I'm still in shock as to how many people still praise it when it's stupid and nonsensical on so many levels, starting with Chuck/Lilandra's love at first sight before first contact, the cartoon (with often dreadful voice acting) even made it worse.
And then there was the stuff made up by the same writer as his run was going on; that's in her, that's part of her > she can eat stars now > she's a telekenitic with access to cerebro, a device that needs mental scanning powers that she has like Chuck does although he can't move matter by his mind > she died >> She lives again > that's an alien that invaded her > She dies in an alien planetary system > She has a demon double clone who loved Scott and became Cable's mom > that was $#^&$^#&^$&# > SHE'S ALIVE (you need to read Fantastic Four to see that, we won't show you that in the X-Men title) >>>>>>>
John Byrne, the co-author of the main segment of that story made and released a version about the X-Men in their teen years that disregards some of the stuff his colleague wrote after his tenure as artist and co-plotter on that book ended.
Brett Ratner and Simon Kinberg improved that hot garbage in the Last Stand, it's far less nonsensical and is easy to follow, without unnecessary alien connection that makes me both tangle my fingers and shake my head the more I read or think about it.