CapBeerCino said:
If Fox gave a damn about fan reaction they had time to change the AICN script but they didn't.
They technically did. This is the exact quote from the piece on AICN:
The script describes Scotts skin as shivering until he is simply de-molecularized.
Based on that, originally they were to show it happen and it was going to be a certain thing with point of no return. But what we got was a quick cut away followed by them dancing around the subject for the rest of the film.
Yes, Jean says "Before I kill someone else", but Jean didn't know WHAT the hell was going on. Her very own flashbacks, which we saw, were nothing concrete. That's the extent of what she remembered, and I think she just feared the worst. Hell Logan himself wasn't convinced by it. "I think she killed Scott" he says to Storm. THINK. That's why they held a funeral for Xavier and not Scott, because they weren't sure of his fate. Yes Xavier says to her that she killed Scott, the same Xavier that didn't know Jean was alive for how many months?
The fact of the matter is that no matter what, Cyclops had to have a very limited role in this film thanks to Singer. So no they didn't completely change what they had written for him, but they didn't make it a certain thing like they had originally planned. They gave us all hope.
Jean being unconscious was very conspicuous, as it was her being in a different place. I'd say it's a very big possibility that the real Jean managed to break through to prevent Cyclops from being killed, but at the same time control over his Optic Blast was lost, sending her over to where we saw her, knocking her out, and sending Scott back into the woods far enough from the site that Logan and Storm wouldn't find him.
Say what you will, but SOMETHING has to explain Jean being out cold. She took out Xavier, a much more powerful mutant, and was fine. She took out tons of people on Alcatraz, and was fine. Her powers were limitless, and that's why I believe something had to have happened to her to be knocked out cold, not to mention in a different location.