You Know What I Think Would Be A Genuinely Interesting What If...? Story, That Doesn't Have World Ending

You know what I think would be a genuinely interesting What If...? story, that doesn't have world ending consequences (or at least doesn't HAVE to have them) and isn't tied to some big event?

What if Kitty Pryde went to the Massachusetts Academy instead of joining the X-Men?

I've been watching Yellowjackets finally, and I'm almost done second season, and my thoughts on it are so weird.

I like it, I recognise it's good, but at the same time, it's just not connecting with me?

I wish I could put my finger on what isn't hitting for me.

Finally read Exceptional X-Men #1, and followed it right up with #2, and I rather enjoyed it. Aimless Kitty avoiding things is very relatable to me right now, but I digress.

I have two main random thoughts.

Weird recurring trope of people messaging Kitty apologising about being a stalker.

Kitty is talking to herself A LOT.

Which isn't in and of itself a problem, but when it's being used as narration and exposition, it comes off as REALLY awkward. Writers do it from time to time to deliver information, and while it can be a bit weird, when it's done sparingly, it's fine.

There's this one page in issue two, where she's walking along, and talking out loud to NO ONE about her date she has to keep rescheduling. Which I could run with as someone muttering about something, but when she says out loud "Her name is Nina".

Um....I hope you would know that? Who are you telling this to besides the reader?? It is SUCH a clunky way to deliver exposition, and it's not made any better if it's revealed later on she's talking to a telepath.

I'm sorry, but all *I* can hear during THAT climactic moment in the latest episode of Agatha All Along is, "Happy birthday to the GROUND!"

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Existential Christmas.

Is this a thing?