Today's batch of spoilers include a shocking plot twist from the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, and a ton of details about a June Battlestar Galactica episode. We also have new plot details about Sam Rockwell's new movie Moon, and a new synopsis for Star Wars: Clone Wars. We dug up a dodgy description of how the current Doctor Who season climaxes, and a few new hints about the rest of the Lost season. All this, plus new spoilerific pics from Smallville, Transformers: Animated and Spectacular Spider-Man. Make a spoiler space in your mind, and then jump right in.
Moon:
Remember Moon, the movie directed by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, and starring Sam Rockwell (Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind)? Now that it's in post-production, a few more details have leaked out. The reason Rockwell is stranded alone on the Moon for three years: he's mining a gas that Earth needs to solve its energy crisis. And while he's stuck up there, he has an encounter that will change the course of human history. Even though Rockwell is alone on the Moon, he has costars in the movie: Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) and Kaya Scodelario (Skins). Are they playing aliens he meets, or other people who turn up? Or the people waiting for him back on Earth? [Slice Of Scifi]
The Dark Knight:
In the new Batman movie, part of what drives Harvey Dent over the edge into becoming Two-Face is that his fiancee is killed. This is presumably Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). This will also give Batman something else to angst over, since she's his old flame and his "hope for a normal life." [Comic By Comic]
Battlestar Galactica:
Someone posted a ton of spoilers for episode 9 of Battlestar Galactica season four, "The Hub," which airs June 6. Roslin and Baltar are in the hands of the rebel Cylons (the Leobens, the Sharons, the Sixes) who are planning an attack on the "Resurrection Hub," without which no Cylon can resurrect anywhere, even with a resurrection ship. The humans have an uneasy alliance with these rebel Cylons. And some human pilots help with the attack, including Helo, Seelix and "Gonzo" Pike. The humans also decide to help the rebels to retrieve D'Anna (Lucy Lawless) so they can learn the identity of the Final Five within the fleet. D'Anna is un-boxed and immediately starts being manipulative and playing mind games again. The battle to destroy the Hub is "insane."
Helo feels very threatened when he realizes that when "his" Sharon died and was resurrected over the algae planet, her memories became available to all the other Sharons.
Baltar does the one thing that could surprise me at this point: he confesses his role in the destruction of humanity to Roslin — leaving her with a tough moral quandary. We see Roslin's death in a flash-forward, and the "L-word" is finally spoken between her and Adama. Elosha puts in an appearance as Roslin's spiritual adviser. [Battlestar Blog]
Star Wars: Clone Wars:
Here's our first look at Asajj Ventress, one of the main villains of the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie (coming this August) and TV show (coming this fall). As with previous versions, she's bald and venomous-looking. [USA Today]

And more story details about the movie have come out. Jabba the Hutt's son has been kidnapped, and the Jedi agree to rescue him in exchange for access to shipping routes, but this may be a plot to divert the Jedi to the remote planet of Teth. Anakin, his student Ahsoka, and a Clone squadron, travel to the B'omarr monastery on Teth to find Hutt Jr., but they find themselves surrounded by General Grievous' battle droids and hunted by Asajj Ventress. R2D2 helps them find a way out, and Obi-Wan brings much-needed reinforcements. [Jedi News]
Lost:
Lost's Sonya Walger (Penny) was spotted in Hawaii. Does that mean Penny's coming to the island? Or just that she's going to appear in an upcoming episode? Also, there are hints another one of our "favorite castaways" will die in an upcoming episode. [Spoilers Lost]
Smallville:
Here are some pics from the Smallville season finale, where Lex finally gets into the Fortress of Solitude. [The TV Addict]
And this week's episode, "Quest," follows Lex to Zurich, where he keeps trying to learn about the "Veritas" mythology. Lex gets attacked by a monastic-robed stranger with Kryptonian symbols carved into his chest, which seem to be a message for Clark. Meanwhile, Jimmy takes an interest in the symbols carved in the Kawatche caves, and Clark thinks about their symbolism. Clark and Chloe team up to investigate and learn that a member of the Veritas clan has survived and is hiding out in a church. Clark and Lex race to be the first to find this Veritas member, who holds the key to Clark's survival. [Buddy TV]
Doctor Who:
Here's a possibly spurious summary of the last two episodes of the current Doctor Who season. Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones is consumed with hatred for the Doctor, especially after she finds out her successor as prime minster was a member of the Doctor's own species. She managed to get aboard the Valiant and witnessed the entire year of Harold Saxon's reign of terror which "never happened." It was Harriet who stole the Master's ring from his funeral pyre, and uses it to help an army of Daleks, led by Davros, to escape from beyond reality.
This causes Rose's alternate universe to unravel. As head of her universe's Torchwood London, Rose knows what's going on, but doesn't know how to stop it. She desperately tries to reach the Doctor. Meanwhile, Donna has read her own life story in that future library (the one from the Steven Moffat two-parter) and knows she'll be killed by the Racnoss, the spider-creature that ruined her wedding day.
Donna is left alone inside the TARDIS, hurtling out of control, and doesn't know what to do. Then Rose appears on the screen, having managed to get a signal through a fracture in reality — after the Doctor has already completely vanished from our universe. Donna and Rose try to use the TARDIS to bring the Doctor back. They keep colliding with alternate realities, including their own lives if they'd never met the Doctor. Finally, they manage to bring the Doctor back. He's confronted Davros and Harriet, who's now the Red Dalek.
Realities collide, bringing Jackie and Mickey back to our universe. And then the Daleks kill Donna's mother and grandfather. And then Donna is controlled by the insect on her back, by means of a Racnoss Empress from an alternate reality, which came to our universe through the hole the Daleks have made. The alternate Empress joins forces with Davros and Harriet. The only way to stop Donna's evil back-spider is to kill Donna, which the Doctor refuses to do. Meanwhile, all the universes are threatening to collide, destroying everything. The Doctor reaches the Medusa Cascade, but the only way to close the rift again is to sacrifice a human life. The Doctor falters, unable to sacrifice anyone. But then Donna chooses to sacrifice her own life to save everything.
But after Donna is gone, the Doctor decides to break his most sacred rule for her, and goes back in time 24 hours to change his own past, so the Daleks and Harriet can be stopped without sacrificing Donna's life. Then Captain Jack erases Donna's memory so she has no clue what's happened and won't try to find the Doctor again. She won't remember him at all. This restores everything to the point it was before, with Rose, Mickey and Jackie once again sealed in their alternate universe. [Planet Gallifrey]
Transformers: Animated:
Here are some screencaps from an upcoming episode of Transformers: Animated called "SUV: Society For Ultimate Villainy," which already aired in the Middle East but won't air in the U.S. until June or later. It features a Decepticon called Swindle, and a villain who fires a time-freezing blast, using a pocket watch. The "clockwoman" teams up with Nano and the Angry Archer to build a time-control machine for Swindle. [TFW2005]
Spectacular Spider-Man:
And meanwhile, Spectacular Spider-Man is unaccountably airing its Halloween episode this Saturday. Here's the blurb:
"The Uncertainty Principle"... presents a number of perplexing situations for Peter Parker and Spider-Man as they both try to find clarity amid the masks, mysteries and menace of Halloween. While Colonel John Jameson struggles to land his damaged space shuttle, Spider-Man continues his ongoing battle with Green Goblin, who also threatens Hammerhead and Tombstone. Still, Peter's greatest challenge will be facing the awful truth when he finally learns the Goblin's "true" identity.And here are a few stills from the episode:













Comments
The religious fanatics are the Cylons. It's an interesting irony, but only if the humans come to their senses and knock it off with all this pagan retardation. What a bunch of mystics.
I've edited this sentence into something that would make for more compelling viewing:
> Here are some pics from the Smallville
> series finale
So... Doctor Who spoiler is: Lots of really wild shit happens, then there's a reset button and none of it happens.
That's so far fetched! They'd never do the reset button thing!
I'm not sure which BSG plot twist we weren't expecting.
Every since about mid-last season I've been expecting a conclusion in which Cylons and Humans cooperate, in order to provide a demonstration of how similar they are. The old "people are people, even if some people are related to toasters" trick.
There were basically two alternatives: they continue to fight, forever or they gain a mutual understanding and respect and work together in some capacity.
Adama and Roslin in love? That's not surprising at all. I mean c'mon. Roslin. Schwing! She's a total babe: brainy, gorgeous, sensitive to her friends but tough. Who WOULDN'T fall for that?
It's not like she's a frakkin' Cylon, after all.
In the new Batman movie, part of what drives Harvey Dent over the edge into becoming Two-Face is that his fiancee is killed. This is presumably Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). This will also give Batman something else to angst over, since she's his old flame and his "hope for a normal life."
Damn it! Women in Refridgerators syndrome strikes again! For crying out loud, can we come up with any other motivation for male heroes other than dead or threatened female love interests?
Which "favorite castaways" are not part of the Six?
Locke?
Sawyer?
Jin?
Claire? [dingdingdingdingding!!]
Since Lost is running out of female characters to kill off, are we to assume Desmond is on the chopping block?
@Dunny0: Sort of. There's a distinct consequence; specifically, that the Doctor breaks one of "The Rules" (tm) to save Donna.
Unlike most of their reset switch plotlines, that offers a new, interesting plot hook.
Not that I think RTD would actually use that hook in a constructive way.
I mean, if that spoiler is true, RTD is taking a character that nobody misses, turning them into a Big Bad Villain, and has the Daleks teaming up with other Big Bads (despite the previous fight with the Cybermen which demonstrated that the Daleks don't team up; it's not like they can pull a Cult of Skarro here- Davros wouldn't go for that), and putting it all in a blender set to "Suck".
Im generally not a fan of spoilers. I had sixth sense ruined for me. But BSG is so great that even when I know the big shocker of the episode it is still incredibly suspenseful.
No. If this is true I'll just stop watching DW. Really after making Donna so awsome they are going to kill her off and bring her back worse for all her adventures and growing. I can respect RTD if he killed her off but this. No.
Some of the Doctor Who stuff sounds plausible, and Planet Gallifrey's additional detail that Rose and Donna are using Rose's knowledge of the TARDIS plus Donna's driving skills make me think there could be a degree of truth in this -- it does seem to build on little bits that we've already seen. Other parts are harder to buy: Harriet Jones stowed away on the Valiant for a year? The Master's ring as a thing of power that can splinter the dimensions? HJ figuring out how to use the ring in such a way?
I don't know...
@Dunny0: At least it sounds like a really wild, exciting ride until that somewhat extremely disappointing end. Apart from Harriet Jones. I hate the Harriet Jones character, and her being aboard the Valiant for a year and not be detected sounds... not only not plausible, but like piss-poor creativity.
@FotoVerite: But let's just assume that the rumour that Steven Moffat will take over for RTD is true, and we can anticipate that the 2010 series will fulfill all our fanboy dreams. So you wouldn't have to stop watching at all!
I don't watch this new Transformers show, but if they have any sort of loose association with the original, that means Swindle could mark the coming of the Combaticons and Bruticus! Now those would be episodes worth watching...if they were bothering with it at all.
@jbq: Steven Moffat is rumored to take over from RTD? Really?
That would be awesome.
@MISS MERCY STREET:
My money is split between Jin and Claire. We saw Jin's tombstone in a flash-forward, and Daniel Dae Kim was recently nailed for drunk driving. Claire, on the other hand, just went MIA, leaving her baby in Sawyer's care. Somehow that results in Sawyer asking favors of Kate and giving her the baby to raise in the real world.
ok, the Doctor Who stuff just made my brain bleed.
It is so outlandish it must be true.
Holy FRAP!
All of these spolers just go to show you: there are no original ideas or concepts anymore; everything has been re-hashed so many damn times it's now a question of WHICH old plot is going to be recycled this week.
Curse you, Gene Rodenberry!!!
@btgoss: I'm sort of skeptical about it, actually... i think it probably has some truth, but also some made-up stuff.
@darcymcgee: The BSG plot twist I wasn't expecting was Baltar confessing to his role in the genocide. That actually does surprise me, although you can see they've been leading up to it.
@Gospel X: Don't count on it. This new TF series is actually really cool for us G1 fans, because it contains tons of references to the original series, but it's not a direct retelling at all. The Constructicons will also be appearing in an upcoming episode (pics were leaked in a similar fashion), but there's only two of them and they don't combine into anything.
Anyway, it's good to see the show finally getting covered on io9. It's not exactly my dream Transformers series, but it's the best one we've had in years.
Jesus Christ. There's a reason people hate retcons. Because they take something that's already been established and simply throws it out of the window like it never existed.
And then Torchwood brings a drug called "retcon" into the Who universe.
Oh, DW. Why did you have to start downwardly spiraling? Why? I try so hard to love you...but you make it so difficult.
@Purple Dave: Jin's tombstone means nothing. The date on it is the date of the crash, because he was supposedly killed along with everyone but the six [which we know is not true].
There's nothing to indicate he's not still alive on the island. Yet...
Claire, on the other hand, gives Aaron to Kate to raise. Maybe because she's no longer among the living. [Last I saw she was still pretty adamant about raising him herself...]
@Charlie Jane Anders: I suppose that's a good point, but yeah...it does seem that some sort of Baltar Revelation is due. As he makes himself more and more of a christ figure, it seems somewhat inevitable that a "truth shall set you free" moment will arrive and Baltar will confess his sins, weeping all the while.
As long as he keeps nailing the hot chicks between now and then, I say all power to him!
@ideaman2020:
And...things got even more twisted a week later. Claire's hanging out with daddy's ghost (but not confirmed to be either alive or dead), and from the spoiler for this week's episode it sorta looks like Jin will be one of the people who leaves the island, thus setting him up to either be one of the Oceanic Six, or dead before they get back.
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