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X-Men '97: Beau DeMayo Honors TAS Team Ahead of Season Finale
X-Men '97 series creator/writer Beau DeMayo wanted to make sure than fans remembered the original TAS team that paved the way for the series.
When he's not "assigning homework" involving key episodes & story arcs from the original animated that fans might want to check out before the three-episode season finale "Tolerance Is Extinction" kicks off this week, series creator & writer Beau DeMayo is making sure that fans who are loving the series make sure they remember the folks who "had to chart uncharted waters" bring X-Men: The Animated Series to life. "Please remember, [X-Men '97] wouldn't exist, nor be what it is, without [series developers/showrunners Julia Lewald & Eric Lewald, producer/director Larry Houston & story artist Dan Veesenmeyer]. They had to chart uncharted waters before X-Men was what it was today. There was no mutant zeitgeist. They had to create it. This show is a love letter and a debt paid to them," DeMayo shared over the course of two posts. "I literally learned how to write this show by watching theirs. There also just really cool people."
Here's a look at DeMayo's tweets from earlier today, honoring four key reasons why the original animated series has resonated with fans as long as it has:
Shortly after the seventh episode of Marvel Studios' X-Men '97, DeMayo checked in on Twitter/X to assign some "homework" ahead of this week's start of the three-episode season finale, "Tolerance Is Extinction." DeMayo suggested that fans might want to rewatch Season 4, Episodes 9 & 10 of the original animated series – "One Man's Worth Parts 11 & 2" (directed by Larry Houston, with Part 1 written by Richard Mueller and Part 2 written by Gary Greenfield). Without giving too much away, let's just say that there's a lot of timey-wimey stuff in play that resulted from a time-travel assassination of Xavier back in 1959. Earlier today, DeMayo updated his "assignment list" with Season 4 Episodes 3 & 4: "Sanctuary, Pt 1 and 2" (directed by Houston, with Part 1 written by Steven Melching & David McDermott and Part 2 written by Jeff Saylor), Season 5 Episode 4: "Descent" (directed by Houston and written by Melching & McDermott), and Season 1 Episode 13: "The Final Decision" (directed by Houston and written by Mark Edward Edens). Without spoilers, let's just say that they involve a whole lot more Magneto goodness for viewers – and more.
Here's a look at DeMayo's update – followed by his reason for not including comic book issues on the list: