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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
They built up these characters quite well, I felt. Considering the limited time given to a movie, and the number of movies that is considered a theoretical cap these days (3) in which they had to do it...
They were just kids. That was the idea behind this movie in the first place. The X-Men weren't all established going into X1, and they did okay. This is something that actually happened in the comics, too, where the reigns were handed over to new characters, several of which were relatively fresh faces.
I think having Drake, Pride, and even the Young Rasputin step up was awesome. Even though Collosus really could have used more development, I think they did fine with Drake and Pryde. I would have liked a little more depth with Beast, but at least it was understood that he was a student, prior.
I don't think the idea was to develop a plethora of new characters, as they clearly didn't do that. I think the idea was to push newer characters to replace the more expensive, established ones (Except Wolverine, and unfortunately Storm, as they need a different actress) and replace them with characters that not only fit canon but allowed for a lower budget (castwise). They didn't even try for versatility of a large number of characters, and didn't continue to establish new characters. These are the folks we're getting, and they did develop them.
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I had no problem with the development of Kitty and Drake in X3 (Colossus as you said is a slightly different story but at least his role is slowly getting bigger). Would have i liked more, as a Kitty Pryde fangirl of course but I definitely was pleased with what I got. My contention was with Hero stating they needed no development at all (or that it would be a waste of time) since they weren't "main characters" and were just there to fill out the ranks of the X-men (A point I disagree with considering as I said only two X-men that had any real role in X3 had any true development in X1). I'm glad they beefed up the presence of Kitty, Peter, Bobby,etc.. and weeded out some of the older members, the beauty of the X-men is that there are so many people to work with ( mutants like Siren have already been shown and eastablished and could be expanded upon in later films if needed much like Kitty was) that as long as you do it right you can keep recreating new teams and really have an endless number of possible films