From: aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: XTAS: NOTS part 2
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:30:59 GMT
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In article <gez33H_00Vos46LUV3@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin J. Chen) writes:

>I wasn't much impressed.  The death came out of nowhere.  We didn't know
>much about Morph, and his character wasn't entirely interesting (seemed
>like kind of a jerk, actually).  I certainly don't feel sorry for his
>passing (what little we saw of it -- if Jean and Xavier hadn't kept
>going on about how he had gone, I would've assumed that he wasn't really
>dead, but had transformed into one of the bad guys to hide, only to pop
>out at an interesting moment).  Basically, it was melodrama, and it
>wasn't done very well, either.  Even the comic book does better than
>this.

But, gosh!  Evidently he was the ONLY member of the team Wolverine *liked!*
I mean, he's inept, loud, dumb, slow, weak... just the sort of pal you'd
imagine Logan having, hmmm?

>Good thing that Sentinel showed up and got sufficiently beat up
>by Cyclops *by himself* that it had to run back to its home base.

Well, Cyclops DID shave off one's head in the first episode.
 
>- The animation.  Sucked.  Sucked donkeys.

Could've been worse.  True, the Sentinels did experience "Smurf Syndrome"--
you know, a Smurf is three apples high, ranging from crabapples to mutant
watermellon sized apples depending on what the plot called for...

>- The plot.  Well, the government agency part wasn't too bad, but I
>really hate the way the power levels of the Sentinels kept fluctuating
>to meet the demands of the plot.  "Oh, we should kill a character now,
>so make the Sentinels unbeatable."  "Oops, it's almost the end of the
>episode and the heroes have to win, so make sure that Gambit, Cyclops,
>and Storm can destroy multiple Sentinels by themselves."  Sigh.  Also,
>when did Jubilee develop powers that could actually affect machinery?  I
>was under the impression that her powers were purely the generation of
>light (flashy stuff, rather than lasers) -- but it seems like she's
>acquired an odd combination of Kitty Pryde's phasing and Dazzler's
>powers.

Well, look at circumstances, guy!  The first time, the X-Men were ambushed
by several Sentinels who proceeded to *split the team up* and take them on.
Of course they seemed unstoppable!  The next time they fought, the X-Men
were prepared to fight.  Note how Gambit FINALLY got it through his head
that ONE card wouldn't do any damage, so he threw three or four at once?
And especially inside that factory, the Sentinels had VERY little room to
maneuver -- unlike outside.  No more of this "sneaking up on Rogue with a
deathblast" stuff.  However, Jubilee (as I've said time and again) has
been totally revamped with regards to her power.

>- The angst.  I suppose this is before the X-Men have established
>themselves as heroes, but the constant "All mutants suck" and "Why did I
>have to be a mutant?" really grated on my nerves.

This only came from Jubilee and her parents.  The rest of the team seemed
OK with their situations...  

> If they spent half as much time on the episode as they did on the
>really cool computer animation in the closing credits, perhaps they
>could come up with something decent.

You're kidding, right?  Please tell me you're kidding.  Take another
close look at that " really cool computer animation" -- funny how most
of the characters look like DIGITIZED VERSIONS OF THEIR ACTION FIGURES
ON A VERTICAL ROASTING SPIT.  At least those characters WITH action figures...

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