X-Men 97 has been incredible it perfectly understands the characters and their roles it's been able to avoid falling into telling the same stories that we always see adapted but episode 5 is something else spoilers obviously the animation has peaked it's looked a little rough in regular dialogue (when it doesn't really matter) but it's clear to me where the budget went the explosions in this episode looked better then everything that came before combined especially gambits final push to kill the Godzilla Sentinel mind boggling and from a writing perspective the first 2/3 of the episode is perfect setup for the siege on genosha it shows the audience that genosha is a nation full of promis then ties it to one of the most popular characters in nightcrawler and show you what it means to him then winds up it's guy punch first with magneto and rogue then with cable showing up trying to warn Madalyn then boom(literally) the siege starts and they hold back enough there not showing strewn everywhere but beloved characters are just getting killed left and right leaves the audience almost shell shocked given how light the violence had been to this point. Leeches faith in magneto makes what ultimately happens to them all the more devastating and gambits death basically perfect. With them killing of so many big characters I'm left wondering if some major skipping is going to be done so that show can reach the krakoan age way early