Yeah. So it’s already confirmed that the Fantastic Four we’re going to meet in “Fantastic Four: First Steps” are in a different universe. So the retro future 60s is unique to that universe. So none of the heroes we’ve come to know exist in that universe.

There is a scene in the latest Fantasy Four trailer that looks like the Earth blowing up and a Fantastic Four ship just outside the Earth.

So the obvious setup is that the Fantastic Four will fail to save their Earth (from Galactus) and end up in the main 616 universe, which may be what we saw in the Thunderbolts* post credits scene.

Of course it may not be that simple.

There is also a question of Dr Doom, where is he? Since a lot of the Fantastic Four trailer seems to be about them already being saviors of the world, maybe Dr. Doom is on the ship we saw in the post-credits, and The Fantastic Four will show up later in a different ship.

This is the second Polygon article I’ve seen do something like this, since OP is just using the title.

They should have had the guinea pig in the New Avengers tower during the post-credits. Cleaning the cage could have been one of Bob’s duties.

FYI Spoilers for “Thunderbolts*” in the subtitle/opening question of this article. The article has a spoiler warning, but AFTER they’ve already spoiled it.

Note: this article has spoilers, but isn’t full of spoilers. If you’re on the fence and don’t mind spoilers, you might find this review helpful. Although, having seen the film, I don’t think it’s the most accurate review.

While waiting for the post credits scene I noticed the “Fantastic Four Main Theme” during the music section. So the credits spoiled the post credits.

But, does that mean Fantastic Four is going to end with the Fantastic Four universe collapsing and our heroes escaping? I sort of assumed that would be the case, but weird to see another film confirm it.

I agree. I actually did think it was a little rushed at times, but overall no big issues. Great movie.

So I have lots of thoughts on what did happen, but for a moment I want to ask about B2EMO.

Do you think we’ll see Bee again?

Bee definitely isn’t cut out for the rebellion. So maybe Andor is keeping him safe by leaving him behind, but it just seems odd.

Ah, so this is what MC meant. I’ve enjoyed my time here.

Knoppix. I didn’t see it listed yet so I had to chime in.

I saw it and was confused that computers could run something that wasn’t Windows and wasn’t Mac. Then I was handed a Knoppix LiveCD and suddenly MY computer was Linux. Absolutely blew my mind.

I then explored Mandrake (now Mandrivia?) for a while but it never really stuck.

A few years later Ubuntu was handing out LivdCDs to everyone running Warty Warthog and soon after window managers started to use Beryl (?) which let you have a fancy cube desktop. Absolutely pointless but that’s how it all started.

Thanks for the heads up.

To everyone else please don’t make me do work and have to ban things. :)

Cinta & Vel.

I don’t expect the show to do flashbacks (although we got them with Cassian in season 1), but I have to wonder how they first met.

It’s obvious Vel would give up on the whole rebellion right now if she and Cinta could settle down somewhere. Conversely it’s clear that Cinta can give up Vel in order to advance the rebellion even a little bit.

Was Vel a “spoiled rich kid” who picked up the rebellion “for fun” and found Cinta, and now that she’s found love wants to get out?

Did she find Cinta first? But lose her to the rebellion? Did Cinta use Vel and her money/connections to further the rebellion?

So many characters in this show seem reluctant to be rebels. Luthen is 100% in. His assistant is likely 100% in. Cinta is 100% in. Is Cassian? Is going back for Bix and friends a weakness or a strength?

TLDR Yelena & Bob are the standouts, which is good to hear.

I think that’s a pretty great summary. When it comes to unnecessary/years later sequels most are just garbage. I think Matrix 4 is still bad, but I have to give it credit for trying something interesting. It doesn’t work ultimately, but it tried something.

The 90s special edition added him, with no lines, to A New Hope. However he always had lines in Empire. They did however rerecord those lines in later versions to match the current actor who played Jango and clomes.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases

To be fair Darth Vader telling you, and only you, “No disintegrations” is an intriguing way to introduce a character.

Also Boba Fett does have a few lines in Empire. Something like, “He’s no use to me dead”. He doesn’t have a lot of character development ,mostly just mystery, but not literally no lines.

And yes the sarlac death is a mistake. It’s funny to have someone so feared die in a silly way, but it was a mistake. Which is also why everyone brought him back.

I’m not sure telling an untold story is repackaging. It’s exploring an existing characters story further

Rogue One told the ending story of Cassian Andor (among other things).

Then it was decided to go back and explain that characters backstory. Everyone, understandably, loved that.

Hell the entire prequel trilogy is going back and telling us the origins of Darth Vader. The origins of Palpatine.

I’m not against new villains, but we have other shows for that. Skeleton Crew introduced a new villain.

Acolyte did tie in with an old, as of yet unseen, villain, but also introduced a bunch of new ones.

Why not both? Starfighter also announced sounds like exactly that.

I mean Maul was revealed to be alive back in 2012 in the animated Clone Wars.

Additionally there is a large section of this characters life that has not been told, but was teased during the live action Solo.