So...Cumberbatch is [POSS. CASTING SPOILER] (also fan poster art)
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He's Khan.
I had a little storyline swimming in my head for a while now:
Benedict Cumberbatch is the Devil. THE Devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc. and he's trying to escape Hell (think Paradise Lost) back into the real world. He, alone, succeeds but his forces are stuck in Hell. He uses Section 31 to solidify his hold on Earth. The Federation fleet is split, a large chunk is taken over by Section 31 operatives while the rest flee and try to consolidate to fight back. Noel Clarke is a scientist trying to put together a way to tap into the human soul itself, a form of high-power energy, while Cumberbatch knows that he can use that to allow his forces to escape. Cumberbatch isn't a brute, or an evil dictator, but one can see his almost subtle cruelty to the Federation citizens as they begin to fight back. At the end of the movie we see the Enterprise flying in formation while news reports are seen of Federation worlds being taken over and the Earth itself essentially turned into a military fortress. Hence, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Sorry if it's a mess, I've had it swimming in brain for months!
Benedict Cumberbatch is the Devil. THE Devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc. and he's trying to escape Hell (think Paradise Lost) back into the real world. He, alone, succeeds but his forces are stuck in Hell. He uses Section 31 to solidify his hold on Earth. The Federation fleet is split, a large chunk is taken over by Section 31 operatives while the rest flee and try to consolidate to fight back. Noel Clarke is a scientist trying to put together a way to tap into the human soul itself, a form of high-power energy, while Cumberbatch knows that he can use that to allow his forces to escape. Cumberbatch isn't a brute, or an evil dictator, but one can see his almost subtle cruelty to the Federation citizens as they begin to fight back. At the end of the movie we see the Enterprise flying in formation while news reports are seen of Federation worlds being taken over and the Earth itself essentially turned into a military fortress. Hence, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Sorry if it's a mess, I've had it swimming in brain for months!
Yeah, because bringing in religious foolishness and superstition made a hit out of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
It was just an idea. I mean hell, that kind of stuff worked wonders in Battlestar Galactica.
Shilliam Watner
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Lol.....you're so right. The mythology on BSG was what drew people in and made it a hit show.
NuBSG had very little of that - just lots of characters who believed in religion. And oldBSG was crap.
^NOOOOOOOOOOOO my god
Re: So...Cumberbatch is [SPOILER?]
It's weird enough the same missions happening so similarly 6 years earlier than in the Prime-universe, let alone the stardates somehow syncing up.
I'm not sure that quote means the next movie takes place immediately after the second, just that less time than the real-life 4 years. They can't have their 5-year mission already almost over in movie #2!Shape Shifter said:
Weirdly, the first issue begins with a 2258.XX date, when goes to the TOS episode random numbers about halfway through. I suspect the reason is that they hadn't nailed down the time gap between movies when the first issues of the comic were written, and were afraid of overshooting if they continued to use the Earthyear.day system.
It's weird enough the same missions happening so similarly 6 years earlier than in the Prime-universe, let alone the stardates somehow syncing up.
But... but... that would conflict with thr animated episode "The Magicks of Megas Tu"!!
Gotta be The Mugato, that's why they went with a lily white actor. First Mugato in Starfleet, that's why he's got the Starfleet Sideburns.
Edith Keeler was meant to be the Villian originally, but, when Del Toro passed on playing her, they changed Edith Keeler to a Mugato and hired Benedict Cumberbatch.
It's time to pull out this old photoshop I did a few years ago for one of the TOS "Caption Contest" threads...
Ensign Mugato:
Since when is casting a spoiler?
I'd think that something like "Vulcan explodes" or "Data dies" is a spoiler, not Cumberbatch plays so and so. I think that when they come out with their first trailer in a few months, everyone will know who he is. You'd have a really hard time going into the movie not knowing that.
I'd think that something like "Vulcan explodes" or "Data dies" is a spoiler, not Cumberbatch plays so and so. I think that when they come out with their first trailer in a few months, everyone will know who he is. You'd have a really hard time going into the movie not knowing that.
Very cool
It's time to pull out this old photoshop I did a few years ago for one of the TOS "Caption Contest" threads...
Ensign Mugato:
I went to The Dark Knight not knowing that Two-Face was in it. That was a very pleasant surprise that enhanced my viewing experience. No doubt that tidbit of casting didn't make headlines at least in part because of all the buzz about Heath Ledger. I certainly wasn't looking for spoilers, but because of that buzz, it was kinda impossible not to know that the Joker was the main villain. I'm glad I didn't know about Two-Face.
Just because you don't consider something a spoiler doesn't mean that others also don't. Certainly the more people push spoilery information, those who want to be spoiler free will have a harder time remaining so. Who says everyone will want to see the trailer or read the casting sheet?
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Yeah, I've saved Ensign Mugato. Very nicely executed.
But... but... that would conflict with thr animated episode "The Magicks of Megas Tu"!!
Oh. My. God.
The seventies were hilarious.
