Wolverine And The X-Men

[seriousfic]

Eh. I kinda lost interest after the trailer in which they make it clear that Wolverine is going to lead the X-Men. I'll never understand the impulse to take a dark horse character; someone who's popular because he's mysterious, an outsider, a lone wolf, a rebel; and then make him the leader who gets the most screentime. Isn't that a bit counterintuitive? Logan's popular because he tells his commanders to eff off and die; now what's he going to do, tell himself to eff off and die? Even for the Wolverine fans, isn't that too much of a good thing?

But then, the first episode has Jean mysteriously disappear in a mysterious explosion (mysteriously), so it's pretty obvious that the mourning Scott will be "comforted" by Emma...

seriousfic: On the one hand, there's NO WAY we're gonna get "Emma makes Scott relive memories of Jean with herself in Jean's place, Scott gets off on it." On the other, the idea of kiddified Emma/Scott is perversely fascinating. Scott can teach Emma about teamwork*! *Note: Not a smutfic summary... yet.

prozacpark: That probably also means that we won't be getting make-out sessions on Jean's grave, doesn't it? WOE!

seriousfic: They could make-out on Jean's missing person report.

But it just wouldn't be the same.

Comments

[distractedone.livejournal.com]

You need to write the kiddie!Emma/Scott/Jean fic!

[v5-vendetta.livejournal.com]

They should have just called it "The Uncanny X-Men," like how the new Spider-Man animated series is called "The Spectacular Spider-Man." They could do whatever the hell they wanted in it, but not blatantly advertising that most of the attention is going to go to Wolverine would be a good way to go. I mean, wasn't the charm of X-Men that they were conceived as first and foremost a team and not merely some popular character's chance to get even more spotlight?