X-Men ’97 Creator Reveals One Episode Was “Stolen Away” From the Team
Beau DeMayo, the developer and head author of the highly-acclaimed X-Men '97required to X (previously Twitter) to resolve fan criticisms of episode 4, "Motendo/ Lifedeath-- Part 1." According to DeMayo, the episode was expected to include more of the relationship in between Storm and Forge, however mentioned that the program's co-executive manufacturer (who he left unnamed) "took the episode away and offered it to an editor on #WhatIf to renovate it to her vision, which coincidentally devitalized about 1/3 of Storm's story and split Ep4 into 2 different pieces."
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While this story hasn't been supported in other places since this writing, it does appear to describe why many audiences believed that the episode felt hurried. DeMayo exposed that ...