Lyte Edge said:
Sometimes I wish they would just "reset" the entire Marvel Universe back to 1992 and start again.
No offense, but this opinion really gets to me sometimes. What's wrong with taking chances with characters and storylines? Morrison's run wasn't the end-all, be-all X-Men run that some people think, and I base that comment on not reading every issue of his work. But having read most of it, I think he took the group into places other writers wouldn't have the guts to do, OR if they did try, wouldn't have pulled off as well. I'd rather see an upsetting of the status quo of characters than "Cyclops' new found mutation has his eyes merged into a Leela lookalike!" Playing with these characters emotions and making them seem more like people, and ultimately, more three-dimensional. And that makes for an interesting read.
Now, people scream back "If you want something different, there's Vertigo/Dark Horse/AiT-Planetar/Some of the Wildstorm titles/etc./ out there! Go read those and leave the flagships alone!" My argument is that these are the characters I started out with when I was but a young lad. But I am a young lad no more, and while I still have the emotional attachment to the X-Men, I wouldn't mind seeing something different with these characters every once and a while. That's why I don't mind the Scott/Emma storyline. It's something that has nothing to do with powers, but has everything to do with how human these characters can be. Whedon's doing a great job at exploring this in Astonshing. You can almost feel the writers on the other books exhaling because they don't have to deal with it (Claremont, I bet, really doesn't want to deal with it and is salivating at the fact Jean's coming back, but then at the same time, he didn't want to kill her in the first place...and I'm talking YEARS ago, kids, but I digress).
But the opinion that we need to go back to the "easy" days of the early 90s scares me and it shows some people just simply want no growth in this industry. And it scares me because it might mean less chances taken.