Urban: After The Disclosure

[Temis the Vorta]

Whatever the writers promised about the comics, I doubt they'll remember that when t comes time to make the movie. A lot more is riding on the success of the next movie, basically everything, vs the comic books. It would be absurd to let the tail wag the dog like that. They'll do what it takes to make the movie a success.

 

[Pauln6]

Whatever the writers promised about the comics, I doubt they'll remember that when t comes time to make the movie. A lot more is riding on the success of the next movie, basically everything, vs the comic books. It would be absurd to let the tail wag the dog like that. They'll do what it takes to make the movie a success.

True but they told us that the comics would contain teasers for the movie, so this would be a case of the movie plot dictating what went into the comic not the other way around.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Whatever the writers promised about the comics, I doubt they'll remember that when t comes time to make the movie.

Sigh. No, they specifically said they would be seeding Easter eggs, on purpose, ie. to complement the movie and not clash with it. Orci & Kurtzman are planning on making everything fit, which is why they requested that Pocket Books not release the four sequel novels that had already been commissioned and paid for.

These were the same guys who read classic ST novels before writing the first movie. The same guys who proposed comic storylines for prequel and sequel comics related to the 2009 movie.

 

[BillJ]

The same guys who proposed comic storylines for prequel and sequel comics related to the 2009 movie.

And the prequel stuff didn't exactly match up with the 2009 film.

I can't think of a bigger Easter egg than to have Mitchell in the very first issue...

 

[Therin of Andor]

I can't think of a bigger Easter egg than to have Mitchell in the very first issue...

No, that would be a red herring.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I can't think of a bigger Easter egg than to have Mitchell in the very first issue...

No, that would be a red herring.

I don't know. I finally managed to track down the trade paperback editions of the first four stories last weekend (I'd been wanting to read them for months), and the way they left things at the end of WNMHGB, I could see them hand-waving Mitchell into the plot of the movie. The fact that they explained his conversion into a God-like being as a possession by an alien being, rather than Mitchell himself being changed by their passage through the barrier as in the original episode, left me thinking that they could bring him back.

Viewers who read the comics could accept the explanation, while viewers who didn't wouldn't care one way or the other.

The fact that Dr. Dehner doesn't appear in the comic is very suggestive to me, as well.