Wait... what?! So this is not the Spock that we know and love: the unemotional, the
pragmatic, the 'cool' TOS Spock. Nope, this is the new rebooted 'Disco' Spock
He'll probably rock up listening to heavy metal tracks on his earphones as
he dances with Tilly, drinking Saurian brandy, but... Hello my fellow explorers and
welcome to another The Week in Sci-fi. It's Eman here; thank you for joining me
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And our first story for this week is another Marvel series on the chopping
block. Yes, last week we saw the demise of Iron Fist from Netflix and this week we
see another Marvel-Netflix collaboration dumped from the streaming network. And
this one is a little bit more of a shock. Yes, it's Luke Cage. An announcement for
season 3 was thought to be a foregone conclusion
In fact, the writers room had been working for over six months developing
new scripts, plus the actors were still under contract. So at this stage it
really looks like there is plenty of turmoil between Marvel and Netflix as
maybe Netflix looks to shore up its bottom line because the show is
certainly expensive. This leaves Daredevil, Jessica Jones and
The Punisher. But Daredevil fans start to worry because season four has
not yet been greenlit so perhaps it is next for the chopping board. From a show
facing burial to a show that seemingly maybe being raised from the ashes. Yes, if
I said to you the Rambaldi device would that ring any bells? How about if I added
JJ Abrams and the name Sydney Bristow... any clues? Well, if you think back about a
decade then yes the show Alias - the show that basically put JJ and I believe
Jennifer Garner into the limelight is possibly about to return. Jennifer
Garner who played Sydney Bristow in the series has heard an Alias reboot is in
talks. She doesn't know anything else and has not yet been approached, which
just suggests that perhaps the series is in very early talks. Now my hope,
personally, is that it isn't a reboot. I'd rather have the Sydney Bristow that I
grew up with. I'd rather have her appearing as an recurring character in a
sequel. If you're an Alias fan what would you prefer? From one possible
sequel to a sequel to end all sequels. Yes, the untitled Avengers 4 has finished.
Filming has wrapped, with the Russo brothers tweeting a very cryptic
image. Personally I think it looks like one of possibly two things. The
first one is Adam Warlock's casket. In the comics Adam Warlock is intimately
linked to the Infinity Gauntlet and we saw his casket at the end of the
Guardians of the Galaxy in an end credits scene. But I think it's very
unlikely we'll see a completely new character feature in Infinity War Part 2;
it's not like we don't have enough characters as it is, although admittedly the
character count was halved at the end of Infinity War. But we know Captain Marvel
will feature strongly, with her story being set up
in a standalone film released, I think, a few months before Infinity War. So that
leaves another theory, and we might be gaining a captain but we're also
definitely losing a captain. Perhaps it's a foregone conclusion but that casket
could be that of one Steve Rogers, which would be such a sad end to somebody that
I grew to absolutely love. Or perhaps is something else entirely, who knows? Well
perhaps some do as an Avengers 4 teaser trailer information has
apparently leaked on Reddit. Now I prefer ignorance when it comes to Avengers
Infinity War. I literally want to disengage my brains for the first time I
go into the theater and I'm eating some popcorn that's when I want to know what
happens in Avengers 4 and nothing else. So, if you're interested in finding out a
bit more though feel free to look at that link I'm going to put it in the
description below and you can check it out. Just don't let me know what happens
Oh and while you're there, click that subscribe bell please - thank you. From the
Marvel Cinematic Universe to the DC Extended Universe which recently had a
shot in the arm when James Gunn moved over to write and possibly direct
Suicide Squad - but things are still in a state of flux and it seems The Flash
standalone movie is expected to be pushed back to 2021. Although never
officially confirmed the Flash film was supposed to start production in March
2019; however, Ezri Miller - who plays Flash - is expected to be filming Fantastic
Beasts, which is shooting around the same time, so production will have to
wait. And this isn't the only film facing an uncertain future, with both Ben
Affleck and Henry Cavill expected to leave their roles as Batman and Superman,
respectively, which leads me to think that the entire universe is perhaps
undergoing another reboot. Perhaps it's something that the universe actually
needs now that Zack Snyder has left but I'd be interested to know how you feel
about it. And talking of things that might upset fans, listen to this quote
from Alex Kurtzman regarding season 2 of Star
Trek: Discovery: "What gets me so excited about the story that we get to tell
with Spock this season is that it's the unwritten chapter of Spock"...
so far so good but wait for this: "This is not the Spock that we know from the
beginning of TOS, this is pre-TOS. He is not that formed Vulcan yet" Wait... what?! So
this is not the Spock that we know and love: the unemotional, the pragmatic, the
'cool' TOS Spock. Nope this is the new rebooted Disco Spock; he'll probably rock
up listening to heavy metal tracks on his earphones as he dances with Tilly
drinking Saurian brandy, but... I actually am being deliberately provocative there
because there is a strong rationale for the differences we are likely to see in
Spock that's in TOS and Pre-TOS. And these differences are canon and
I will hopefully go into that in an upcoming video. Now, one of the things
that most annoyed fans was probably the new-look Klingons and actually the new
look Klingon starships as well. One of the
things about it was the lack of Klingon hair not to talk about the rest of the
features. There is precedence obviously in rebooting the Klingons; we saw that
from TOS into TNG but with TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise using pretty
similar looking Klingons. It was a surprise to say the least to
see that the Klingons had changed so much in Disco. So, the season 2 the trailer
has pretty much shown that the hair is coming back, which I think should appease
some of the fans and we have an even better look at what the Klingons look
like with Mary Chieffo, who plays L'Rell, tweeting the following. And I'm wondering
if that is enough to appease fans; I won't even go into the starships because
those look so so different and I love the original ones. But I didn't
mind the new Klingon so much and I did mention this in an earlier video
because there is a strong rationale for why the Klingons in Discovery don't have
hair and it was clearly deliberate because if we look at the very, very
first episode and look at the Klingon casket., you can see that within the
casket there is certainly something that looks very much like hair. The
explanation that has been given for the Klingons shaving off their hair was that
Kahless... was that the first bat'leth to be
created was created by Kahless, who took a lot of his hair and stuck it in a
volcano and then I think he put it in a lake to forge into a sword, and that
sword was the bat'leth. So the rationale is that they shaved their head
ie took off the entire lock in a time of battle and now that the war is over
there is no need for them to be shaving their hair. This is obviously
something we didn't see in later generations of Klingons but, you know,
culture changes and this was the rationale for the Disco era Klingons. And
staying with controversial Star Trek, when DS9 first aired all those years ago,
with no starship and a non-Federation crew and plenty of conflict amongst that crew
it was I think widely regarded as the black sheep of the Star Trek family. Now
roll forwards 25 years and the perception has, I believe, completely changed and it's
widely regarded as one of the best in the series and, in fact, it was a pioneer
in TV in general with its non-episodic narrative story arcs. Ira Stephen
Behr, who was the showrunner at the time, started a campaign last year - the DS9
Documentary, which pretty much brought together all of the people who work from
the show, including much of the actors and the DS9 Doc had its world premiere
in Birmingham in the UK over the last few days, and the feedback has been
unanimous in its praise. And as part of the release they put together a writers
room who came up with ideas for what would be episode 1 of a mythical
season 8, and this is a sneak peak of what they have come up with.
Yes, the USS Emmett Till is Captain Ezri Dax's starship and I'm absolutely loving
it, although I do question why a starship would need four nacelles. A full
model is forthcoming so I'm really looking forward to seeing it in all its
glory. What do you think: dislike,? Like? Love? We have some fantastic news for
those who are fans, and that's anybody who has seen the fantastic
movie 'A Quiet Place'. Obviously when the big numbers were hit for the film,
Paramount greenlit a sequel pretty much immediately; however, John Krasinski - whose
wife Emily Blunt co-stars in the film - originally told them to find somebody
else to get involved preferring not to work on the sequel. However, he's
obviously been thinking about it a lot because he's had an idea spark in his
head and he is now developing the sequel. With the aliens' weakness now exposed
I'm wondering whether it will involve a fightback from the humans
if so, it I feel it might be a very different film from the original, which
might not be so great. Whatever does happen perhaps the family will now have
moved closer to that waterfall which would have masked the cry of that baby!
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with the updated Klingon look? Are you worried about Daredevil now that both
Iron Fist and Luke Cage have been axed? And are you an Alias fan and pleased to
hear about news of a reboot? These were the top stories in the world of science
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