As someone who is a child of the 70s and teenager of the 80s of course this show will appeal to me as it harkens back to that nostalgic time. But I was and still a fan of the Marvel comics of both those decades. In fact some of the best writing in comics cam from that time period. In particular the Chris Claremont run on the X-men , which ran from the 70s to the 90s. 17 years of great storytelling. If you have red these comics before you can see the influence of the Phoenix on the Eleven character . Both the Jean Gray and the Rachel Summers versions of Phoenix. That feeling I got from reading those issues. That " oh $#!t " feeling is the same feeling I got while watching Eleven flex her telekinetic powers. That never came across in the X-Men movies. One could say that both actresses couldnt pull it off , but more I think , was the true understanding of the potential untapped telekinetic power could unleash. It's not enough to CGI ted eyes, fire and red veins. There is none of that in Elevens character and yet we can see and feel the power. Of course what hurt the X movies was that they became Wolverine movies and not movies about the X-men. That's what made the Claremont run so popular. It was about the team with other underlying stories about the individual X-men. The dark Phoenix Saga won multiple awards for it's writing. Let's just hope with The X-men back under the Marvel Banner we will finally get the X-men and the Phoenix we deserve.