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The X-Files Twist David Duchovny Tried To Cover Up

badflow — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:54:09 PDT

@MrLister: One can only wish!

The X-Files Twist David Duchovny Tried To Cover Up

twid — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:40:20 PDT

hey io9 folks, I'm unsubscribing from the blog because spoiler posts get full feeds into google reader. I don't mind the spoiler posts, I just don't personally like reading spoilers. The below-the-fold works well on the website, I just wish you wouldn't feed the whole post into your RSS feed. It would be great if you did partial posts of spoiler tagged posts into RSS, where people would have to click through to the site to get the full post.

I know you're not going to cry over losing one reader, but I thought I would let you know. :)

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Freddie Freelance — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:24:53 PDT

@munkles: They've already killed "Pa" Kent & bundled "Ma" Kent off to the State House, why not just kill her, too? They could play it off as Clark has a "Dark Knight"-type trial of conscience, finally pulling through it with a realization that he needs to live for "Truth, Justice & the American Way."

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Freddie Freelance — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:00:51 PDT

Is anyone else hoping Speed Racer includes a scene of Pops & Speed in a classic TV version argument: "Ha! I won't allow you to race, it's too dangerous! Ha Ha!" "Ha! I'm going to race anyway! Ha! And I'm going to Win, too! Ha Ha!"

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MrLister — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:44:21 PDT

Clark kills Lana.

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munkles — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:07:58 PDT

Kill Martha Kent? Why not make Superman's costume green and turn him into a chain smoking, chronic public masturbator?

The story needs Superman/Clark's love for his mom, to humanize his otherwise godly stature. In all the stories, his mom has always kept him grounded in the reality that human bonds, not superhuman powers, are what make the world go 'round.

Then again, given the dumbness with which current lazy-minded poorly-read producers treat the story, I'm surprised we haven't already seen Superman smoking six cigarettes at once while tossing his salad onto the tracks of the approaching A train.

They did make him a stalker and a creepy peeping tom wearing a dingy depressing version of his costume in the movie, after all. How far from there to a green cape? Maybe even a Welsh accent!

munkles

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MercuryPDX — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:43:36 PDT

@Zantor: Lex actually did die more times than that. Didn't Chloe bring him back once?

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MercuryPDX — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:40:15 PDT

@Scooter: Alternate Earth Mickey FTW

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MercuryPDX — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:33:47 PDT

@Jesse Mrozowski: What about Martha Kent? It would be just like them to have her cameo one last time before (speculating here) she strays a little to closely into the path of a Green Arrow?

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thefunnyone — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:38 PDT

How about they just make Torchwood about the adventures of the Doctor's companions as they guard the rift? Adam, Mickey, Rose, Martha, Jack, and Sara Jane. It'd be great

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thefunnyone — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:47:37 PDT

I say just make Torchwood the adventures of the Doctor's companions as they guard the rift. Martha, Jack, Mickey, Adam, Sarah Jane, and another from way back. It couldn't help but be a hit.

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yankerosa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:38:03 PDT

Scully and Mulder are one person? WTF! Anyway, thanks for the spoilers. I just peed myself a little.

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Mrreader — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:17:47 PDT

@ElijahDProphet: Or the cartoon could just not mention that the character is a lesbian. Maggie Sawyer appeared in the Superman Animated Series a few times, and the viewer did see her S.O. once. However, the relationship between the two women was never clarified in the animated series.

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femto — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:11:09 PDT

Sounds like this season of Doctor Who is going to be hard on the people left behind in the parallel universe. What about Pete Tyler, Mickey's grandmother, and Jake? (And Jackie?)

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smokyburnout — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:17:37 PDT

@ManchuCandidate: what's going to be really fun is what kind of Russian accent she has, because she's Venezuelan, if i remember correctly (the stupid IndyCar season ended in September) one of the few things harder to understand why teams keep hiring her is her accent (an exaggeration of course, but how often do you get to use a line like that?)...

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Hart — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:15:45 PDT

@tetracycloide: I had zero interest in Speed Racer, never seen the show even one time! And the trailer didn't do all that much for me though I did think it was pretty. But that spoiler did sound kinda cool to me.

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Scooter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:01:55 PDT

Mickey always kind of got on my nerves. He was too much of a whiner.

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Git Em SteveDave seeks Lego build buddy. How about you? — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:58 PDT

@ElijahDProphet: Well, in this chapter of the novel: [www.nbc.com], towards the end, we see the elder Patrelli w/ his wife and a small child. Since they were in Vietnam together around 1968, and this picks up after Vietnam, I'm guessing it should be Nathan we are seeing as he is the elder brother.

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Plague — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:53:19 PDT

Whoever above called Caprica "Dallas in Space" is dead on.
How dull.

Is Moore the showrunner on this? How involved is the BSG creative team?

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tetracycloide — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:39:25 PDT

i'm not sure if i can trust my own instincts on speed racer. every time i hear anything about it that could be negative there's a voice inside my head that screams 'but it's speed racer, it will rock!' it's a lot like the voice in your head that screams 'but they're so damn hot' every time someone you're attracted to does something monumentally stupid and you're to turned on to notice.

so, getting to the point, can someone that isn't turned on by the mere mention of a speed racer movie give me a frank appraisal of that spoiler becuase i'm not sure i'm capable of making drawing any rational conclusions from it.

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tetracycloide — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:33:21 PDT

@t3knomanser: i'm more than willing to eat my words if it turns out not to be true but the fact the the oldest known 'hero' is called 'adam' is a pretty strong indicator that all the present day heroes are his descendants.

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ElijahDProphet — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:32:55 PDT

@Git Em SteveDave: That doesn't mean Linderman didn't go horizontal with their mom after the war though. Peter and Nathan look like post war babies to me. Unless the comic says that they were born before their dad went to war.

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Git Em SteveDave seeks Lego build buddy. How about you? — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:55:57 PDT

But it was explained in the comics/novel that Nathan and Peter's Dad served w/Linderman in Vietnam, so unless they want to go against their OWN established canon, how can they do that? I don't understand.

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Zantor — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:52:28 PDT

@Jesse Mrozowski:

Wasn't Chloe thought to have died in that house explosion earlier in the series?

Wasn't Lana thought to have been blown-up in her car earlier?

Lex was thought to be dead when he was on that island.

Lionel, he had a death scare too.

Hell, I guess the only ones who have not been thought dead are Pete, the Dog & Martha Kent

Look out Pete!

Zantor

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ManchuCandidate — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:44:33 PDT

Er what kind of Rooshin name is Kellie? Sorry, but that Speed Racer movie is going to suck large, ha-ha ha-ha.

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Miranda Kali — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:15:37 PDT

@Jim (The Canuck One):
Well maybe if they just started kissing each other on "The View" I'd start watching it. (.....then again..)

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Jim (The Canuck One) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:03:25 PDT

Great. ANOTHER annoying Whiny McWhinerson character to join Torchwood. A few more and it'll be indistinguishable from "The View".

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Miranda Kali — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:01:27 PDT

Hmmm. Sounds like Caprica is going to be "Daaallaaas iiiinn Spaaaaace!" (not that that would be an entirely bad thing)
...but wait a second. Creation of the Cylons? I was under the impression that they'd been around for a century or more. I'm must not have been paying attention...('cause surly they wouldn't retcon it....Surely!)

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ElijahDProphet — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:50:34 PDT

@t3knomanser: But, but, but it was so cool when Marvel decided that every black character had to be related, and took as far as to have Storm Marry Black Panther. The best part is the way they shoehorned in Gateway as an ancestor of Bishop.

@DeepFriar: But you see, now that Renee is a lesbian they need to distance themselves from that, because god forbid a cartoon have a character who, elsewhere in a different media type, is gay.

Also, that X-Files plot twist would be the best plot twist since Fight Club had the exact same plot twist.

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