I've always been amazed at the editorial goings on with this particular story. A major change like that, at the very last minute... it's a miracle it turned out even remotely okay, let alone one of the most memorable X-Men stories.
I'm not 100% sure I agree with Shooter's declaration that Jean had to die, since it was a case of "went mad with power" rather than "coldly and deliberately and willfully murdered people", but destroying an entire planet is pretty hard to come back from. (And then Claremont and Byrne would start getting into it with each other with the Trial of Galactus and its lead up).
But the one thing I do know is, as much as I liked X-Factor, and as much as Scott and Jean are my big X-ship... she should have stayed dead. The stark finality of this shouldn't have been broken.
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I'm not 100% sure I agree with Shooter's declaration that Jean had to die, since it was a case of "went mad with power" rather than "coldly and deliberately and willfully murdered people", but destroying an entire planet is pretty hard to come back from. (And then Claremont and Byrne would start getting into it with each other with the Trial of Galactus and its lead up).
But the one thing I do know is, as much as I liked X-Factor, and as much as Scott and Jean are my big X-ship... she should have stayed dead. The stark finality of this shouldn't have been broken.