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| Radish 1829th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):x-men evolution"
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was today's the last episode of evolution?
xavier's speech about the future made it seem as such. as much as I liked seeing future (actual canon stuff like phoenix and nimrod arcs) scenarios, it seemed like a way to end the evolution storyline. seeing that future version of the team was cool too (a much huger colossus, rogue w/ all her powers, cyclops w/ mvc2 outfit was the cool part). and brotherhood working for shield?
I really hope they don't end the show... though at 4 seasons, its the longest running non-anime show on wb next to jackie chan. if it was the last one, maybe they'll animate actual comic book storylines (which the lack thereof was probably the biggest complaint to longtime fans) in the evolution style, which I think would totally rock.
Yeah, I'm fairly sure it was the last episode. It's pretty sad since even though it had a lot of haters, I thought it was a great show. The animation, voice acting and direction were all excellent and it seemed to do a good job of sticking as close to the original idea while sticking the characters in a high school setting. It was nice to have a show with a continuing plot that wasn't about collecting crap or 4 episode long card battles.
It'd be nice if they made more episodes, but I would guess that this is it.
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| TiamatRoar 536th Post
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| "Re(2):x-men evolution" , posted Sat 25 Oct 15:30
I liked X-Men evolution. It was... different, while still being good quality in terms of everything (art, animation, voice, story, whatever). The fact that it deviated from the comics a bit while still being X-Men I always felt was a good thing. I mean, really, we've already read the comics, seen the first animated X-Men, and seen the X-Men movie, and they were all rather true to the comics. Did we REALLY need to see yet another re-iteration of that? I don't think so, so I was glad that Evolution put its own unique spins on the thing (as far as I could tell).
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| Radish 1831th Post
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| "Re(5):x-men evolution" , posted Sat 25 Oct 19:47:
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I hated the first two seasons of it. It contained some of the dullest, most obviously G-rated girlish storylines I never hoped to see in an show about the X-Men. Then for some reason the third and fourth seasons were awesome. Morlocks, Spike getting the boot, Rogue going nuts, Magneto's new posse, Sentinels, lots of good stuff, and hardly any more of that X-men 90210 gee-I-wonder-if-she-likes-me crap. I would rather accept things like that as lore of the past than active storylines. IMO that's why it was such a failure.
I wouldn't call 4 seasons a failure. Plus some of us liked the first two seasons' plots. There are plenty of places to see Xmen kicking ass, but in how many could you see Blob have a crush on Jean Grey, kidnap her then throw stuff at her rescuers a la Donkey Kong?
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| Hungrywolf 2457th Post
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| "Re(1):x-men evolution" , posted Sat 25 Oct 22:01
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was today's the last episode of evolution?
xavier's speech about the future made it seem as such. as much as I liked seeing future (actual canon stuff like phoenix and nimrod arcs) scenarios, it seemed like a way to end the evolution storyline. seeing that future version of the team was cool too (a much huger colossus, rogue w/ all her powers, cyclops w/ mvc2 outfit was the cool part). and brotherhood working for shield?
I really hope they don't end the show... though at 4 seasons, its the longest running non-anime show on wb next to jackie chan. if it was the last one, maybe they'll animate actual comic book storylines (which the lack thereof was probably the biggest complaint to longtime fans) in the evolution style, which I think would totally rock.
I have loved X-men: Evolution and if this was the final episode, I hate to see it end. I think it was better than the other animated series, despite the things I didn't like about Evo (Storm being older than the others being one of the top things). The fact the new mutants were used was one of the greatest things to me. I also loved that Artie was introduced on this final episode (unless he was introduced on an episode I missed). In any case, hopefully they will order more episodes to be made and it can continue. If not, maybe another X-men animated series will start sometime.
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| Dr Baghead 2590th Post
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| "Re(3):x-men evolution" , posted Sun 26 Oct 15:14
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I knew this had to be coming... and I was wondering the same thing yesterday morning at the end of the episode when it seemed to be the series conclusion. If you think about it... the show was absent from the lineup for a long time until the X-men 2 movie, a long time ago they cancelled they terrific comic adaption done by Udon... they show just wasn't appreciated. I don't think even with X-men 3 that there will be a new season... they seemed to rush in a lot of things this season, like Gambit's back story, fleshing out Wolverine's Weapon X story, Spyke's evolution, and then ending it all with Apocalypse. The stories weren't left open so it's obvious the crew expected this to be the end. Unfortunately X-men is going the way of Batman Beyond... to make room for crap like Shaolin Showdown. If we're lucky we might get an X-men Evolution OAV sometime in the future.
The problem with X-Evo was how it was handled.
It was a great show, but die-hard X-Men fans aren't going to be waking up at 8:30 on a Saturday to watch a show that sounded like "a movie tie in that's basically a mutant dawson's creek" (anything that contains the pharse "Principal Mystique" can't be worth the time, right?) and a lot of people avoided it with ignorance (not surprisingly I'm included) thinking it was a stupid little cartoon for stupid little kids.
So the comics and toy lines fizzled out and the show went on hiatus... but then Cartoon Network started airing it at 10:30 and people had been avoided it where able to watch it at a decent hour, and were surprised to see it was damn good TV once the show really got rolling.
I'm not sure how sales of the TPB or back issues of the EVO comics went, but the toys became hot items on the secondary market.
I'd even wager Teen Titans got it's start on CN because of X-EVO, so viewers could see how great it was BEFORE sending it off to Kids WB instead of letting it fail and have viewers discover it on it's final breathe in late night reruns.
So basically what I'm saying if they wanted to extent season 4/make a season 5 they really should air it on CN in the that peachy time slot between Teen Titans and JL, it would get a much larger following then on Saturday morning where they change the times at random.
Also I just want to say, The creators ended Batman Beyond... the WB might have had a say in it too, but Dini has said before he felt Batman Beyond had gone on long enough. (too long if you ask me, but that's just because I'm too closed minded to accept anyone buy Bruce as Batman)
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| Radish 1835th Post
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| "Re(6):x-men evolution" , posted Mon 27 Oct 05:00:
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talking about X-evo, I got 2 question on it:
here in france we got it but french TV "programer" are pityfull morom and show the episodes in disorder and show a same season agin and again as long as they didn't get the new one, when they get it!!
So in this mess there is 2 episode that finish wierdly can someone put them in order and explain me the end??
the first one was the apocalipse epised(infact 2)but and the end apocalipse goes away, all the X-men are Koed and mystic is in stone...the next episode we got was the one where beast was hunted in forest so we didn't know the apocalipse episode end here or not and what makes mystic comes to life....
the 2nd one was the Megneto chalanges, where X-men should fight to go on Magneto's base..here again it finishes wierdly, since mystic change his phisical apparence and whe get the normal mystic in the next episode...
So can someone clear me those??
When the Xmen go to Magneto's base and Mystic's appearance changes, her powers are enhanced. They aren't really clear, but I think this makes it harder for Prof X and Wolverine to tell who she is when she's mimicing someone. Plus she can change her appearance at will anyway and I guess they figured that new Mystic was super ugly so she just chooses not to look like that (or something? It's never explained why really.)
As for the Mystic in stone, all X men KOed episode, that's really close to the end. Basically after that there's a few Rouge dealing with being used by Mystic episodes, a Xmen being persecuted episode and then the final battle episodes.
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| hikarutilmitt
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| "Re(2):x-men evolution" , posted Mon 27 Oct 13:33
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Years ago I looked at that show a little and thought it looked dumb. The characters looked too young also. At that time I didn't watch the show. Then lately it's been re-run late at night on cable and I've started watching it; When it's on I've taken up watching the episode through. It's kind of like beverly hills 90210 except with magic powers. I briefly thought the show was set in the '80s because of the story lines and fashions in the show. There weren't many rappity rappers, marajuana junkies, gangsta bitches and limp bizkiteers at their high school.
Here there were locker hallway secret crushes on mutants with magic powers and such.
I had the exact same experience. Granted, I'm not a HUGE comic fan, though I am a fan of some stories and characters, it all seemed rather thrown-together for the sake of making some money off of the movie's popularity. After they started showing it on CN, I started watching it in the background and actually enjoyed it.
I haven't been watching the episodes on WB for the aforementioned reason of the time slot (college students and waking up early on weekends don't mix), though this sound rather tragic.
I miss watching Batman Beyond (I love that show. It had so much that worked for it yet they didn't want to take it in very many directions. Which reminds me, I need to go to Target and get the four-episode DVD they have for $10, I'm glad I bought the RotJ Uncut DVD) and Teen Titans gives me something to watch on Saturday and Sunday nights, especially since new episodes are supposed to start airing soon.
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