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She's appeared on episodes of both CSI and Law & Order: SVU before as well. Except her first appearance as River in DW happened before I caught her in reruns of those other shows, so like you I immediately said "River!!" when I saw her onscreen.

Why don't we invade the moon?!? I mean look at it! Just sitting there... mocking us.

I suppose you also hated the fact that Thor has a beard and War Machine was introduced before the Avengers ever formed?

Yes, the X-Men movies have had their fair share of problems (especially X3 and Wolverine; I like to pretend the Wolverine movie in particular just ends after he gets the adamantium, there's so much stupid and wrong that comes after). But I try to judge each of the films on their own merits, rather than get all fannishly nitpicky about what they did or didn't get "right" from the comics. A lot of the stupid decisions in the aforementioned third X-flick and the Wolverine origin movie were due to the studio trying to cram in too many characters and nods from the comics in order to please fans without developing those elements enough so that the audience will care or even understand.

If half of what I've heard about this Days of Future Past movie is accurate, this may be a great opportunity for Fox to have a kind of "soft" reboot of their filmic X-universe. We'll see... I remain hopeful.

(j/k about that little opening jab, in case that wasn't clear. Btw, I believe the "Mystique connection to Prof. X" thing in First Class was sort of done in the Ultimate comics as well.)

If the post-Serenity comics are canon, Zoe was last seen looking like Wash left her a bun in the oven. Something the two had talked about in one of the unaired episodes.

An animated return to the world(s) of Firefly/Serenity would be seriously shiny, but I'm not holding my breath. I still remember there being talk of a Buffy animated series that never saw the light of day, after all...

My take on this: it sucks how Siegel and Shuster were treated by the industry during their lifetimes. A lot of creators got shafted even worse back in the day (Bill Finger still doesn't get any credit for co-creating Batman, after all). But at the same time, I like Superman belonging in the DC Universe, and the constant legal battles just leave a bad taste in my mouth. It feels too much like family moneygrubbing and entitlement long after the fact.

Superman really was an amazing lightning in a bottle creation that hit at just the right time. Do I wish his creators had been given a chance to share in the bounty of what they spawned, at least a little? Sure. But that was the reality of the industry at the time. There was no precedent for this sort of thing before Superman came on the scene.

Maybe A.I.M. or Hydra gets ahold of Coulson's body somehow, and our cast's mission in the first episode is to retrieve him?

Rule #1: Nick Fury is a lying liar from Liarsburg.

Nash takes a look back at the Cartmel Masterplan.

I assume the rest will be more about the Ponds themselves and this was just getting the Doctor connection out of the way.

"Oh dear, I seem to have collided with ancient Greece..."

Put him in a wig or dye his hair and he could probably pull it off...

Huh. I didn't think Moffat was going back to the old Dalek designs. Wonder what the in-story reasoning is... more leftovers from Davros' group in Series 4? Time travel to an earlier point in their history?

No, seriously. This is pretty cool.

That is an interesting and different way to go about it. The rogues banding together to overcome the heroes they can't defeat individually being what spurs the heroes to join forces as well. I can see it working, sure.

WB could even draw inspiration from the Alex Ross maxi-series Justice: Lex Luthor is convinced that the heroes coming out of the woodwork following the appearances of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, etc. will eventually be the downfall of humanity, and they must be taken down before they can do so. He ends up seeking out and recruiting those individuals who've come close to defeating the heroes in the past and survived. Imagine Lex in the Nick Fury role, reaching out to the likes of Sinestro, Captain Cold and others, inviting them to join his "Secret Society."

Arcanaville's suggestion of using the Tower of Babel story is good, too. Work that into the villains' plot by having Batman and Luthor unknowingly coming up with similar "solutions" to the individual heroes. So when the villains strike, Batman recognizes the methods used and can find a way to counteract them in the nick of time. This shows the heroes that this is a threat they can't face alone.