I completely understand where you're coming from, actually. ... It's a very distinctive part of the X-Men canon, and I definitely missed it about XME just like you did...
Thanks!
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I learned about the various versions of the X-Men universe in roughly the following order: movie -> XME -> comics.
Whether or not you've mentioned it before it's worth giving me a reminder. To be fair have I mentioned that I actually was first exposed to the X-Men when they appeared in the Spiderman and his Amazing Friends cartoon series? I mean I didn't go straight into reading the books from that because Firestar was a character who'd been created specifically for the show, and she was the character I was really into. However, one of the series I bought the first year I was buying X-Books was Firestar's mini-series. :D
...though I ended up enjoying some of the story lines that came from the kids mingling with normal human characters in a "normal" school setting.
I haven't watched much of the show yet, but I have never forgotten a comic book were the New Mutants went to a mixer at the local high school. It really brought home for the kids how lucky they were to have each other.
That's a good point.
Thanks again!
This is further complicated by the fact that the entire existence of mutants is a secret in this reality...
It maybe I watched enough of the show the first time around that it bothered me. I've gotten really tired over the years of universes where the magical/supernatural/science fictional aspects of them are a secret from the general population. Not to mention I was never happy with how badly things seemed to tend to go for the humans that were supportive of mutant rights in the comic books. It always seemed like Magneto might not have been right about all humans hating mutants, but loving them wasn't good for you.
It's a combination of scriptwriting choices and really great acting that make Magneto so complex in the movies.
I don't think the scriptwriting is always the best, but I think the actors always do the best they can with what they are given.
Mystique is wonderfully sneaky and effective in XME. I'm glad that she's captured your interest.
Heh. If I remember right, in XM:E Apocalypse manages to harness Magneto, Xavier, Mystique, and Storm for his Four Horsemen. I remember thinking it should be pretty near impossible to defeat those Horsemen.
Gambit and Colossus do appear in XME, later on...
Cool.
I'm not quite as attached to those pairings as you are, and I should probably warn you that the show does not really pursue them.
*Sighs.* It's probably just as well. The older I get the more I learn that seeing other people revisit things I loved when I was younger means having to make allowances for how those people see those things. I mean I thought Wolverine/Mariko ended badly enough in the comic books without adding how it ends in the anime and the movie The Wolverine. Never mind I have watched the anime. I've at least avoided the movie.
I definitely sympathize with wanting to see how an alternate canon would portray something that you liked in the original, whether it's a character, a romance, or a story arc.
Thanks, once more. I should mention, that on reflection, it's occurred to me that there are relationships besides romantic ones that I'm really attached to and which don't seem to be as close in XM:E as I prefer them. Quicksilver/The Scarlet Witch is a genuine family bond that I've always seen as very close and Wanda doesn't seem to be part of XM:E they way that her brother is. There's others, but that works as an example of how much of the 616 canon I don't just carry around in my head, but I like a certain way.
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Date: 2013-11-20 12:56 am (UTC)Thanks!
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I learned about the various versions of the X-Men universe in roughly the following order: movie -> XME -> comics.
Whether or not you've mentioned it before it's worth giving me a reminder. To be fair have I mentioned that I actually was first exposed to the X-Men when they appeared in the Spiderman and his Amazing Friends cartoon series? I mean I didn't go straight into reading the books from that because Firestar was a character who'd been created specifically for the show, and she was the character I was really into. However, one of the series I bought the first year I was buying X-Books was Firestar's mini-series. :D
...though I ended up enjoying some of the story lines that came from the kids mingling with normal human characters in a "normal" school setting.
I haven't watched much of the show yet, but I have never forgotten a comic book were the New Mutants went to a mixer at the local high school. It really brought home for the kids how lucky they were to have each other.
That's a good point.
Thanks again!
This is further complicated by the fact that the entire existence of mutants is a secret in this reality...
It maybe I watched enough of the show the first time around that it bothered me. I've gotten really tired over the years of universes where the magical/supernatural/science fictional aspects of them are a secret from the general population. Not to mention I was never happy with how badly things seemed to tend to go for the humans that were supportive of mutant rights in the comic books. It always seemed like Magneto might not have been right about all humans hating mutants, but loving them wasn't good for you.
It's a combination of scriptwriting choices and really great acting that make Magneto so complex in the movies.
I don't think the scriptwriting is always the best, but I think the actors always do the best they can with what they are given.
Mystique is wonderfully sneaky and effective in XME. I'm glad that she's captured your interest.
Heh. If I remember right, in XM:E Apocalypse manages to harness Magneto, Xavier, Mystique, and Storm for his Four Horsemen. I remember thinking it should be pretty near impossible to defeat those Horsemen.
Gambit and Colossus do appear in XME, later on...
Cool.
I'm not quite as attached to those pairings as you are, and I should probably warn you that the show does not really pursue them.
*Sighs.* It's probably just as well. The older I get the more I learn that seeing other people revisit things I loved when I was younger means having to make allowances for how those people see those things. I mean I thought Wolverine/Mariko ended badly enough in the comic books without adding how it ends in the anime and the movie The Wolverine. Never mind I have watched the anime. I've at least avoided the movie.
I definitely sympathize with wanting to see how an alternate canon would portray something that you liked in the original, whether it's a character, a romance, or a story arc.
Thanks, once more. I should mention, that on reflection, it's occurred to me that there are relationships besides romantic ones that I'm really attached to and which don't seem to be as close in XM:E as I prefer them. Quicksilver/The Scarlet Witch is a genuine family bond that I've always seen as very close and Wanda doesn't seem to be part of XM:E they way that her brother is. There's others, but that works as an example of how much of the 616 canon I don't just carry around in my head, but I like a certain way.