The voice acting for X-Men is atrocious and the dialogue doesn't help. I have fuzzy memories of it from when I was younger but when we got Netflix it was one of the first things we watched and it was.. something else. Rogue's dialogue and Gambit's voice don't work for me. Wolverine is Wolverine, Xavier is Xavier.. same for Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops but for Rogue and Gambit it's not pretty.
Throughout the show I had to keep reminding myself that it's a 90's cartoon, an American cartoon marketed for American children, that it's meant for children and based on values/beliefs that I don't share ... and that's okay - I can love it anyways because Storm! Rogue! Jean Grey! Mystique! Nightcrawler! The possibilities! People can teleport and shapeshift and be blue and furry and it's awesome because they're not from space - they're mostly normal people. And the intro song? I have a Pavlovian response to hearing it even to this day.
If you can take it with a silly stride then I think it's worth watching. I like to include liberal amounts of liquor when watching it myself. (At least after I sat through the first 3-4 episodes sober.)
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Date: 2012-04-25 04:13 am (UTC)Throughout the show I had to keep reminding myself that it's a 90's cartoon, an American cartoon marketed for American children, that it's meant for children and based on values/beliefs that I don't share ... and that's okay - I can love it anyways because Storm! Rogue! Jean Grey! Mystique! Nightcrawler! The possibilities! People can teleport and shapeshift and be blue and furry and it's awesome because they're not from space - they're mostly normal people. And the intro song? I have a Pavlovian response to hearing it even to this day.
If you can take it with a silly stride then I think it's worth watching. I like to include liberal amounts of liquor when watching it myself. (At least after I sat through the first 3-4 episodes sober.)