles actually told him to lead; now I have weird Transformers flashbacks. (I've been spending way too much time on Teletraan-1. I'm pretty sure I can blame it on you.)

Why do people persist in blaming me for their giant robot fixations?

Not sure how I would feel about that; I mean, there's interesting character work to be done with a Scott who's never had the weight of the world on his shoulders--even Evo Scott was the over-controlled leader guy we know and love--but that assumes that anybody's actually interested in Scott, as opposed to just wanting an excuse to shove him aside in favor of Logan.

Quite. That would be potentially interesting, if they decide to explore it.

So who was leading, and why aren't they still doing it...? --oh, wait, what if it was Jean? That could be kind of cool, if she wasn't disappeared in the first five minutes--Jean being an established field leader of a team that includes Logan and a recently recruited Scott, those would be fascinating personal dynamics...or am I overthinking this trailer? Or maybe it is Scott, and we're back to the depression. And none of this addresses where Storm is in this equation. She's standing right there in the lineup...

I think it would be really, really interesting if Jean was field leader! I always thought she'd be pretty good at it. I have no idea what's going on with Storm, but I guess we'll find out.