New York Comic-Con is taking place virtually this year, so you’re going to miss out on things in NYC like trying to get from one end of the Javits Center to Artist Alley–taking that real crowded elevator to the lower level–eating a whole pizza by yourself in Manhattan at 1 AM, and hearing two people hold up traffic to yell at each other about a parking spot. However, you can still get all the news about upcoming seasons of your favorite TV shows like all three of AMC’s The Walking Dead series.
On Saturday, October 10, NYCC will host three Walking Dead panels. But how do you watch them? Well, it’s exceptionally easy. NYCC is a free virtual event, and its panels all exist on YouTube. There will be panels for AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead–which recently spoiled its Season 10 finale–and new spinoff The Walking Dead: World Beyond, all featuring the cast and crew discussing the individual shows.
Additionally, on October 9, there was a shorunners panel for the three series, which has already aired, and you can watch it right now in its entirety. Below, you’ll find the links for all the Walking Dead panels, and if you want a little more TWD in your life, check out our explanation of who the mysterious soldiers are from a recent episode.
Fear The Walking Dead
Begins October 10 at 11:35 AM PT / 2:35 PM ET.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond
Begins October 10, 12:10 PM PT / 3:10 PM ET.
The Walking Dead
Begins October 10, 12:45 PM PT / 3:45 PM ET.
The Walking Dead Showrunners Summit
Showrunners Angela Kang (The Walking Dead), Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg (Fear the Walking Dead), and Matt Negrete (The Walking Dead: World Beyond) discuss the Walking Dead universe. The panel aired on October 9, and can be watched now above.
Stay tuned for more coverage from these panels as they happen. We’ll post the important information up above.
Bly Manor is bringing the scares to Netflix this Halloween season.
Netflix’s The Haunting Of Bly Manor is as much a ghost story as it is a sweeping, gothic romance, which means that its scares are a healthy blend of jump-out-of-your-skin spooks and slowly escalating moments of dread that change and evolve over the course of the show.
That, and there are plenty of hidden ghosts to find that add a whole other layer of terror to the experience of watching the show. But for the sake of this breakdown, we’re going to focus on the moments that are a little easier to find.
Of course, these scares are going to include spoilers from the show, so if you haven’t finished, you’ll want to turn around and come back later.
We went through all 9 episodes of the Hill House follow-up and made note of everything that made our skin crawl, our hearts break, or the hairs on the backs of our necks stand up and, after a lengthy process of elimination and debate, came up with the 15 scariest moments in Bly. Which moments terrified you the most? Let us know in the comments what you thought of the show.
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1.) Episode 1: Dani gets trapped in the closet
There’s nothing quite as terrifying as being punked by very haunted children in a horror movie, and Bly Manor understands that in its bones. The first episode of the show culminates with Miles and Flora playing an inexplicable “prank,” with obvious ulterior motives, on Dani–locking her in Flora’s walk-in closet and refusing to let her out even as she begins to panic.
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2.) Episode 1: The mirror man
Less a single moment and more a recurring theme through the entire first episode, Dani is stalked through her life–and any reflective surfaces–by a mysterious ghost who only seems to pop up at the most inconvenient times. Dani has apparently adapted her life to his presence, throwing blankets over any reflective surface so that she won’t be able to see him, but the fact that he’s there at all is horrifying.
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3.) Episode 2: The thing in the attic
This was a moment in the earliest teasers for the show and it’s no wonder why–the fact that there’s a shambling, wheezing monster in the Bly Manor attic and that Flora is apparently so unbothered by it she just tells it to be quiet is a one-two punch. This moment makes our skin crawl.
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4.) Episode 2: Miles chokes Dani
In case you missed the part where these kids are extremely creepy, Miles nearly takes a game of hide and seek too far by putting Dani in a choke hold, and refuses to let up even as Dani starts to panic. It’s obvious foreshadowing for a major reveal later in the season, but even isolated from that context it’s extremely ominous–these kids are not alright.
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5.) Episode 3: Dani’s in bed with a ghost
By Episode 3, the man in the mirror is starting to become a serious problem for Dani and it all starts with him showing up in Dani’s bed as a bruised and battered hand, reaching out to her across the covers.
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6.) Episode 3: The mirror man no more
Episode 3 ends on a major jump-scare as Dani turns around to head back to the manor and is confronted with the mirror man, no longer confined to a reflection, standing and waiting for her. To make things worse, he never speaks or even makes a move to grab her, he just stands there and it’s absolutely chilling.
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7.) Episode 4: The accident
This one is less a spooky ghost moment and more a horrific tragedy. Learning what happened to Dani’s ex-fiance made our stomachs churn.
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8.) Episode 4: The kiss, interrupted
Even knowing who the mirror man is and what happened to him, he’s still a terrifying presence in Dani’s life–especially when he suddenly shows up to interrupt her kiss with Jamie.
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9.) Episode 5: Hannah’s wake-up call
Basically all of Episode 5 is chilling in its own way, with its disorientating cuts and skips through Hannah’s memories, but the moment that made us jump the most was Owen’s very abrupt wake-up call.
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10.) Episode 6: The kid. Just, the kid.
Do we even need to explain this one at all? Come on.
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11.) Episode 6: Ms. Jessel’s jump scare
While Bly Manor tends to avoid traditional jump scare moments, it does have a couple that it deploys to great effect–like this moment when Dani looks into Flora’s room to see Ms. Jessel sitting there with her. The audio stinger does most of the work here–those discordant strings are the absolute worst.
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12.) Episode 7: Ms. Jessel drowns
On the exact opposite end of the spectrum is the slow burning moment where we see exactly what happened to Rebecca Jessel. It’s equal parts horrific and tragic, which makes it incredibly hard to watch.
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13.) Episode 8: Perdita’s choice
Episode 8’s period setting makes it rife with all sorts of unusual and creepy moments, like seeing poor Viola subjected to some really awful “medical” practices like blood-letting and leeches, but the moment that takes the cake is Perdita’s “mercy” killing. Like Ms. Jessel’s murder, Viola’s death is agonizing to watch while also being completely heartbreaking.
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14.) Episode 8: The romance of certain old clothes
If you’re a Henry James fan and noticed the title of this episode, this moment probably didn’t come as a massive surprise to you. It’s taken right out of the short story by the same name. Viola’s ghostly arms reaching out from her empty dress to strangle her sister to death is one of the more violent turns a James ghost has taken, and seeing it here in live action is insanely scary.
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15.) Episode 9: The inescapable march
The real scare of Bly Manor’s final episode doesn’t come from any one moment, but the pervasive sense of dread and inevitability that looms over Dani and Jamie’s life together. It’s beautiful and happy, for a time, but even that happiness is clouded by the fact that Dani is eventually going to have to pay the price for her actions. So, when Viola’s reflection does begin haunting her, it makes for one of the most horrific moments of the show.
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Genshin Impact looks a lot like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to the point that plenty of folks immediately compared the two when Genshin Impact was first announced. But the similarities between the two games is more than skin-deep–both share a few mechanics and features, as well.
In the video above, Max Blumenthal shows off these similarities, ranging from how the characters move and attack to what types of puzzles are found in both games. Genshin Impact even manages to take inspiration from Breath of the Wild’s Champion Abilities, as three of the RPG’s characters possess powers that closely resemble Daruk’s Protection, Revali’s Gale, and Urbosa’s Fury in both appearance and utility.
Which isn’t to say that Genshin Impact is an exact copy of Breath of the Wild; it’s just heavily inspired by Nintendo’s opus. As Max explains in another video, Genshin Impact builds upon what Breath of the Wild does, utilizing the mechanics and features of an open-world action game to amplify its RPG gameplay.
Created by Chinese developer Mihoyo, Genshin Impact is a free-to-play, open world RPG available for PC, PS4, and mobile devices (a Switch port is in the works as well). The game sees you play as an evolving party of different characters, each of whom can command one of the world’s elements. You can unlock new characters by playing the game or pay real-world money to participate in the gacha mechanics–basically a randomized loot box.
The following is a spoiler-free review for the first two episodes of The Right Stuff, which premiered Friday, October 9 on Disney+.
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Disney+ is getting into the Space Race with its new series The Right Stuff, which dramatizes the story of the Mercury Seven astronauts, who, back in the height of the Cold War, were selected to be pioneers in the first human spaceflight program for the United States. The first two episodes, which premiered on October 9, offer up some nice performances and interesting characterizations for a handful of historical figures, but overall the series feels bland and fruitless.
As an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s best-selling book, The Right Stuff represents a stab at slightly more mature fare for the streaming service before the MCU shows kick off with WandaVision and possibly push things more into the land of “hard PG-13.”
Previous to this show, the saga once became synonymous with Oscar wins thanks to Philip Kaufman’s 1983 film starring Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, and many other talented stars. However, the movie tipped over the three-hour mark, making it clear this was a complex and lofty story to tell. One that might even be better suited as, say, an ongoing series.
The Right Stuff on Disney+, from National Geographic and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, is a mostly enjoyable look back at a time when the “American way of life” was in danger of being lost if our country couldn’t beat the Russians into space. Context-wise, when looking at current events, it all feels a bit trite by comparison, especially considering how concerned these characters are that scandals, or any blemishes in the public eye, could quickly sink the entire program. Overall, it’s best to focus on the characters here, even if most of them tend to blend effortlessly into the background.
The Right Stuff, as a series, reshapes and remolds elements of Wolfe’s book as well as Kaufman’s movie. It expands on the story in certain parts while also nixing entire arcs and even characters altogether. The episodic structure now gives the story more room to breathe and explore, though in these first two episodes it doesn’t produce anything necessarily exciting or engaging. It’s an example of more just being more. At its heart here, after the first two chapters, The Right Stuff is the tale of three men (and four who don’t really resonate) who long to be a part of history despite the chinks in their respective armor.
Patrick J. Adams’ (Suits) famed flyboy John Glenn is already seen as “over the hill” but his celebrity status makes him the most media-savvy of the bunch. Jake McDorman’s (Shameless) antsy, arrogant ace Alan Shepard is a jealous, competitive philanderer who doesn’t want his wife to find out about his many affairs. And Colin O’Donoghue’s (Once Upon a Time) Gordo Cooper is so terrified that people will find out he’s separated from his wife that he convinces her to move back home and pretend to be a happy family. As the main trio, they all play well off each other, though it’s the respectful rivalry between Glenn and Shepard that mostly takes center stage. Their gentlemanly antagonism is the most interesting part of the series, but it’s not enough to remove the other plodding elements. Namely, all the other characters.
The first episode, “Sierra Hotel,” involves Project Mercury’s intense selection process, thinning a herd of over 100 candidates down to the nitty-gritty seven, while the second installment shines a spotlight on how huge these newly-minted “astronauts” became (this was when the term/title was invented) on a national level. Thrust into a media circus, the Mercury Seven, most of whom simply enjoyed the solitary thrill of flying a plane at super-high speeds, became an overnight sensation. And while these two chapters nicely focus on different themes stemming from separate events, they can’t overcome the generic tone and low-level stakes created by rooms filled with chest-puffing men trying to not be forgotten by history.
The Right Stuff is noble and obvious in its efforts to take us back to a shining moment of historic achievement, but the end result, thus far, is kind of middling. It’s not bad, mind you, just aggressively decent. Maybe I’m just not used to Disney sheen in an episodic format. I’m certainly okay with it as a movie, when the studio puts out inspirational sports films and such, but as a series there’s an edge lacking. That doesn’t mean things need to get oppressively dark or gritty, but the output here feels very basic and bereft at times. Much of it has to do with how disposable all the astronauts who aren’t Glenn, Shepard, and Cooper feel. Mad Men’s Aaron Staton, One Tree Hill’s James Lafferty, Michael Trotter, and Micah Stock play the other four astronauts whose stories get short-sheeted.
Perhaps the tale itself isn’t as easily engaging as it once was, even as groundbreaking science and/or a monumental endeavor. Regardless, The Right Stuff makes no bones about how most of its characters all feel cut from the same strong-jawed male cloth. There’s even a remark about it when all the astronaut hopefuls check into the same hotel and congregate in the lobby bar, all going by the pseudonym “Bill Baker”. It’s up to the series to show us that, aside from the main three, they’re not all interchangeable, but so far it feels like an uphill climb.
The Boys Season 2 was one heck of a ride. From the mystery of the head explosions to The Deep’s adventure joining a cult, Season 2 went to some truly weird and shocking places. Oh, and a literal nazi won over the hearts and minds of America–although that part doesn’t seem so far-fetched these days, which is definitely the point.
With the Season 2 finale, “What I Know,” streaming now, it’s time for us to examine the entire journey and look at where the final episode leaves us. After all, we’re already looking forward to The Boys Season 3.
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By the end of the Season 2 finale, Butcher has once again lost Becca–this time for good. She’s killed accidentally by her son Ryan when he tries to save her from Stormfront. That leaves Butcher at probably his lowest point yet–even worse than when she chose to stay at the compound earlier in the season. However, Mallory presents a path forward: She’s getting funding directly from Congresswoman Victoria Neuman (more on her later) so The Boys can continue their mission of keeping tabs on the world’s supes. Butcher doesn’t reply to the proposal right away, but given everything he’s lost, it’s fair to guess that he’ll take the opportunity to continue seeking revenge against Homelander however he can.
The other members of The Boys get relatively happy endings to their season-long arcs, since the charges against them–even the ones for the crimes they actually did commit–are all dropped by the end. Mother’s Milk reunites with his family, while Frenchie and Kimiko go dancing. Kimiko has begun teaching Frenchie her sign language, and they’re closer than ever. And Hughie, who feels he never fully fit in with the rest of the gang, gets a job with Congresswoman Neuman so he can keep fighting against Vought but maybe with less carnage and living in hiding.
The Seven
The Seven didn’t fare so well in Season 2. With Shockwave’s death at the hearing, A-Train is back on the team, thanks also to Alistair’s intervention with Vought CEO Stan Edgar. And his heart seems to be in better shape. The same can’t be said for The Deep, who by his final scene has been labeled a “toxic personality” by the Church of the Collective, and is still kicked out of The Seven.
Black Noir, meanwhile, is in a tree nut-induced coma since his encounter with Starlight and Queen Maeve in Episode 7. And Stormfront is either dead or, as Homelander puts it, “neutralized” and imprisoned somewhere only Vought knows.
Besides A-Train, who isn’t present at Vought’s final press conference of the season, that leaves three core members of The Seven remaining: Starlight, whose name has been cleared; Queen Maeve, who successfully blackmailed Homelander into chilling out for a while; and Homelander himself, who concludes his arc this season by repeatedly telling himself that he can do whatever he wants, while vigorously masturbating over the city. The relationship between the three of them is sure to be fraught going forward.
The Rest
The Boys Season 2 racked up quite the body count. Almost every new character introduced this season was dead by the end, from Alistair, the head of the Church of the Collective, to Lamplighter, and even Kimiko’s brother Kenji. And several existing characters bit the dust it as well: Raynor in the season premiere, Shockwave, and Vogelbaum. Even Stormfront, the series’ worst villain yet, was put out of commission in the end, though we’ll have to wait and see whether she’s actually dead.
With all those ends tied up, that leaves just a few additional characters to discuss–chief among them Congresswoman Victoria Neuman. The finale’s closing moments made it clear that Neuman was secretly on Vought’s side all along, allowing Vought to control both sides of the debate over Compound V. Neuman herself is a supe, and she was the one who killed Raynor, popped all the heads at the hearing, and killed Alistair in the finale. It’s a great twist–one that even Claudia Doumit, the actress who plays Neuman, wasn’t aware of until the hearing scene.
With Neuman on Vought’s side, it seems Stan Edgar really can’t lose. He ends the season still on top, with no consequences yet for his blatant regard for morality, human life, ethics, or really anything else besides money. Sure, he’ll face some vicious opposition from The Boys in the future, but now that they’re likely going to be funded directly by Neuman, it seems he’ll even have control over Butcher and the gang, to a degree. At least Mallory got ahold of Ryan instead of Vought, although if anyone can find out where the CIA is hiding him in the future, it will be Neuman. Dang.
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN’s weekly video game podcast. This week your Omega Cops — Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Justin Davis, and Seth Macy — are discussing the future of Nintendo consoles. They also cover Super Mario 35, Star Wars Squadrons, The Last of Us Part 2, Rambo in Mortal Kombat, and so much more. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service.
However, the MCU Spider-Man movies have always been about telling smaller, more personal stories, and we assume the same will hold true for this sequel. After all, Peter Parker has plenty of problems of his own to deal with, what with J. Jonah Jameson implicating him in Mysterio’s drone attack and exposing his secret identity to the world. It’s not going to be easy for our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to keep fighting the good fight, and that may be exactly where Stephen Strange comes in.
We can’t help but wonder, is this MCU crossover a sign that Spider-Man 3 may be adapting One More Day, one of the most controversial Spider-Man comics ever published? Let’s explore the evidence and why Doctor Strange may be the key to solving Spidey’s identity crisis.
Back in 2006, Marvel made headlines with the release of Civil War #2. Arguably the most shocking moment in that limited series (a series which also inspired 2016’s Captain America: Civil War) comes when Spider-Man shows his support for the Superhuman Registration Act by revealing his identity at an internationally televised press conference. It isn’t long, however, before Peter comes to regret that decision. After growing disillusioned and cutting ties with Iron Man’s pro-registration faction, Spidey finds himself a fugitive from justice with a family now squarely in the crosshairs of every single villain he ever battled.
The ramifications of that misguided decision continued to play out in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man well after Civil War ended: Peter’s worst nightmare finally came true when Aunt May was shot by an assassin hired by Kingpin. That tragedy is where the One More Day storyline begins. At this point, with Aunt May clinging to life and SHIELD still hunting Spider-Man and his fellow underground Avengers, Peter decides he has no choice but to make a literal deal with the devil. The demon lord Mephisto appears in the guise of a young girl and makes Peter and Mary Jane an offer – Aunt May’s life in exchange for their marriage. As Mephisto explains, the only thing sweeter than a human soul is the destruction of someone’s personal happiness. Only after Peter accepts and reality begins to change does he realize Mephisto has taken the form of the daughter he and MJ will now never have.
Is this the most controversial Spider-Man comic ever published? Art by Joe Quesada. (Image Credit: Marvel)
At this point you might be asking why Marvel would put Spider-Man in such a bleak and emotionally scarring direction. Certainly, One More Day attracted plenty of outrage from readers who had spent two decades reading the adventures of Peter Parker, married superhero. The ultimate goal behind One More Day was to restore the franchise to a more classic status quo. One More Day spawned a new ongoing direction dubbed Brand New Day, one where Peter Parker went back to being a bachelor, a struggling photographer, and a hero with an intact secret identity. As shocking as his identity reveal in Civil War was, that plot twist was never going to last forever. Such is the nature of monthly superhero comics.
You might have noticed that Mephisto’s bargain never included any stipulations about restoring Spider-Man’s secret identity. It would be some time before readers learned exactly how Peter managed to put that particular genie back in the bottle.
Eventually, Marvel revealed via a flashback that Peter approached Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, and Doctor Strange for help after the events of One More Day. Despite still being a fugitive in defiance of the SHRA, Spidey reminded his onetime mentor Tony Stark that it was technically his fault the Parker family was in such dire straits. Together, the two smartest men in the Marvel Universe and the Sorcerer Supreme pooled their resources and constructed a hybrid mechanical/magical machine capable of wiping the memory of Peter’s unmasking from everyone on the planet (even themselves). No one but Peter and Mary Jane remembered what really happened, though a number of characters have since relearned Spider-Man’s identity.
However convoluted this explanation may be, it got the job done. By combining magic and science, Peter was able to undo the effects of the second-worst decision he’s ever made (that time he accidentally caused Uncle Ben’s death is pretty hard to top). And by this point, you may be getting a sense of how One More Day and Brand New Day could inform the course of Spider-Man’s story in the MCU.
To be clear, we highly doubt Marvel Studios and Sony are planning a direct adaptation of One More Day. The original story was highly controversial and still tends to inspire a fair amount of vitriol online even 12 years later. We don’t necessarily see Mephisto factoring into the plot of Spider-Man 3. After all, it’s not as if Tom Holland’s Peter even has a marriage to sacrifice in the first place.
We also have yet to learn exactly what state Peter’s life is in, post-Far From Home. While we can probably assume he’s in legal trouble thanks to Mysterio’s frame job and JJJ’s outing, it’s worth remembering this version of Spidey is basically a card-carrying Avenger with a lot of friends in high places. Surely Happy Hogan can do Peter a solid by protecting Aunt May from would-be assassins. They are dating, after all.
Rather than lead to a sequel where Peter is on the run from the law and desperately seeking a fix, Far From Home may instead inspire a status quo more akin to how Daredevil’s outed identity was handled in the comics. There, Matt Murdock deals with the problem by repeatedly denying the accusation and doing his best to continue his legal practice and his nightly superhero activities. That eventually proves to be a losing battle for Matt, but it’s not like anything ever works out for that guy. Spider-Man 3 could go down a similar path, with Peter trying to maintain some semblance of a normal life and convince his classmates the crazy yelling man on TV was lying about him being Spider-Man.
Regardless of the level of fallout, it stands to reason Peter won’t be thrilled about his new lot in life. He’ll no doubt want to undo the damage Jameson has caused, and that’s surely going to require a similar level of “outside the box” thinking as what played out in One More Day. Presumably, Strange is being positioned as Peter’s latest Avengers mentor figure in the vein of Tony Stark in Homecoming and Happy Hogan in Far From Home. Peter may see Strange as the perfect solution to all his woes – a wizard who can wave a hand and make the world forget Spider-Man’s secret. Whether Strange feels the same way, well, that may be the foundation of their dynamic in the new movie.
Even if Spider-Man 3 jettisons many elements of One More Day, it may draw from the comics in terms of Peter using a combination of magic and technology to restore his secret identity. Far From home established him as a true scientific heir to Tony Stark. That knowledge, combined with Doctor Strange’s mastery of the mystic arts, could help restore Peter’s fractured life to normal.
At this early stage we can only speculate as to how much Spider-Man 3 will explore the multiverse. That said, we could easily see it being positioned as a possible solution to Peter’s problems. As we saw in Avengers: Infinity War, Strange was able to explore millions of possible timelines in the span of a few minutes, scanning the multiverse for the one reality where Earth’s heroes eventually triumph over Thanos. Could he attempt something similar in Spider-Man 3? Will he scan for a universe where Peter’s identity was never leaked and merge that reality with the MCU?
Consider what we’ve seen of magic so far in the MCU. It seems to be less about Harry Potter-esque spells and potions than the act of altering reality and unlocking other dimensions. It’s all very scientific, hearkening back to Thor’s line, “Your ancestors called it magic and you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they’re one and the same.” In that regard, the MCU is reminiscent of Marvel’s Supreme Power comic. Supreme Power features a character named Arcanna (a riff on DC’s Zatanna) who explains that “magic” is really just quantum mechanics. It’s the act of reaching out across an infinite number of quantum realities and drawing upon the one that’s different in exactly the way the situation demands. In some alternate reality, you’re holding a rabbit in your hands, so magic is the catalyst that allows you to summon that rabbit into your empty top hat.
But if there’s one consistent theme when it comes to magic, it’s that spells always carry a cost. If Strange finds an alternate universe where Spider-Man’s identity is still secret, what’s the cost of altering his reality? Will two worlds become one? As The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover showed us, merging multiple worlds into one inevitably results in some rough edges and cosmic mistakes. Or will Peter be faced with a choice between fleeing his world and recovering his old life in a new one or remaining in the MCU and ensuring there’s always a Spider-Man? That’s certainly one way to highlight the all-important theme of power and responsibility.
And if the multiverse is the key to restoring Peter’s identity, what does all this mean for Strange’s MCU arc? For all Iron Man gloated from beyond the grave about saving the universe, it was really Doctor Strange who did the heaviest lifting. Thanos’ act of cosmic genocide would never have been undone if Strange didn’t track down that one key timeline and fight to ensure it came to pass. He might be feeling a little overly cocky at this point, which would be a dark turn from his selfless sacrifice at the end of 2016’s Doctor Strange. If Strange grows arrogant enough to think he can manipulate time and space not just to save all existence, but to help out individual heroes, that could have dire consequences for the larger MCU. Perhaps helping Spider-Man is exactly what unlocks the door to the Multiverse of Madness. In that case, Doctor Strange, not Spider-Man, would be the real loser in this One More Day-inspired conflict.
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One of the more confusing aspects of Sony’s approach to cross-generation support between the PS4 and upcoming PS5 has been cross-gen saves. Sony has clarified its stance on the matter, stating that it’s up to developers to ensure the feature is supported.
In a detailed breakdown of cross-generation features included with the PS5 (such as backwards compatibility for games, accessories, and PSVR), Sony confirmed that players will be able to transfer their saves between the consoles using a LAN connection, Wi-Fi, or the cloud (which requires PlayStation Plus). This confirms that save transfer functionality is inherently supported by the PS5 and its operating system, with a disclaimer from Sony that it is up to individual developers to ensure they support the feature.
“Please note that the ability to transfer game saves between a PS4 version and a PS5 version of the same game is a developer decision and will vary title by title for cross-generational games,” the blog post reads.
It’s clear that there is some hurdle when transferring saves that requires work on the developer’s side, which may not be a priority. At least Sony has confirmed that the large majority of PS4 games will be compatible with PS5 (and benefit from Game Boost) when it launches this November 10.
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Here’s how CBS All Access describes the miniseries: “The Stand is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man.”
You can check out the trailer if you follow this link, or in the video below:
Joining Skarsgård and Goldberg on this apocalyptic journey is an impressive ensemble cast, including James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Weizak, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman, Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman.
During the panel, the streamer also unveiled some new episodic images that you can check out in the gallery below:
The 9-episode limited series event will premiere on CBS All Access on Thursday, December 17, with new episodes dropping weekly every Thursday until the series finale, which features a brand new finale storyline written by King himself).
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