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Time for the only Jean Story that ever gets adapted to be told once again.
Note I like the x-men films for what they are nonsensical adaptations of a property that even marvel hasn't known what to do with for years.
But I am sick to death of the Dark Phoenix saga getting adapted for a couple of reasons.
1. First the story was written decades ago and the tropes in it have not aged well and have been done to death to the point where any adaptation is going to just come off as regurgitating the old women can't handle power and goes bad trope that has been to death and needs to be shelved permenantly.
2. It is pretty much the only really iconic Jean Grey story so it is the one that writers constantly go back to either in adaptations or yet more retcons/sequels to the original in the comic verse. None of the adaptations or retcons/sequels have really helped too much and many of them have hurt it. Let it go and tell some new stories with Jean.
3. Another big problem is they only want to adapt the end of the story and even then not that accurately the whole good girl goes bad because of two much cosmic power which ignores the real tragedy of the full story.
For those who've never read it the full story is Jean gains phenomenal cosmic power and stays a Hero the power doesn't corrupt her at all at first. She rises to the occasion and ends up saving the entire universe. Only to do it she has to touch every facet of creation more power than any mortal should ever have but she does it and she lets that power go but it creates a craving to feel that again but even still she didn't falter until a bunch of arrogant rich jackasses tried to make her a weapon for their own use.
She fought against them constantly and even after theyd' made her into their ideal she still with help started to fight her way back and it took them psychicly killing the man she loved in front of her causing her to feel his death through a psychic link to finally break her. And even still she held on long enough to help save her friends and team mates before she lost herself and committed a terrible crime out in space trying desperately to feel what she felt when she saved the universe again. Then when she attacked the x-men to try to be free of them they helped her fight her back again. Then an alien empire ordered her death and a trial by combat was invoked to decide her fate and seeing her friends and family hurt she tapped into that power again and realized sooner or later some crisis would convince her to use it and she would lose herself again. She then made the choice to end her own life to die as a human being instead of becoming a goddess. She took the action when no one else would none of this begging folks to end it for her like adaptations constantly do. When they couldn't because they loved her to much she did it for the good of everyone and to die as herself not something else.
If your going to do the story you need to include it all the wonderful triumph and the horrible tragedy but no they want to jump straight to the tragedy and milk it. While often making someone else the central figure in what should be Jean's story.
But I am sick to death of the Dark Phoenix saga getting adapted for a couple of reasons.
1. First the story was written decades ago and the tropes in it have not aged well and have been done to death to the point where any adaptation is going to just come off as regurgitating the old women can't handle power and goes bad trope that has been to death and needs to be shelved permenantly.
2. It is pretty much the only really iconic Jean Grey story so it is the one that writers constantly go back to either in adaptations or yet more retcons/sequels to the original in the comic verse. None of the adaptations or retcons/sequels have really helped too much and many of them have hurt it. Let it go and tell some new stories with Jean.
3. Another big problem is they only want to adapt the end of the story and even then not that accurately the whole good girl goes bad because of two much cosmic power which ignores the real tragedy of the full story.
For those who've never read it the full story is Jean gains phenomenal cosmic power and stays a Hero the power doesn't corrupt her at all at first. She rises to the occasion and ends up saving the entire universe. Only to do it she has to touch every facet of creation more power than any mortal should ever have but she does it and she lets that power go but it creates a craving to feel that again but even still she didn't falter until a bunch of arrogant rich jackasses tried to make her a weapon for their own use.
She fought against them constantly and even after theyd' made her into their ideal she still with help started to fight her way back and it took them psychicly killing the man she loved in front of her causing her to feel his death through a psychic link to finally break her. And even still she held on long enough to help save her friends and team mates before she lost herself and committed a terrible crime out in space trying desperately to feel what she felt when she saved the universe again. Then when she attacked the x-men to try to be free of them they helped her fight her back again. Then an alien empire ordered her death and a trial by combat was invoked to decide her fate and seeing her friends and family hurt she tapped into that power again and realized sooner or later some crisis would convince her to use it and she would lose herself again. She then made the choice to end her own life to die as a human being instead of becoming a goddess. She took the action when no one else would none of this begging folks to end it for her like adaptations constantly do. When they couldn't because they loved her to much she did it for the good of everyone and to die as herself not something else.
If your going to do the story you need to include it all the wonderful triumph and the horrible tragedy but no they want to jump straight to the tragedy and milk it. While often making someone else the central figure in what should be Jean's story.