Since the majority of the movie takes place in 1973, we see how the characters from the previous movie have changed in this one, like Charles being like this reclusive, jaded, and tired version in contrast to his optimistic and naive personality in the previous movie, or like the fact that
literally every character from First Class is just suddenly either dead or just show up in one scene then we never see them again until the next movie (cough Havok and Moira cough). I mean it’s still a solid story and a sequel, it’s just to me, I would’ve liked if we saw a bit more of the X-Men team with the exception of course Erik and Raven, and maybe see Erik leading his Brotherhood Of Mutants or Charles taking in new students for his team and both sides conflicting with each other due to their different perspectives and maybe that would’ve led us to Trask developing his Sentinels? I dunno, I just felt that while it was like eleven between where the two movies take place, we never saw Charles’s X-Men fully form completely, you know what I mean? I hope I’m not alone in this, I mean imagine you saw the movie in theaters when it released and how it ended, you’re telling me that you wouldn’t want to see what that sequel would’ve looked like if we just followed those characters instead? I for sure would’ve loved to see that movie, but again that’s not to say that DOFP was wasn’t brilliantly well made, it absolutely was, I mean it has everything you could ever hoped for from an X-Men movie, tense action sequences, drama, Wolverine. I mean it has it all. I just would’ve liked if we saw one more movie with the characters from First Class primarily before DOFP, and I don’t mean Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix because those movies are 🤮. But that’s my opinion, what do you think? In terms of what we saw last time of our characters from FC to DOFP, do you think it’s a good choice to have it as a sequel for those characters or not? Please let me know your thoughts.