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‘X-Men ’97’ Directing Duo Chase Conley and Emi Emmett Yonemura Discuss ‘Milky Way Ghetto’ And The Gut-Wrenching Episode 5; “The Thing About Tragedy Is Not Everybody Gets To Say Goodbye”


Directors Chase Conley and Emi Emmett Yonemura talk to Deadline about Episode 5 and more

In conversation with Deadline, directors Emi Emmett Yonemura and Chase Conley break down the emotional challenges, heart-wrenching scenes, and difficult choices made to make some of the most widely discussed episodes of the season. I wanted her to be more than what she was in the original series, especially since we had an episode that was themed around her graduating into adulthood and then showcasing her powers that she saw her older self display in the form of Abscissa and just slowly introduce those into the show. Deathbird hurls an insult at professor Xavier and the counsel by calling Earth a “Milky Way Ghetto.” There were so many memes and people coming to self actualizations about our place in the solar system.

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