This is super impressive all and all.
With X-Men there is so many characters. Wolverine, a lone solder whose biggest enemy is himself. He has to learn how solitude his brothers in arms are there to support him, he has to learn the threats of the world are fought together, even the small battles fought to defend Canadian villages. There is Beast, the scariest and hairiest, but an intellect and wisdom far greater and more vast than many people. Storm an Egyptian weapon, used and abused and damaged, but loving, wise, and brave. Rouge, Gambit, Cyclops, Colossus, Jubilee, Professor X all with well realized character strength and weaknesses and traits. Only Jean Grey is kind of lacking. But with a list of 8 other solidly developed characters, and a season run time of 13, 20 minutes episodes, one character lacking is a massive win. Plus Jean has her own super iconic story, she'll undoubtedly have her time to shine.
On top of the great character work, there are some very rich stories told. It doesn't hold back with some of the stuff either. Characters are enslaved, manipulated, traitorous, killed, morally challenged. Villains and antagonists like Sabertooth, Magneto, Apocalypse, Senator Kelly, Mystique, Sentinels, Juggernaut. It's just jam packed with awesome portrayals of every thing.
Even the direction and the action is amazing. Super dated, but this is probably the first time visualizing Telekinesis and magnetos magnetism. For a children to easily understand, and little to no other examples, what we have is super understandable and serviceable. But out side of those two shaky power set visuals, there's cyclops' beams, storms powers, wolverines claws, jubilee's... sparks, gambit's powers. Some fight scenes are super creative too. The last episode Wolverine is fighting a sentinel in a cave, and they visualize that really well.
The is super creative, well written, heartfelt, interesting, fun, and polished, even down to the voice work something also probably never done before, but judging by how all other iterations of these characters in even modern day resemble the characters we see here in the first season, it all points to what a fantastic job was done.
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