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Sometimes, you sort of know how a particular movie or TV episode is going to go, after you read a bunch of spoilers. And sometimes, you see a new spoiler and have no clue how it's going to fit together with what you already knew. Case in point: a new casting announcement for the Wolverine movie makes no sense to me at all. There's also a new character joining Heroes, who could put a different spin on the show's existing relationships. (And one fan is going nuts trying to make all the random Battlestar spoilers fit.) And then there are the weird-but-true hints about upcoming Doctor Who episodes, the confusing Lost clips, and the cryptic pages from DC Comics' Final Crisis. But even when spoilers add to our confusion, we have to consume them anyway. We're spoilervores!
Wolverine:
The Wolverine solo movie, which already has a pretty massive cast of mutants tromping through it, now also guest-stars the young Scott Summers aka Cyclops. How does Cyclops fit into the storyline of Logan's early years in the Weapon X military taskforce? [Superhero Hype]
Heroes:
Bruce Boxleitner will play a new character in Heroes season three, one who was originally modeled on Sen. John McCain, but who may have been reconceived now that Bruce is playing him. In any case, this new character shares many scenes with one of our female regulars. (Angela, maybe?) This makes me think the new season will be way more political than we'd been led to expect, with that "supervillains" theme. Also, even though we're hearing about lots of new characters in season three, the focus will be on our core characters from the show's original pilot. [Ask Ausiello]
Battlestar Galactica:
Here's a pretty carefully constructed chronology of all the spoilers about upcoming Battlestar Galactica episodes that have come out so far. The only ones that may be news to me are that Tigh gets onboard a baseship, and there's a "powerful scene" between Tigh and Admiral Adama, possibly about President Roslin's capture by the rebel cylons. [Leliana McKay]
Doctor Who:
Here's a snippet from the script and a clip from Saturday's episode, "The Doctor's Daughter":
Jenny picks herself up, unharmed, excited, grinning. The Doctor is furious with her.
The Doctor: Why did you do that?
Jenny: They were trying to kill us!
The Doctor: But they've got my friend
Jenny: Collateral damage. At least you've still got her. He lost both of his men. I'd say you came out ahead. [Planet Gallifrey]
Some kind soul has scanned in some pages from some British magazines that include a few spoilers for the rest of the season. The Doctor's "daughter" is related to him but is necessarily his daughter daughter — it's complicated. So how does he end up with a daughter? According to one article, he sticks his hand into a machine that spits out grown-up offspring a moment later. In the season finale, there's a segment on a fake talk show where the "lights in the sky" are discussed. And one of the companions appearing in the finale may not survive. (My money's on Rose, actually.) [Loftio]
Remember those incredibly suspect spoilers we posted yesterday for the end of the season? The ones where Donna dies, and then the Doctor undoes her death, and then he wipes her memory? The guy who posted them has been banned from Digital Spy, where he posted them, and has become the laughingstock of the Doctor Who forum. Poor guy — he was just trying to keep us entertained. [Boards.ie]
Lost:
Some more preview photos have come out from the season finale, showing the Oceanic Six in mid-escape.
And here are two more short clips from tonight's Lost episode. It looks like Locke meets a ghost from the Dharma Initiative, and Sayid has a plan to save everyone on the island. [Spoilers Lost]
Final Crisis:
Entertainment Weekly has a five-page preview of Final Crisis, with script pages from writer Grant Morrison. It looks very much like 52 part two, or maybe "53." In a nutshell, Dick Turpin (from Metropolis Special Crimes Unit) finds Orion in a dumpster, half dead. And then he has a conversation with ex-cop Rene Montoya, who's become a superhero called The Question. Meanwhile, the sky turns red and freaks out, and John Stewart, who's a Green Lantern (a space cop with a magic ring) gets called to a "1011" emergency. Oh, and old Justice League villain Libra is behind everything, but uber-villain Darkseid also plays a major role. [Entertainment Weekly]
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I must confess: I am so NOT excited for "Final Crisis." For my money DC is just making a bigger messy of a sloppy universe.
Let's talk Secret Invasion!
Woo!
Another B5 alum on genre tv, yay!
@loserface: I'm the reverse. To make Secret Invasion Bendis was allowed to trash decades of Marvel continuity. I'll never buy an issue of it and hopefully it won't figure too much into the books I do buy.
So Sun is wearing a life vest, and Jin is looking at maps. It sounds like they escape the island by stealing a raft from the freighter. I wonder if they draw straws or something to see who gets to go.
In any case, it looks like they don't escape through the Orchid Station's secret time-traveling thingie.
I like the Super hero movies much more than anyone ought to, but I am just horrified by every tidbit I hear about the Wolverine spinoff...I'm past uninterested, so I only see these news briefs, but every one seems like they're actively trying to remove aything remotely interesting from Wolverine and the X-men.
Similarly, Heroes updates continue to disappoint as well. The story is getting lost in the character sprawl, yet every update is about new characters and expanding the cast.
Lost at least seems to be winding down, but I'm still not convinced that the plot is finalized, and I still get the feeling they're making it up from episode to episode.
On Final Crisis: Darkseid is always behind it. Stop being surprised.
His hand?
Oy...
Still, nice to know the crazy resetfest that was talked about yesterday probably won't happen.
So there were 48 original survivors from flight 815 and they're down to 40 or so. There's the Oceanic Six that make it and they're alluding to Locke and Sawyer living on the Island, but what in the hell is going on with the other 30'ish survivors? That's a lot of damn people to be pissed off at not getting rescued.
For a moment I was freaked out about the DW finale.
I hope Rose dies as well, unless...
Rose already "died" two years ago. Does this mean it's going to happen for real this time, or are we just going to have another death-by-technicality?
I really don't like the idea of letting major harm come to companions.
@Macloserboy: For my money Secret Invasion creates a world that is unsafe for the heroes, anyone can be a Skrull. It doesn't necessarily undo the stories of the past, maybe it helps explain those "out of character" moments or the weird ret-cons (and I am acknowledging this all one big ret-con, but it's the kind I like). Events like Secret Invasion, even Civil War, help make the universe a more volatile and therefore interesting place. Events like Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis always seem to be an effort to wipe the board clean only to create a much more confusing universe.
@loserface: The entire premise of Final Crisis is that evil wins. It doesn't get more unsafe for a superhero than that.
And Bendis has character who aren't Skrulls acting out of character to make this work. That's the problem. But I don't buy his stuff and moan about it any longer. I just don't buy it.
@loserface: Secret invasion only works if Marvel hasn't made any mistakes in the past several years, and there are too many writers and artists and editors involved to have not screwed something up. So instead of a mystery novel, which would be interesting, you get something more akin to a Slylock Fox.
I'd take Morrison over Bendis any day.
@IndustrialJones: According to Lostpedia, there's been at least 16 deaths among the 'speaking characters' who survived the crash. There were at least three killed recently when the camp was invaded.
Figure the current survivor number is around 25 - 30.
@IndustrialJones: If I had to guess, a lot more of them were killed in the recent camp invasion. It certainly seemed like the best way to narrow the roster down, which I think is a good thing. Let's face it, it's lame to think that they have just been sitting around playing ping-pong and golf while everyone else has been out doing God-knows-what.
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