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“You are a hard-drinking, short-fused, mess of a woman,” Luke Cage (Mike Colter) tells Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter). “But you are not a piece of shit.” Private Investigator Jessica disagrees, as she continues to harbor the pain of her actions during the mind-controlling torture of a man named Kilgrave (David Tennant). This triangle — the pull of the past versus the chance to do right in the present and future — is the main tension that drives Netflix’s excellent new Marvel series, Jessica Jones. But the particulars of how it all unfolds is what makes the show exceptional.
Marvel’s merry mutants are back in all-new, all-different (not really) animated adventures on Disney Plus. A direct continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, which ran from 1992 to 1997, X-Men ‘97 features a similar art style and most of the same voice actors from the original. The new series borrows heavily from dozens of X-Men comic books, with some original flourishes sprinkled on top and many events chronologically rearranged. In some ways, the series works as a quick and convenient way to enjoy multiple comic-book arcs in 30 minutes. In others, it feels like a nostalgia play that lacks depth and nuance.
To dissect and discuss the first season of X-Men ‘97, RPadTV host Raymond Padilla enlisted the help of Turtle Beach’s MacLean Marshall and PaulSemel.com’s Paul Semel. This episode will mainly be Mac and Raymond talking about what they liked and disliked about the show, with Paul commenting as the curmudgeon that disliked the first episode so much that he couldn’t stand to watch another.
Raymond and Mac will discuss the plot points, changes, performances, problems, and CliffsNotes-ification of the comics in X-Men ‘97. Paul will chime in and (hopefully) explain how he could make it through the wretched Green Lantern movie, but couldn’t watch a sometimes entertaining X-Men cartoon.
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Can't wait to see this.
I really think Marvel have a good thing going with Netflix so far. It's a great way of telling darker stories within the Marvel Universe without dumbing them down for films (since you know Disney and kids meaning restrictions).
Hopefully Moonknight, Blade and the like are next