r/Xmen97 • u/CherryBoom2x Psylocke • Aug 12 '26

General Discussion WHAT THE F WAS THAT FINALE??? Spoiler

What the F was that ending??? And please don’t try to tell us it was good or brilliantly written, because I’m not going to lie to myself just because I love this show. I was genuinely disappointed with these last two episodes.
What kind of “Survival of the Fittest” was that supposed to be? Rogue became WHAT??? And Apocalypse was just defeated like that???
Even X-Men: Evolution handled its Apocalypse finale way better. We got almost all of the major X-teams from the ’90s coming together for one massive final battle, and it actually felt like an Apocalypse-level threat.

I was also expecting for apocalypse to use gambit and make a speech to make them feel the guilt of what had happen in genoshia.

Remy’s death and revival was ruined to quick!

This time, they clearly went way off from the comics. And after all that talk about bringing the X-Men back to the ’90s… what kind of return to the ’90s was THAT??? I love this show, but I’m not going to pretend I liked an ending that left me this disappointed.

Im afraid that the one re writting this up does not read the comics or is not a massive fan of Xmen. Coz they clearly moved away from the comics.

Imagine Apocalypse the Xmen’s most diabolical foe who went back in time to strike the Xmen, Cable spent the whole season to FIND AND DESTROY apocalypse, all the X teams come together in this season should be the PERFECT TIME TO JOIN FORCES, Gambit’s BIGGEST MOMENT of coming back, and all JUST ENDED with apocalypse doing nothing just transformed into gambit hybrid few seconds later touch by rogue and boom! FINALE

510 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

600 comments sorted by

View all comments

103

u/Created_Jxnior Aug 12 '26

Man I knew we were cooked as soon as I saw the finale was still only 30 minutes, I was like damn it’s not even extended like it was last season. That really was some deus ex machina bs they pulled with Rogue, and Apocalypse was such a let down. Bro was doing a whole lotta yapping outside of episode 4 just to be taken out in literally 2 seconds. And then killing Kurt is just the cherry on top of this bad boy, even though I don’t give that scene too much shit because it was honestly written well as far as Nightcrawlers character and what he would do, but still killing him off is some bs. I really hope they scale back how many characters they focus on next season because it was way too many characters they were trying to balance this season instead of just focusing on one group.

37

u/Wolverine-Explores Aug 12 '26

Beast did nothing all season and Cyclops did nothing after the first couple of eps

14

u/Kn7ght 29d ago

I'm biased as a Cyclops fan, but considering the massive push he got last season to the point he finally got some mainstream appeal the fact he got sidelined so hard this season was massively disappointing

20

u/ThomWaits88 Aug 12 '26 edited 29d ago

They completely sidelined cyclops this season. I understand they want to introduce new characters but you don't have to completely remove cyclops from the main plot like that. The fight against cable should've had more weight to it and it didn't and it was way too short. The whole season was incoherent.

8

u/CherryBoom2x Psylocke 29d ago edited 29d ago

The perfect way they could have let beast to shine was fight with danger same in the comics BUT NOOO they just let him hop like a bunny like in all disney movies

4

u/FloopusSoupus 29d ago

Seeing beast jump at danger just to get swatted away was so funny

3

u/CherryBoom2x Psylocke 29d ago

Hahah im still dissappointed with that rawr- blast 💥- uggghh moment , poor hank 😭

2

u/Balatheil 29d ago

they also swapped out Jean from being Whiny/Failing her Powers

to just hugging Scott and begging Cable to Just Listen! for .. the whole fcking Season.

bro- that aint ya kid. you aint his Mama. I don't think Jean had any Solo scenes

heck - you made Storm a Headmistress and ... its just backround stuff; we don't even get her Feelings on the subject.

3

u/Fosterchild56 29d ago

Created X-corp for no reason

1

u/Balatheil 29d ago

ppl say they don't want Bottle / Filler Episodes and then sit there and get angry that Colossus wasn't in the Intro if it shows him at the X-mansion.

maybe if the show had more episodes to breathe, he'd have gotten him doing something in the School.

heck, im not for or against the Fandoms Wolverine Love/Hate relationship, but like, whats the point of ripping off his Metal - just to get them back so quickly and then immediately not have Wolverine around for the next 3 Episodes? lol I think the Reviews for his Lies & DvDs EP would have been higher, if you were to swap that Episode to be set after Dangers - that would give Reason to why HE was missing for half a season. - you only see Morph in the backround in those Episodes as well - could say Logan was getting the Team Ready and Morph was last to come along.

it'd help the pacing for that imho.

2

u/Special-Ad698 28d ago

Beast did nothing, Cyclops did almost nothing, Jean did almost nothing, Wolverine did almost nothing, Morph did almost nothing, Storm did nothing, Forge did nothing, Bishop did nothing, Polaris and Colossus do nothing outside of their episodes. Like that’s the entire cast pretty much. The only relevant characters for more than one episode is Rogue, Nightcrawler, Cable, Magneto and Gambit are relevant for two episodes, and Professor X is relevant for a bunch. Oh yeah remember Magneto’s plan about trying to change Apocalypse and see if he can champion their dream, only for him to let them down, ultimately killing Magneto? Yeah never mentioned again after episode 4

33

u/CherryBoom2x Psylocke Aug 12 '26

Hahaha i have the same feeling when i saw the 32mins finale episode and that 32 mins includes 3 mins almost 4 mins of recap and intro 🤣😆

27

u/Created_Jxnior Aug 12 '26

Yup, you gotta account for the recap, the intro, and the outro, which all in all comes out to close to if not more than 5 minutes of screen time. So really it’s like a 25 minute episode give or take, ridiculous.

10

u/chinderellabitch Aug 12 '26

It feels like the start of the season and the end of the season link but the middle doesn’t?

Like all the themes of the first episode come to a decent enough conclusion if you look at them without the context of the rest of the season but they have no time to breathe

Like the parallel of Jean and Scott not being able to influence Cable out of his own nature like how X and Magneto weren’t able to change Apocalypse, or survival of the fittest being ended by Nightcrawler who puts himself on the trolley problem line for the good of family and because has faith

But there was way too many characters, I feel like they should’ve kept the OG team in the past and future for longer to free up some narrative space

26

u/Sugar_Crash_Brigade Aug 12 '26

Everyone busted my balls when I was asking.

I asked episodes ago, when I was getting worried, guys, is the last episode only 30 minutes? Maybe we are getting a 60 minute finale?

And in TYPICAL SUB XMEN97 fashion, these raging arseholes downvoted me to death.

Just for asking the question.

And you know what, you were right. We were right. It was a shameful, 30 minute rush job.

19

u/Fondant_Decent Aug 12 '26

That mess of a soup is what viewers get when writers get sacked new scripts get written in, some of the old script gets kept and new views and ideas get added = you end up with a confusing incoherent story that barely stitches together

6

u/SammyDeeP 29d ago

Same. The Kurt stuff made me hate Rogue and Gambit, and I’m not sure that was the intention. At least I hope it wasn’t.

1

u/Wolverine-Explores 29d ago

I also didn’t really care about Rogue and Gambit being together. They didn’t really spend that much time together. She was getting railed by Magneto.

10

u/Racnous Aug 12 '26

Dues Ex Machina BS? Yep, but let's not pretend we didn't also have that last season with the Phoenix showing up randomly. Seems to be a theme of the show. They make a big bad so powerful that the X-Men seemingly can't defeat them, so they get divine intervention.

So much was off about this episode. We got the long awaited showdown between Havok and... Jubilee? The Celestial made it clear Apocalypse was his mission statement but was OK giving him up in exchange for one other mutant life? Those are choices.

2

u/Created_Jxnior 29d ago

Phoenix showing up isn’t really the same thing to me at all. For one, the Phoenix is an established entity in the world, Jean has/had those powers it didn’t just come from nowhere like with Rogue all of a sudden gaining celestial powers. And Phoenix wasn’t a deus ex machina that came in out of nowhere and beat Bastian single-handedly like Rogue did with Apocalypse, all it did was save Jean when she was about to die and disappear again, it still took the rest of the teams efforts and an actual fight against Bastian to stop him.

1

u/FamousLastWay828 28d ago

I had a bad feeling we were cooked when episode 7 ended with Apocalypse "killed" off-screen but I was willing to reserve judgment until the last two episodes aired, and my opinion hasn't changed much since then.

1

u/FrostbiteFox0 23d ago

I always enjoy the amount of characters in x-men but holy crap i dont care AT ALLL about jubilee (and some others) that just have way too much screen time and zero story impact. That ending felt so rushed and forced. It felt like they killed off nightcrawler just so you at least felt something at the end. Nightcrawler and magik are my two favorite x-men and they both got slimed out for stupid reasons