Woah, just got back from my morning jog. God, there's just something wrong about not having snow in Canada on December 18th. *shudders*
Figured I'd drop a line before going to one my last two finals (boooyaaahh!)
UraniaChang said:
I would love to pay a lot of money to see this (especially the plot where Wolverine got beaten...)
You just gotta enjoy bashing
movieverse Wolvie as a Cyke fan, lol... Seriously, though, my intent was to have
Cyke and Wolvie stand together like they've always been f****n meant to be, not get kicks out of Wolvie getting beaten to a bloody pulp.
UraniaChang said:
but in order to put all the scenes you said into a movie, Fox will have to hire some script writers way smarter and more creative and know something about the real X-Men than those two who wrote X3, and possibly, hire a new directer as well (preferably let Singer come back.). Then maybe yor ideas will have a chance to come true.
All the scenes? There wasn't much of them, lol. Even if counting the implied "X-Men captured and Hellfire Club gets to gloat about it" scene, but still...
As for the notion of Fox doing such a thing... Bwahahahahahahaha. Movieverse Cyclops getting to do
something? Fat chance, no matter how awesome it would be.
UraniaChang said:
As for other post-X3 fanfic where Cyclops is still alive, if you can't find it, why don't you write one? All you have to do is using the plots in your posts as a basis.
So far, there aren't many post-X3 fanfic put the whole hellfire club into their stories, maybe you can make a difference.
Already did, lol. Ever since I woke up from my "watching X3" induced-coma, actually. Worked on it between visists to the gym (preemptive strike at the couple of pounds I'll inevitably gain during the holidays), studying session and "only
'insert number' exams to go!!!!!" drinking binges. Am almost done (just found out I'm more of a perfectionnist than I thought *sigh*) with the first two chapters and pretty much finished big chunks of dialogue for key sequences later on.
It's just that rather than an action/adventure story, it's more like "two years in the life of Scott Summers and Emma Frost with the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix waiting in the wings". It's difficult to do justice to Cyclops in a story that reads like a movie IMO.
I won't go into too much details, but the basic premise is that Scott Summers did die at Alkali and is brought back by the Phoenix. It's just that the psychic bond worked both ways and he too ripped part of her lifeforce/power/consciousness. Even worse, he took it with him when he died.
While it IS a Scott/Emma story (eh), this is my way to aknowledge that there was (at some point, anyway) in the movieverse a very strong bond between Scott/Jean that could hold its own if just for a while against the Phoenix' rage. *Tips hat off to Scott/Jean fanatics*
The only reason he is brought back, as Dark Pheonix mockingly tells him in the Hot White Room, is that she wants to be whole again and become the best destroyer of worlds that she can be.
Think of it as my way to explain why she was
knocked out (god Kinnberg and Penn suck, just... god damn) and why she was such a
powerless clueless moron (refer to the 'sucking' comment made above) in the movie.
Anyway, they're both brought back to life, just not in the same place and time. Won't give too much spoilers, but I'll just say that:
1- The Hellfire Club has something to do (they think so anyway) with Jean's resurrection and mess around with her mind (insurance policy). They don't show themselves for most of the story as they basically just orchestrate small massacres which the X-Men have to deal with. Their way to ensure that the Dark Phoenix, through Jean, will grow stronger (the whole
'getting off on DEATH' angle), eventually break free and return to them.
2 - Dark Phoenix goes into an hibernation of sort after kickstarting her own resurrection. It IS Jean that comes back. Sort of the reason why Hellfire lets her go, really. They just can't
force Phoenix to reawaken and they're smart enough (unlike X3's Mags - damn you to hell, Kinberg and Penn, just... damn you) to figure out she'd probably kill them on the spot for the insolence of assuming they can control her. Thus the whole, you know,
subtle angle.
3 - Cyclops comes back depowered. No optic blasts, no Phoenix powers, no heroics, no nothing for most of the story. All he gets is memories of Jean, Dark Pheonix and neverending replays of his own death. There IS a surprise which has to do with telepaths, though.
There's a lot more going on, but I'll just mention one other thing: yes, I'm going for the whole
'******ed Jean and Prof X are brought back to life and there's a semi-happy ending for everyone but Cyke' scenario.
The reason for that is that I want to somewhat
redeem the other characters and do something about that
disgusting 'It's ok for Scott to die since Jean and Chuck did too' vibe. Disgusting is too nice a word, really. Heroes just don't do that.
Especially to their f****n own.
The X-Men have to deal with the fact that Scott died for absolutely nothing and that they were complete a$$$holes about it. Lots of guilt floating around, even moreso when he DOES come back from the dead.
First set of chapters actually have to do with Emma Frost joining the Institute and basically just laughing her a$$$ off at how such a bunch of goody two shoes could be so caught in their own crap to not do a better job at mourning a deceased friend.
And as for Cyke, he's not exactly, based on what he remembers seeing through Jean and Dark Phoenix' eyes (Jean and Logan's kiss in X2, Xavier's lies, Storm's giving the notion of saving Jean the finger), pleased with his
'friends'.
Ironically enough, he eventually befriends Logan (they spar, drink and watch samourai movies together, lol) because, no matter how much he was pissed at Logan's attempts at getting into Jean's pants and the fact that the pair did hook up less than a year after his death,
Logan's been honest from day f****n one.
As for the screwed-up budding relationship with Emma, it has to do with the surprise thingy mentioned earlier.
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Oh well, have to cut it *short* since it's only a matter a minutes before I have to go if I want to make it to my exam in time, lol.
Anyway, I'll start posting on ffnet in early january (holidays, eh - sure as hell won't write anything between the 23 and 28, nor on the 31th and 1th).
Cheers.
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Unless it was Halle Berry. Somehow I think she's not the kind of star who tries to get rid of you in polite ways...or maybe I'm wrong.
