The example in discussion notwithstanding, I'm pretty much the same. I loved the X-Men back then, and was really interested in them as people as much as characters (or heroes). Nowadays? Meh. I could tell you what Storm's up to, vaguely (she's divorced from T'Challa and teaches at one of Xavier's schools)... and stuff. That's it.
Making sense in real terms doesn't make it a good story in fiction terms.
Are you trying to suggest we could blame anything about Marrina on shapeshifting aliens?
~ Le Messor
"Morality is common sense plus consensus."
~ Mark T. Shirey