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Question though.

How was Trask's assassination the catalyst for mutant extinction when Congress was not even a fan of his.

Hell, he was killed while courting the communist, people we fought in Vietnam, our enemies!

If anything, he was a traitor, no?

His death would've been viewed as a good thing, no?

Mystique would've been viewed as a hero of the USA, not an enemy.
 
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If anything was a let down or saddened me I wish Havoc had time in with Charles and Beast.... AND....
I liked the Banshee kid, sorry to see him killed off.
 
That also bugged me a bit. But it made the threat seem legit, in that anyone could be offed. In the comics he was incredibly important to the Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne runs.
 
Also made you not too sympathetic for the Imp, knowing he's Dr Frankensteining every mutant he gets ahold of.:lol
 
I was surprised to hear talk of
Emma Frost's death.

So...
Banshee, Angel (female), Emma Frost, and Azazel are the ones who kicked it in the decade between this and 1st class
 
I just look think the whole first trilogy is like 1990 Total Recall now where you can make a case for the whole thing being either in his head or real. At worst I can pretend that the X-trilogy now represents Wolverine's fragmented "memory" of that first timeline. A dream-like trilogy pieced together in his mind after the events of DOFP but not totally representative of what actually happened (hence the continuity issues.) Regardless of what Singer's personal take is the fact remains that he has really opened the whole series up to interpretation, which I love. I'm sure Verhoeven has a specific preference for what "really" happened in Total Recall but we're still free to assume whatever we like.

Tarantino always said that the second director for any given movie is the audience because we always get to interpret what is presented however we choose. For some movies the burden on the audience is just way too much connect dots that the director just didn't have a clue about but I don't believe that is the case with DOFP.

See, while I easily disregard the Star Wars prequels because I think they're awful films with very few redeeming qualities I can't say the same for the X-men films. Right now I am unsatisfied having to think of them as merely some vague history to DOFP. As movies in their own right they're deserving of better, they just done ****ed up on their continuity because of a lack of planning and gob$h**e writers not doing a tiny amount of research.
 
Awesome film. I really enjoyed it, despite a few things not being explained.
 
I was typing another response but....but...its all too hard! *covers eyes and rushes out of room*

:lol

you ain't going nowhere, you still need to finish your Terminator theory applied to the X-Men.

Nah, I'll be ok. I don't take it all that serious. :lol

Just wait until Gandolph gets sent back to 1973 Middle Earth in the next movie, you will be stressing. :lol
 
Wow! You need to go see Cap America: Winter Soldier then ;) ;) ;)

yeah true, I totally forgot about that one. The last one I saw was Spidey and it totally wiped my brain clean of all movies I've seen to date...........

Cap and this one are very close for me.
 
See, while I easily disregard the Star Wars prequels because I think they're awful films with very few redeeming qualities I can't say the same for the X-men films. Right now I am unsatisfied having to think of them as merely some vague history to DOFP.

Well that's the thing. Singer opened the door quite widely for us to do whatever we like with the series as a whole now. You like it all? Keep it. You like the idea of X1-X3 being non-canon, well the ground work has been laid for that idea to work now too.
 
:lol

you ain't going nowhere, you still need to finish your Terminator theory applied to the X-Men.

Very well then, I shall elaborate on that. Kara observed that when sentinel future Wolverine (Wolverine A) returns to his future body at the end (the body which is actually the aged version of the body he had jumped into in the 70s, Wolverine B) he replaced/wiped out the consciousness of Wolverine B. That struck Kara as a sad thing and he wondered why Professor Xavier didn't appear in any way uncomfortable with the idea.

This notion seemed comparable to the Terminator theory a few of us discussed in the T5 thread about how the paradox of John Connor existing before his own dad (Kyle Reese) could not have always been the case; how there must have been one original John Connor born to Sarah Connor and yet fathered by an entirely different guy, this version of John Connor is not depicted by any of the films. When that John Connor sent Kyle Reese back through time to protect his mother from a T-800 he didn't bank on Kyle Reese ****ing his mother. Because Kyle did do just that and got her pregnant, an entirely new person came about who Sarah decided to call John, being none the wiser. She assumes that this is the John Connor that she was supposed to have. She never meets the original father and thusly that first John Connor is inadvertently wiped from existence because Kyle Reese couldn't keep it in his pants. No one has any knowledge of this original John Connor, the poor guy is gone forever. Like Wolverine B he was an innocent casualty of timeline meddling and the good guys sort of have a hand in this and that's a sad thing to contemplate.

But anyway, my counter suggestion to make it seem more palatable is that Wolverine A and B are merged rather than B being erased. All memories will return and Wolverine will now have awareness of 2 timelines.....maybe.

credit to Difabio for Terminator idea
 
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