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In Fox Broadcasting attempt in the mid 90's to do a
faithfully adaption of the X-Men comic book series a lot
of liberty's were taken with the source material.This re-release
tries it's best to be the best of both worlds as far as
the episodes go like adapting classic story's like 'the
Dark Phoenix Saga' and the lead up to "The Age Of Apocalypse"
called "Legion Quest", in these releases that have finally
came out after almost 17 years of their original airings
on Fox TV. ***
Marvel Studios and their new owner Disney finally released
it, episodes included on this releases include on vol 3
Savage Land, Strange Heart parts 1-2, Obsession, The Dark
Phoenix saga parts 1-4, Cold Comfort, Orphan's End, The
Juggernaut Returns, Nightcrawler, Weapon X, Lies And Videotape,
One Man's Worth parts 1-2 & Courage. ***
On vol 4 episodes include Proteus parts 1-2, Sanctuary
parts 1-2, Beyond Good And Evil Parts 1-4, Have Yourself
A Morlock Little Christmas, The Lotus And The Steel, Love
In Vain, Secrets, Not Long Buried, Xavier Remembers, & Family
Ties, ***
The screenwriter adapters at the time had to jump through
a lot of hoops to get a lot of the comics to screen now
comparing this to the movies or the comics it's just sad
a case of "way to little much too late" through it does
hold up fairly well. ---
Image and Sound:
Not very good the picture quality was good when it
aired on TV but since the advent of hd it looks dated &
faded, --- sound quality is muted at best the digital transfer
was just bad and the sound well it fades in and out a lot.
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Final Words:
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An utter disaster why the devil
did it take Marvel Studios this long to bring out a modern
classic like X-Men the animated series on DVD, Disney kept
the rights for so long now this release was rendered almost
irrelevant but at least they finally brought it out but it's
a case of "too little too late" for the historical story like
the "Dark Phoenix Saga" & "The Age Of Apocalypse" & "Legion
Quest" this is only and i mean only for hardcore X-Men fans
only for everyone else it's only a rental hopefully Disney
and Marvel Studios in the future will finally fix it on a
Blu-ray re-issue and there's a lot of issues that need fixing
like the picture quality and the sound or perhaps lots & lots
of archival interviews with the Va's and of course my own
wish list to be fixed a wide screen HD version as well, had
Marvel Studios been smart about this and released this around
the time of the first X-Men Movie in 2000, it would have been
a good thing but now it's too late. Disney dropped the ball
on this, but they tried there best it really wasn't good enough,
this re-release is only for either their fans ONLY,it's good
enough for a rental and perhaps a buy maybe but honestly with
better X-Men adaptions on the market rather they be with the
comics which are more mature or the other newer X-Men animated
series is only of nostalgia value. |
