One thing I hate about early 2000 shows is that their insertion of nonsensical club music in action scenes, dialogue background and pretty much everywhere, it’s just annoying.
Definitely loved this show as a kid, Mutant X, Xena, Cleopatra 2525, Hercules, Beastmaster, Farscape, Sliders, Star Trek Voyager... every single one informed my adolescence 😂 wouldn't change a thing!!!!
The thing is… back then for comic books lovers we really didn’t have many live action properties. So we just took what we could get. I really do think the studio got their money back on this as it still airs on random TV channels now.
Oh,I LOVED NightMan,a good quality superhero show,there was also a comic book titled NightMan ( of,course the tv show is based on the comic ) by Malibu Comics.
Im sorry but you're looking at the show with 2024 eyes! At the time this show was amazing, obviously now we've come along way & can see it for what it was but its got a special place in ALOT of peoples hearts! The nostalgia I felt when I saw the title & I loved anything mutant related (xmen or otherwise) since you think as a kid how amazing it would be to have such powers hahahaha oh how life turns out ay lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Um, maybe not amazing…I still didn’t watch it when it came out. Although I REALLY wanted to. Lots of good DNA. This would make a potentially great reboot
Yeah, Mutant X was actually suposed to be about X-Factor (which was launched in 1986), with Havok leading them (loosely based on that early 90s comics run), when Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Angel and Iceman (the 5 original X-Men members and founding X-Factor members), rejoined the X-Men, as Havok, Polaris, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy and Multiple Man took over the team. Then the writers decided that the X- Men were too large of a group, so they created the Yellow/Blue teams, which were then split between the Uncanny X-Men (launched in 1963 as X-Men then later added "the Uncanny" part), and the newly launched 3rd X-title "X-Men" issues, and The New Mutants got rebranded, then relaunched as "X-Force", for the 4th X-titled comicbook in 1990.
George Buza is also the voice of Beast in both X-Men TAS and X-Men 97' !! He also had a cameo in the first X-Men movie as the truck driver who lifts Rogue to the bar Wolverine is at at the beginning of the movie
I used to watch this show back in the days, it was cheesy but I still enjoyed it. But I think the main reason why I watched it was because of Victoria Pratt, I had a huge crush on her. 😂
Omg you just unlocked a memory, I used to watch this on sky one back in the UK. What a time. I was a kid then now a 31 old year man. 😂 Time flies and memories return.
@@SonicAlphaA great theme song sung by Gina Torres, which I either never noticed or completely overlooked. The theme song was almost as great at hooking the audience with the premise as "Jack of All Trades," also a great short-lived series
I kinda liked it back at the time it released, but it suffered from something that Buffy gets ripped on all the time. Everyone can do martial arts, LOL. You had Fox who's super power gave her the ability to fight like we see on screen, but none of the others should of been able to do the crappy wire work fight scenes the way they are shown on screen, and yet they did.
I've never seen that complaint about Buffy, lol, mostly because all the "skilled" fighting was left to Buffy and the vampires (which was poked fun at). It rarely extended beyond that.
@@angeluvsvid how dare you sir! 🧐 Xena spent multiple seasons teaching Gabriel to fight. She didn't just start out a ninja. And Joxer never really learned to fight. 😌🏆 And in Buffy Xander and Willow were never really great fighters. Willow learned witchcraft very gradually and Xander was constantly captured and injured.
I remember watching a few episodes of this on Saturday afternoons when I younger, I stopped watching it soon after, I remembered how cheesy, flashy, and badly written it was. It makes sense that Mutant -X would have appeal to comic book readers, fans of science fiction and action so I sort of understand but we deserved better. I agree the series had potential but was mostly just not well produced. I recently thought about it and also tried to revisit the series and I also could barely get through an episode I did not even finish the pilot. Mutant -X is very much a time capsule of media because it resembles the early 2000's aesthetic that was in many generic low budget pop music videos and clothing department store ads.
If they wanted to make a Andy Warhol inspired they could’ve at least given him the powers of a Campbell Soup can lol. It makes me want to tear my skin off.Lol
Could you do a "What happened to Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and then a "what happend to The Sopranos". These two are the greatest shows in television history and changed the landscape of TV. Please, it's really important to me !
I so remember watching this show and knew full well how much of a rip off this was of X-men but the fact that Avi Arad was involved makes more and more sense as to why the show came out the way it was. There were some legit moments of decency throughout the series but yea it can be painfully dull
Yeah,I remember watching this show back then,a low rent X-Men tv show. LOL. Does any one remember-THE-GIFTED ??? Another X-Men tv show-LOL. I bought the first season on dvd from amazon,I enjoyed this tv show.
Man... this video trigger poverty stories for me. I was SO into comics but I had no money. I literally ONLY could afford to walk to the library near my house to check out graphical novels. I literally would accept ANYTHING I could get my hands on that involved superheroes. I didn't have cable, so THIS was a show I looked forward to EVERY WEEK UNIRONICALLY. I know it's cringe now and was a super cynical money grab, but this retrospective definitely hit me in the nostalgia feels.
I remember this show! It was cool in the beginning. I knew it was a Matrix/X-men ripoff but everyone was doing that at the time. Plus Victoria Pratt was FINE. I don’t think I could watch it today, I was struggling just to get thru this video.😂
Great video, in Canada this show used to air all the time, if nothing else was on I remember watching the odd episode. If you went in the early 2000 in Toronto, chances were good you could see them filming this show on the street, mostly downtown and near the CN Tower. If you look in the background in episodes you can see a Canadian flag, the CN Tower or the Scotiabank Builing (pretty obvious to see, it's the one with the bright big S on it). Keep these good entertaining videos coming.
I rtemember this show very well. I used to watch it in secret cos my college friends would make fun of me. It came out well before the age of RU-vid so it has somewhat slipped into complete obscurity so i was really glad to see this video. Great research! One question tho....why did the wire work bother you so much? I mean they weren't going for realism. They were mutants with the literal power to defy gravity so it makes sense that they would move in that manner. It was my favorite part of the show. In retrospect I am impressed by how many of the actors did they own stunts. The feral woman especially. But yeah it was definitely not very polished.
The show got better with every season. They weren't scared to kill off characters either. The show had no reason being as good as it was given what it had to produce. I watched it recently on Tubi, lol. *Actually Victor Pratt starred in a great canadian time travel show called Continuum. It's definitely worth a check out.*
Ugh, that right there is why I have a love/hate relationship with the Sydy/Sci-Fi Channel. They get you fully invested into a show, then they canceled it out of the blue. This is why I will never watch anything from that channel ever again. This also applies to Netflix too.
It was interesting, but had issues caused by the shared universe it was written for not meshing with the tone of the series...it shared a universe with Warehouse 13 and Eureka...
Jessie later developed the ability to affect the density of others or inanimate objects. He could, for instance, allow others to become dense or turn a wall he was touching desolid. Brennan had the power expansion that he learned to use his lightning to launch himself in the air! More wire work!
It's so sad that Marvel had to rip off their own property and get sued for it. Also England: Let's cast this group of actors. They've been on stage, performed Shakespeare, have a list of impressive credentials and are beloved by the world. Hollywood: "Let's cast models" "Can they act?" "Who cares?"
I found this show recently on Amazon and kinda liked it as guilty watch. U can see the fingerprints of avi Arad on this show and what he thinks cool guys are. Which proves why kevin feige was such a difference maker for marvel branching out into film and tv. I was surprised to see Grant from agents of shield in this show and really enjoyed watching Victoria Pratt even in this bad setting. Great video thanks for sharing this hostory.
A big mistake cinematographers do is wide shots. Wide shots establish scope and all other action is dead on and tight... or like you said... the illusion is broken.
I remember this show when I was a kid and watched it expecting to see cyclops, Storm, wolverine etc boy you can imagine the disappointment I felt when I got none of that! 😂
Im glad you didn't put a hole in your head with a drill cause i like your vids!! Yeah i saw the "poster" on TUBI and i thought it was an animation show but im still not gonna watch this, its not for me... well the Xmen "spin off" show Gifted was kinda good.... and that guy looks like Andy Warhol not Jeremy Iron
I loved this show, but the cable channel that aired it in my country kept changing schedules. Also had a big crush on Victor Webster after he played a Chippendale on a movie :P
I was young and fascinated by X-men. Young enough to assume this was a tie into that universe. Young enough not to see all the bad things in it. Victoria Pratt was seen in a few other things with Similar stunts like Cleopatra 2525, and Xena Warrior Princess. The bad wire work; for me. was actually became a trope of the era and entertained by it
Loved this show when it aired. Always wondered how more or less outcast people could afford high fashion and maintain 'just out of the salon' level grooming tho, and how they wore stuff like high heels when going on dangerous missions. Oh shit i miss the 90's.
Dude thank you! I remember seeing a couple of episodes of this back in like 2002 or something and thinking "This is trying to be like a ripoff of X-Men." The wire work made me think of the first X-men movie when Logan did his leap through the air while fighting Sabretooth, only infinately shittier. I could not for the life of me remember the name of the show, and for quote a while thought it was a fever dream or something. Honestly looking at the footage from your video, it makes me think of Birds of Prey which came out around the same time.
I grew up watching this, and 'She-Spies,' btw you should totally do a video on that show! But as someone who loved it and rewatched it on Tubi 3 yrs ago, it doesn't need a revival. 😂
I wanted to check this one for a while, see if is any fun, but it is surprisingly hard to find season 1. Shows how much people care for this show, i guess.
I was one of the five fans of Mutant X (the comic) and I remember discovering this show and then never watching it because I was disappointed it wasn't an adaption of it. As if they would make an alternate reality X-Men show focusing on Havok trapped in his evil twins body and showcasing things like a vampire Storm. 20 year old me was either a dreamer or a moron.
It was a good show from a different time. People weren't so critical about everything back then nor did they readily have the ability to go through something frame by frame to examine it. Stopped watching when they killed Emma off though as that really took the heart out of it.
I used to love this show. It was basically the X-Men if it was led by Reed Richards instead of Professor Xavier. The first season was pretty repetitive and super influenced by The Matrix (hence the overused wire work). Season 2 was the best. Season 3 was awful to the point I'm actually glad they killed the series rather than go down that road. I always thought Lauren Lee Smith and John Shea were let go for budget reasons since the last year was getting pretty bare bones.
I remember watching the show as a kid and a fan of X-Men but something always felt off about and I couldn't put my finger on it at the time. BtW, any plans to cover Alphas later ? A much better X-Men clone.
