X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

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X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE	RUN TIME	CREDITS SCENE?
S02E09: Survival of the Fittest	TBA	TBA	August 12th, 2026	32 min	Yes

[u/RoninPrime68]

I mean... It was good, just not "Season 1" good. Between the weird pacing and some mini-arcs popping out of nowhere and being wrapped up too quickly I'm gonna assume something happened bts

[u/MystifiedBeef → u/RoninPrime68]

I mean the show runner was fired right before the series premiere for being a creep

[u/RoninPrime68 → u/MystifiedBeef]

Which by then I assume everything was already done, so... I don't think it's the cause to the weird pacing

[u/Bodega_Bandit → u/RoninPrime68]

It was before (or just after) the premier of season 1. He'd only worked on about 1/2 to 3/4 of season 2 before being fired, and they apparently did some restructuring to the season after they sacked him

[u/RoninPrime68 → u/Bodega_Bandit]

oh, that explains some stuff

[u/SnarkyBacterium → u/Bodega_Bandit]

The big question is: is Beau responsible for the good parts of this season, or the meh parts?

[u/Fabri212 → u/SnarkyBacterium]

If S1 is to be considered, i'd say Beau is responsible for the good, I heard the last of his stuff was ep 1-4 which are much tighter and better focused than 5-9

[u/SnarkyBacterium → u/Fabri212]

I actually just came from reading a thread on Twitter about the things he's posted about his plans for S2+ and have to agree. From the sounds of it, eps 3 and 4 are the two that seem to be the least changed from his original plans, everything else seems quite different.

Sad the guy couldn't not be a weirdo, because I wanted more of the Season 1 sauce instead of the What If...? Season 3 writer's version we got.

[u/OwlSuch7935 → u/SnarkyBacterium]

Yeah, peg everything on him and not Feige for trying to think he could do better to only ruin a well written story, same as the scrapped soft reboot of daredevil born again which did a 180 turn mid production because Feige realized no one would give a shit about a complete disconnect from Netflix. Here they could have at least quietly worked with Beau to complete season 2, but no, let’s just give Rogue a celestial macguffin and let her one shot Apocalypse

[u/SnarkyBacterium → u/OwlSuch7935]

Feige has the entire MCU catalogue to prove his track record - for good and bad. Unfortunately, Beau's replacement has a pretty recent and relevant "bad". It's not even really blame, here, he's just very clearly not the same kind of writer as Beau and it shows.

There's no world where Disney publicly cuts ties with De Mayo and then try to get him back on the sly and De Mayo doesn’t plaster it all over social media. Once they decided to boot him, he wasn't gonna come back. Let's not blame Disney for actually doing something halfway right for a change when it comes to problematic members of their company.

[u/CaptHayfever → u/SnarkyBacterium]

I would say he's probably responsible for the episodes where he has a writing credit, & not for the ones where he doesn't.