‘X-Men ’97’ is A Love Letter to Storm & An Apology to Cyclops

X-Men ’97 hit Disney+ bringing Marvel’s mistreated mutant heroes back into our living rooms, and I’m going to let you know right now there’s going to be hella spoilers in this write up. If you haven’t seen the show, then what are you even doing here? Go watch that greatness then comeback and read this sermon cause I’m bout to do some preaching from the pulpit Danger Room. Credit has to be given to the creators for taking a risk with the vision for this reboot. We could have gotten a new X-Men iteration. A lot of us were hoping for Krakoa but seeing the show is picking up right where the original 90s series ended with the “death” of Charles Xavier, makes us feel like we were just no a hiatus. It’s similar to when a manga goes on breaks for a few weeks but in this case it was just shy of 30 years. The first two episodes of X-Men ’97 takes us straight into the thick of matters. We’re introduced to the X-Men saving Roberto Da Costa (Sunspot) from the mutant hate organization Friends of Humanity. The X-Men coming to Roberto’s aid echoes how Jubilee was saved from sentinels at the mall in the first episode of the original series. We even have Jubilee giving Roberto a talk similar to the one Storm gave her about mutant abilities. The show does an amazing job harking back to not only the original series with certain easter eggs (Storm/Rogue wearing the same civilian outfits from the original series), cameos (Morph turning into different mutants), but episodes that are nods to speci…