Xmen 97 has been pretty engrossing so far, but it seems like they're trying really hard to keep subplots contained to an episode each so far, which is a bit of a strain. There's no beats to take a breath, no quiet moments to digest what's happening, even right after the introduction of major information/conflicts. The Goblin Queen thing absolutely should have been two episodes in my opinion, ideally with the split being when the Goblin Queen is introduced, because it involves some pretty big life and character changing situations that they just went into at breakneck speed. I already knew the story beforehand from the comics and I still felt like if I blinked I might miss something important. Hopefully things slow down a tiny bit as the season goes but I'm not too optimistic considering it's only 13 episodes total.
Soooo is anyone gonna talk about how fucking violated Scott must feel, knowing that Sinister took his love interest and replaced her with a clone just to get ahold of his DNA, like he's fucking breeding stock?! Even if Madelyne has Jean's memories, she's not the original being. Just omfg. Poor Scott. He married and had a child with... not who he thought he was.
And poor Jean Grey. She will never have those first experiences with Scott that she should've. Her and Scott are effectively living in different life stages at the moment.
Just really disgusting and super extra of Sinister to go to those lengths like literally just take a hair sample from them and make ur own thing like other villains dude wtf
Thank you so much for everything, Akira Toriyama. Without your work, my dad would never have gotten into anime, and so I wouldn't have either. Thank you so much. Rest well.
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But this is so Bruno for real. He's 20 leading a group of teens that are only a few years younger than him. They work for the damn mafia. Bruno doesn't have the luxury of acting fatherly towards any of them, and he shouldn't, anyways. They operate in a fucked-up world where he can't teach or coddle; like the scene with Narancia shows, he cannot offer any guidance or input like a father does (and arguably the most important job a father has is guiding). The kids in his squad need to be on their shit, because that's the life they've chosen. He makes this clear. And Bruno himself is too young, straight-faced, and thin-stretched to be any sort of parental figure anyways... I mean, he was honestly naïve enough to truly believe that Diavolo both wouldn't deal drugs and wouldn't harm Trish. Cmon.
EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt