A Bit About the Old X-Men Cartoon
Jun. 4th, 2014 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Mostly because I discovered I kept mentioning their take on Days of Future Past in my write up, so I've moved that stuff here. No spoilers for the film, but lots of spoilers for a show that went off the air last century.
Like a lot of people my age, my first exposure to the Days of Future Past concept was the old X-Men cartoon. To this day, I still love it's take on time-travel and it's consequences.
The show opens in the bad future where the few remaining mutants are being hunted down by more powerful versions of the Sentinels we know and loathe. Bishop is sent back in time by Forge to stop a mutant from killing Senator Kelly. He's told it's Gambit that did it, and of course, Gambit is behaving very erratically in our time period, getting very, very angry about Beast's imprisonment and generally sounding one step away from joining the Brotherhood. In order to stay in the past, Bishop must keep wearing a bracer that keeps him anchored there. If he takes it off, he gets sent back into the future, and any changes stay stuck.
Anyway, plot happens and it turns out that it's Mystique pretending to be Gambit that tries to kill Senator Kelly. Bishop stops that, but becomes detached from his bracer (which Storm then destroys to prevent any time travel-related hijinks on their end) and therefore gets sent back to the future.
And we think, fine, Bishop's done his thing and the future should be okay. Except when he gets there, all he gets is a weary sigh from Forge and is told that they will have to try again, because the future is still bad. Due to ... well you can guess who.
The only thing that has changed is that Wolverine is dead. Only we don't get told that, we get shown it, because there's an adamantium skeleton with claws in Forge's lab. And ... you can imagine the effect that has on the watching 9/10 year old. It's like "woah". Because it's Wolverine who cannot be killed and the Sentinels have done it (which gives you a greater respect for their less evolved variants that the X-Men face day in and day out). And all that effort was for nothing. Because obviously some things have changed (see also OMG Wolverine is dead) but not the overall picture. And that's not the normal time travel story, particularly not in what was, after all, a children's show.
Like a lot of people my age, my first exposure to the Days of Future Past concept was the old X-Men cartoon. To this day, I still love it's take on time-travel and it's consequences.
The show opens in the bad future where the few remaining mutants are being hunted down by more powerful versions of the Sentinels we know and loathe. Bishop is sent back in time by Forge to stop a mutant from killing Senator Kelly. He's told it's Gambit that did it, and of course, Gambit is behaving very erratically in our time period, getting very, very angry about Beast's imprisonment and generally sounding one step away from joining the Brotherhood. In order to stay in the past, Bishop must keep wearing a bracer that keeps him anchored there. If he takes it off, he gets sent back into the future, and any changes stay stuck.
Anyway, plot happens and it turns out that it's Mystique pretending to be Gambit that tries to kill Senator Kelly. Bishop stops that, but becomes detached from his bracer (which Storm then destroys to prevent any time travel-related hijinks on their end) and therefore gets sent back to the future.
And we think, fine, Bishop's done his thing and the future should be okay. Except when he gets there, all he gets is a weary sigh from Forge and is told that they will have to try again, because the future is still bad. Due to ... well you can guess who.
The only thing that has changed is that Wolverine is dead. Only we don't get told that, we get shown it, because there's an adamantium skeleton with claws in Forge's lab. And ... you can imagine the effect that has on the watching 9/10 year old. It's like "woah". Because it's Wolverine who cannot be killed and the Sentinels have done it (which gives you a greater respect for their less evolved variants that the X-Men face day in and day out). And all that effort was for nothing. Because obviously some things have changed (see also OMG Wolverine is dead) but not the overall picture. And that's not the normal time travel story, particularly not in what was, after all, a children's show.
