It's been a slow couple of days. On Friday, we didn't get a new picture added to the pile at 1-18-08.com, but the images themselves were given new functionality and flip a little differently. Nothing to get excited about.The biggest news this weekend has been that the cast have started adding friends to their MySpace profiles and are allowing comments from fans. HUD added a new survey question asking which X-Men character was his favorite: Cyclops. Here we see the "eyes" theme again.
'll start. Cyclops is my favorite. I know, he can be kind of a dick. But the dude is a hero through and through. And you need that leader character to keep the team together (Leonardo was also my favorite Turtle, so at least I'm consistent). His powers and the fact that you can't look him in the eye is so simple yet so profound. I especially love the way Summers is written in Astonishing.
If we believe that everything means something, I need to know a little more about X-Men. I'll ask my brother. Several things can be pulled out here:
- Eyes
- Not looking someone in the eye
- You need a leader character (could it be Rob?)
- Leonardo was a MUTANT turtle...the way the X-Men were mutants - this would also lead us back to the "Slusho makes something bad happen" theory.
- I don't know about "Astonishing". Can anyone elaborate?
This is all we've got right now.
alanjohnadams on IMDB posted this: click for link.
He basically says we're not playing an ARG and that this is simply a highly clever marketing ploy. I agree that it's a marketing ploy, sure, but there are far too many clues to ignore. What do you think?
2 comments:
I'm sorta of the opinion that most people have been reading a little too much into this entire thing so far. At the very least, I definitely don't share your opinion that everything means something.
Having participated in The Lost Experience last year, this just doesn't seem to display the same depth as an actual ARG. I mean - thusfar, we have no basis for the assumption that the Slusho site is hiding anything. And the MySpace pages seem, to me, to simply be an opportunity for character development. Personally, I think that's all this thing is - a hype machine that serves a second purpose in terms of character development.
Could this change? Certainly. And if it does, my views will change accordingly. But, for the moment, I don't see anything that points unequivocally to "ARG."
What he means by 'Astonishing' is the comic arc called 'The Astonishing X-Men'. It's basically an alternate look at the X-Men, different stories, more elaborate in some cases. So what he means, is he really likes how Scott was written in this series.
More information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astonishing_X-Men
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