From an X-Men fan perspective, the show is amazing. As a Gambit fan, not really.
He’s in some excellent action scenes, but never as a protagonist. I like his opening scene but I hate that they kept the third person thing. It made him sound dumb in the old cartoon and it still does. I don’t mind it occasionally, but he keeps saying it all the times.
I was devastated by episode two. I refuse to believe that these people chose to adapt the worst story that could’ve been adapted for Gambit. The old cartoon was one of the few cases that Romy worked well, and now it’s destroyed before it got to the best part.
I can’t accept Gambit’s arc will revolve around this disgusting plot (which doesn’t even fit into the timeline unless a 60-something-year-old man manipulating and gaslighting a teenager girl is fine now). It’s painful to watch. I hate it how it makes Gambit look.
After episode three, it seems to me this whole thing might be a red herring. Maybe they’re training around her powers to help her gain control but considering those scenes from episode two that hints about a past (and those pedo eyes don’t fool me), it’s really hard to know and the scenes from the trailers are also hard to piece together. I want to believe that is the case, for Gambit’s sake, but I don’t have my hopes up, cause even if they fix it in the end, which I think it will be the case, it’ll be forever damaged and tarnished for me.
I’m just afraid that Gambit will do something very stupid. He deserves so much better than this.