I love the original series, so I was cautiously excited when this was announced. The caution more around can you ever really "go home" again with some of these properties after so many years.

But from this preview it does seem like they are trying to capture the original look and feel of the series in earnest. So far I don't see anything steering me away, the nostalgia runs strong with this one.

The head writer of the series was just unexpectedly fired from Marvel. No reason given.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/marvel-shocker-x-men-97-creator-beau-demayo-fired-1235850423/

I just watched the first 2 episodes and was very pleasantly surprised. Episode 2 especially features some nice nods to elements of the comics, like Trial Of Magneto, Lifedeath, and the X-Cutioner. Both the animation and the writing are different from the original cartoon. Ray Chase does a great job with Cyclops, it's eerie how he sounds almost identical to the late Norm Spencer.
Watching these first two eps almost makes me wish this hadn't been a continuation of TAS and entirely its own thing instead, even if it's great to hear all the returning voice actors and to see this specific line-up with the addition of Morph and Bishop, because it's tonally quite different from TAS. But even as a continuation, it may just shape up to be what the original cartoon was in its drawing on 30 years of X-Men history from 1963 to 1991, there's a great treasure trove of X-Men stories to draw from now from 1997 onward, and I'm curious to see what they're gonna use. I can't wait for episode 3 a week from now.

Episode 3

Way less convoluted than the Madelyn Pryor story arc in the comics.

Seriously cool body horror, some decent cameos via Morph transformations.

I love the way they tied together

Agreed, thwhtguardian , I don't understand why "Madelyne" would leave. Her staying at the X-mansion would have made for a very strange ménage à trois (kind of like Bouncing Boy with Duo Damsel) but unlike what happened in the comic, this second Jean had no independent personality; she was Jean, albeit in a duplicate body. Her conundrum was closer to that of Thomas Riker than to the original Maddie's. Why would she renounce her Jean Grey identity? 

I had a few other problems with the episode, too. First, Beast determines that Maddie is the clone based on... carbon dating? Since both Jeans are still alive, carbon dating is useless. Why invoke technobabble like "carbon dating each woman at the cellular level" instead of just checking their fingerprints?

Another problem is with Sinister's plan. He wants the child of Jean Grey and Scott Summers; but why the rigmarole of cloning one of them and replacing an X-Man with a copy? In the comic it was justified because the original Jean was dead, but here it makes no tactical sense. He might have just abducted the eventual child of the original Jean. Furthermore (and this applies to the comic as well), a genetic wiz like Mr. Sinister should have no problem getting a few cells from both parents and creating their offspring in vitro.

Plotwise, the ending is very awkward (but perhaps deliberately so, so maybe I shouldn't frown upon it too soon). What happens to Scott and Jean's marriage now? Why does it make sense to send baby Nathan to the future without the Cable-Stryfe-Askani connection? I mean, sure, medical techniques are likely to be more advanced in Bishop's future... but there's no guarantee that this particular technovirus will be better known then than it would be to any other advanced group or civilizations like the Shi'ar. 

But anyway... I preferred Maddie's fate here, because she was unfairly sacrificed to the gods of profit in the comics.

I never watched the X-Men cartoon before, but this new series is a lot of fun. I like the art, too; characters look less cartoony, so to speak, than what I was expecting. 

I am FLOORED at how good this show is. I can't believe how hard they are going. Episode 5 was a notable tonal shift in a good way. The first four episodes felt like nostalgia, showing they were back and taking the material seriously with some more stories being adapted.

Episode 5 was like the show grew up. Incredibly well-paced, well-acted, great cameos. It was some of the most X-MEN feeling X-MEN I've seen in decades. They nailed the setting, the soap opera love triangle dynamics, the politics, the comingling plots, character moments, great animation, and Magneto this season has just been on fire.

The ending was quite impactful and well-handled.

I just can't believe how good this show is. I expected a passable nostalgia-fest, not arguably some of, if not the, most enjoyable Marvel content out there.

They better hire this main writer back James Gunn style lickity split unless he stole nuclear codes or something.