X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer

[andraste]

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

OK, that's it, I need to develop time travel. May is too far away!

I didn't think they would ever make an X-Men film more tailored to my interests than First Class, but there we are.



In addition to the obvious things I am excited about - Charles and Erik working together! CHARLES AND CHARLES HAVING A CONVERSATION! - I am really pleased to see Bishop. I know this film is going to have nine million characters, but I hope he gets a good part. And hey, is that Warparth?

*goes to check Wikipedia*

Oh, hey, it's Warpath! And Blink! And Sunspot!

Comments

[andraste]

Going by the trailer, I think I can feel confident that I am going to like this!

(I mean, let's be honest, even on the off-chance the plot is a mess and the cast of thousands get two lines each, I am still going to walk out happy that Charles had a conversation with himself. Now I just want to see all the other past-and-future-selves talks with Erik and Raven in on the act ...)

[selenak]

What present/past combinations I long to see most, in vague order of longing, in addition to Charles - Charles:

Old Charles - Young Raven
Young Charles - Mystique
Erik - Erik (naturally)
Mystique - Young Erik (depending on whether or not this is post X3, not least so she can slap him along with old Erik. Mind you, maybe the mission is to make X3 imposssible!)
Old Charles - Young Erik

But mainly the Raven combinations because damm it, XMFC has made me so interested in the Charles and Raven sibling relationship, and I WANT MORE.

[andraste]

[i]But mainly the Raven combinations because damm it, XMFC has made me so interested in the Charles and Raven sibling relationship, and I WANT MORE.[/i]

Yeah, I really hope we get to see this. (Not that I don't also want Young Charles and Young Raven interacting. I hope canon some day gives us an explanation for how they went from the beach scene in First Class to the end of X2 ...)

Bryan Singer said recently in an interview somewhere that Days of Future Past is set ten years after First Class in the past and about ten years after X3 in the present. I do suspect alterations to the time line may have already happened, since Charles is alive but also still in his wheelchair. (I mean, if he were in a new body there'd probably be no reason for that.) Ten years seems like a really long time for Charles to sit in the mansion being angry, so I'm wondering if something else has happened since to explain his awful mood and ill-advised fashion choices ...

[selenak]

The Beatles broke up! Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got divorced! Nixon got two terms! War in Vietnam! Isn't enough of an explanation for Charles' early 70s mood?:)

[andraste]

You make an excellent point :).

(Erik was always more of a Stones man. Charles tells himself that this should have made him realise sooner that it could never work out in the long term.)

I imagine that Nixon getting elected (twice!) tested Charles' moral resolve about mind-controlling people in Washington rather severely.

[selenak]

I think Charles campaigned for McGovern, and the night Nixon got reelected, he got very stoned. Hank asked whether this was a good idea; Charles said it was that or giving into temptation to mindwhammy Nixon into exposing himself to the Nation for who he is. When the Watergate scandal refused to go away, Hank was never quite sure whether Charles hadn't given into temptation after all...

[andraste]

... somebody should really write that. (And, no, not me! I don't know enough about '70s American politics!)