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Originally Posted by Aguja
You have a point. My dislike of Morrison's run now is largely because I can take it as a whole and see the end result. When it was current it was great. I loved the dynamic he created between Jean & Emma and I loved how he wrote Jean as headmistress. I thought Jean had the perfect balance of kindness and tough love to be a good headmistress. And some of the developments he made with her powers were great.
It's just the end that left a bad taste in my mouth. 'All I ever did was die on you?' Seriously? No Jean you only did that in this run. All she ever did prior to that was be there for him and her friends. And it made no sense that the sun couldn't kill Jean but a magnetic stroke caused by Xorneto could?
The only silver lining was that at least she got to be the bigger person and move forward. I like that she basically forgave both Scott and Emma and moved on. That at least was very Jean IMO.
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Agreed on all accounts. Jean was, for me, the OBVIOUS replacement for Charles in this run. But of course, Morrison killed her which led to this "X-Army" crap we have today, and which I truly hate. The X-Men were always supposed to be a
family, and that was the status quo I always liked.
I have always seen her forgiving Scemma as being solely for the fact that she had Phoenix work to do, and because (and this is
hilarious) it's obvious that the entire MU would go to hell if Cyclops wasn't the center of the universe for every X-Writer. I thin that if Jean comes back and is Phoenix-less, she'd have to be pissed off, because the mind-rape she pulled on Emma was the last thing she did before she started preaching that she had "Phoenix awareness", and therefore, for me, that wasn't pure Jean anymore.
EDIT: BTW, I have a question about something that has never been clear to me, and maybe some other Jean fan here can clear things up for me. I've read in other web-sites that Jean's death was (a) Morrison's plans all along, because he prefered Scemma to Jott after writing his run, but I've also read that (b) even though the Magneto stupidity in "Planet X" was always his intention (and I'm glad it got retconned, BTW), killing Jean in "Here Comes Tomorrow" was actually an editorial mandate.
This, according to these people who've said this, was what caused Morrison to leave Marvel the second his exclusive contract ended, without ever finishing his New X-Men run. Both of these theories sound plausible, but I'd prefer to believe that Morrison intended to do something better than what happened after he left. In fact, I recall reading a column here on CBR that said that Morrison and Quesada had a heated arguement in a Comic-con because Morrison told Q that he was when his contract expired, and the thing apparently ended in
tears. From
both.
Thoughts?