He does all the steroids he wants. If he dies of a sudden heart attack... shortcut home.
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So...Cumberbatch is [POSS. CASTING SPOILER] (also fan poster art)
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There is going to be a degree of common information passed around, and casting definitely falls within that. Realistically, if you don't want to be exposed to the most common of information, you really shouldn't be browsing the forum about the new movie.
Now the character of Two Face in The Dark Knight is definitely different because the plot hinges around the identity of Dent and his transformation. If it's Mitchell or Khan, there really isn't that relevance.
Thread titles are visible in all kinds of places even outside the Star Trek Movies XI+ forum. New Posts is just one example. Are you saying that people who don't want to see spoilers should log off of the whole board until after the movie opens?
Ah, good point. I forgot about that.
People do avoid this forum in an effort to remain un-spoiled, but thread titles may also be readable from the TrekBBS main index, and (once upon a time) were visible as a sidebar to TrekToday. It's not an unreasonable policy to ask that spoilers be kept out of thread titles and subject lines.
Re: So...Cumberbatch is [SPOILER?]
I didnt believe it wither. Cumberbach just isnt the Khan type. But he's the Gary Mitchell type, plus Mitchell needs no cumbersome (no pun intended) explanation the way Khan does. The last movie had to handle some heavy duty backstory, let's have a movie with a simpler and mroe straightforward appraoch, get right into the fun.
I didnt believe it wither. Cumberbach just isnt the Khan type. But he's the Gary Mitchell type, plus Mitchell needs no cumbersome (no pun intended) explanation the way Khan does. The last movie had to handle some heavy duty backstory, let's have a movie with a simpler and mroe straightforward appraoch, get right into the fun.
No it isnt. Supernatural powers requires zero explanation. Genetic modification means the audience needs to have the first idea what that even is. Go ask people at the mall to explain it to you, you'll get mainly blank stares.
Ultimately, both are just variations on the same idea, the bad guy is superduperpowered and dangerous. Why opt for the more cumbersome story when the streamlined version gets you to the same place but quicker? Save the Eugenics Wars and all that for TV.
The Wrath of Khan managed in about five sentences. And that was back in the eighties before the idea had been milked as much as it has been today.
Heck, Alphas gets across the idea of genetically-enhanced superhumans (not quite the same thing) in a thirty-second credits sequence . . . .
Not that I really think Khan is in the movie. I'm still betting that's just fannish wishful thinking.
Re: So...Cumberbatch is [SPOILER?]
I'm not saying I think Cumberbatch is Khan (because I don't); I'm simply saying the background story of Khan and his people does not necessarily need to be cumbersome.
The explanation for Khan is quite simple, and Space Seed did it in about 3 minutes, in a single scene with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy sitting around the briefing room table library monitor.
I'm not saying I think Cumberbatch is Khan (because I don't); I'm simply saying the background story of Khan and his people does not necessarily need to be cumbersome.