Ok, I read #9.
I liked the doggies so far. I think it has potential. I see it more potential than the whole fight between the teams, tbh.
What I don't like.. Gambit related.
- Why is GS trying to portray Gambit as he's stingy? He's not someone who would be loose with money, but it's not like he's short of it. If they're in charge of four kids and have other five people living there, BUY A VAN, he can afford it. He can afford the best one. He also can afford them all IN HIS OWN HOUSE, why are they still there? There is, narratively, zero reasons for them to stay there, that's not their home.
Which leads me to another thing
- For someone who we know is a bit of a softy for kids, he's very indifferent to them. G should be definitely more involved with these kids he's now in charge of. Not about being x-men, but with their lives. Do exactly what he did for Laura. Feels like he doesn't care about them and I have no idea what else is he doing in the house all day. I mean, seriously speaking, driving them to school every day is something I easily imagine Gambit to do if he was in full "dad" mood. What a waste of a chance to show this side of him that he said he wanted to live at some point.
- Instead, we had two scenes already of them drinking alcohol because GS loves to introduce food in her stories and they're not even doing it in the house when they could be dining bonding with the kids instead. I mean, I get it: Kurt's German, so he has to talk about beer. Groundbreaking.
And, another thing I really, REALLY didn't like. Gail: Gambit's gf sneaked out her house at night to see him when they were 13, Gambit very likely knows what two teens are doing when they're alone, and it's quite CREEPY to make him, the adult, pointing it out. This is Gail, also the adult, saying it through Gambit so we, the audience, see it. It's not bc it's two girls, it's bc they're teens. If it was a boy there, Gambit saying "jee, I wonder what are they doing there?" it'd be equally creepy because he knows and he's either chill about it because he respects them or not because he's in "adult" mood saying "yeah, not in my house, kids".
