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I've seen Fantastic Four First Steps. No spoilers ahead.

One review I read described it as being, "aggressively average." I liked it a little better than that, but it wasn't the homerun I'd hoped it would be. Answers came a little too easily. Reed was a bit too whiny. Galactus seemed a bit nerfed. There was at least one sequence that felt genuinely intense, but most were not. The sense of scale seemed off, too, in that things happened offscreen really fast, then really slow. If you can tell me how large Galactus is from watching the film, I'm impressed.

It doesn't sound like it from the above, but I did enjoy the film. I was entertained. I thought it worlds better than, say, The Marvels or The Eternals. Still, I saw it with my son and afterwards he said he liked it, but it made him want to see Superman again.

Not to be spoilery, but there's an echo of that in Superman.

A news blurb on TVLine.com claims that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 2 will start filming soon despite Season 1 not airing until 2026.

https://tvline.com/lists/criminal-minds … y-filming/

There have been two films mentioned that I can recall. One is another prequel, "an origin story for the main timeline of the Star Trek franchise." Supposed to be set mainly on Earth. Written by Seth Grahame-Smith and directed by Andor's Toby Haynes.

There's also still occasion word that a fourth and final film with the JJVerse cast is being developed.

Until and unless the Paramount/Skydance merger goes through, I don't expect any kind of release dates or casting on these films.

Oh, and Patrick Stewart has mentioned a script for a final TNG-era film set after Picard S3. I seriously doubt this will happen.

I think it depends on the show. Network shows that air in the fall tend to start filming in July or August for a late September or even October start. They tend to catch up to the filming, which is one reason there are breaks between new episodes during the season. If there's a particular set that's needed for an arc, I'd guess all filming on that set is done at once. Common practice now may not match common practice in the 60's (there were 30+ episodes in TOS season 3, and many scripts were written without the writer ever having been able to see an episode) or 90's (22-26 episodes were common). Remember, Sliders S1 and S2 were both supposed to be a single, 22-episode season, but the network stopped production after S1E9 to force changes on the show. No, you couldn't have aired the Flash's season finale before its season premiere, but that also wasn't a goal.

Streaming is a different story. Mid-season replacements also might finish filming before airing. Strange New Worlds S3 finished filming in May, 2024, and still hasn't started airing.

I don't know how far in advance Sliders was filming, but remember, "Summer of Love" was filmed second (if you count both hours of the pilot as single episode), but aired fifth. Not at all uncommon before season-long or even series-long arcs were a thing.

I can't imagine a Tormé-led season of Sliders being Kromag-centered. There's an infinite number of Earths (Also an infinite number of Kromag-invaded worlds, eventually, but still fewer that aren't). Maybe they run into them once a season. Maybe even twice. Just as a matter of not wanting to get too repetitious, though, there are too many more interesting ways to go.

It wouldn't fit into the show, but I'd love to see what happens when the Kromags invade an Earth whose timeline forked off from their own. It's not unthinkable that the Kromag Earths would eventually all wipe each other out.

Welcome! I'll agree that the Kromags never worked as a full-time big bad. Sliders never needed a season-long, much less multi-season-long big bad.

I don't know that they really killed the possibility of a reboot, though. Reboots take many forms. Look at Ron Moore's BSG reboot. It was definitely BSG, but jettisoned several aspects/characters from the original show. I don't see any reason why they'd have to be a part of a reboot, or even a continuation, if one was ever considered.

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I like the idea of taking secondary characters and making a team out of them, particularly when it's a group that needs redemption like they do. I'm guessing the immediate downgrading of the "New Avengers" is setting up a situation where Earth has no cohesive set of protectors at the start of Avengers Doomsday. Also, given their background, it shouldn't be a surprise that they wouldn't immediately be embraced as worth successors to Iron Man, Captain America, etc. Sam was asked to assemble a new team of Avengers by President Red Hulk, so I'm also not surprised to see him be a bit put off by having a criminal like de Fontaine pull that out from under him.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle Bob/Sentry in the future. My guess is they're going to need him. Also interesting to see how the F4 end up in our universe. That's probably going to be revealed in the F4 Frist Steps, but it doesn't bode well for the fate of their universe if they've left it for ours.

Thanks. I'll give it a watch. Well, not Bandersnatch, as Netflix has removed it.

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Months later... FWIW, they have a ship. Definitely Earth based, they keep on bragging about the size of the set, but they aren't stuck on Earth. I don't have high hopes considering my least favorite Discovery character is involved, but I'll at least watch the first episode.

Mini interview with CD on Broadway...
https://www.playbill.com/article/checki … t-derricks

Right on script.

And it's not like she has a huge role as is. I occasionally forget she's still on the show.

FWIW, Frequency isn't getting a full season order. Neither is No Tomorrow. I guess it's still possible to get canceled on the CW after all.

http://deadline.com/2016/11/frequency-n … 201855687/

OK, so neither has technically been canceled yet, but realistically they're dead shows walking.

Thawne did kill Barry's mom. At the end of the season premiere, Barry took Thawne back to let him Kill his mom. It was the only way to undo the Flashpoint timeline. The timeline we're in unfolded slightly differently than the original, which is why we have Killer Frost and Cisco's brother is dead, but Nora Allen is dead. Presumably, Thawne went on to kill Wells, take his place, and create the accelerator accident.

I noticed that the big crossover event begins November 28th. I find it odd that they wouldn't have staged it during November sweeps.

Probably. And I'd have put money on Malfoy turning out to be Alchemy or Savitar on Flash before the latest episode. I suppose that could still be the case, and we're being given a bit of misdirection.

I'm enjoying it. Therefore, it will end up being cancelled, much like Limitless.

Grant Gustin tweeted out the Flash season 3 opener's title, Flashpoint. No mention of whether it will affect the other series. Also, he mentioned they'd be doing it their own way, not that the Arrow-verse lends itself to a direct adaptation.

Without trying to weigh in on the Informant/SQ21 thing, I saw Civil War and I loved it. It hit all the right notes, it balanced story with set pieces, had motivations for each 'side' of the argument that made sense and didn't try to heal all the wounds in the final act.

I know that one of the producers has said that Barry's trip to Kara's Earth will be referenced in an upcoming episode of The Flash. The production team wasn't able to nail down exactly when the Supergirl episode would air (different networks) in order to make it tie in directly. I expect it won't be more than a throw away remark.

I thought it was an excellent example of how not to make a superhero film. Not the only example, mind you. Green Lantern was awful in its own way. Attempts to turn serious superheroes into zany comedy are another way.

This film was just dull and joyless, and it didn't have to be. You can do serious without being grim and lifeless (see CA:The Winter Soldier or the Nolan Bat-verse). With this film, they've turned being a superhero into an incredible burden, rather than a gift. They turned one of fiction's greatest detectives into an imbecile. The references to the rest of the Justice League felt even more shoehorned in than the expanded (and since aborted) Spidey-verse was in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. They didn't even get the DCU geography right.

You could easily shave 45-minutes off of this film and lose nothing. A Batman origin story? AGAIN? Oh, right, if they hadn't filmed it then that other thing would have made even less sense. This is a non-spoiler post, but if you've seen the film, you should know to which other ridiculous thing I'm referring.

Please, no. Unless it was filmed in 16:9, it shouldn't be released in 16:9. The directors framed the shots for 4:3 and they should be viewed at 4:3. It's no better than when widescreen films used to get cropped to fit a 4:3 frame.

I'd argue that none of the original trilogy was completely self-contained. They all worked as films, but even in the original Star Wars (before it picked up the subtitle) we see things are are given snippets of information that only come into play in later films, or even the prequels. We don't know how the Empire supplanted the Old Republic. We don't know what went down between Vader, Obi Wan and Anakin. We don't know about the Clone Wars, or the Sith or Luke having a sister ("no, there is another!" - Empire Strikes Back). The list of unexplained references and circumstances goes on and on. That's actually one of the things that the original trilogy did better than the prequels. We didn't need backstory about trade federations or midiclorians or the workings of the senate, we just needed to jump into the story and figure out what was going on.

The real question is, do the loose ends and/or plot holes matter? Rey has spent her life rummaging around in old space ships and she knows how to fly. Is it really out of the question that she might know how these things work? She learns how to use the force quickly. Luke got pretty good with the force even before his training with Yoda. Also, she seemed to get better with it after each encounter with Kylo Ren, so in a way he was her teacher. You know who also was good at fixing things and learned how to use the force quickly? Luke and Anakin Skywalker. Does it ruin the movie if she's not related, but just a quick study that's unusually strong in the Force?

If I'm looking for a real plot hole, how in the world does anyone have a map to where Luke is? Particularly, how is most of the map contained in records from before the fall of the Empire? This is the MacGuffin, of course. We need a thing like the plans of the Death Star to find and/or keep from the enemy. Still, its existence makes absolutely no sense.

Might I be forgiving some things here that I would pick on in the prequels? Perhaps, that's difficult to judge. But here's the thing, the prequels were awful movies, regardless of these things. Forgiving them wouldn't have made them good.

Does this film serve as the first act of a trilogy? Absolutely, but I also think it works on its own. Even Episode IV had Darth Vader speeding off into space. I can recall my father, immediately after exiting the movie theater from seeing Star Wars the first time. "We'll see him (Vader) again." Likewise, we'll see Kylo Ren again, though I found him one of the less interesting aspects of the film.

BTW, if you're looking for a fairly comprehensive list of questions raised but not answered by The Force Awakens, have a look here:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/33-questions-we- … 1748953034
I don't expect all of those questions to be answered, but I'm betting some of them will. Some of them are, I think, already answered in the film in one way or another. If they aren't, though, does it really matter?