>>114447988it focuses on keikaku and drama, which it generally does well (though the villains are ridiculously overcompetent, they're running decade-long schemes at this point) without stopping to breathe.
Claremont (which is thematically the closest to this show) did this much better because he knew that every now and then, you need an emotional breather episode after a long and grueling arc. After Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past we got an issue about Kitty Home Alone-ing a demon on Christams. Or Kitty's Fairytale, or that time Jubliee went to the mall after the whole legacy virus mega-arc, etc.
You need a lighter episode once in a while to provide emotional balance and a contrast. If it's all stakes, all gloom, all drama all the time, people will just get bored.
