...the episode is one of the first to explicitly address an issue that has always been important in other versions of canon: how mutants fit into the rest of the world, and Magneto and Xavier's conflicting ideas on the matter.
I don't remember having given the show much of a try when it first ran, and I haven't done much since. Checking on when it originally started, it seems it had the misfortune of starting at around the point I was losing interest in the books. I read the books from 1986 to 2001. X-Men: Evolution started in 2000, putting it towards the end of my interest. I've a vague memory of having been uncomfortable with it being a "canon high school AU." That wasn't so much a matter of my age, though I graduated high school in 1993. It was more a combination of my being used to the older members of the X-Men being adults, and the "junior team" being first the New Mutants and then X-Force. It sounds like "The Cauldron" might be a good episode for me to try. Magneto was my first love in the X-Books because the first title I read was the New Mutants, and he was the Headmaster of Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters at the time. It put me in the position over the years of finding myself siding with Magneto at times when I knew I wasn't supposed to, and feeling pity for him at other times because to me the writers had messed him all up.
The fact that I still have thoughts and feelings about XME over a decade after it ended says absolutely nothing bad about me...
Absolutely. I mean I've been in love with Magneto for over 25 years. ;)
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Date: 2013-11-06 08:34 am (UTC)I don't remember having given the show much of a try when it first ran, and I haven't done much since. Checking on when it originally started, it seems it had the misfortune of starting at around the point I was losing interest in the books. I read the books from 1986 to 2001. X-Men: Evolution started in 2000, putting it towards the end of my interest. I've a vague memory of having been uncomfortable with it being a "canon high school AU." That wasn't so much a matter of my age, though I graduated high school in 1993. It was more a combination of my being used to the older members of the X-Men being adults, and the "junior team" being first the New Mutants and then X-Force. It sounds like "The Cauldron" might be a good episode for me to try. Magneto was my first love in the X-Books because the first title I read was the New Mutants, and he was the Headmaster of Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters at the time. It put me in the position over the years of finding myself siding with Magneto at times when I knew I wasn't supposed to, and feeling pity for him at other times because to me the writers had messed him all up.
The fact that I still have thoughts and feelings about XME over a decade after it ended says absolutely nothing bad about me...
Absolutely. I mean I've been in love with Magneto for over 25 years. ;)